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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration
In the first half of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants and
refugees sought to rebuild their lives in Chile. Despite their
personal histories of marginalization in Europe, many of these
people or their descendants did not take a stand against the 1973
military coup, nor the political persecution that followed. Chilean
Jews' collective failure to repudiate systematic human rights
violations and their tacit support for the military dictatorship
reflected a complicated moral calculus that weighed expediency over
ethical considerations and ignored individual acts of moral
courage. Maxine Lowy draws upon hundreds of first-person
testimonials and archival resources to explore Chilean Jewish
identity in the wake of Pinochet's coup, exposing the complex and
sometimes contradictory development of collective traumatic memory
and political sensibilities in an oppressive new context. Latent
Memory points to processes of community gestures of moral
reparation and signals the pathways to justice and healing
associated with Shoah and the Jewish experience. Lowy asks how
individuals and institutions may overcome fear, indifference, and
convenience to take a stand even under intense political duress,
posing questions applicable to any nation emerging from state
repression.
In China less-qualified young migrants are living in subaltern
condition and young migrants graduates have strongly internalised
the idea of being the "heroes". Young internal and international
migrants from China produce through top-dow and bottom-up
globalisation. The young Chinese migrant incarnates the Global
Individual, what we labeled here as the Compressed Individual.
Concerns have arisen in recent decades about the impact of climate
change on human mobility. Many people affected by climate change
are forced or otherwise decide to migrate within or across
international borders. Despite its clear importance, many questions
remain open regarding the nature of the climate-migration nexus and
its implications for laws and institutions. In the face of such
uncertainty, this Research Handbook offers a comprehensive picture
of laws and institutions relevant to climate migration and the
multiple, often contradictory perspectives on the topic. Carefully
edited chapters by leading scholars in the field provide a cross
section of the various debates on what laws do, can do and should
do in relation to the impacts of climate change on migration. A
first part analyses the relations between climate change and
migration. A second part explores how existing laws and
institutions address the climate-migration nexus. In the final
part, the chapters discuss possible ways forward. This timely
Research Handbook provides much-needed insight into this complex
issue for graduate and post-graduate students in climate change or
migration law. It will also appeal to students and scholars in
political science, international relations, environmental studies
and migration studies, as well as policymakers and advocates.
Contributors include: G. Appave, F. Biermann, I. Boas, M. Burkett,
M. Byrne, C. Cournil, F. Crepeau, F. De Salles Cavedon-Capdeville,
C. Farbotko, E. Ferris, F. Gemenne, K. Hansen, J. Hathaway, C.
Hong, D. Ionesco, A.O. Jegede, S. Jodoin, S. Kagan, M. Leighton, S.
Martin, B. Mayer, S. Mcinerney-Lankford, R. Mcleman, I. Millar, D.
Mokhnacheva, C.T.M. Nicholson, E. Pires Ramos, A. Randall, A.
Sironi, M. Traore Chazalnoel, C. Vlassopoulos, K. Wilson, K.M.
Wyman
Imagining Latinidad examines how Latin American migrants use
technology for public engagement, social activism, and to build
digital, diasporic communities. Thanks to platforms like Facebook
and YouTube, immigrants from Latin America can stay in contact with
the culture they left behind. Members of these groups share
information related to their homeland through discussions of food,
music, celebrations, and other cultural elements. Despite their
physical distance, these diasporic virtual communities are not far
removed from the struggles in their homelands, and migrant
activists play a central role in shaping politics both in their
home country and in their host country. Contributors are: Amanda
Arrais, Karla Castillo Villapudua, David S. Dalton, Jason H.
Dormady, Carmen Gabriela Febles, Alvaro Gonzalez Alba, Yunuen Ysela
Mandujano-Salazar, Anna Marta Marini, Diana Denisse Merchant Ley,
Covadonga Lamar Prieto, Maria del Pilar Ramirez Groebli, David
Ramirez Plascencia, Jessica Retis, Nancy Rios-Contreras, and Patria
Roman-Velazquez.
This Handbook discusses theoretical approaches to migration studies
in general, as well as confronting various issues in international
migration from a distinctive and unique international political
economy perspective. With a focus on the relation between
globalization and migration, the international political economy
(IPE) theories of migration are systematically addressed. Original
new contributions from leading migration scholars offer a complete
overview of international migration. They examine migration as part
of a global political economy whilst addressing the theoretical
debates relating to the capacity of the state to control
international migration and the so called 'policy gap' or 'gap
hypothesis' between migration policies and their outcomes. An
examination of the relationship between regional integration and
migration, with examples from Europe, North America, the Middle
East and North Africa, as well as South-East Asia - is also
included. Aimed at political scientists and political economists
with an interest in globalization and EU policymaking this
collection will be accessible to students, academic and
policymakers alike. Contributors: R.G. Anghel, A. Balch, M. Fauser,
C. Finotelli, A. Geddes, W.J. Haller, F. Jurje, O. Korneev, S.
Lavenex, A.I. Leon, S. McMahon, E. Nadalutti, H. Overbeek, F.
Pasetti, H. Pellerin, M. Piracha, T. Randazzo, R. Roccu, M. Samers,
G. Sciortino, K. Surak, L.S. Talani, R. Zapata-Barrero
What motivates "ordinary people" to support refugees emotionally
and financially? This is a timely question considering the number
of displaced people in today's world is at an all-time high. To
help counter this crisis, it is imperative for the Canadian
government to determine which policies encourage volunteers to
welcome asylum seekers, and which ones must be reviewed. Ordinary
People, Extraordinary Actions relates the story of the St. Joseph's
Parish Refugee Outreach Committee over its thirty years in action,
revealing how seemingly small decisions and actions have led to
significant changes in policies and in people's lives-and how they
can do so again in the future. By helping readers-young and old,
secular and faith-oriented-understand what drives individuals and
communities to welcome refugees with open hearts and open arms, the
authors hope to inspire people across Canada and beyond its borders
to strengthen our collective willingness and ability to offer
refuge as a lifesaving protection for those who need it.
This book develops new ways of thinking beyond the nation as a form
of political community by seeking to transcend ethnonational
categories of 'us' and 'them'. Drawing on scholarship and cases
spanning Pacific Asia and Europe, it steps outside assumptions
linking nation to state. Accessible yet theoretically rich, it
explores how to think about nationhood beyond narrow binaries and
even broader cosmopolitan ideals. Using cutting-edge critical
research, it fundamentally challenges the positive connotations of
British patriotism and UK politics' increasingly shrill
anti-immigrant discourse, pointing to how these continue to
reproduce vocabularies of belonging that are dependent on
ethnonational and racialised categorisations. With a
cross-continental focus, this book offers alternative ways of
thinking about togetherness and belonging that are premised on
mobility rather than rootedness, thereby providing a constructive
agenda for critical nationalism studies.
Today, the Philippines has become one of the largest exporters of
medical workers in the world, with nursing in particular offering
many the hope of a lucrative and stable career abroad. This timely
volume narrates their stories in a multi-sited ethnography that
follows aspiring migrants from Manila's vibrant nursing schools
where they dream of glamorous, cosmopolitan lives abroad but find a
different reality in Singapore's multicultural hospitals and
nursing homes. It also tracks their private lives in shopping malls
and churches, and online, as they search for future jobs elsewhere,
in places like Texas, Ontario or northern England, and connect with
friends and family around the world; finally bringing them back
home on a visit to a Filipino village. In so doing, the book offers
anthropological insights on the lives and expectations of Filipino
medical workers who care for strangers in another Asian city and
the everyday encounters, anxieties and boundaries they face. It
locates their stories within wider debates on migration, labour,
care, gender and citizenship, while contributing a new and
distinctive perspective to the scholarship on labour migration in
Asia.
After 1600, English emigration became one of Europe's most
significant population movements. Yet compared to what has been
written about the migration of Scots and Irish, relatively little
energy has been expended on the numerically more significant
English flows. Whilst the Scottish, Irish, German, Italian, Jewish
and Black Diasporas are well known and much studied, there is
virtual silence on the English. Why, then, is there no English
Diaspora? Why has little been said about the English other than to
map their main emigration flows? Did the English simply disappear
into the host population? Or were they so fundamental, and
foundational, to the Anglophone, Protestant cultures of the
evolving British World that they could not be distinguished in the
way Catholic Irish or continental Europeans were? With
contributions from the UK, Europe North America and Australasia
that examine themes as wide-ranging as Yorkshire societies in New
Zealand and St George's societies in Montreal, to Anglo-Saxonism in
the Atlantic World and the English Diaspora of the sixteenth
century, this international collection explores these and related
key issues about the nature and character of English identity
during the creation of the cultures of the wider British World. It
does not do so uncritically. Several of the authors deal with and
accept the invisibility of the English, while others take the
opposite view. The result is a lively collection which combines
reaffirmations of some existing ideas with fresh empirical
research, and groundbreaking new conceptualisations.
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 The New York Times
bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese
Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up
mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her
own identity in the wake of her loss. 'As good as everyone says it
is and, yes, it will have you in tears. An essential read for
anybody who has lost a loved one, as well as those who haven't' -
Marie-Claire In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and
endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling
singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells
of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene,
Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high
expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months
spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and
her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.
As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work
in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band
- and meeting the man who would become her husband - her Koreanness
began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she
wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal
pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a
reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of
taste, language, and history her mother had given her. Vivacious,
lyrical and honest, Michelle Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive
on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that
will resonate widely, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share,
and reread. 'Possibly the best book I've read all year . . . I will
be buying copies for friends and family this Christmas.' - Rukmini
Iyer in the Guardian 'Best Food Books of 2021' 'Wonderful . . . The
writing about Korean food is gorgeous . . . but as a brilliant
kimchi-related metaphor shows, Zauner's deepest concern is the
ferment, and delicacy, of complicated lives.' - Victoria Segal,
Sunday Times, 'My favourite read of the year'
New Voices of Muslim North-African Migrants in Europe captures the
experience in writing of a fast growing number of individuals
belonging to migrant communities in Europe. The book follows
attempts to transform postcolonial literary studies into a
comparative, translingual, and supranational project. Cristian H.
Ricci frames Moroccan literature written in European languages
within the ampler context of borderland studies. The author
addresses the realm of a literature that has been practically
absent from the field of postcolonial literary studies (i.e.
Neerlandophone or Gay Muslim literature). The book also converses
with other minor literatures and theories from Sub-Saharan Africa,
as well as Asians and Latino/as in the Americas that combine
histories of colonization, labor migration, and enforced exile.
The objective of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises is to
deconstruct, question, and redefine through a critical lens what is
commonly understood as "migration crises." The volume covers a wide
range of historical, economic, social, political, and environmental
conditions that generate migration crises around the globe. At the
same time, it illuminates how the media and public officials play a
major role in framing migratory flows as crises. The volume brings
together an exceptional group of scholars from around the world to
critically examine migration crises and to revisit the notion of
crisis through the context in which permanent and non-permanent
migration flows occur. The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises
offers an understanding of individuals in societies, socio-economic
structures, and group processes. Focusing on migrants' departures
and arrivals in all continents, this comprehensive handbook
explores the social dynamics of migration crises, with an emphasis
on factors that propel these flows as well as the actors that play
a role in classifying them and in addressing them. The volume is
organized into nine sections. The first section provides a
historical overview of the link between migration and crises. The
second looks at how migration crises are constructed, while the
third section contextualizes the causes and effects of protracted
conflicts in producing crises. The fourth focuses on the role of
climate and the environment in generating migration crises, while
the fifth section examines these migratory flows in migration
corridors and transit countries. The sixth section looks at policy
responses to migratory flows, The last three sections look at the
role media and visual culture, gender, and immigrant incorporation
play in migration crises.
This research employs the narrative of mental suffering as a prism
through which to study Chinese migration in France. It provides new
analytical angles and new perspectives on the paradoxical existence
and conditions of the migrants, and traces the social links between
individuals and societies, objectivity and subjectivity, the real
and the imaginary.
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