Imaginaries Of Migration

Author : Felicitas Hillmann,Ton van Naerssen,Ernst Spaan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351119641

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Trajectories and Imaginaries in Migration by Felicitas Hillmann,Ton van Naerssen,Ernst Spaan Pdf

This book draws attention to the various factors that characterize migrant flows and mobilities, calling into question familiar concepts such as push and pull, migration as a life project and sociocultural integration. It highlights processes such as fl exible migrant routes, temporary and return migration, mental aspects of migration processes and transnationalism, which are organised around the themes of shaping trajectories, frictions in space, and the migrant mental framework. It brings together work from scholars from Europe and beyond, with the contributions collected emphasizing the social and mental processes that underpin the migratory process, which can be seen as the ‘soft side’ of migration. Too often, this side is neglected when the governance of migration is discussed. The novel ideas expressed here also help to overcome the mechanistic view of migration as a push-pull event. Thus, the book suggests a different understanding of migration and mobility as relational, non-linear and fluid social processes, characterized by instability in migrant life trajectories. Emphasizing the fl exibility of migrants and migration and advocating the importance of emotionally charged, individual perceptions as central to migrant decision-making, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, politics and geography with interests in migration and diaspora studies.

Author : Fiona-Katharina Seiger,Christiane Timmerman,Noel B. Salazar,Johan Wets
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789462702400

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Migration at Work by Fiona-Katharina Seiger,Christiane Timmerman,Noel B. Salazar,Johan Wets Pdf

The willingness to migrate in search of employment is in itself insufficient to compel anyone to move. The dynamics of labour mobility are heavily influenced by the opportunities perceived and the imaginaries held by both employers and regulating authorities in relation to migrant labour. This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the structures and imaginaries underlying various forms of mobility. Based on research conducted in different geographical contexts, including the European Union, Turkey, and South Africa, and tackling the experiences and aspirations of migrants from various parts of the globe, the chapters comprised in this volume analyse labour-related mobilities from two distinct yet intertwined vantage points: the role of structures and regimes of mobility on the one hand, and aspirations as well as migrant imaginaries on the other. Migration at Work thus aims to draw cross-contextual parallels by addressing the role played by opportunities in mobilising people, how structures enable, sustain, and change different forms of mobility, and how imaginaries fuel labour migration and vice versa. In doing so, this volume also aims to tackle the interrelationships between imaginaries driving migration and shaping “regimes of mobility”, as well as how the former play out in different contexts, shaping internal and cross-border migration. Based on empirical research in various fields, this collection provides valuable scholarship and evidence on current processes of migration and mobility.

Author : Yolanda López García
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839458419

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Imaginaries of Migration by Yolanda López García Pdf

How do Mexican migrants in Germany perceive themselves and their lives? Innovatively combining theories of interculturality and social imaginaries, Yolanda López García uses the anthropological method of life stories to investigate the understudied area of Mexican migration to Germany. She discusses areas such as quality of life as a motivation for migration, the role of banal nationalism in imaginaries, the dynamic subjective re-construction of Mexicanness, and the process of (imagined) »Germanisation«. Yolanda López García ultimately argues that individuals, as social agents, engage with and construct new emerging imaginaries, which may be viewed as important engines of social change.

Author : Alicia Schmidt Camacho
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814717349

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Migrant Imaginaries by Alicia Schmidt Camacho Pdf

Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Migrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward. Working through key historical moments such as the 1930s, the Chicano Movement, and contemporary globalization and neoliberalism, Alicia Schmidt Camacho examines the relationship between ethnic Mexican expressive culture and the practices sustaining migrant social movements. Combining sustained historical engagement with theoretical inquiries, she addresses how struggles for racial and gender equity, cross-border unity, and economic justice have defined the Mexican presence in the United States since 1910. Schmidt Camacho covers a range of archives and sources, including migrant testimonials and songs, Amrico Parede’s last published novel, The Shadow, the film Salt of the Earth, the foundational manifestos of El Movimiento, Richard Rodriguez’s memoirs, narratives by Marisela Norte and Rosario Sanmiguel, and testimonios of Mexican women workers and human rights activists, as well as significant ethnographic research. Throughout, she demonstrates how Mexicans and Mexican Americans imagined their communal ties across the border, and used those bonds to contest their noncitizen status. Migrant Imaginaries places migrants at the center of the hemisphere’s most pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social change.

Author : Elizabeth Mavroudi,Ben Page,Anastasia Christou
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786433237

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Timespace and International Migration by Elizabeth Mavroudi,Ben Page,Anastasia Christou Pdf

Furthering understanding of the temporalities and spatialities of how people move across international boundaries, this book analyses how timespace intersects with migrant journeys as an integral aspect of the rhythms of daily lives. Individual chapters engage with these concepts by analysing a broad spectrum of migrations and mobilities, from youth mobility, to refugee migration, to gentrification, to food and to the political geography of the border.

Author : M. Benson,N. Osbaldiston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137328670

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Understanding Lifestyle Migration by M. Benson,N. Osbaldiston Pdf

This book draws on social theories to understand lifestyle migration as a social phenomenon. The chapters engage theoretically with themes and debates relevant to contemporary social science such as place and space, social stratification and power relations, production and consumption, individualism, dwelling and imagination.

Author : Cox Emma Cox
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Refugees
ISBN : 9781474443210

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Refugee Imaginaries by Cox Emma Cox Pdf

Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationPlaces refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdisciplinary exchange, demonstrating the vital new perspectives on refugee experience available in humanities researchBrings together leading research in literary, performance, art and film studies, digital and new media, postcolonialism and critical race theory, transnational and comparative cultural studies, history, anthropology, philosophy, human geography and cultural politicsThe refugee has emerged as one of the key figures of the twenty-first-century. This book explores how refugees imagine the world and how the world imagines them. It demonstrates the ways in which refugees have been written into being by international law, governmental and non-governmental bodies and the media, and foregrounds the role of the arts and humanities in imagining, historicising and protesting the experiences of forced migration and statelessness. Including thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry.

Author : Michaela Benson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317105152

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Lifestyle Migration by Michaela Benson Pdf

Relatively affluent individuals from various corners of the globe are increasingly choosing to migrate, spurred on by the promise of a better and more fulfilling way of life within their destination. Despite its increasing scale, migration academics have yet to consolidate and establish lifestyle migration as a subfield of theoretical enquiry, until now. This volume offers a dynamic and holistic analysis of contemporary lifestyle migrations, exploring the expectations and aspirations which inform and drive migration alongside the realities of life within the destination. It also recognizes the structural conditions (and constraints) which frame lifestyle migration, laying the groundwork for further intellectual enquiry. Through rich empirical case studies this volume addresses this important and increasingly common form of migration in a manner that will interest scholars of mobility, migration, lifestyle and culture across the social sciences.

Author : Lorena Cuya Gavilano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814214657

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Fictions of Migration by Lorena Cuya Gavilano Pdf

Analyzes the impact of political and economic trends on migration narratives and films in Peru and Bolivia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Author : Fabienne L. Michelet,Senior Lecturer Fabienne Michelet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199286713

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Creation, Migration, and Conquest by Fabienne L. Michelet,Senior Lecturer Fabienne Michelet Pdf

Creation, Migration, and Conquest analyses how the Anglo-Saxons' spatial imaginaire shapes perceptions and representations of geographical space. Exploring spatial representations found in both historical documents and verse, it highlights the links between place, identity, and collective destiny.

Author : Erind Pajo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387719535

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International Migration, Social Demotion, and Imagined Advancement by Erind Pajo Pdf

This book represents one of the first studies to look at the negative results of migration. Based on an ethnographic study focusing on Albanian migrants in Greece and Italy, the book discusses the reasons people leave their homeland for a "better life" - especially if that does not happen. It finds that imaginaries of the world as a social hierarchy might lie at the root of much of the contemporary international migration.

Author : Jennifer Burns
Publisher : Italian Modernities
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : UCSD:31822040753576

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Migrant Imaginaries by Jennifer Burns Pdf

Examining five central figures and concepts - identity, memory, home, place and space, and literature - across a range of novels and stories by writers of African and Middle Eastern origin, this book elucidates the affective and expressive processes that inflect migrant story-telling in Italy.

Author : Jennifer Leetsch,Frederike Middelhoff,Miriam Wallraven
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110783810

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Configurations of Migration by Jennifer Leetsch,Frederike Middelhoff,Miriam Wallraven Pdf

In a global context in which phenomena of migration play an ever more important role, the ways individual and collective experiences of migration are covered in the media, represented in culture, and interpreted are coming under increasing scrutiny. This book explores the complex relationship between creative engagements with migration on the one hand, and forms of knowledge about migration on the other, inquiring into the ways aesthetic practices are intertwined with knowledge structures. The book responds to three pressing research questions. First, it analyses how fictional texts, plays, images, films, and autobiographical accounts mediate forms of knowledge about migration. Second, it identifies the ways in which specific media approaches and aesthetic practices influence people's ideas about and awareness of migratory experiences in a globalized world. Finally, it delineates how historical perspectives help us compare epistemological approaches to migration in the nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries, and how these approaches affect the way critics and the public responded to and thought about different forms of (forced) migration. Bringing together renowned scholars working across disciplines, it investigates the possibilities and limitations that different media present when it comes to reflecting on, communicating, and imagining experiences of migration, and how these representations in turn create ways of knowing and understanding migration.

Author : Fiona-Katharina Seiger,Christiane Timmerman,Noel B. Salazar,Johan Wets
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 9461663447

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Migration at Work by Fiona-Katharina Seiger,Christiane Timmerman,Noel B. Salazar,Johan Wets Pdf

Author : Ermira Danaj
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030920920

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Women, Migration and Gendered Experiences by Ermira Danaj Pdf

This open access book focuses on Albanian internal and international female migration and places gender at the heart of postsocialist transformation. It explores the vulnerabilities that arise for female citizens from the contradictory policies produced by the Albanian state. By illuminating the intersection of gender and migration, it shows how Albanian women are likely to embed themselves in complex social relations and migration trajectories. By focusing on various cases – internal, international, return, economic and student female migrants – the book underlines that migration does not follow any kind of evolutionary development, according to which women go from 'traditional’ to ‘modern' gender relations. By providing a compelling account on the complex negotiations and tactics women employ to deal with gender inequalities, this book leads to a better understanding of gender and migration entanglements. It is a useful read to students, academics in migration and gender studies as well as social scientists and policy-makers in European countries.