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'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
With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about
migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and
has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency,
belonging and community. Driven by an agenda of deep listening,
each chapter presents a narrative directly derived from qualitative
research, an outline of the methodological framing as well as
narrative analysis. Through close attention to the narrative, its
performative aspects and its ruptures and silences, authors
identify patterns and material in the fabric of such telling and
retelling of stories that open up new perspectives on the migrant
experience. This book develops a methodology of ‘dwelling with
stories’ that allows for sustained and slow interrogation of the
migrant experience and the accompanying decisions that shape
narratives around mobility across borders. Its structure is
innovative by emphasising the migrant voice and reflecting on the
scholars’ positionality, while also offering new theoretical
contributions that will advance the field of narrative analysis.
The book will appeal to academics, students and practitioners in a
wide range of subject areas within the humanities and social
sciences, including anthropology, sociology, human geography,
migration/refugee/diaspora studies and oral history.
This book focuses on the return of the diasporic Greek second
generation to Greece, primarily in the first decade of the
twenty-first century, and their evolving, often ambivalent, senses
of belonging and conceptualizations of "home." Drawing from a
large-scale research project employing a multi-sited and
multi-method comparative approach, Counter-Diaspora is a narrative
ethnographic account of the lives and identities of
second-generation Greek-Americans and Greek-Germans. Through an
interdisciplinary gender and generational lens, the study examines
lived migration experiences at three diasporic moments: growing up
within the Greek diasporic setting in the United States and
Germany; motivations for the counter-diasporic return; and
experiences in the "homeland" of Greece. Research documents and
analyzes a range of feelings and experiences associated with this
"counter-diasporic" return to the ancestral homeland. Images and
imaginations of the "homeland" are discussed and deconstructed,
along with notions of "Greekness" mediated through diasporic
encounters. Using extensive extracts from interviews, the authors
explore the roles of, among other things, family solidarity,
kinship, food, language, and religion, as well as the impact of
"home-coming" visits on the decision to return to the ancestral
"homeland." The book also contributes to a reconceptualization of
diaspora and a problematization of the notion of "second
generation."
Encouraging a conversation among scholars working with questions of
transnationalism from the perspective of gender and race, this book
explores the intersectionality between these two forms of
oppression and their relation to transnational migration. How do
sexism and racism articulate the experience of transnational
migrants? What is the complex relationship between minorities and
migrants in terms of gender and racial discrimination? What are the
empirical and theoretical insights gained by an analysis that
emphasizes the 'intersectionality' between gender and race? What
empirical agenda can be developed out of these questions? Bringing
a transnational lens to studies of migration from an intersectional
perspective, the contributors focus on how power geometries,
articulated through sexisms and racisms, are experienced in
relation to a migration and/or minority context. They also
challenge the rather fixed notions of what constitutes an
intersectional approach to the study of oppressions in social
interactions. Finally, the book's inter- and multi-disciplinary
range exhibits a variety of methodological 'takes' on the issue of
transnational intersectionalities in migration and minority
context. Taken together, the volume adds theoretical, empirical and
historical insight to ethnic, racial, gender and migration studies.
This book was originally published as a special issue of
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
Encouraging a conversation among scholars working with questions of
transnationalism from the perspective of gender and race, this book
explores the intersectionality between these two forms of
oppression and their relation to transnational migration. How do
sexism and racism articulate the experience of transnational
migrants? What is the complex relationship between minorities and
migrants in terms of gender and racial discrimination? What are the
empirical and theoretical insights gained by an analysis that
emphasizes the 'intersectionality' between gender and race? What
empirical agenda can be developed out of these questions? Bringing
a transnational lens to studies of migration from an intersectional
perspective, the contributors focus on how power geometries,
articulated through sexisms and racisms, are experienced in
relation to a migration and/or minority context. They also
challenge the rather fixed notions of what constitutes an
intersectional approach to the study of oppressions in social
interactions. Finally, the book's inter- and multi-disciplinary
range exhibits a variety of methodological 'takes' on the issue of
transnational intersectionalities in migration and minority
context. Taken together, the volume adds theoretical, empirical and
historical insight to ethnic, racial, gender and migration studies.
This book was originally published as a special issue of
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
This book examines return mobilities to and from ancestral
homelands of the second generation and beyond. It presents
cutting-edge empirical research framed within the mobilities,
transnational and return migration/diaspora paradigms on a
trans/local and global scale. The book is unique in presenting not
only a variety of return movements, including short-term visits and
longer-term return migrations, but also circulatory movements
within transnational social fields while engaging with notions of
'home', belonging, identity and generation. The individual
contributions range widely over different ethnic, national,
regional and global settings, including Europe, North America, the
Caribbean, the Gulf and Africa. The result is a remapping of the
conceptualisation of 'diaspora' and of the role of successive
generations in the diasporic experience, as well as a nuancing of
the concepts of return migration and transnationalism by their
extension to the second and subsequent generations of 'immigrants'.
This book was originally published as a special issue of
Mobilities.
Re-energising debates on the conceptualisation of diasporas in
migration scholarship and in geography, this work stresses the
important role that geographers can play in interrupting
assumptions about the spaces and processes of diaspora. The
intricate, material and complex ways in which those in diaspora
contest, construct and perform identity, politics, development and
place is explored throughout this book. The authors 'dismantle'
diasporas in order to re-theorise the concept through empirically
grounded, cutting-edge global research. This innovative volume will
appeal to an international and interdisciplinary audience in
ethnic, migration and diaspora studies as it tackles comparative,
multi-sited and multi-method research through compelling case
studies in a variety of contexts spanning the Global North and
South. The research in this book is guided by four interconnected
themes: the ways in which diasporas are constructed and performed
through identity, the body, everyday practice and place; how those
in diaspora become politicised and how this leads to unities and
disunities in relation to 'here' and 'there'; the ways in which
diasporas seek to connect and re-connect with their 'homelands' and
the consequences of this in terms of identity formation, employment
and theorising who 'counts' as a diaspora; and how those in
diaspora engage with homeland development and the challenges this
creates.
Re-energising debates on the conceptualisation of diasporas in
migration scholarship and in geography, this work stresses the
important role that geographers can play in interrupting
assumptions about the spaces and processes of diaspora. The
intricate, material and complex ways in which those in diaspora
contest, construct and perform identity, politics, development and
place is explored throughout this book. The authors 'dismantle'
diasporas in order to re-theorise the concept through empirically
grounded, cutting-edge global research. This innovative volume will
appeal to an international and interdisciplinary audience in
ethnic, migration and diaspora studies as it tackles comparative,
multi-sited and multi-method research through compelling case
studies in a variety of contexts spanning the Global North and
South. The research in this book is guided by four interconnected
themes: the ways in which diasporas are constructed and performed
through identity, the body, everyday practice and place; how those
in diaspora become politicised and how this leads to unities and
disunities in relation to 'here' and 'there'; the ways in which
diasporas seek to connect and re-connect with their 'homelands' and
the consequences of this in terms of identity formation, employment
and theorising who 'counts' as a diaspora; and how those in
diaspora engage with homeland development and the challenges this
creates.
Christou explores the phenomenon of 'return migration' in Greece
through the settlement and identification processes of
second-generation Greek-American returning migrants. She examines
the meanings attached to the experience of return migration. The
concepts of 'home' and 'belonging' figure prominently in the return
migratory project which entails relocation and displacement as well
as adjustment and alienation of bodies and selves. Furthermore,
Christou considers the multiple interactions (social, cultural,
political) between the place of origin and the place of
destination; network ties; historical and global forces in the
shaping of return migrant behaviour; and expressions of identity.
The human geography of return migration extends beyond geographic
movement into a diasporic journey involving (re)constructions of
homeness and belongingness in the ancestral homeland.
In recent decades, the insight that narration shapes our perception
of reality has inspired and influenced the most innovative
historical accounts. Focusing on new research, this volume explores
the history of non-elite populations in cities from Caracas to
Vienna, and Paris to Belgrade. Narration is central to the theme of
each contribution, whether as a means of description, a
methodological approach, or basic story telling. This book brings
together research that both asks classical socio-historical
questions and takes narration seriously, engaging with novels,
films, local history accounts, petitions to municipal authorities,
and interviews with alternative cinema activists.
This open access short reader offers a critical review of the
debates on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities
primarily in Europe, though also engaging in wider theoretical
insights. Building on empirical case studies and grounded in an
analytical framework that incorporates both men and women,
masculinities, sexualities and wider intersectional insights, this
reader provides an accessible overview of conceptual developments
and methodological shifts and their implications for a gendered
understanding of migration in the past 30 years. It explores
different and emerging approaches in major areas, such as: gendered
labour markets across diverse sectors beyond domestic and care work
to include skilled sectors of social reproduction; the significance
of families in migration and transnational families; displacement,
asylum and refugees and the incorporation of gender and sexuality
in asylum determination; academic critiques and gendered discourses
concerning integration often with the focus on Muslim women. The
reader concludes with considerations of the potential impact of
three notable developments on gendered migrations and mobilities:
Black Lives Matter, Brexit and COVID-19. As such, it is a valuable
resource for students, academics, policy makers, and practitioners.
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