Migrants And Refugees From The 1960s Until Today

Author : Wolfgang Mueller,Dirk Rupnow
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847014126

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Migrants and Refugees from the 1960s until Today by Wolfgang Mueller,Dirk Rupnow Pdf

One of the oldest phenomena in the history of mankind is migration, whether peaceful or violent, voluntary or forced, barely noticeable outfl ow or mass movements. In the 19th century, regional migration to frontier territories, as for example in the Russian Empire or the United States of America, was a natural object of research. In the 1960s there was renewed interest in migration history in Western Europe due to the increase of immigration. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the so-called Eastern Bloc, the history of borders came again into focus, leading to a new generation in migration history. This development was reinforced by the "summer of migration" of 2015. The history of migration to Austria, especially during the Second Republic, has long been a topic overlooked by historians, but received increased attention since the 1980s. The present volume presents research currently being done on the history of migration to or through Austria.

Author : Dirk Rupnow,Maximilian Graf,Judith Welz,Viktor Vladimirovich Ishchenko,Marcel Amoser,Hannes Leidinger,Wolfgang Mueller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3847114123

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Migrants and Refugees from the 1960s Until Today by Dirk Rupnow,Maximilian Graf,Judith Welz,Viktor Vladimirovich Ishchenko,Marcel Amoser,Hannes Leidinger,Wolfgang Mueller Pdf

Author : A. James Hammerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04
Category : British
ISBN : 152613960X

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Migrants of the British Diaspora Since The 1960s by A. James Hammerton Pdf

This is the first book to explore the multiple country movement of migrants of the 'British diaspora' since the 1960s. It is an engaging oral history of migrant experiences and attitudes, based largely on intimate life histories which connect migration to life experiences like love and marriage, radical 'lifestyle' change and global identities.

Author : Madeline Y. Hsu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691176215

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The Good Immigrants by Madeline Y. Hsu Pdf

Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites—intellectuals, businessmen, and students—who gained entrance because of immigration exemptions. Exploring a century of Chinese migrations, Madeline Hsu looks at how the model minority characteristics of many Asian Americans resulted from US policies that screened for those with the highest credentials in the most employable fields, enhancing American economic competitiveness. The earliest US immigration restrictions targeted Chinese people but exempted students as well as individuals who might extend America's influence in China. Western-educated Chinese such as Madame Chiang Kai-shek became symbols of the US impact on China, even as they patriotically advocated for China's modernization. World War II and the rise of communism transformed Chinese students abroad into refugees, and the Cold War magnified the importance of their talent and training. As a result, Congress legislated piecemeal legal measures to enable Chinese of good standing with professional skills to become citizens. Pressures mounted to reform American discriminatory immigration laws, culminating with the 1965 Immigration Act. Filled with narratives featuring such renowned Chinese immigrants as I. M. Pei, The Good Immigrants examines the shifts in immigration laws and perceptions of cultural traits that enabled Asians to remain in the United States as exemplary, productive Americans.

Author : Mr.Shekhar Aiyar,Ms.Bergljot B Barkbu,Nicoletta Batini,Mr.Helge Berger,Ms.Enrica Detragiache,Allan Dizioli,Mr.Christian H Ebeke,Ms.Huidan Huidan Lin,Ms.Linda Kaltani,Mr.Sebastian Sosa,Mr.Antonio Spilimbergo,Petia Topalova
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781513552590

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The Refugee Surge in Europe by Mr.Shekhar Aiyar,Ms.Bergljot B Barkbu,Nicoletta Batini,Mr.Helge Berger,Ms.Enrica Detragiache,Allan Dizioli,Mr.Christian H Ebeke,Ms.Huidan Huidan Lin,Ms.Linda Kaltani,Mr.Sebastian Sosa,Mr.Antonio Spilimbergo,Petia Topalova Pdf

Against the background of political turmoil in the Middle-East, Europe faces an unprecedented surge in asylum applications. In analyzing the economic impact of this inflow, this paper draws from the experience of previous economic migrants and refugees, mindful of the fact that the characteristics of economic migrants can be different from refugees. In the short-run, additional public expenditure will provide a small positive impact on GDP, concentrated in the main destination countries of Germany, Sweden and Austria. Over the longer-term, depending on the speed and success of the integration of refugees in the labor market, the increase in the labor force can have a more lasting impact on growth and the public finances. Here good policies will make an important difference. These include lowering barriers to labor markets for refugees, for example through wage subsidies to employers, and, in particular, reducing legal barriers to labor market participation during asylum process, removing obstacles to entrepreneurship/self-employment, providing job training and job search assistance, as well as language skills. While native workers often have legitimate concerns about the impact of immigrants on wages and employment, past experience indicates that any adverse effects are limited and temporary.

Author : Ninette Kelley,M. Trebilcock
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442690813

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The Making of the Mosaic by Ninette Kelley,M. Trebilcock Pdf

Immigration policy is a subject of intense political and public debate. In this second edition of the widely recognized and authoritative work The Making of the Mosaic, Ninette Kelley and Michael Trebilcock have thoroughly revised and updated their examination of the ideas, interests, institutions, and rhetoric that have shaped Canada's immigration history. Beginning their study in the pre-Confederation period, the authors interpret major episodes in the evolution of Canadian immigration policy, including the massive deportations of the First World War and Depression eras as well as the Japanese-Canadian internment camps during World War Two. New chapters provide perspective on immigration in a post-9/11 world, where security concerns and a demand for temporary foreign workers play a defining role in immigration policy reform. A comprehensive and important work, The Making of the Mosaic clarifies the attitudes underlying each phase and juncture of immigration history, providing vital perspective on the central issues of immigration policy that continue to confront us today.

Author : Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas,Rinus Penninx
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319216744

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Integration Processes and Policies in Europe by Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas,Rinus Penninx Pdf

In this open access book, experts on integration processes, integration policies, transnationalism, and the migration and development framework provide an academic assessment of the 2011 European Agenda for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals, which calls for integration policies in the EU to involve not only immigrants and their society of settlement, but also actors in their country of origin. Moreover, a heuristic model is developed for the non-normative, analytical study of integration processes and policies based on conceptual, demographic, and historical accounts. The volume addresses three interconnected issues: What does research have to say on (the study of) integration processes in general and on the relevance of actors in origin countries in particular? What is the state of the art of the study of integration policies in Europe and the use of the concept of integration in policy formulation and practice? Does the proposal to include actors in origin countries as important players in integration policies find legitimation in empirical research? A few general conclusions are drawn. First, integration policies have developed at many levels of government: nationally, locally, regionally, and at the supra-national level of the EU. Second, a multitude of stakeholders has become involved in integration as policy designers and implementers. Finally, a logic of policymaking—and not an evidence-based scientific argument—can be said to underlie the European Commission’s redefinition of integration as a three-way process. This book will appeal to academics and policymakers at international, European, national, regional, and local levels. It will also be of interest to graduate and master-level students of political science, sociology, social anthropology, international relations, criminology, geography, and history.

Author : Giulio Sapelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317897958

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Southern Europe by Giulio Sapelli Pdf

Until relatively recently most of southern Europe was governed by authoritarian dictatorships, but within the space of two decades more or less stable democracies have become established throughout the entire region. At the same time, backward peasant economies have been transformed by the injection of huge amounts of capital and new technology, into modern economies which are now approaching the size of the more established economies of Northern Europe. Southern Europe is a major contribution to our understanding of European politics. The product of original research and synthesis on exceptionally wide literature, it provides authoritative and systematic coverage of the politics, economics and society of this important region of Europe from 1945, up to the 1994 election of Silvio Berlusconi's far right alliance in Italy.

Author : Mary C. WATERS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674044940

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Black Identities by Mary C. WATERS Pdf

The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters, however, tells a very different story. She finds that the values that gain first-generation immigrants initial success--a willingness to work hard, a lack of attention to racism, a desire for education, an incentive to save--are undermined by the realities of life and race relations in the United States. Contrary to long-held beliefs, Waters finds, those who resist Americanization are most likely to succeed economically, especially in the second generation.

Author : Franca Iacovetta,Paula Draper,Robert Ventresca
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487516833

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A Nation of Immigrants by Franca Iacovetta,Paula Draper,Robert Ventresca Pdf

This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field. The readings highlight the social history of immigrants, their pre-migration traditions as well as migration strategies and Canadian experiences, their work and family worlds, and their political, cultural, and community lives. They explore the public display of ethno-religious rituals, race riots, and union protests; the quasi-private worlds of all-male boarding-houses and of female domestics toiling in isolated workplaces; and the intrusive power that government and even well-intentioned social reformers have wielded over immigrants deemed dangerous or otherwise in need of supervision. Organized partly chronologically and largely by theme, the topical sections will offer students a glimpse into Canada's complex immigrant past. In order to facilitate classroom discussion, each section contains an introduction that contextualizes the readings and raises some questions for debate. A Nation of Immigrants will be useful both in specialized courses in Canadian immigration history and in courses on broader themes in Canadian history.

Author : Ahmet Akgunduz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351923712

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Labour Migration from Turkey to Western Europe, 1960-1974 by Ahmet Akgunduz Pdf

Groundbreaking in its comprehensiveness, this book illuminates the migration of workers from Turkey to Western Europe with new perspectives previously overlooked in research. Indeed, this is the first study of its kind to cover the entire migration process, making extensive use of primary as well as secondary sources in four languages, and it draws on both the historiography and the social sciences of migration. It presents new analyses of the so-called 'push' factors behind this movement and explores the role of the sending state, the system and channels through which labour exits, the labouring population's attitudes towards moving to the West and the relevance of social networks in the migration process. The volume offers a critical assessment of the significance of Turkish labour migration with regard to the demand for foreign labour in Europe, with particular emphasis on the cases of Germany and the Netherlands.

Author : Jill Rosenthal
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478027348

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From Migrants to Refugees by Jill Rosenthal Pdf

In From Migrants to Refugees Jill Rosenthal tells the history of how Rwandan migrants in a Tanzanian border district became considered either citizens or refugees as nation-state boundaries solidified in the wake of decolonization. Outlining the process by which people who have long lived and circulated across the Rwanda-Tanzania border came to have a national identity, Rosenthal reveals humanitarian aid’s central role in the ideological processes of decolonization and nation building. From precolonial histories to the first Rwandan refugee camps during decolonization in the 1960s to the massive refugee camps in the 1990s, Rosenthal highlights the way that this area became a testing ground for novel forms of transnational aid to refugees that had global implications. As local and national actors, refugees, and international officials all attempted to control the lives and futures of refugee groups, they contested the authority of the nation-state and the international refugee regime. This history, Rosenthal demonstrates, illuminates how tensions between state and international actors divided people who share a common history, culture, and language across national borders.

Author : Wouter van der Brug,Gianni D'Amato,Didier Ruedin,Joost Berkhout
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317527565

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The Politicisation of Migration by Wouter van der Brug,Gianni D'Amato,Didier Ruedin,Joost Berkhout Pdf

Why are migration policies sometimes heavily contested and high on the political agenda? And why do they, at other moments and in other countries, hardly lead to much public debate? The entrance and settlement of migrants in Western Europe has prompted various political reactions. In some countries anti-immigration parties have gained substantial public support while in others migration policies have been hardly controversial. The Politicisation of Migration examines the differences between seven Western European countries by developing a conceptual framework to empirically explain patterns of politicisation and de-politicisation. The analyses show that over the past decade immigration has been increasingly defined in socio-cultural terms and that it has been receiving less political attention since the economic crisis started in 2007. This book also looks at the role of mainstream parties and political actors in the process of politicisation, and demonstrates how the role of ‘challengers’ is more limited than often assumed. Contributing to literatures on migration, party politics and agenda-setting, the book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of politics and migration studies.

Author : United Nations
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789290687894

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World Migration Report 2020 by United Nations Pdf

Since 2000, IOM has been producing world migration reports. The World Migration Report 2020, the tenth in the world migration report series, has been produced to contribute to increased understanding of migration throughout the world. This new edition presents key data and information on migration as well as thematic chapters on highly topical migration issues, and is structured to focus on two key contributions for readers: Part I: key information on migration and migrants (including migration-related statistics); and Part II: balanced, evidence-based analysis of complex and emerging migration issues.

Author : Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807036297

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Not "A Nation of Immigrants" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Pdf

Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all of which we still grapple with today. She explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity—founded and built by immigrants—was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonialization, justice, reparations, and social equality. Moreover, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good—but inaccurate—story promotes a benign narrative of progress, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state, and imperialist since its inception. While some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States.