Contested Hospitalities In A Time Of Migration

Author : Synnøve Bendixsen,Trygve Wyller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000710793

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Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration by Synnøve Bendixsen,Trygve Wyller Pdf

This book explores the duality of openness and restriction in approaches to migrants in the Nordic countries. As borders have become less permeable to non-Europeans, it presents research on civil society practices that oppose the existing border regimes and examine the values that they express. The volume offers case studies from across the region that demonstrate opposition to increasingly restricted borders and which seek to offer hospitality to migrant. One topic is whether these practices impact and transform the Nordic Protestant trajectory. The book considers whether such actions are indicative of new sensibilities and values in which traditional categories and binaries are becoming less relevant. It also discusses what these practices of hospitality indicate about the changing relationship between voluntary organizations and the Nordic welfare states in the time of migration. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, and religious studies with interests in migration, civil society resistance and social values.

Author : Cecilia Nahnfeldt,Kaia S. Rønsdal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000392494

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Contemporary Christian-Cultural Values by Cecilia Nahnfeldt,Kaia S. Rønsdal Pdf

This book reconstructs the connection between religion and migration, drawing on post-colonial perspectives to shed light on what religion can contribute to migrant encounters. Examining the resources and motives for hospitality as lived in Christian contexts in the Nordic region, it addresses the content of talk about religion in public discourse, the concept having become something of an empty signifier in debates surrounding migration. Multidisciplinary in approach, this volume demonstrates that religion is not, in fact, an empty signifier, but gains substance through practice and interpretation. Considering the undeveloped potentiality of religion and the manner in which the unseen religious perspective in secularity becomes manifest in practice, this volume will appeal to social scientists and scholars of religion with interests in migration, refugee studies, theology, and Christian practice.

Author : Sari Nauman,Wojtek Jezierski,Christina Reimann,Leif Runefelt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030985271

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Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century by Sari Nauman,Wojtek Jezierski,Christina Reimann,Leif Runefelt Pdf

Reflecting debate around hospitality and the Baltic Sea region, this open access book taps into wider discussions about reception, securitization and xenophobic attitudes towards migrants and strangers. Focusing on coastal and urban areas, the collection presents an overview of the responses of host communities to guests and strangers in the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, from the early eleventh century to the twentieth. The chapters investigate why and how diverse categories of strangers including migrants, war refugees, prisoners of war, merchants, missionaries and vagrants, were portrayed as threats to local populations or as objects of their charity, shedding light on the current predicament facing many European countries. Emphasizing the Baltic Sea region as a uniquely multi-layered space of intercultural encounter and conflict, this book demonstrates the significance of Northeastern Europe to migration history.

Author : Dan Bulley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192890009

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A Relational Ethics of Immigration by Dan Bulley Pdf

To understand the ethics of immigration, we need to start from the way it is enacted and understood by everyday actors: through practices of hospitality and hostility. Drawing on feminist and poststructuralist understandings of ethics and hospitality, this book offers a new approach to immigration ethics by exploring state and societal responses to immigration from the Global North and South. Rather than treating ethics as a determinable code for how we ought to behave toward strangers, it explores hospitality as a relational ethics -- an ethics without moralism -- that aims to understand and possibly transform the way people already do embrace and deflect obligations and responsibilities to each other. Building from specific examples in Colombia, Turkey and Tanzania, as well as the EU, US and UK, hospitality is developed as a structural and emotional practice of drawing and redrawing boundaries of inside and outside, belonging and non-belonging. It thereby actively creates a society as a communal space with a particular ethos: from a welcoming home to a racialised hostile environment. Hospitality is therefore treated as a critical mode of reflecting on how we create a 'we' and relate to others through entangled histories of colonialism, displacement, friendship and exploitation. Only through such a reflective understanding can we seek to transform immigration practices to better reflect the real and aspirational ethos of a society. Instead of simple answers -- removing borders or creating global migration regimes -- the book argues for grounded negotiations that build from existing local capacities to respond to immigration.

Author : Gian Luigi Gatta,Valsamis Mitsilegas,Stefano Zirulia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509933938

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Controlling Immigration Through Criminal Law by Gian Luigi Gatta,Valsamis Mitsilegas,Stefano Zirulia Pdf

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the increased role of criminal law in managing migration, from a European, domestic and comparative law perspective. The contributors critically engage with the current trends leading to the criminalisation of irregular migrants, asylum seekers and those who engage in 'humanitarian smuggling' and the national and common policies calling for a broader use of criminal law measures. The chapters explore the measures used to protect borders and their impact in terms of effectiveness and their ability to strike a fair balance between security and the protection of human rights. The contributors to the book cover a range of disciplines within law, human rights and criminology resulting in a broad understanding of the issues at play.

Author : Michael Janoschka,Heiko Haas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136232381

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Contested Spatialities, Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism by Michael Janoschka,Heiko Haas Pdf

Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism represent a major trend in individualized societies worldwide, which is attracting a rapidly growing interest from the academic community. This volume for the first time, critically analyses the spatial, social and political consequences of such leisure-oriented mobilities and migrations. The book approaches the topic from a multidisciplinary and international perspective, unifying different branches of research, such as lifestyle migration, amenity migration, retirement migration, and second home tourism. By covering a variety of regions and landscapes such as mountain and coastal areas, rural and inland communities this volume productively engages with the formal and analytical variations of the phenomenon resulting in an enriching debate at the intersection of different areas of research. Amongst others, topics like political contest and civic participation of lifestyle migrants, their impacts on local communities, social tensions and inequalities induced by the phenomenon, as well as modes of transnational living, home and belonging will be thoroughly explored. This thought provoking volume will provide deep analytical and conceptual insights into the contested geographies of lifestyle migration and further knowledge into the spatial, social and political consequences of leisure-oriented mobilities. It will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics from a plethora of academic disciplines.

Author : Moa Kindström Dahlin,Oscar L. Larsson,Anneli Winell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000191028

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Religion, Migration, and Existential Wellbeing by Moa Kindström Dahlin,Oscar L. Larsson,Anneli Winell Pdf

This book uses the very latest research to examine current interactions between religion, migration and existential wellbeing. In particular, it demonstrates the role of religion and religious organizations in the social, medical and existential wellbeing of immigrants within their host societies. By focusing on the role and politics of religion and religious organisations as well as the religious identity and faith of individuals, it highlights the connection between existential wellbeing, integration and social cohesion. The book brings together researchers from various disciplines taking on the challenge to elaborate on the theme of this book from different perspectives, using different methods and theories with a wide selection of cases from various parts of the world. The value of multidisciplinary research on the role of religion in a globalised society – locally, nationally and internationally – is important for understanding the composition and potential solutions to social and political problems. Religious aspects and organisations are present in legal, political and social forms of governance and form the basis for future research on e.g. secularisation, democracy, minorities, human rights, welfare, healthcare and identity formation. These and other related topics are discussed in this book. This book is an up-to-date and multifaceted study of how religion engages with the mass movement of peoples. As such, it will be of great interest to any scholar of Religious Studies, Migrant Studies, Sociology of Religion, Religion and Politics, as well as Legal Studies with a human right focus.

Author : Katja Franko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351001427

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The Crimmigrant Other by Katja Franko Pdf

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality. This book examines these processes and outlines how the figure of the "crimmigrant other" has emerged not only as a central object of media and political discourse, but also as a distinct penal subject connecting migration and the logic of criminalization and insecurity. Illegality defines not only a quality of certain acts, but becomes an existential condition, which shapes the daily lives of large groups within the society. Drawing on rich empirical material from national and international contexts, Katja Franko outlines the social production of the crimmigrant other as a multi-layered phenomenon that is deeply rooted in the intricate connections between law, scientific knowledge, bureaucratic practices, politics and popular discourse.

Author : Heidi Mogstad
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805394082

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Humanitarian Shame and Redemption by Heidi Mogstad Pdf

Following the 2015 ‘refugee crisis,’ many different actors emerged to contest or mitigate the EU’s border policies. This book explores the birth and trajectory of a Norwegian volunteer organisation “A Drop in the Ocean”, established by a mother of five with no prior experience in humanitarian work. Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, Heidi Mogstad examines the organisation’s shifting and contested efforts to ‘fill humanitarian gaps’ in Greece while witnessing and shaming the Norwegian public and politicians into action. Moving beyond existing critiques of humanitarian sentiments like pity and compassion, the book focuses specifically on the work of shame and other ‘negative’ emotions.

Author : Robert Koulish,Maartje van der Woude
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780823287512

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Crimmigrant Nations by Robert Koulish,Maartje van der Woude Pdf

As the distinction between domestic and international is increasingly blurred along with the line between internal and external borders, migrants—particularly people of color—have become emblematic of the hybrid threat both to national security and sovereignty and to safety and order inside the state. From building walls and fences, overcrowding detention facilities, and beefing up border policing and border controls, a new narrative has arrived that has migrants assume the risk for government-sponsored degradation, misery, and death. Crimmigrant Nations examines the parallel rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and right-wing populism in both the United States and Europe to offer an unprecedented look at this issue on an international level. Beginning with the fears and concerns of immigration that predate the election of Trump, the Brexit vote, and the signing and implementation of the Schengen Agreement, Crimmigrant Nations critically analyzes nationalist state policies in countries that have criminalized migrants and categorized them as threats to national security. Highlighting a pressing and perplexing problem facing the Western world in 2020 and beyond, this collection of essays illustrates not only how anti-immigrant sentiments and nationalist discourse are on the rise in various Western liberal democracies, but also how these sentiments are being translated into punitive and cruel policies and practices that contribute to a merger of crime control and migration control with devastating effects for those falling under its reach. Mapping out how these measures are taken, the rationale behind these policies, and who is subjected to exclusion as a result of these measures, Crimmigrant Nations looks beyond the level of the local or the national to the relational dynamics between different actors on different levels and among different institutions.

Author : Gabrielle Thomas
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334060604

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For the Good of the Church by Gabrielle Thomas Pdf

What do we need to learn and receive from the other to help us address challenges or wounds in our own tradition? That is the key question asked in what has come to be known as ‘receptive ecumenism’. And nowhere is this question more pressing and pertinent than in women’s experiences within the church. Based on qualitative research from five focus groups, 'For the Good of the Church' expose the difficulties women face when they work in a church – sexism, unfulfilled vocation, and abuse of power and privilege, as well as the wide range of gifts and skills which women bring in light of these. The second part of the book continues to draw on the particular wounds and gifts, which arise in the focus groups. Specific case studies are used to identify gifts of theology, practice, experience, vocation and power. Against negative prognoses of an ‘ecumenical winter’, Gabrielle Thomas reveals how radically different theological and ecclesiological perspectives can be a space for learning and receiving gifts for the well-being of the whole Church.

Author : David Stiles-Ocran
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000770025

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Ritual Servitudes and Christian Social Practices in Ghana by David Stiles-Ocran Pdf

This book explores the kinds of Christian service or diaconia that develop in non-institutionalized practices for supporting survivors of indigenous ritual servitude or Trokosi in Africa. Drawing on empirical research from Ghana, it examines the possibilities of freedom, equality, and dignity for liberated Trokosi and the manner in which these women’s experiences constitute a repudiation of dominant patriarchal family systems. With close attention to the work of indigenous parachurches – which function outside of institutionalized churches – in challenging the contemporary practice of ritual slavery and offering its survivors a lived space in which they need not remain “hidden” as they seek restoration and integration into wider society, Ritual Servitudes and Christian Social Practices in Ghana will appeal to scholars of sociology, theology, and religion with interests in gender, contemporary ministries and African religion.

Author : Marianne Bjelland Kartzow,Kasper Bro Larsen,Outi Lehtipuu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9783110686043

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The Nordic Bible by Marianne Bjelland Kartzow,Kasper Bro Larsen,Outi Lehtipuu Pdf

Author : Muhammad Wajid Tahir
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030637354

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Responding to Women Migrant's Needs by Muhammad Wajid Tahir Pdf

This book examines gender- and integration-specific needs of women migrants by using a unique analytic framework, covering both qualitative and quantitative methods and techniques. Case studies from Sweden and Germany are presented, investigating how the gender and integration-neutral or integration-blind nature of the reviewed legislation can disadvantage migrant women in the labor market. The book contributes to the discourses of liberal and post-colonial feminism through new methodological and empirical insights. It, therefore, is a must-read for everybody interested in a better understanding of migrant women’s chances to enter the labor market, as well as gender and integration studies in general.

Author : Nelken, David,Hamilton, Claire
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839106385

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Research Handbook of Comparative Criminal Justice by Nelken, David,Hamilton, Claire Pdf

With contributions from leading experts in the field, this timely Research Handbook reconsiders the theories, assumptions, values and methods of comparative criminal justice in light of the challenges and opportunities posed by globalisation, deglobalisation and transnationalisation.