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Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are
interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation,
displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a
multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory
meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as places, and
be associated with feelings, practices, and active states of being
and moving in the world. In this book, we offer a window into the
distinct ways that home is theorized and conceptualized across
disciplines. The essays in this volume pose and answer the
following critical and communicative questions about home: 1) How
do people "speak" and "story" home in their everyday lives? And
why? 2) Why and how is home-as a material presence, as a sense and
feeling, or as an absence-central to our notion of who we are, or
who we want to become as individuals, and in relation to others? 3)
What is the theoretical purchase in making home as a "unit of
analysis" in our fields of study? This collection engages home from
diverse contexts and disparate philosophical underpinnings; at the
same time the essays converse with each other by centering their
foci on the relationship between home, place, identity, and exile.
Home-how we experience it and what it that says about the "selves"
we come to occupy-is an exigent question of our contemporary
moment. Place, Identity, Exile: Storying Home Spaces delivers
timely and critical perspectives on these important questions.
Governments increasingly rely upon detention to control the
movement of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. The
deprivation of liberty of non-citizens due to their undocumented or
irregular status is often fraught with gross injustices. This book
stresses the need for global policy-makers to address these
practices in order to ensure compliance with fundamental human
rights and prevent detention abuses. Approaching detention from an
interdisciplinary perspective, this volume brings together leading
writers and thinkers to provide a greater understanding of why it
is such an important social phenomenon and suggest ways to confront
it locally and globally. Challenging Immigration Detention
thematically examines a broad range of situations across the globe,
with contributors providing overviews of key issues, case studies
and experiences in their fields, while highlighting potential
strategies for curbing detention abuses. Demonstrating the value of
varied analytical frameworks and investigative angles, the
contributors provide urgently needed insight into a growing human
rights issue. With cross-disciplinary investigation into an issue
with immediate global importance, Challenging Immigration Detention
is vital for undergraduates, postgraduates, activists, lawyers and
policy-makers interested in international human rights. National
and international humanitarian organizations and advocacy groups
working in migrant and asylum rights will find this a compelling
and diverse overview of migrant detention. Contributors include: S.
Albert, N. Bernstein, M. Bosworth, S. Brooker, P. Ceriani, D.
Conlon, G. Cornelisse, N. De Genova, M.B. Flynn, M.J. Flynn, M.
Grange, N. Hiemstra, I. Majcher, G. Mitchell, A. Mountz, C. Munoz,
D. Schriro, H. Singh Bhui, Z. Steel, D. Wilsher, M.P. Young, P.
Young
The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of
Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives
in My Two Italies to link his family's dramatic story to Italy's
north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its
passion for art, food, and family. From his Calabrian father's time
as a military internee in Nazi Germany - where he had a love affair
with a local Bavarian woman - to his adventures amid the
Renaissance splendour of Florence, Luzzi creates a deeply personal
portrait of Italy that leaps past facile cliches about Mafia
madness and Tuscan sun therapy. He delves instead into why Italian
Americans have such a complicated relationship with the "old
country," and how Italy produces some of the world's most
astonishing art while suffering from corruption, political
fragmentation, and an enfeebled civil society. With topics ranging
from the pervasive force of Dante's poetry to the meteoric rise of
Silvio Berlusconi, Luzzi presents the Italians in all their glory
and squalor, relating the problems that plague Italy today to the
country's ancient roots. He shares how his "two Italies" - the
earthy southern Italian world of his immigrant childhood and the
refined northern Italian realm of his professional life - join and
clash in unexpected ways that continue to enchant the many millions
who are either connected to Italy by ancestry or bound to it by
love.
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.
The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed the decline of
multiculturalism as a policy in Western countries with tighter
national border controls and increasing anti-migration discourse.
But what is the impact of multiculturalism in East Asia? How will
East Asian nations develop their own policies on migration and
multiculturalism? What does cultural diversity mean for their
future? Multiculturalism in East Asia examines the development and
impact of multiculturalism in East Asia with a focus on Japan,
South Korean and Taiwan. It uses a transnational approach to
explore key topics including policy, racialized discourses on
cultural diversity and the negotiation process of marginalized
subjects and groups. While making a contextualized analysis in each
country, contributors will consciously make a comparison and
references to other East Asian cases while also situating this as
well as put their case in a wider transnational context.
By examining privileged and highly skilled Asian migrants, such as
international students who acquire legal permanent residency in the
United States, this book registers and traces these transnational
figures as racialized transnational elites and illuminates the
intersectionality and reconfiguration of race, class, ethnicity,
and nationality. Using in-depth interviews with Korean
international students in New York City and Koreans in South Korea
as a case study, this book argues racialized transnational elites
are embedded in racial and ethnic dynamics in the United States as
well as in class and nationalist conflicts with non-migrant
co-ethnics in the sending country. Sung-Choon Park further argues
strategic responses to the local, social dynamics shape
transnational practices such as diaspora-building, transfer of
knowledge, conversion of cultural capital, and cross-border
communication about race, causing heterogeneous social consequences
in both societies.
Facing the current growing global archipelago of encampments, this
book project intends to develop a geographical reflection on 'the
camp', as a modern institution and as a spatial bio-political
technology. This book focuses on past and present camp geographies
and on the dispositifs that make them an ever-present spatial
formation in the management of unwanted populations characterizing
many authoritarian regimes as well as many contemporary
democracies. It also offers and investigates possible ways to
resist the present-day proliferating manifestations of camps and
'camp thinking', by calling for the incorporation of 'camp studies'
into the broader field of political geography and to consider the
geographies of the camp as constitutive of much broader modern
geo-political economies. By linking spatial theory to the
geopolitical and biopolitical workings and practices of
contemporary camps, the contributions in this collection argue that
the camps seem to be here-to-stay, like a permanent/temporary
presence giving shape to improvised, semi-structured and
hyper-orderly structured spatialities in our cities and our
countryside. Camps are also a specific response, for example, to
the changing conditions of European borders due to the 'refugee
crisis' and the rise of nationalism in many countries affected by
such crisis.
The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed the decline of
multiculturalism as a policy in Western countries with tighter
national border controls and increasing anti-migration discourse.
But what is the impact of multiculturalism in East Asia? How will
East Asian nations develop their own policies on migration and
multiculturalism? What does cultural diversity mean for their
future? Multiculturalism in East Asia examines the development and
impact of multiculturalism in East Asia with a focus on Japan,
South Korean and Taiwan. It uses a transnational approach to
explore key topics including policy, racialized discourses on
cultural diversity and the negotiation process of marginalized
subjects and groups. While making a contextualized analysis in each
country, contributors will consciously make a comparison and
references to other East Asian cases while also situating this as
well as put their case in a wider transnational context.
Facing the current growing global archipelago of encampments, this
book project intends to develop a geographical reflection on 'the
camp', as a modern institution and as a spatial bio-political
technology. This book focuses on past and present camp geographies
and on the dispositifs that make them an ever-present spatial
formation in the management of unwanted populations characterizing
many authoritarian regimes as well as many contemporary
democracies. It also offers and investigates possible ways to
resist the present-day proliferating manifestations of camps and
'camp thinking', by calling for the incorporation of 'camp studies'
into the broader field of political geography and to consider the
geographies of the camp as constitutive of much broader modern
geo-political economies. By linking spatial theory to the
geopolitical and biopolitical workings and practices of
contemporary camps, the contributions in this collection argue that
the camps seem to be here-to-stay, like a permanent/temporary
presence giving shape to improvised, semi-structured and
hyper-orderly structured spatialities in our cities and our
countryside. Camps are also a specific response, for example, to
the changing conditions of European borders due to the 'refugee
crisis' and the rise of nationalism in many countries affected by
such crisis.
The current refugee crisis sweeping Europe, and much of the world,
closely intersects with largely neglected questions of religion.
Moving beyond discussions of religious differences, what can we
learn about the interaction between religion and migration? Do
faith-based organisations play a role within the refugee regime?
How do religious traditions and perspectives challenge and inform
current practices and policies towards refugees? This volume
gathers together expertise from academics and practitioners, as
well as migrant voices, in order to investigate these
interconnections. It shows that reconsidering our understanding and
approaches to both could generate creative alternative responses to
the growing global migration crisis. Beginning with a discussion of
the secular/religious divide - and how it shapes dominant policy
practices and counter approaches to displacement and migration -
the book then goes on to explore and deconstruct the dominant
discourse of the Muslim refugee as a threat to the
secular/Christian West. The discussion continues with an
exploration of Christian and Islamic traditions of hospitality,
showing how they challenge current practices of securitization of
migration, and concludes with an investigation of the largely
unexplored relation between gender, religion and migration.
Bringing together leading and emerging voices from across academia
and practice, in the fields of International Relations, migration
studies, philosophy, religious studies and gender studies, this
volume offers a unique take on one of the most pressing global
problems of our time.
The current refugee crisis sweeping Europe, and much of the world,
closely intersects with largely neglected questions of religion.
Moving beyond discussions of religious differences, what can we
learn about the interaction between religion and migration? Do
faith-based organisations play a role within the refugee regime?
How do religious traditions and perspectives challenge and inform
current practices and policies towards refugees? This volume
gathers together expertise from academics and practitioners, as
well as migrant voices, in order to investigate these
interconnections. It shows that reconsidering our understanding and
approaches to both could generate creative alternative responses to
the growing global migration crisis. Beginning with a discussion of
the secular/religious divide - and how it shapes dominant policy
practices and counter approaches to displacement and migration -
the book then goes on to explore and deconstruct the dominant
discourse of the Muslim refugee as a threat to the
secular/Christian West. The discussion continues with an
exploration of Christian and Islamic traditions of hospitality,
showing how they challenge current practices of securitization of
migration, and concludes with an investigation of the largely
unexplored relation between gender, religion and migration.
Bringing together leading and emerging voices from across academia
and practice, in the fields of International Relations, migration
studies, philosophy, religious studies and gender studies, this
volume offers a unique take on one of the most pressing global
problems of our time.
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.
Through a transnational, comparative and multi-level approach to
the relationship between youth, migration, and music, the aesthetic
intersections between the local and the global, and between agency
and identity, are presented through case studies in this book.
Transglobal Sounds contemplates migrant youth and the impact of
music in diaspora settings and on the lives of individuals and
collectives, engaging with broader questions of how new modes of
identification are born out of the social, cultural, historical and
political interfaces between youth, migration and music. Thus,
through acts of mobility and environments lived in and in-between,
this volume seeks to articulate between musical transnationalism
and sense of place in exploring the complex relationship between
music and young migrants and migrant descendant's everyday lives.
Migration is now firmly embedded as a leading global policy issue
of the twenty-first century. Whilst not a new phenomenon, it has
altered significantly in recent decades, with changing
demographics, geopolitics, conflict, climate change and patterns of
global development shaping new types of migration. Against this
evolving backdrop, this Handbook offers an authoritative overview
of key debates underpinning migration and health in a contemporary
global context. The first major handbook in this field, this
Handbook of Migration and Health provides a comprehensive global
overview of issues relating to migration and health. The Handbook
is organised into six main sections: theories and models of
migration; rights and deservingness; vulnerability and precarity;
specific healthcare needs and priorities; healthcare provision; and
transnational and diasporic networks. Chapters focus on a wide
range of migrant groups including refugees, asylum seekers,
trafficked people, international students, healthcare workers, and
diasporic communities. Bringing together the contributions of 58
leading researchers and drawing on case studies and examples from
across the globe, the Handbook is intended as a scholarly, yet
accessible reference tool for researchers, students, and
practitioners interested in the field of migration and health.
Contributors include: S. Bacci, L. Baldassar, C. Bennouna, J.
Botfield, E. Chase, J. Cook, E. Duffell, R. Evans, J. Gideon, K.
Hall, A.-C. Hoyez, D. Ingleby, H. Jayaweera, M.-A. Karlsen, M.
Kilke, R. Labonte, Y. Lu, S. Mayell, L. Manderson, M. McKee, J.
McLaughlin, C. McMichael, L. Merla, S. Meyer, P. Mladovsky, L.
Newman, C. Newman, T. Noori, L. Nunez Carrasco, A. Odone, D. Oksen,
S. Oram, M. Ormond, G. Ottosdottir, C. Packer, A. Pharris, O.
Razum, B. Rechel, A. Reeske, A. Reid, V. Runnels, A. Sandgren, R.
Shadwick, D. Sime, J. Spallek, D.L. Spitzer, L. Stark, J.E. Suk, A.
Tianbo Zhang, T. Tillmann, F. Thomas, K. Vasey, J. Vearey, G.A.
Williams, R. Wilding, S.S. Willen, H. Zeeb, A. Zwi
As the immigrant population grows in countries such as the United
States, so does the number of newcomer immigrant students in middle
and high schools. Many scholars have noted that the education
immigrant adolescents receive has a great bearing on the future of
the nation. Understanding Adolescent Immigrants: Moving toward an
Extraordinary Discourse for Extraordinary Youth highlights the
voices of these young people by sharing the stories of seven
newcomer youths aged 13 to 20 years in U.S. high schools. By
learning their histories, present situations, and dreams for the
future, we can understand both these students' unique contribution
to their new country and their schools' roles in helping them
achieve success.
Urban Renewal and Resistance: Race, Space, and the City in the Late
Twentieth to Early Twenty-First Century examines how urban spaces
are rhetorically constructed through discourses that variously
justify or resist processes of urban growth and renewal. This book
combines insights from critical geography, urban studies, and
communication to explore how urban spaces, like Detroit and Harlem,
are rhetorically structured through neoliberal discourses that mask
the racialized nature of housing and health in American cities. The
analysis focuses on city planning documents, web sites, media
accounts, and draws on insights from personal interviews in order
to pull together a story of city growth and its consequences, while
keeping an eye on the ways city residents continue to confront and
resist control over their communities through counter-narratives
that challenge geographies of injustice. Recommended for scholars
of communication studies, journalism, sociology, geography, and
political science.
Focusing on the intersection between globalization and migration,
this powerful text traces a dynamic, contradictory process that has
set the world in motion and incorporated millions of migrants into
an economic market whose dimensions are unprecedented in human
history. Eliot Dickinson emphasizes recent developments in global
politics, such as the massive number of refugees from wars in the
Middle East who are now seeking asylum in Europe; the "Fortress
Europe" mentality illustrated on the Italian island of Lampedusa;
the heart-wrenching humanitarian challenge of Mexican and Central
American children arriving alone in the United States; and the
effects of climate change and environmental destruction on
international migration. Today, with the collaboration of compliant
governments and elites in the peripheral countries of the Global
South, multinational corporations continue to flout regulations,
destroy the environment, and take advantage of the large number of
displaced, unemployed workers. While globalization is eliminating
barriers between countries and making it easier for goods and
capital to move around the world, the industrialized countries of
the Global North are simultaneously putting up barriers to people
and making it harder for them to migrate. This timely and
provocative book explains how we have arrived at this paradoxical
point in history and critically examines why governments are
enacting policies that protect borders instead of people.
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.
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.
Scottish Migration since 1750: Reasons and Results begins a fresh
chapter in migration studies using new methods and unpublished
sources to map the course of Scottish migration between 1750 and
1990. It explains why the Scottish population grew after 1650, why
most Scots continued to be female, and the underlying economic
reasons for Scottish emigration after 1820. It surveys migration to
England, Canada, United States, South Africa, Australia, and New
Zealand. It explores their names, marriages, family structures, and
religions, and assesses how well they really fared compared to
other British migrants. Far from being just another Celtic sob
story, this book offers a model about how the histories of other
migrant groups might be reappraised.
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