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Although Turkey is a secular state, it is often characterised as a
Muslim country. In her latest book, Lejla Voloder provides an
engaging and revealing study of a Bosniak community in Turkey, one
of the Muslim minorities actually recognised by the state in
Turkey. Under what circumstances have they resettled to Turkey? How
do they embrace Islam? How does one live as a Bosniak, a Turkish
citizen, a mother, a father, a member of a household, and as one
guided by Islam? The first book based on fieldwork to detail the
lives of members of the Bosnian and Bosniak diaspora in Turkey, A
Muslim Minority in Turkey makes a unique contribution to the study
of Muslim minority groups in Turkey and the Middle East.
Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi
Germany, and feted in his new country as "the greatest living man
of letters." This beautiful new book from literary critic Stanley
Corngold tells the little known story of Mann's early years in
America and his encounters with a group of highly gifted emigres in
Princeton, which came to be called the Kahler Circle, with Mann at
its center. The Circle included immensely creative, mostly
German-speaking exiles from Nazism, foremost Mann, Erich Kahler,
Hermann Broch, and Albert Einstein, all of whom, during the
Circle's nascent years in Princeton, were "stupendously"
productive. In clear, engaging prose, Corngold explores the traces
the Circle left behind during Mann's stay in Princeton, treating
literary works and political statements, anecdotes, contemporary
history, and the Circle's afterlife. Weimar in Princeton portrays a
fascinating scene of cultural production, at a critical juncture in
the 20th century, and the experiences of an extraordinary group of
writers and thinkers who gathered together to mourn a lost culture
and to reckon with the new world in which they had arrived.
Twenty Years at Hull House, by the acclaimed memoir of social
reformer Jane Addams, is presented here complete with all
sixty-three of the original illustrations and the biographical
notes. A landmark autobiography in terms of opening the eyes of
Americans to the plight of the industrial revolution, Twenty Years
at Hull House has been applauded for its unflinching descriptions
of the poverty and degradation of the era. Jane Addams also details
the grave ill-health she suffered during and after her childhood,
giving the reader insight into the adversity which she would
re-purpose into a drive to alleviate the suffering of others. The
process by which Addams founded Hull House in Chicago is detailed;
the sheer scale and severity of the poverty in the city she and
others witnessed, the search for the perfect location, and the
numerous difficulties she and her fellow activists encountered
while establishing and maintaining the house are detailed.
At the landmark centennial anniversary of the 1917 Jones-Shafroth
Act, which granted Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship, the island
confronts an unfolding humanitarian crisis initially triggered by
an acute economic crisis surging since 2006. Analyzing large
datasets such as the American Community Survey and the Puerto Rican
Community Survey, this book represents the first comprehensive
analysis of the socioeconomic and demographic consequences of "La
Crisis Boricua" for Puerto Ricans on the island and mainland,
including massive net outmigration from the island on a scale not
seen for sixty years; a shrinking and rapidly aging population; a
shut-down of high-tech industries; a significant loss in public and
private sector jobs; a deteriorating infrastructure; higher sales
taxes than any of the states; $74 billion in public debt plus
another $49 billion in unfunded pension obligations; and defaults
on payments to bondholders. This book also discusses how the
socioeconomic and demographic outcomes differ among stateside
Puerto Ricans, including recent migrants, in traditional settlement
areas such as New York versus those in newer settlement areas such
as Florida and Texas. Florida is now home to 1.1 million Puerto
Ricans (essentially the same number as those living in New York)
and received a full third of the migrants from the island to
mainland during this time. Scholars interested in the transition of
migrants into their receiving communities (regardless of the Puerto
Rican case) will also find this book to be of interest,
particularly with respect to the comparative analyses on earnings,
the likelihood of being impoverished, and self-employment.
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
This innovative edited collection brings together leading scholars
from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe to examine how European
identity and institutions have been fashioned though interactions
with the southern periphery since 1945. It highlights the role
played by North African actors in shaping European conceptions of
governance, culture and development, considering the construction
of Europe as an ideological and politico-economic entity in the
process. Split up into three sections that investigate the
influence of colonialism on the shaping of post-WWII Europe, the
nature of co-operation, dependence and interdependence in the
region, and the impact of the Arab Spring, North Africa and the
Making of Europe investigates the Mediterranean space using a
transnational, interdisciplinary approach. This, in turn, allows
for historical analysis to be fruitfully put into conversation with
contemporary politics. The book also discusses such timely issues
such as the development of European institutions, the evolution of
legal frameworks in the name of antiterrorism, the rise of
Islamophobia, immigration, and political co-operation. Students and
scholars focusing on the development of postwar Europe or the EU's
current relationship with North Africa will benefit immensely from
this invaluable new study.
An unprecedented number of emigrants left Britain to settle in
America, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the Victorian
period. Utilizing new digital resources and methodologies alongside
more traditional modes of scholarship, British Settler Emigration
in Print, 1832-1877 presents the first book-length study of the
periodical print culture that imagined, mediated, and galvanized
this important stage of empire history. It presents extensive new
research on how settler emigration was registered within Victorian
periodicals and situates its focus on British texts and contexts
within a broader, transnational framework. The book argues that the
Victorian periodical was an inherently mobile form which had an
unrivalled capacity to both register mass settler emigration and
moderate its disruptive potential. Part one focuses upon settler
emigration genres that featured within mainstream, middle-class
periodicals, incorporating the analysis of emigrant voyage texts,
emigration themed Christmas stories, and serialized novels about
settlement. These genres are cohesive, domestic, and reassuring,
and thus of a different character from the adventure stories often
associated with Victorian empire. Part two examines a feminist and
radical periodical emigration literature that often challenged
dominant settler ideologies. Alongside its examination of ephemeral
emigration texts, the book offers fresh readings of key works by
Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas
Martin Wheeler, and others. Ultimately, the book shows how
periodical settler emigration literature transforms our
understanding of both the culture of Victorian empire and Victorian
literature and culture as a whole. It also makes significant
intersections into debates about periodical form and the role of
digitization within Victorian Studies.
After a long time of neglect, migration has entered the arena of
international politics with a force. The 2018 Global Compact for
safe, orderly and regular migration (GCM) is the latest and most
comprehensive framework for global migration governance. Despite
these dynamics, migration is still predominantly framed as a
state-centric policy issue that needs to be managed in a top-down
manner. This book proposes a difference approach: A truly
multi-stakeholder, multi-level and rights-based governance with
meaningful participation of migrant civil society. Drawing on 15
years of participant observation on all levels of migration
governance, the book maps out the relevant actors, "invited" and
"invented" spaces for participation as well as alternative
discourses and framing strategies by migrant civil society. It thus
provides a comprehensive and timely overview on global migration
governance from below, starting with the first UN High Level
Dialogue in 2006, evolving around the Global Forum on Migration and
Development (GFMD) and leading up to the consultations for the
International Migration Review Forum in 2022.
This book explores the Afro-diasporic experiences of African
skilled migrants in Australia. It explores research participants'
experiences of migration and how these experiences inform their
lives and the lives of their family. It provides theory-based
arguments examining how mainstream immigration attitudes in
Australia impact upon Black African migrants through the mediums of
mediatised moral panics about Black criminality and acts of
everyday racism that construct and enforce their 'strangerhood'.
The book presents theoretical writing on alternate African
diasporic experiences and identities and the changing nature of
such identities. The qualitative study employed semi-structured
interviews to investigate multiple aspects of the migrant
experience including employment, parenting, family dynamics and
overall sense of belonging. This book advances our understanding of
the resilience exercised by skilled Black African migrants as they
adjust to a new life in Australia, with particular implications for
social work, public health and community development practices.
The modern welfare state finds itself in the middle of two major
upheavals: the impact of technology and immigration. Having taken
in more refugees per capita than most other countries, the pillars
of the Swedish welfare state are being shaken, and digital
technologies are set to strengthen already existing trends towards
job and wage polarization. The development of skills to keep pace
with technology will enter into a critical period for the labor
market in which inadequate policy responses could result in further
inequality and polarization. In this regard, a platform-based labor
market could help by opening up a vast range of new work
opportunities. Marten Blix examines the implications of these
trends that drive change in developed economies and, in particular,
the impact that they have on Sweden and other European countries
with rigid labor markets and comprehensive tax-financed welfare
services. Increasing costs from immigration and rising inequality
could further reduce the willingness to pay high taxes and erode
support for redistribution. Failure to address challenges like this
one could herald much more drastic changes down the road. There are
already signs of economic and political tensions and there is a
risk that the social contract could crack. This new discussion on
the future of work and the welfare state will be of interest not
only to scholars but in policy circles and corresponding societies
in sociology, labor relations, political science and public
administration.
Just looking at the Pacific Northwest's many verdant forests and
fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to
transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today.
Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers, Tejano
migrants, and undocumented immigrants, who converged on the region
beginning in the mid-1940s. Of Forests and Fields tells the story
of these workers, who toiled in the fields, canneries, packing
sheds, and forests, turning the Pacific Northwest into one of the
most productive agricultural regions in the country. Employing an
innovative approach that traces the intersections between Chicana/o
labor and environmental history, Mario Sifuentez shows how ethnic
Mexican workers responded to white communities that only welcomed
them when they were economically useful, then quickly shunned them.
He vividly renders the feelings of isolation and desperation that
led to the formation of ethnic Mexican labor organizations like the
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN) farm workers union,
which fought back against discrimination and exploitation. Of
Forests and Fields not only extends the scope of Mexican labor
history beyond the Southwest, it offers valuable historical
precedents for understanding the struggles of immigrant and migrant
laborers in our own era. Sifuentez supplements his extensive
archival research with a unique set of first-hand interviews,
offering new perspectives on events covered in the printed
historical record. A descendent of ethnic Mexican immigrant
laborers in Oregon, Sifuentez also poignantly demonstrates the
links between the personal and political, as his research leads him
to amazing discoveries about his own family history.
Long-term social and demographic changes - and the conflicts they
create - continue to transform British politics. In this accessible
and authoritative book Sobolewska and Ford show how deep the roots
of this polarisation and volatility run, drawing out decades of
educational expansion and rising ethnic diversity as key drivers in
the emergence of new divides within the British electorate over
immigration, identity and diversity. They argue that choices made
by political parties from the New Labour era onwards have mobilised
these divisions into politics, first through conflicts over
immigration, then through conflicts over the European Union,
culminating in the 2016 EU referendum. Providing a comprehensive
and far-reaching view of a country in turmoil, Brexitland explains
how and why this happened, for students, researchers, and anyone
who wants to better understand the remarkable political times in
which we live.
As the global populace continues to boom, especially in developing
countries, it has become essential to find ways to effectively
handle this population increase through various urbanization
methods. However, these techniques have posed potential issues, as
well as opportunities for improvement. Population Growth and Rapid
Urbanization in the Developing World emphasizes the trends,
challenges, issues, and strategies developing countries evaluate
when facing a population upsurge and expeditious development of
urban environments. Exploring the use of different governance
techniques, trending patterns in urbanization and population
growth, as well as tools and the appropriate allocation of
resources used to address these issues, this book is a
comprehensive reference for academicians, researchers, students,
practitioners, professionals, managers, urban planners,
technicians, and government officials.
'Like the city, the nation, life itself, migration has become
increasingly diverse. This stimulating, multi-disciplinary edited
collection looks at questions about the connections between time,
space and migration at a variety of scales and across a range of
sites. Rhythms, patterns and scales of permanent, cyclical and
temporary migration are explored in fascinating detail, providing
new insights into an increasingly important phenomenon in a
globalising world. This collection will reset the agenda for
migration studies.' - Linda McDowell, University of Oxford, UK
Seeking to re-energise debates on the relationship between human
mobility and timespace, this book furthers our understanding of how
people move by foregrounding both time and space in the analysis of
different empirical migration stories. Though migration is often
seen as inherently spatial, the way space is being imagined is
rarely analysed, whilst questions of time are widely neglected by
migration scholars. Here, in contrast, the idea of timespace is
used to assert the significance and connections of these two
dimensions. The focus is on how timespace intersects with dynamic
migrant constructions, negotiations and performances as an integral
aspect of the rhythms of mobilities. Highlighting migration
journeys and emotions as embedded and embodied in everyday lives,
the chapters also examine the intricate and complex ways timespace
enters into, and is juxtaposed with, such feelings and practices in
different spaces. Migrations and mobilities are not seen as
one-off, separate processes, suspended in timespace, but rather
need to be theorised and analysed in more innovative and malleable
ways which take into account the non-linear, non-teleological,
ambivalent, irrational, messy and fluid ways in which people move.
Individual chapters engage with these concepts by considering a
broad spectrum of migration stories, from youth mobility, to
refugee migration, to gentrification, to food and to the political
geography of the border. The overall aim of the book is to
interrupt and challenge the ways in which migration scholars use
time and space within their research. Contributors include: E.
Ascensao, J. Carling, A. Christou, F. Collins, M.B. Erdal, M.
Griffiths, A. Ma, E. Mavroudi, J. McGarrigle, P. Novak, B. Page, S.
Shubin, D. Smith, H. Zaban
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