Fostering Pluralism Through Solidarity Activism In Europe

Author : Feyzi Baban,Kim Rygiel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030568948

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Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe by Feyzi Baban,Kim Rygiel Pdf

This edited collection brings together academics, artists and members of civil society organizations to engage in a discussion about the ideas of living with others, through concepts such as cosmopolitanism, solidarity, and conviviality, and the practices of doing so. In recent years, right wing and populist movements have emerged and strengthened across Europe and North America, rejecting the value of cultural, ethnic and religious plurality. Governments in Europe and North America are weakening their commitment to the international refugee regime, erecting new barriers to entry. Even as governments fail to accommodate growing pluralism, however, civil society initiatives have emerged with the aim of welcoming newcomers, such as migrants and refugees, and finding alternative ways of living together in diverse societies. Motivated by a desire to show solidarity, these initiatives demonstrate enormous creativity in fostering pluralism in an environment that has largely become hostile to the arrival of newcomers. The contributions gathered here seek to explore such initiatives and the important work that they do in fostering ways of living together with others from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. In focusing conceptually and empirically on discussions and examples of civil society initiatives, this book interrogates why, how and under what circumstances are some communities more welcoming than others.

Author : Heini Puurunen,Raluca Bianca Roman,Kyösti Roth,Hilkka Helsti,Angelica Vironen,Elviira Davidow,Cristina Raț
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789529430680

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Mobilising for Mobile Roma by Heini Puurunen,Raluca Bianca Roman,Kyösti Roth,Hilkka Helsti,Angelica Vironen,Elviira Davidow,Cristina Raț Pdf

The book focuses on civil society: established institutions and forums, radical groups, NGOs, and self-organised individuals who are promoting inclusion and welfare of Eastern European Roma in the name of shared ethnic identities, religious closeness, and universal human rights in Greater Helsinki, Finland. Special attention is directed to methodological issues regarding the research for/with/by Roma.

Author : Harald Bauder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000551181

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From Sovereignty to Solidarity by Harald Bauder Pdf

From Sovereignty to Solidarity seeks to re-imagine human mobility in ways that are de-linked from national sovereignty. Using examples from around the world, the author examines contemporary practices of solidarity to illustrate what such a conceptualization of human mobility looks like. He suggests that urban and local scales, rather than the national scale, is a better way to frame human migration and belonging. The book ultimately proposes that solidarity, rather than sovereignty, offers an alternative approach to imagine how human mobility should, and already does, occur. This book will be relevant to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in disciplines such as Migration Studies, Urban Studies, Human and Political Geography, and Refugee Studies. It is also relevant to researchers, development workers and human rights/environmental activists, and other intellectual practitioners.

Author : Freistein, Katja,Mahlert, Bettina,Quack, Sigrid,Unrau, Christine
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781802205817

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Imagining Pathways for Global Cooperation by Freistein, Katja,Mahlert, Bettina,Quack, Sigrid,Unrau, Christine Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-SA 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This book examines the role of imagination in initiating, contesting, and changing the pathways of global cooperation. Building on carefully contextualized empirical cases from diverse policy fields, regions, and historical periods, it highlights the agency of a wide range of actors in reflecting on past and present experiences and imagining future ways of collective problem solving.

Author : Suvi Keskinen,Pauline Stoltz,Diana Mulinari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030534646

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Feminisms in the Nordic Region by Suvi Keskinen,Pauline Stoltz,Diana Mulinari Pdf

This book explores how feminist movements in the Nordic region challenge the increasing gender, race and class inequalities following the global economic crisis, neoliberal capitalism and austerity politics, and how they position themselves in the face of the rise of nationalism and right-wing populism. The book contextualizes these recent events in the long histories of racial and colonial power relations embedded in Nordic societies and their gender equality and welfare state regimes. It examines the role of whiteness and racism and seeks to decolonize feminist knowledge and genealogies of feminist movements in the region. The contributions provide in-depth knowledge on the different orientations, dilemmas and tactics that feminisms develop in these challenging times and show the centrality of antiracist and decolonizing critiques of feminisms. They further highlight the strategies of feminist and related antiracist and indigenous movements in regards to ideas about hope, solidarity, intersectionality, and social justice. Chapters 6, 7, 9 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004514515

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Contending Global Apartheid by Anonim Pdf

Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility offers a collection of critical essays on human rights movements, sanctuary spaces, and the emplacement of antiracist conviviality in cities across North and South America, Europe and Africa.

Author : René Kreichauf,Birgit Glorius
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000878905

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Displacement, Asylum and the City by René Kreichauf,Birgit Glorius Pdf

This edited volume draws attention to the interlinked yet understudied relationship between the role of cities in dealing with international displacement and forced migration and the influence of forced migration in stimulating spatial, societal, and institutional transformations in and of cities. In 2022, almost 84 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced. More than two-thirds of them reside in urban areas. Displacement and forced migration are an urban experience and an urban story of those seeking protection. This book helps us understanding the conditions of displaced population in cities, and the way cities and urban actors respond to recent migration trends. It applies an urban perspective to the analysis of migration processes, and it provides insights into the urban governance of forced migration and asylum, the production of spaces related to forced migration, and the role of the displaced population as actors of urban change. Thereby, it covers a broad spectrum of topics including migrant dispersal, welfare and social protection, urban humanitarian policymaking and governance, neighbourhood development, migrant solidarity and refugee protest, and new refugee and migrant destinations. Given the increasing mobility and displacement of human populations, this book provides a relevant prerequisite for readers interested in current urban, (forced) migration and asylum trends, and on the intersections of those topics. The book will be of great value to researchers and academics of Geography, Migration and Urban Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Urban Geography.

Author : Feyzi Baban,Suzan Ilcan,Kim Rygiel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228009191

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The Precarious Lives of Syrians by Feyzi Baban,Suzan Ilcan,Kim Rygiel Pdf

Turkey now hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees in the world, more than 3.6 million of the 12.7 million displaced by the Syrian Civil War. Many of them are subject to an unpredictable temporary protection, forcing them to live under vulnerable and insecure conditions. The Precarious Lives of Syrians examines the three dimensions of the architecture of precarity: Syrian migrants' legal status, the spaces in which they live and work, and their movements within and outside Turkey. The difficulties they face include restricted access to education and healthcare, struggles to secure employment, language barriers, identity-based discrimination, and unlawful deportations. Feyzi Baban, Suzan Ilcan, and Kim Rygiel show that Syrians confront their precarious conditions by engaging in cultural production and community-building activities, and by undertaking perilous journeys to Europe, allowing them to claim spaces and citizenship while asserting their rights to belong, to stay, and to escape. The authors draw on migration policies, legal and scholarly materials, and five years of extensive field research with local, national, and international humanitarian organizations, and with Syrians from all walks of life. The Precarious Lives of Syrians offers a thoughtful and compelling analysis of migration precarity in our contemporary context.

Author : Leandros Fischer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031446719

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The Crisis-Mobility Nexus by Leandros Fischer Pdf

Situated at the intersections of anthropology, migration, citizenship, and social movement studies, this volume theorises a crisis-mobility nexus by focusing on empirical case studies. These concern migration struggles; the entanglements of crisis, social mobility, and citizenship; as well as the impact of COVID-19 (im)mobility on social movements. By highlighting examples from these streams, the book illuminates entanglements between them, while emphasising the role of solidarity as well as de-solidarisation in creating, shaping, or resisting various regimes of mobility.

Author : Lavinia Bifulco,Vando Borghi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800377387

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Research Handbook on Public Sociology by Lavinia Bifulco,Vando Borghi Pdf

Engaging with the key debates and issues in a continuously evolving field, Lavinia Bifulco and Vando Borghi bring together contributions from leading social scientists to debate the enduring relevance of public sociology in light of ongoing changes in the social world.

Author : Alexander C. Diener,Joshua Hagen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000594867

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Invisible Borders in a Bordered World by Alexander C. Diener,Joshua Hagen Pdf

This book critically challenges the usual territorial understanding of borders by examining the often messy internal, transborder, ambiguous, and in-between spaces that co-exist with traditional borders. By considering those less visible aspects of borders, the book develops an inclusive understanding of how contemporary borders are structured and how they influence human identity, mobility, and belonging. The introduction and conclusion provide theoretical and contextual framing, while chapters explore topics of global labor and refugees, unrecognized states, ethnic networks, cyberspace, transboundary resource conflicts, and indigenous and religious spaces that rarely register on conventional maps or commonplace understandings of territory. In the end, the volume demonstrates that, despite being "invisible" on most maps, these borders have a very real, material, and tangible presence and consequences for those people who live within, alongside, and across them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004443204

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Coercive Geographies by Anonim Pdf

Coercive Geographies examines historical and contemporary forms of coercion and constraint exercised by a wide range of actors in diverse settings. It links the question of spatial confines to that of labor.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Communism
ISBN : IND:30000045727017

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The Unfinished Revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union by Anonim Pdf

Author : Samantha Velluti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783642402678

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Reforming the Common European Asylum System — Legislative developments and judicial activism of the European Courts by Samantha Velluti Pdf

In June 2013, after lengthy and complex negotiations the EU adopted the recast “asylum package” which represents a significant step forward in the future development of CEAS. In this timely study Velluti provides fresh insights into recent legislative and judicial developments in asylum and through the “lens” of sovereignty she looks at some of the contemporary challenges faced by the EU protection regime, with a particular focus on asylum-seekers’ rights. The volume assesses whether the EU provides an adequate framework for protecting those seeking international protection from the opposing perspectives of effectiveness and fairness. It shows that, despite the newly adopted “second-generation” legislative acts which include changes aimed at ensuring a stronger level of protection for asylum-seekers, the reform process at European level does not adequately ensure an equal standard of protection across all Member States. Through a comparative analysis of selected ECtHR and ECJ asylum cases the book also examines the constitutional relationship between the two European Courts and how it impacts on the human rights of asylum-seekers and on the future of EU asylum law. Ultimately, the book shows that real progress in the development of the human rights dimension of CEAS will be achieved largely through the European and domestic courts.

Author : Florian Bieber,Roland Bieber
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030550165

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Negotiating Unity and Diversity in the European Union by Florian Bieber,Roland Bieber Pdf

This book explores how the European Union has been responding to the challenge of diversity. In doing so, it considers the EU as a complex polity that has found novel ways for accommodating diversity. Much of the literature on the EU seeks to identify it as a unique case of cooperation between states that moves past classic international cooperation. This volume argues that in order to understand the EU’s effort in managing the diversity among its members and citizens it is more effective to look at the EU as a state. While acknowledging that the EU lacks key aspects of statehood, the authors show that looking at the EU efforts to balance diversity and unity through the lens of state policy is a fruitful way to understand the Union. Instead of conceptualising the EU as being incomparable and unique which is neither an international organisation nor a state, the book argues that EU can be understood as a polity that shares many approaches and strategies with complex and diverse states. As such, its effort to build political structures to accommodate diversity offers lessons to other such polities. The experience of the EU contributes to the understanding of how states and other polities can respond to challenges of diversity, including both the diversity of constituent units or of sub-national groups and identities.