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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography
Principally, this book comprises a conceptual analysis of the
illegality of a third-country national's stay by examining the
boundaries of the overarching concept of illegality at the EU
level. Having found that the holistic conceptualisation of
illegality, constructed through a combination of sources (both EU
and national law) falls short of adequacy, the book moves on to
consider situations that fall outside the traditional binary of
legal and illegal under EU law. The cases of unlawfully staying EU
citizens and of non-removable illegally staying third-country
nationals are examples of groups of migrants who are categorised as
atypical. By looking at these two examples the book reveals not
only the fragmentation of legal statuses in EU migration law but
also the more general ill-fitting and unsatisfactory categorisation
of migrants. The potential conflation of illegality with
criminality as a result of the way EU databases regulate the legal
regime of illegality of a migrant's stay is the first trend
identified by the book. Subsequently, the book considers the
functions of accessing legality (both instrumental and corrective).
In doing so it draws out another trend evident in the EU illegality
regime: a two-tier regime which discriminates on the basis of
wealth and the instrumentalisation of access to legality by Member
States for mostly their own purposes. Finally, the book proposes a
corrective rationale for the regulation of illegality through
access to legality and provides a number of normative suggestions
as a way of remedying current deficiencies that arise out of the
present supranational framing of illegality.
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.
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.
This book examines language education policy in European
migrant-hosting countries. By applying the Multiple Streams
Framework to detailed case studies on Austria and Italy, it sheds
light on the factors and processes that innovate education policy.
The book illustrates an education policy design that values
language diversity and inclusion, and compares underlying
policymaking processes with less innovative experiences. Combining
empirical analysis and qualitative research methods, it assesses
the ways in which language is intrinsically linked to identity and
political power within societies, and how language policy and
migration might become a firmer part of European policy agendas.
Sitting at the intersection between policy studies, language
education studies and integration studies, the book offers
recommendations for how education policy can promote a more
inclusive society. It will appeal to scholars, practitioners and
students who have an interest in policymaking, education policy and
migrant integration.
Africa Reimagined is a passionately argued appeal for a rediscovery of our African identity. Going beyond the problems of a single country, Hlumelo Biko calls for a reorientation of values, on a continental scale, to suit the needs and priorities of Africans. Building on the premise that slavery, colonialism, imperialism and apartheid fundamentally unbalanced the values and indeed the very self-concept of Africans, he offers realistic steps to return to a more balanced Afro-centric identity.
Historically, African values were shaped by a sense of abundance, in material and mental terms, and by strong ties of community. The intrusion of religious, economic and legal systems imposed by conquerors, traders and missionaries upset this balance, and the African identity was subsumed by the values of the newcomers.
Biko shows how a reimagining of Africa can restore the sense of abundance and possibility, and what a rebirth of the continent on Pan-African lines might look like. This is not about the churn of the news cycle or party politics – although he identifies the political party as one of the most pernicious legacies of colonialism. Instead, drawing on latest research, he offers a practical, pragmatic vision anchored in the here and now.
By looking beyond identities and values imposed from outside, and transcending the divisions and frontiers imposed under colonialism, it should be possible for Africans to develop fully their skills, values and ingenuity, to build institutions that reflect African values, and to create wealth for the benefit of the continent as a whole.
By addressing the enigma of the exceptional success of Hungarian
emigrant scientists and telling their life stories, Brilliance in
Exile combines scholarly analysis with fascinating portrayals of
uncommon personalities. Istvan and Balazs Hargittai discuss the
conditions that led to five different waves of emigration of
scientists from the early twentieth century to the present.
Although these exodes were driven by a broad variety of personal
motivations, the attraction of an open society with inclusiveness,
tolerance, and - needless to say - better circumstances for working
and living, was the chief force drawing them abroad. While
emigration from East to West is a general phenomenon, this book
explains why and how the emigration of Hungarian scientists is
distinctive. The high number of Nobel Prizes among this group is
only one indicator. Multicultural tolerance, a quickly emerging,
considerably Jewish, urban middle class, and a very effective
secondary school system were positive legacies of the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Multiple generations, shaped by these
conditions, suffered from the increasingly exclusionist,
intolerant, antisemitic, and economically stagnating environment,
and chose to go elsewhere. "I would rather have roots than wings,
but if I cannot have roots, I shall use wings," explained Leo
Szilard, one of the fathers of the Atom Bomb.
Unmasked is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan
tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the
economy occurred in the COVID summer of 2020. State political
failures, local negotiations among political and public health
leaders, and community (dis)belief about the virus resulted in
Okoboji being declared a hotspot just before the Independence Day
weekend, when an influx of half a million people visit the town.
The story is both personal and political. Author Emily Mendenhall,
an anthropologist at Georgetown University, grew up in Okoboji, and
her family still lives there. As the events unfolded, Mendenhall
was in Okoboji, where she spoke formally with over 100 people and
observed a community that rejected public health guidance,
revealing deep-seated mistrust in outsiders and strong commitments
to local thinking. Unmasked is a fascinating and heartbreaking
account of where people put their trust, and how isolationist
popular beliefs can be in America's small communities.
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
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.
This volume addresses the question of migration in Europe. It is
concerned with the extent to which racism and anti-immigration
discourse has been to some extent normalised and 'democratised' in
European and national political discourses. Mainstream political
parties are espousing increasingly coercive policies and frequently
attempting to legitimate such approaches via nationalist-populist
slogans and coded forms of racism. Identity, Belonging and
Migration shows that that liberalism is not enough to oppose the
disparate and diffuse xenophobia and racism faced by many migrants
today and calls for new conceptions of anti-racism within and
beyond the state. The book is divided into three parts and
organised around a theoretical framework for understanding
migration, belonging, and exclusion, which is subsequently
developed through discussions of state and structural
discrimination as well as a series of thematic case studies. In
drawing on a range of rich and original data, this timely volume
makes an important contribution to discussions on migration in
Europe.
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.
This Handbook is a timely and critical intervention into debates on
changing family dynamics in the face of globalization, population
migration and uneven mobilities. By capturing the diversity of
family 'types', 'arrangements' and 'strategies' across a global
setting, the volume highlights how migration is inextricably linked
to complex familial relationships, often in supportive and
nurturing ways, but also violent and oppressive at other times.
Featuring state-of-the-art reviews from leading scholars, the
Handbook attends to cross-cutting themes such as gender relations,
intergenerational relationships, social inequalities and social
mobility. The chapters cover a wide range of subjects, from forced
migration and displacement, to expatriatism, labour migration,
transnational marriage, education, LGBTQI families, digital
technology and mobility regimes. By highlighting the complexity of
the migration-family nexus, this Handbook will be a valuable
resource for researchers, scholars and students in the fields of
human geography, sociology, anthropology and social policy.
Policymakers and practitioners working on family relations and
gender policy will also benefit from reading this Handbook.
Beginning in 1609, Jesuit missionaries established missions
(reductions) among sedentary and non-sedentary native populations
in the larger region defined as the Province of Paraguay (Rio de la
Plata region, eastern Bolivia). One consequence of resettlement on
the missions was exposure to highly contagious old world crowd
diseases such as smallpox and measles. Epidemics that occurred
about once a generation killed thousands. Despite severe mortality
crises such as epidemics, warfare, and famine, the native
populations living on the missions recovered. An analysis of the
effects of epidemics and demographic patterns shows that the native
populations living on the Paraguay and Chiquitos missions survived
and retained a unique ethnic identity. A comparative approach that
considers demographic patterns among other mission populations
place the case study of the Paraguay and Chiquitos missions into
context, and show how patterns on the Paraguay and Chiquitos
missions differed from other mission populations. The findings
challenge generally held assumptions about Native American
historical demography.
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