Culture, Ethnicity, State, Religion, Migration, Displacement, Refugeesi Memeory, Oral Traditions, Gender, Borders and Borderlands, Minorities, Language Politics,

Sociolinguistica: language and Religion

by Gabriele Iannaccaro

A note on Refugees and theories of justice

by Amir Sokolowski

Review - James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed (New Haven, 2009)

by Uday Chandra

Religion and Society: Advances in Research, Vol. 2 (2011), pp. 194-96.

Linguistic Duopoly: A Case of Mewati

by Prerna Bakshi

Considerable attention has been drawn recently towards the plight of immigrant languages or minority languages. Much... more Considerable attention has been drawn recently towards the plight of immigrant languages or minority languages. Much is being done to maintain these languages and to bring the issues surrounding them to the public eye. However, not much has been done on linguistic varieties labelled as 'dialects'. This study seeks to fill this gap by exploring the issues surrounding a language variety called Mewati.

This paper examines the status of Mewati in relation to the other dominant languages of Hindi and Urdu and attempts to explain how social institutions like local state run schools and madrasas contribute towards language shift. Additionally, the study explores the relationship between language, religion and identity and the politics thereof. It is recommended that school curriculums must make a room for Mewati if its maintenance is to be ensured. 

[Book review] D. Chatty: Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East

by Erik Mohns

[2011]. Chatty, D. (2010): Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Published in: Anthropos 106 (2): 642-3.

Claiming authority at the edges of the state : Regional autonomy and local politics in the West Kalimantan borderlands

by Michael Eilenberg

Indonesian Studies Working Papers, Sydney University, No. 7. September 2008.

This paper examines state-local relations in the border region of West Kalimantan since decentralisation, with a focus... more This paper examines state-local relations in the border region of West Kalimantan since decentralisation, with a focus on five ethnic Iban dominated subdistricts within the remote district of Kapuas Hulu, on the border of the Malaysian state of Sarawak. It tracks the fate of a political movement for a new district in this resource-rich reason, arguing that the borderlands can be seen as a critical site for exemplifying the changing dynamics of state-local interactions that Indonesia is experiencing in the wake of decentralisation.

Warum die „zweite Historizität“ eben doch die zweite ist – von der Bedeutung von Diskurstraditionen für die Sprachbetrachtung

by Johannes Kabatek

Some general reflections on the notion of Discourse Traditions. Some general reflections on the notion of Discourse Traditions.

Displacement and statecraft in Iraq: Recent trends, older roots.

by Ali Ali

Published in the International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies Volume 5 Issue 2 (2011).

This article discusses the relationship between state formation and refugees, linking statecraft - the 'art' of state... more This article discusses the relationship between state formation and refugees, linking statecraft - the 'art' of state building - and displacement in post-2003 Iraq. It uses the testimonies of displaced Iraqis now living in Syria to show how parties and militias in Iraq targeted specific groups, including religious minorities such as the Mandaeans. They created new forms of exclusion, forcing some communities to flee. In some cases, they compelled people to leave abruptly; in others, hostile forces gradually encroached upon the target groups. Some organizations had their origins in pre-2003 dynamics and were not the first in Iraq to use displacement as a means to implement a political design.

Grenze

by Ulf Scharrer

Co-authored with Judith Miggelbrink, Jürgen Paul, Daniel Syrbe,
in: Annegret Nippa (ed.), Kleines ABC des Nomadismus, Hamburg 2011, p. 82-83

Charlatans Chicanery

by Mohamed Eno

Thr poem is an excerpt from my forthcoming volume Guilt of Otherness

The volume is under review with a subject area expert and a literary critic. The volume is under review with a subject area expert and a literary critic.

Positive Energy: A Review of the Role of Artistic Activities in Refugee Camps

by Awet Andemicael

published by the United Nations High Commisisoner for Refugees Policy Development and Evaluation Service (UNHCR PDES)

Constructing the forced migrant and the politics of space and place-making

by Saskia Witteborn

Journal of Communication

Mobility is one of the defining concepts of globalization processes. For some migrants,
however, mobility is... more Mobility is one of the defining concepts of globalization processes. For some migrants,
however, mobility is restricted by international and national laws as well as sociopolitical
discourses, which regulate the migrant body and her ability to create social relations. Based
on interviews in asylum seeker accommodations in Germany, this study illustrates how
asylum seekers are spatially constructed and arrested through bureaucratic labeling and
assignment to heterotopias and as a discursive location of transience and difference. Those
processes freeze the forced migrant in place, in social and semiotic spaces, and position it
as a politicized discursive location. The positioning is indicative of monitoring the Other as
a symbol of threat to the nation in times of risk. Overall, the study illustrates the tensions
between transnational mobility and fixity and the intersections between globalization,
communication, social, legal, and political practice, and space/place-making.

Book review- Elena Barabantseva, Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism: De-Centering China, London, Routeledge, 2010.

by VANESSA FRANGVILLE

Migrants and Citizens: The Shifting Ground of Struggle in Canadian Literary Representation

by Naava Smolash

Co-authored with Myka Tucker-Abramson, published in Studies in Canadian Literature

Book Review: Simon, S.(2006) Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City

by Nora Koller

Immigrazione e diritto (The Regulation of Migration in a Relational Perspective)

by Fabio Macioce

This paper will be discussed in the Conference "Migration as a Sign of the TImes", Salzburg, 2012, April, 14.

My paper will analyzes migration from the perspective of legal theory. In this perspective, migration should be... more My paper will analyzes migration from the perspective of legal theory. In this perspective, migration should be understood primarily as relational phenomena, since the decision to migrate, the way of migration, the outcome and the possibilities of integration, are all dependent on the network of relationships in which the individual migrant places himself. In this sense, the legal strategies that, in contrast, regulate migration as an individual event, are inappropriate because they do not recognize the primary role played by both the original family of migrants, both from the social group to which the individual refers.
The family and cultural community they belong to (even if not directly involved in the migration), are the references which builds the migrant's identity, and with they built their own experience of migration. Only if we consider the family as a primary player of migration, and the cultural community as the horizon of migration, we can manage the complexity of the problems that migration generates in Western societies.
Specifically, to understand problems related to the protection of cultural identities, and to evaluate the compatibility of religious and social traditions with European systems, it is necessary to focus not on individuals but on the system of social and family relations. We need to abandon a functionalist perspective, typical of European rules on immigration, to adopt a different perspective: if the subjective identities are built in relationships, it is essential that law take into account these relational systems. And if the law aims to facilitate the integration, we can not regulate immigration as a phenomenon that only affects individuals, but it must be understood as an event that concerns individuals embedded in relations systems, systems they care of, and by whom they are conditioned.

Stable instability of displaced people in Western Georgia: a food-security and gender survey after five years

by Jose Luis Vivero

AN OPEN LETTER TO CAMERON COUNTY COMMISSION

by MARGO TAMEZ

Published in The Crit Legal Studies Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Winter 2009

SPACE, POSITION AND IMPERIALISM IN SOUTH TEXAS

by MARGO TAMEZ

In, Chicana/Latina Studies, 7:2, Spring 2008

'Our Way of Life is Our Resistance': Indigenous Women and Anti-Imperialist Challeges to Militarization along the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall

by MARGO TAMEZ