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The Cultures of Economic Migration
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it. Reflecting critically on economic migration and on the process of studying and creating knowledge about it, the contributors address the question of whether...
Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia
Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Contrary to ingrained academic and public assumptions, wherein indigenous lowland South American societies are viewed as the product of historical emplacement and spatial stasis, there is widespread evidence to suggest that migration and displacement have been the norm, and not the exception. This...
Migration by Boat
Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
At a time when thousands of refugees risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, this multidisciplinary volume could not be more pertinent. It offers various contemporary case studies of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees around the globe...
Affective Circuits
African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict. But attention to such broad questions often obscures a fundamental fact of migration: its effects on ordinary...
Black Spaces
African Diaspora in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Black Spaces examines how space and place are racialized, and the impacts on everyday experiences among African Italians, immigrants, and refugees. It explores the deeply intertwined histories of Africa and Europe, and how people of African descent negotiate, contest, and live with anti-blackness...
Rethinking International Protection
The Sovereign, the State, the Refugee
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book provides a critical account of the concept of international protection. The author questions the boundaries between protection and assistance, and challenges the dominant focus on state sovereignty. Drawing upon a broad range of sources, she scrutinises the central role played by the state...
Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism
Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Bringing together a range of illustrative case studies coupled with fresh theoretical insights, this volume is one of the first to address the complexities and contradictions in the relationship between migration, time, and capitalism. While temporal reckoning has long fascinated anthropologists,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
This volume investigates the relationship between migration, identity, kinship and population. It uncovers the institutional practices of categorization as well as the conducts and the ethics adopted by social actors that create divisions between citizens and non-citizens, migrants and their descendants...
Migrant Women of Johannesburg
Everyday Life in an In-Between City
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Through rich stories of African migrant women in Johannesburg, this book explores the experience of living between geographies. Author Caroline Kihato draws on fieldwork and analysis to examine the everyday lives of those inhabiting a fluid location between multiple worlds, suspended between their original home and an imagined future elsewhere.
Not Born a Refugee Woman
Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Not Born a Refugee Woman is an in-depth inquiry into the identity construction of refugee women. It challenges and rethinks current identity concepts, policies, and practices in the context of a globalizing environment, and in the increasingly racialized post-September 11th context, from the perspective...
International Express
New Yorkers on the 7 Train
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Nicknamed the International Express, the New York City Transit Authority 7 subway line runs through a highly diverse series of ethnic and immigrant neighborhoods in Queens. People from Andean South America, Central America, China, India, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, and Vietnam,...
Women, Migration and Citizenship
Making Local, National and Transnational Connections
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Given the recent and rapid changes to migration patterns and citizenship processes, this volume provides a timely, compelling, empirical and theoretical study of the gendered implications of such developments. More specifically, it draws out the multiple connections between migration and citizenship...
Managing Diversity through Non-Territorial Autonomy
Assessing Advantages, Deficiencies, and Risks
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Non-territorial autonomy (NTA) is a statecraft tool that is increasingly gaining importance in societies seeking to accommodate demands by ethno-cultural groups for a voice in cultural affairs important to the protection and preservation of their identity, such as language, education, and religion....
Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law
The Flight and the Plight of People Deemed 'Illegal'
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
This book describes the experiences of undocumented migrants, all around the world, bringing to life the challenges they face from the moment they consider leaving their country of origin, until the time they are deported back to it. Drawing on a broad array of academic studies, including law, interpretation...