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  1. Feminist IR in Europe : Knowledge Production in Academic Institutions
    Beteiligt: Stern, Maria (Hrsg.); Towns, Ann E. (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2022
    Verlag:  Springer Nature, Cham

    The aim of this open access book is to take stock of, critically engage, and celebrate feminist IR scholarship produced in Europe. Organized thematically, the volume highlights a wealth of excellent scholarship, while also focusing on the politics of... mehr

     

    The aim of this open access book is to take stock of, critically engage, and celebrate feminist IR scholarship produced in Europe. Organized thematically, the volume highlights a wealth of excellent scholarship, while also focusing on the politics of location and the international political economy of feminist knowledge production. Who are some of the central feminist scholars located in Europe? How might the concentration of these scholars in Northern Europe and the UK shape the contents of their scholarship? What have some of the main contributions been, in the study of the following themes: security; war and military; peace; migration; international political economy and development; foreign policy; diplomacy; and global governance and international organizations? The volume offers both an intellectual history and a sociology of feminist IR scholarship in Europe. It showcases the vitality and breadth of feminist IR traditions, while simultaneously calling attention to their partial nature, exclusions and silences.

     
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  2. Liminal Spaces : Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora
    Beteiligt: Ali, Grace Aneiza (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2020
    Verlag:  Open Book Publishers

    "Liminal Spaces is an intimate exploration into the migration narratives of fifteen women of Guyanese heritage. It spans diverse inter-generational perspectives – from those who leave Guyana, and those who are left – and seven seminal decades of... mehr

     

    "Liminal Spaces is an intimate exploration into the migration narratives of fifteen women of Guyanese heritage. It spans diverse inter-generational perspectives – from those who leave Guyana, and those who are left – and seven seminal decades of Guyana’s history – from the 1950s to the present day – bringing the voices of women to the fore. The volume is conceived of as a visual exhibition on the page; a four-part journey navigating the contributors’ essays and artworks, allowing the reader to trace the migration path of Guyanese women from their moment of departure, to their arrival on diasporic soils, to their reunion with Guyana.

    Eloquent and visually stunning, Liminal Spaces unpacks the global realities of migration, challenging and disrupting dominant narratives associated with Guyana, its colonial past, and its post-colonial present as a ‘disappearing nation’. Multimodal in approach, the volume combines memoir, creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, art and curatorial essays to collectively examine the mutable notion of ‘homeland’, and grapple with ideas of place and accountability.This volume is a welcome contribution to the scholarly field of international migration, transnationalism, and diaspora, both in its creative methodological approach, and in its subject area – as one of the only studies published on Guyanese diaspora. It will be of great interest to those studying women and migration, and scholars and students of diaspora studies."

     
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    Beteiligt: Ali, Grace Aneiza (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Schlagworte: Art treatments & subjects; Migration, immigration & emigration; Social groups
    Weitere Schlagworte: migration; migration narratives; women; Guyana; Guyanese women; from the 1950s; visual exhibition; essays; artwork; memoir; creative non-fiction; poetry; photography; art and curatorial essays; notion of homeland; accountability
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (232 p.)
  3. Women and Migration : Responses in Art and History
    Beteiligt: Willis, Deborah (Hrsg.); Toscano, Ellyn (Hrsg.); Brooks Nelson, Kalia (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2019
    Verlag:  Open Book Publishers

    "The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women’s... mehr

     

    "The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women’s perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees and slavery through the various lenses of politics and war, love and family.

    The contributors, which include academics and artists, offer both personal and critical points of view on the artistic and historical repositories of these experiences. Selfies, motherhood, violence and Hollywood all feature in this substantial treasure-trove of women’s joy and suffering, disaster and delight, place, memory and identity.

    This collection appeals to artists and scholars of the humanities, particularly within the social sciences; though there is much to recommend it to creatives seeking inspiration or counsel on the issue of migratory experiences."

     
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    Beteiligt: Willis, Deborah (Hrsg.); Toscano, Ellyn (Hrsg.); Brooks Nelson, Kalia (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Schlagworte: Art treatments & subjects; Photography & photographs; Social issues & processes
    Weitere Schlagworte: collection of essays; women; migration; women’s experiences of migration; women’s perspectives; writing; photography; art; film
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (670 p.)
  4. Alternative countrysides : Anthropological approaches to rural Western Europe today
    Beteiligt: MacClancy, Jeremy (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 20150701
    Verlag:  Manchester University Press, Manchester

    A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and labour... mehr

     

    A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and labour migrants from beyond the EU.

     

    With detailed ethnographic examples, contributors analyse new modes of living rurally and emerging forms of social organisation. As incomers’ dreams come up against residents’ realities, they detail the clashes and the cooperations between old and new residents. They make us rethink the rural/urban divide, investigate regionalists’ politicisation of rural life and heritage, and reveal how locals use EU monies to prop up or challenge existing hierarchies. They expose the consequences of and reactions to grand EU-restructuring policies, which at times threaten to turn the countryside into a manicured playground for escapee urbanites.

     

    This book will appeal to anyone seriously interested in the realities of rural life.

     
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    Beteiligt: MacClancy, Jeremy (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Schlagworte: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Weitere Schlagworte: Anthropology; rural; ethnography; migration; migrant; diaspora; urban; countryside; EU policy; rural life
  5. Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration
    Beteiligt: Jacobsen, Christine M. (Hrsg.); Karlsen, Marry-Anne (Hrsg.); Khosravi, Shahram (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2021
    Verlag:  Taylor & Francis

    "This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes and practices. Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights... mehr

     

    "This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes and practices.

    Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights into the complex and shifting nature of processes of bordering, belonging, state power, exclusion and inclusion, and social relations in irregular migration. The chapters in this book address legal, bureaucratic, ethical, gendered, and affective dimensions of time and migration. A key concern is to develop more theoretically robust approaches to waiting in migration as constituted in and through multiple and relational temporalities. The chapters highlight how waiting is configured in specific legal, material, and socio-cultural situations, as well as how migrants encounter, incorporate, and resist temporal structures.

    This collection includes ethnographic and other empirically based material, as well as theorizing that cross-cut disciplinary boundaries. It will be relevant to scholars from anthropology and sociology, and others interested in temporalities, migration, borders, and power. "

     
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    Beteiligt: Jacobsen, Christine M. (Hrsg.); Karlsen, Marry-Anne (Hrsg.); Khosravi, Shahram (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429351730
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    Schlagworte: Anthropology; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Migration, immigration & emigration
    Weitere Schlagworte: anthropology; social and cultural anthropology; migration; immigration and emigration
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (229 p.)
  6. Bridging the Gaps : Linking Research to Public Debates and Policy Making on Migration and Integration
    Beteiligt: Ruhs, Martin (Hrsg.); Tamas, Kristof (Hrsg.); Palme, Joakim (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2019
    Verlag:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    What is the use of research in public debates and policy-making on immigration and integration? Why are there such large gaps between migration debates and migration realities, and how can they be reduced? Bridging the Gaps: Linking Research to... mehr

     

    What is the use of research in public debates and policy-making on immigration and integration? Why are there such large gaps between migration debates and migration realities, and how can they be reduced? Bridging the Gaps: Linking Research to Public Debates and Policy-making on Migration and Integration provides a unique set of testimonies and analyses of these questions by researchers and policy experts who have been deeply involved in attempts to link social science research to public policies. Bridging the Gap argues that we must go beyond the prevailing focus on the research–policy nexus by considering how the media, public opinion, and other dimensions of public debates can interact with research and policy processes. The chapters provide theoretical analyses and personal assessments of the successes and failures of past efforts to link research to public debates and policy-making on migration and integration in six different countries—Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States—as well as in European and global governance debates. Contrary to common public perceptions and political demands, Bridging the Gaps argues that all actors contributing to research, public debates, and policy-making should recognize that migration, integration, and related decision-making are highly complex issues, and that there are no quick fixes to what are often enduring policy dilemmas. When the different actors understand and appreciate each other’s primary aims and constraints, such common understandings can pave the way for improved policy-making processes and better public policies that deal more effectively with the real challenges of migration and integration.

     
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    Quelle: OAPEN
    Beteiligt: Ruhs, Martin (Hrsg.); Tamas, Kristof (Hrsg.); Palme, Joakim (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Weitere Identifier:
    Schlagworte: Economics; Politics & government; Migration, immigration & emigration; Social interaction; Media studies
    Weitere Schlagworte: economics; politics & government; migration; immigration; emigration; social interaction; media studies
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (288 p.)
  7. Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans
    Autor*in: Chambers, Thomas
    Erschienen: 2020
    Verlag:  UCL Press, London

    Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans provides an ethnography of life, work and migration in a North Indian Muslim-dominated woodworking industry. It traces artisanal connections within the local context, during migration within... mehr

     

    Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans provides an ethnography of life, work and migration in a North Indian Muslim-dominated woodworking industry. It traces artisanal connections within the local context, during migration within India, and to the Gulf, examining how woodworkers utilise local and transnational networks, based on identity, religiosity, and affective circulations, to access resources, support and forms of mutuality. However, the book also illustrates how liberalisation, intensifying forms of marginalisation and incorporation into global production networks have led to spatial pressures, fragmentation of artisanal labour, and forms of enclavement that persist despite geographical mobility and connectedness.

     

    By working across the dialectic of marginality and connectedness, Thomas Chambers thinks through these complexities and dualities by providing an ethnographic account that shares everyday life with artisans and others in the industry. Descriptive detail is intersected with spatial scales of ‘local’, ‘national’ and ‘international’, with the demands of supply chains and labour markets within India and abroad, with structural conditions, and with forms of change and continuity. Empirically, then, the book provides a detailed account of a specific locale, but also contributes to broader theoretical debates centring on theorisations of margins, borders, connections, networks, embeddedness, neoliberalism, subjectivities, and economic or social flux.

     
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Schlagworte: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Weitere Schlagworte: migration; India; artisans; anthropology; labour; craft; Islam
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (292 p.)
  8. Network and Migration in Early Renaissance Florence, 1378-1433 : Friends of Friends in the Kingdom of Hungary
    Autor*in: Prajda, Katalin
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Amsterdam University Press

    This book explores the co-development of political, social, economic, and artistic networks of Florentines working in the Kingdom of Hungary during the reign of Sigismund of Luxembourg. The social network of these politicians, merchants, artisans,... mehr

     

    This book explores the co-development of political, social, economic, and artistic networks of Florentines working in the Kingdom of Hungary during the reign of Sigismund of Luxembourg. The social network of these politicians, merchants, artisans, royal officers, dignitaries of the Church, and noblemen is the primary focus of the book. Local Florentines constituted an extended network of "friends"; the existing personal connections among them were defined by common political interests, neighborhood proximity, marriage alliances, kinship ties, patronage, and company partnership. Through analysis of the links between these actors, the book addresses questions of the complexity of social ties in early Renaissance Florence, exploring how multiple types of networks shaped the dynamics of public and private spheres. It also seeks to reach more general conclusions about Florentine migration abroad and to envision ways in which early modern migratory groups were formed.

     
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789462988682; 9789048540990
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    Schlagworte: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; History
    Weitere Schlagworte: Florence; Hungary; social network; Renaissance; migration
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (288 p.)
  9. Passages Westward
    Beteiligt: Lähteenmäki, Maria (Hrsg.); Snellman, Hanna (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2006
    Verlag:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    "The West has always been a resource for the Finns. Scholars, artists and other professionals have sought contacts from Europe throughout the centuries. The Finnish experience in Western Europe and the New World is a story of migrant laborers,... mehr

     

    "The West has always been a resource for the Finns. Scholars, artists and other professionals have sought contacts from Europe throughout the centuries. The Finnish experience in Western Europe and the New World is a story of migrant laborers, expatriates and specialists working abroad. But you don’t have to be born in Finland to be a Finn. The experiences of second-generation Finnish immigrants and their descendants open up new possibilities for understanding the relationship between Finland and the West.

    The Finnish passage westward has not always crossed national borders. Karelian evacuees headed west, as did young people from the Finnish countryside when opportunities to make a living in agriculture and forestry diminished in the post-war era. The legacy of these migrants is still visible in the suburbs of Finnish cities today.

    This book is a joint effort of the Department of Ethnology and the Department of History at the University of Helsinki. It was written by Ph. D. students supervised by Academy Research Fellows Maria Lähteenmäki and Hanna Snellman, in collaboration with colleagues abroad interested in current research in ethnology and history.

     

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    Beteiligt: Lähteenmäki, Maria (Hrsg.); Snellman, Hanna (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789518580655; 9789518580662
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    Schlagworte: Regional & national history; Migration, immigration & emigration; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Weitere Schlagworte: immigration; migration; identity; Finland; Sweden; expatriates
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (247 p.)
  10. Responsibility and Language Practices in Place
    Beteiligt: Siragusa, Laura (Hrsg.); Ferguson, Jenanne K. (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2020
    Verlag:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    This volume includes chapters by junior and senior scholars hailing from Europe, Asia, North America, and Oceania, all of whom sought to understand the social and cultural implications surrounding how people take responsibility for the ways they... mehr

     

    This volume includes chapters by junior and senior scholars hailing from Europe, Asia, North America, and Oceania, all of whom sought to understand the social and cultural implications surrounding how people take responsibility for the ways they speak or write in relation to a place—whether it is one they have long resided in, recently moved to, or left a long time ago.;The contributors to the volume investigate ‘responsibility’ in and through language practices as inspired by the roots of the (English) word itself: the ability to respond, or mount a response to a situation at hand. It is thus a ‘responsive’ kind of responsibility, one that focuses not only on demonstrating responsibility for language, but highlighting the various ways we respond to situations discursively and metalinguistically. This sort of responsibility is both part of individual and collectively negotiated concerns that shift as people contend with processes related to globalization.

     
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    Beteiligt: Siragusa, Laura (Hrsg.); Ferguson, Jenanne K. (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Schlagworte: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Sociolinguistics; linguistics
    Weitere Schlagworte: multilingualism; globalization; language; place; responsibility; migration
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (228 p.)
  11. Researching female genital mutilation/cutting : Proceedings of the 2nd International Academic Seminar of MAP-FGM Project
    Beteiligt: Leye, Els (Hrsg.); Coene, Gily (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2017
    Verlag:  ASP editions - Academic and Scientific Publishers

    This volume consist of papers which provide an overview of the presentations at the Second International Academic Seminar: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting at the intersection of qualitative, quantitative and mixed method research. Experiences from... mehr

     

    This volume consist of papers which provide an overview of the presentations at the Second International Academic Seminar: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting at the intersection of qualitative, quantitative and mixed method research. Experiences from Africa and Europe. This seminar took place June 2017, in Brussels. The contributions in this book focus on research’s crucial role in abandoning female genital mutilation/ cutting (FGM/C), gaps in the research, the need to integrate an intersectionality perspective in the research and evaluations of current strategies for abandoning the practice. 

     
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  12. Europes Population
    Autor*in: Hall, Ray; White, Paul
    Erschienen: 1995
    Verlag:  Taylor & Francis

    First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. mehr

  13. Exile, Non-Belonging and Statelessness in Grangaud, Jabès, Lubin and Luca : No man’s language
    Autor*in: Kerr, Greg
    Erschienen: 2021
    Verlag:  UCL Press, London

    At least since the Romantic era, poetry has often been understood as a powerful vector of collective belonging. The idea that certain poets are emblematic of a national culture is one of the chief means by which literature historicizes itself,... mehr

     

    At least since the Romantic era, poetry has often been understood as a powerful vector of collective belonging. The idea that certain poets are emblematic of a national culture is one of the chief means by which literature historicizes itself, inscribes itself in a shared cultural past and supplies modes of belonging to those who consume it. But what, then, of the exiled, migrant or translingual poet? How might writing in a language other than one’s mother tongue complicate this picture of the relation between poet, language and literary system? What of those for whom the practice of poetry is inseparable from a sense of restlessness or unease, suggesting a condition of not being at home in any one language, even that of their mother tongue? These questions are crucial for four French-language poets whose work is the focus of this study: Armen Lubin (1903-74), Ghérasim Luca (1913-94), Edmond Jabès (1912-91) and Michelle Grangaud (1941-). Ranging across borders within and beyond the Francosphere – from Algeria to Armenia, to Egypt, to Romania – this book shows how a poetic practice inflected by exile, statelessness or non-belonging has the potential to disrupt long-held assumptions of the relation between subjects, the language they use and the place from which they speak.

     
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  14. Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020
    Beteiligt: Rubins, Maria (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2021
    Verlag:  UCL Press, London

    Over the century that has passed since the start of the massive post-revolutionary exodus, Russian literature has thrived in multiple locations around the globe. What happens to cultural vocabularies, politics of identity, literary canon and language... mehr

     

    Over the century that has passed since the start of the massive post-revolutionary exodus, Russian literature has thrived in multiple locations around the globe. What happens to cultural vocabularies, politics of identity, literary canon and language when writers transcend the metropolitan and national boundaries and begin to negotiate new experience gained in the process of migration? Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020 sets a new agenda for the study of Russian diaspora writing, countering its conventional reception as a subsidiary branch of national literature and reorienting the field from an excessive emphasis on the homeland and origins to an analysis of transnational circulations that shape extraterritorial cultural practices. Integrating a variety of conceptual perspectives, ranging from diaspora and postcolonial studies to the theories of translation and self-translation, World Literature and evolutionary literary criticism, the contributors argue for a distinct nature of diasporic literary expression predicated on hybridity, ambivalence and a sense of multiple belonging. As the complementary case studies demonstrate, diaspora narratives consistently recode historical memory, contest the mainstream discourses of Russianness, rewrite received cultural tropes and explore topics that have remained marginal or taboo in the homeland. These diverse discussions are framed by a focused examination of diaspora as a methodological perspective and its relevance for the modern human condition.

     
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  15. Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning : The built environment as an added educator in East African refugee camps
    Autor*in: Elorduy, Nerea Amorós
    Erschienen: 2021
    Verlag:  UCL Press, London

    At the beginning of 2020, 66 long-term refugee camps existed along the East African Rift. Millions of young children have been born at the camps and have grown up there, yet it is unknown how their surrounding built environments affect their learning... mehr

     

    At the beginning of 2020, 66 long-term refugee camps existed along the East African Rift. Millions of young children have been born at the camps and have grown up there, yet it is unknown how their surrounding built environments affect their learning and development. Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning presents an architect’s take on questions many academics and humanitarians ask. Is it relevant to look at camps through an urban lens and focus on their built environment? Which analytical benefits can architectural and design tools provide to refugee assistance and specifically to young children’s learning? And which advantages can assemblage thinking and situated knowledges bring about in analysing, understanding and transforming long-term refugee camps? Responding to the extreme lack of information about East African camps, Nerea Amorós Elorduy has built contextualised knowledge – nuanced, situated and participatory – to describe, study and transform the East African long-term camps, and uncover hidden agencies in refugee assistance. She uses architecture as a means to create new knowledge collectively, include more local voices and speculate on how to improve the educational landscape for young children. With this book, Amorós Elorduy brings nuance, contextualisation and empathy to the study and management of long-term refugee camps in East Africa. It is empathy, she argues, that will help change mindsets, decolonise humanitarian refugee assistance and its study. Crossing architecture, humanitarian aid and early career development, this book offers many practical learnings.

     
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  16. The Fixer
    Autor*in: Piot, Charles
    Erschienen: 2019
    Verlag:  Duke University Press, Durham, NC

    In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money... mehr

     

    In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money for the embassy interview to the gamesmanship of those adding spouses and dependents to their dossiers, the application process is complicated, expensive, and unpredictable. In The Fixer Charles Piot follows Kodjo Nicolas Batema, a Togolese visa broker—known as a “fixer”—as he shepherds his clients through the application and interview process. Relaying the experiences of the fixer, his clients, and embassy officials, Piot captures the ever-evolving cat-and-mouse game between the embassy and the hopeful Togolese as well as the disappointments and successes of lottery winners in the United States. These detailed and compelling stories uniquely illustrate the desire and savviness of migrants as they work to find what they hope will be a better life.

     
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    Beteiligt: Batema, Kodjo Nicholas (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781478003427; 9781478001911
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    Schlagworte: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Weitere Schlagworte: diversity visa lottery; Togo; West Africa; visa brokers; fixers; migration
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (224 p.)
  17. Representations of Finnishness in Sweden
    Autor*in: Weckström, Lotta
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    "More than half a million Swedes – one in twenty – is of Finnish descent. This book explores Finnishness, multilingualism and identities of young people with Finnish background in Sweden. What does it mean to grow up in a Finnish family in Sweden?... mehr

     

    "More than half a million Swedes – one in twenty – is of Finnish descent. This book explores Finnishness, multilingualism and identities of young people with Finnish background in Sweden. What does it mean to grow up in a Finnish family in Sweden? Who are ‘real Finns’ and what does it take to be(come) one? Is a shared minority language essential for the survival of the minority, or can a minority culture stay viable without it? What is Finnishness and who, in the end, can define ethnicity? How to make sense of, and how to present interviews that are rich with imitations of accents, jokes and laughter? Representations of Finnishness is Sweden is an ethnographic interview study in the domain of applied language studies. This book is aimed at readers interested in sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, and the study of identities. Interviewees’ voices take a central position in this book and interview excerpts are used not only as illustrations, but also serve as starting points for discussing broader theoretical concepts.

    The author, Dr. Lotta Weckström, grew up bilingual – Finnish and Swedish – in Finland. She studied linguistics and migration studies in Germany and the Netherlands, and in this longitudinal study encompasses her expertise."

     
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  18. City of Strangers : Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
    Autor*in: Gardner, Andrew M.
    Erschienen: 20100702
    Verlag:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Exploring the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to Bahrain, this study contributes significantly to our understanding of politics and society among the Persian Gulf states and of the migrant labor phenomenon that is an... mehr

     

    Exploring the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to Bahrain, this study contributes significantly to our understanding of politics and society among the Persian Gulf states and of the migrant labor phenomenon that is an increasingly important aspect of globalization.

     

    "Andrew M. Gardner expertly combines in-depth ethnography with theoretical sophistication in this important look at the complex linkages between labor, migration, globalization, and the structural violence that accompanies the new world economic order. Gardner follows the labyrinthine paths of migrant workers in the Gulf, drawing on powerful qualitative data to complicate existing assumptions about the lives of skilled and unskilled workers in the Middle East's fastest growing region. Beautifully written and compelling, the book sheds light on a population and area of the world that remains understudied despite its rapid emergence onto the global market."—Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona College

     
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  19. Moving in the USSR : Western anomalies and Northern wilderness
    Beteiligt: Hakamies, Pekka (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: 2005
    Verlag:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    "This book deals with 20th century resettlements in the western areas of the former USSR, in particular the territory of Karelia that was ceded by Finland in the WWII, Podolia in the Ukraine, and the North-West periphery of Russia in the Kola... mehr

     

    "This book deals with 20th century resettlements in the western areas of the former USSR, in particular the territory of Karelia that was ceded by Finland in the WWII, Podolia in the Ukraine, and the North-West periphery of Russia in the Kola peninsula. Finns from Karelia emigrated to Finland, most of the Jews of Podolia were exterminated by Nazi Germany but the survivors later emigrated to Israel, and the sparsely populated territory beyond the Polar circle received the Societ conquerors of nature which they began to exploit. The empty areas were usually settled by planned state recruitment of relocated Soviet citizens, but in some cases also by spontaneous movement. Thus, a Ukrainian took over a Jewish house, a Chuvash kolkhos was dispersed along Finnish khutor houses, and youth in the town of Apatity began to prefer their home town in relation to the cities of Russia.

     

    Everywhere the settlers met new and strange surroundings, and they had to construct places and meanings for themselves in their new home and restructure their local identity in relation to their places of origin and current abodes. They also had to create images of the former inhabitants and explanations for various strange details they preceived around themselves.

     

    All articles within this volume are based on extensive field or archive work. This research project was funded by the Academy of Finland."

     
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    Beteiligt: Hakamies, Pekka (Hrsg.)
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    ISBN: 9789517466950; 9789518580235; 9789518580228
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    Schlagworte: Literature & literary studies; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Weitere Schlagworte: migration; demography; internal migration; colonisation; resettlement activities; regional identity; Soviet Union
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  20. Social Media in Industrial China
    Autor*in: Wang, Xinyuan
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  UCL Press

    Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a... mehr

     

    Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their use of social media. It was here she witnessed a second migration taking place: a movement from offline to online. As Wang argues, this is not simply a convenient analogy but represents the convergence of two phenomena as profound and consequential as each other, where the online world now provides a home for the migrant workers who feel otherwise ‘homeless’.

     
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    Schlagworte: Society & social sciences; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Weitere Schlagworte: urban; social media; migration; china; Human migration; Smartphone; Tencent QQ; WeChat
    Umfang: 1 electronic resource (236 p.)
  21. Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes
    Chronicles of Complexity
    Autor*in: Blommaert, Jan
    Erschienen: [2013]; © 2013
    Verlag:  Multilingual Matters, Blue Ridge Summit, PA

    Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity... mehr

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    Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity perspective. Using an innovative approach to linguistic landscaping, he demonstrates how multilingual signs can be read as chronicles documenting the complex histories of a place. The book can be read in many ways: as a theoretical and methodological contribution to the study of linguistic landscape; as one of the first monographs which addresses the sociolinguistics of superdiversity; or as a revision of some of the fundamental assumptions of social science through the use of chaos and complexity theory as an inspiration for understanding the structures of contemporary social life

     
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    ISBN: 9781783090419
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    Schriftenreihe: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
    Schlagworte: Antwerp; complexity; conviviality; ethnography; linguistic landscapes; linguistic landscaping; migration; multilingual signs; multiliteracies; multimodality; sociolinguistic landscapes; superdiversity; Mehrsprachigkeit; Soziolinguistik; Ethnologie
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  22. Pan–African American Literature
    Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century
    Autor*in: Li, Stephanie
    Erschienen: [2018]; © 2018
    Verlag:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity... mehr

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    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity means. Pan-African American Literature is dedicated to charting the contours of literature by African born or identified authors centered around life in the United States. The texts examined here deliberately signify on the African American literary canon to encompass new experiences of immigration, assimilation and identification that challenge how blackness has been previously conceived. Though race often alienates and frustrates immigrants who are accustomed to living in all-black environments, Stephanie Li holds that it can also be a powerful form of community and political mobilization

     
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  23. Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging
    Beteiligt: Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer (Hrsg.); Horner, Kristine (Hrsg.)
    Erschienen: [2019]; © 2019
    Verlag:  Multilingual Matters, Blue Ridge Summit, PA

    Certain forms of mobility and multilingualism tend to be portrayed as problematic in the public sphere, while others are considered to be unremarkable. Divided into three thematic sections, this book explores the contestation of spaces and the notion... mehr

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    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Certain forms of mobility and multilingualism tend to be portrayed as problematic in the public sphere, while others are considered to be unremarkable. Divided into three thematic sections, this book explores the contestation of spaces and the notion of borders, examines the ways in which heritage and authenticity are linked or challenged, and interrogates the intersections between mobility and hierarchies and the ways that language can be linked to notions of belonging and aspirations for mobility. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Australasia and Europe, it explores how language functions as both site of struggle and as a means of overcoming struggle. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars taking ethnographic and critical sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language and belonging in the context of globalisation

     
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    Beteiligt: Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer (Hrsg.); Horner, Kristine (Hrsg.)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781788925051
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    Schriftenreihe: Encounters
    Schlagworte: Multilingualism; Sociolinguistics; identity; language and globalization; linguistic anthropology; linguistic ethnography; migration; power; space; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; Language and culture; Multilingualism; Mehrsprachigkeit; Soziolinguistik
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  24. Does non-farm income diversivication in Northern Albania offer an escape from rural poverty?
    Autor*in: Meyer, Wiebke; Möllers, Judith; Buchenrieder, Gertrud
    Erschienen: 2008
    Verlag:  Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Halle (Saale)

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  25. EAST AFRICA TALES & STORIES
    From Uganda, Kenya & Tanzania
    Autor*in: Voglgsang, Gabriele
    Erschienen: 2022
    Verlag:  tredition, Hamburg

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