Transnational migration

Migrations, vieillissement et interdépendances familiales

by Laura Merla

Published in DelphAgora La Lettre 5 mai-août 2012

Une réflexion sur les enjeux, en Belgique, du vieillissement dans un contexte migratoire Une réflexion sur les enjeux, en Belgique, du vieillissement dans un contexte migratoire

"No Person is Illegal"? Configurations and Experiences of" Illegality" Among Undocumented West African and Filipino Migrant Workers In Tel Aviv, Israel

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2006. "No Person is Illegal"? Configurations and Experiences of "Illegality" among Undocumented West African and Filipino Migrant Workers in Tel Aviv. PhD thesis. Department of Anthropology, Emory University. Atlanta, GA.

“Review of Latino Migrants in a Jewish State by Barak Kalir.”

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. Forthcoming 2012. “Review of Latino Migrants in a Jewish State by Barak Kalir.” Review of Middle East Studies. 46(1).

Turbulent Trajectories: African Migrants on Their Way to the European Union

by Joris Schapendonk

Open access article in the journal SOCIETIES: http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/2/2/27

Tesis de licenciatura. MIGRACIÓN MÉXICO – ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTUDIO DE CASO EN CAMPANA, DURANGO: UNA REGIÓN DISCONTINUA TRASNACIONAL.

by Ana Laura Gonzalez Valdés

Premio Fray Bernardino de Sahagun a la mejor tesis de licenciatura en Antropología Social 2006, Mension Honorífica. Migración, Región, Historia Regional.

MIGRACIÓN MÉXICO – ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTUDIO DE CASO EN CAMPANA, DURANGO: UNA REGIÓN DISCONTINUA TRASNACIONAL.more MIGRACIÓN MÉXICO – ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTUDIO DE CASO EN CAMPANA, DURANGO: UNA REGIÓN DISCONTINUA TRASNACIONAL.
Campana pertenece al municipio de Tlahualilo, ubicado al norte del estado de Durango, dentro de la Comarca Lagunera. En este ejido se producen algodón, melón y sandía para exportación. La crisis económica, las políticas de Estado, la falta de buenos compradores para el producto, la reducción del abasto de agua y los atractivos de la vida del otro lado de la frontera, han motivado un acelerado flujo migratorio hacia los Estados Unidos. En diez años ha emigrado más del 65% de la población.
Esta investigación se basa principalmente en los testimonios de personas originarias de La Campana que radican en Estados Unidos, durante su estancia en el ejido en el verano del 99,
invierno 99-00, verano 00, invierno 01 y verano 02; así como de los testimonios de los que se quedan allí en esos mismos periodos. A través de ella presentaré las imágenes tanto de los que se quedan como de los que se van, de la articulación entre su comunidad de origen y la de destino, como fundamento para la construcción de una región discontinua.
Reviso primeramente algunas teorías que conforman el sustento del planteamiento, posteriormente hago un recorrido por la conformación de la región, su historia y su situación actual, cotejando la información proporcionada por los sujetos con los datos existentes con relación a su conformación histórica y a la migración México-Estados Unidos, para finalmente presentar los estudios de caso y las conclusiones obtenidas en esta investigación.
La información aquí revisada solo cubre los años de 1998 a 2002 por lo que no se revisan las teorías que desde esta fecha se han desarrollado.

Missionaria o in pericolo di apostasia? Donne cattoliche e matrimoni misti nei dibattiti del Sant’Ufficio, in: Famiglia e religione nella prima eta` moderna. Saggi in onore di Silvana Seidel Menchi, Hg. Ciappelli, G., Luzzi, S., Rospocher, M. (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2011), 175-186.

by Cecilia Cristellon

Does the Priest Have to Be There? Contested Marriages Before Roman Tribunals. Italy, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 3, 2009, 10-30.

by Cecilia Cristellon

The Council of Trent established the requirements that a marriage be celebrated by the parish priest and two or more... more The Council of Trent established the requirements that a marriage be celebrated by the parish priest and two or more witnesses be present at the marriage (1563), but neglected to specify who the parish priest was. The decrees provoked confusion among both laymen and churchmen. Traces thereof can be found in the hitherto essentially unexplored documentation of The Congregation of the Council. This institution was founded in 1564 specifically to resolve the questions that arose all over the catholic world by the application of the decrees promulgated at Trent. The related records are held in the Vatican Secret Archive. Through an examination of this documentation, complemented by files of the Holy Office the author analyzes how the new rules were understood, experienced, used, circumvented, and manipulated both by laymen and churchmen in order to end an unwanted marriage, to facilitate a union that was socially transgressive, opposed by family, or even heterodox, and to respond to pastoral concerns.

Barely legal: Racism and migrant farm labour in the context of Canadian multiculturalism

by J. Adam Perry

published in 'Citizenship Studies', 2012

This article investigates how colonial attitudes towards race operate alongside official multiculturalism in Canada to... more This article investigates how colonial attitudes towards race operate alongside official multiculturalism in Canada to justify the legally exceptional exclusion of migrant farm workers from Canada’s socio-political framework. The Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program is presented in this article as a relic of Canada’s racist and colonial past, one that continues uninterrupted in the present age of statist multiculturalism. The legal continuation and growth in the use of non-citizens to conduct labour distasteful to Canadian nationals has provided an effective means for the Canadian state to regulate the ongoing flow of non-preferred races on the margins while promoting a pluralist and ethnically diverse political image at home and abroad.

In the face of a labour shortage constructed as a political crisis of considerable urgency, the Canadian state has continued to admit non-immigrants into the country to perform labour deemed unattractive yet necessary for the well-being of Canadian citizens while simultaneously suspending the citizenship and individual rights of those same individual migrant workers. By legislating the restriction of rights and freedoms to a permanently revolving door of temporary non-citizens through the mechanism of a guest worker programme, the Canadian state is participating in the bio-political regulation of foreign nationals.

Development and Geography: anxious times, anemic geographies, and migration

by Rachel Silvey

Published in Progress in Human Geography, 2009.

Mobilizing Piety: Gendered morality and Indonesian-Saudi transnational migration

by Rachel Silvey

Published in Mobilities, 2 (2), 2007.

This paper focuses on the emotional discourses invoked in efforts to frame and control Indonesian women’s labor... more This paper focuses on the emotional discourses invoked in efforts to frame and control Indonesian women’s labor migration to Saudi Arabia. Based on interviews with migrant recruiters,
state officials, and migrants in West Java, as well as data collected by migrant rights activists, the paper examines the emotional vocabularies and imagined geographies of gendered piety that are deployed in attempts to mobilize, direct, and discipline women’s transnational labor migration. It explores articulations of women’s virtue as a key dimension of the moral geographies of Indonesian women’s overseas migration. More broadly, it suggests that such attention to struggles over the
regulation of emotion can serve as a lens onto the ways in which gender articulates with the religiously-inflected transnational labor market linking Indonesia with Saudi Arabia.

Transnational Migration and the Gender Politics of Scale: Indonesian domestic workers in Saudi Arabia

by Rachel Silvey

Published in Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 25 (2), 2004.

Recent research has begun to explore the dynamics of transnational migration from a feminist perspective, and studies... more Recent research has begun to explore the dynamics of transnational migration from a feminist perspective, and studies of migrant domestic workers have played a prominent role in pushing forward this work. Emerging simultaneously, but largely separately, are explicit debates within geography about the politics of scale, the social construction of scale, and the gender dimensions of scale. This article develops an analysis of the gender politics of the production of scale, specifically, the “transnationalisation” of Indonesian activist approaches to overseas migrant domestic workers’ issues. Based on fieldwork in an Indonesian community in West Java that has recently become a sending area for migrants to Saudi Arabia, and interviews with activists representing Indonesian migrant women, the article examines the various gender-specific ways in which migrant women’s rights activists construct and deploy the scales of the body, the nation and the transnational. It argues that activist approaches to migrant domestic workers’ rights, and
the ways in which activists mobilise migrant women’s narratives, represent sophisticated feminist theoretical approaches to scale. By identifying and exploring the scale theory embedded in activist strategies, the analysis highlights the imbrication of feminist theory with practice, and underscores activists’ agency in producing the meanings of specific scales. In so doing, the
article is aimed more broadly at elaborating the ambivalent  relationship between feminist activism/theory and transnationalism.

Transnationalism and (Im)mobility: The Politics of Border Crossings

by Rachel Silvey

Co-authored with Elizabeth A. Olson and Yaffa Truleove, in Handbook of Political Geography, 2007.

CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF ARRIVAL OF HINDI CINEMA IN CARIBBEAN

by Suresh Pillai

This essay is a survey of some cultural issues, events and personalities which form the cultural background of Indian... more This essay is a survey of some cultural issues, events and personalities which form the cultural background of Indian Diaspora when Hindi cinema started arriving since early 1940s.

Conference: British Art as International Art, 1851 to 1960

by Kate Aspinall

Members of the University of East Anglia’s World Art Studies and Museology Department Greg Salter, Kitty Hudson, Rosanna Eckersley and Kate Aspinall are organising the graduate symposium 'British Art as International Art, 1851 to 1960' on Friday the 20th and Saturday the 21st of April (programme available on website).

Keynote speakers:

Emma Chambers of Tate Britain, presenting “Migrations: Émigré Artists in British Art”, and Michael Hatt of the University of Warwick, presenting “From New England to Nowhere: Edward Carpenter, Fred Holland Day and the Dream of Placelessness”

Registration:

The symposium is free, but spaces are limited, so please register before 2nd April, either by emailing the organisers at britartinternational@gmail.com or on the website: http://www.uea.ac.uk/art/ events-news/event

Immer wieder sonntags: Die Schaffung sozialer, politischer und transnationaler Räume durch migrantische Hausangestellte in Hongkong

by Stefan Rother

Rother, Stefan. 2012. "Immer wieder sonntags: Die Schaffung sozialer, politischer und transnationaler Räume durch migrantische Hausangestellte in Hongkong." In Urbanisierung und internationale Migration. Migrantenökonomien und Migrationspolitik in Städten, eds. Frauke Kraas, and Tabea Bork. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verl.-Ges., 167–80.

In einer „global city“ wie Hongkong, die zudem Zeit ihres Bestehens von Migranten
geprägt wurde, sind Migration... more In einer „global city“ wie Hongkong, die zudem Zeit ihres Bestehens von Migranten
geprägt wurde, sind Migration und Urbanisierung auf besonders enge
Weise verknüpft. Für Saskia Sassen (2002, 17f.) eröffnet sich in diesen globalen
Städten eine neue Geographie von Politik und Zivilgesellschaft, die Räume auf
der subnationalen Ebene schafft und verbindet.
Im folgenden Beitrag sollen einige dieser neuen Räume, in denen sich die Migrantinnen
bewegen und die sie geschaffen haben, dargestellt werden. Der Begriff
„Raum“ findet dabei sowohl für konkrete als auch abstrakte Räume Verwendung.
Eine tiefergehende Diskussion des Raumbegriffs würde Rahmen und Ausrichtung
dieses Beitrags sprengen; somit beschränke ich mich in einem ersten
Teil auf eine knappe Skizze der Verwendung des Raumbegriffs in der Migrationsforschung.
Als weiteren Hintergrund schildere ich Anlass und Entwicklung
des massiven „Imports“ von Hausangestellten nach Hongkong. Darauf stelle ich
den schutzlosen Raum, in dem sich der Alltag der Hausangestellten weitgehend
abspielt, dem öffentlichen Raum gegenüber, den die Migrantinnen sozial und
politisch nutzen. Gleichzeitig entsteht hier ein in mehrerer Hinsicht transnationaler
Raum; mit dem Konzept des transnationalen Politikraums und einer zusammenfassenden
Betrachtung wird der Beitrag abgeschlossen.
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The Politics of Repatriation in Europe

by Harris Mylonas

Paper prepared for presentation at the Council for European Studies Conference in Boston (March 22-24, 2012)

Dışlanmışlık ile destek arasında – Depresif şikayetleri olan Türkiye kökenli göçmen kadınların ulusaşırı biyografilerinde eylem yeteniği

by Sina Motzek

Türkçe'de yazılmış doktora projesi özeti, Şubat 2012

Türkiye kökenli ulusaşırı göçmen kadınlar ulusaşırı alanda informel ve formel destek alarak, kendi depresif... more Türkiye kökenli ulusaşırı göçmen kadınlar ulusaşırı alanda informel ve formel destek alarak, kendi depresif hastalıklarıyla ve sosyal dışlanmışlık süreçleriyle nasıl başediyorlar?

Rozvoj v pohybu. Souvislosti a důsledky transnacionální migrace Romů a Romek z okresu Rimavská Sobota/Rimaszombat (Slovensko) do Grazu (Rakousko)

by Stefan Benedik

co-authored with Barbara Tiefenbacher and Edit Szénássy, published in Romano Džaniben 17/1

Especially since the latest two EU-enlargements, the perception of Roma/Romnija in “western” European states is... more Especially since the latest two EU-enlargements, the perception of Roma/Romnija in “western” European states is predominantly linked with forms of migration that emerged in post-communist countries. Still, these migrations are not unidirectional and homogeneous, but contain multi-layered and diverse forms of movement. In this paper we aim to present some outcomes of a recent research-project, during which we
analyzed movements from Romani communities in southern Slovakia to the Austrian province of Styria. The discussed Romani communities are not separated from their mostly Hungarian surroundings, either linguistically or in terms of housing. Nevertheless, the migrations and, moreover, their effects foster differentiation and partly even increase segregation. Some NGO projects in the region and the depiction in Austrian media in particular intensified othering of these Slovakian/Hungarian Roma/Romnija.

Re-Placing Sport Migrants: Moving beyond the Institutional Structures Informing International Sport Migration

by Thomas Carter

International Review for the Sociology of Sport (forthcoming) available on journal website in on-line first publications.

Interest in international sport migration has been burgeoning recently. This article considers the dominant... more Interest in international sport migration has been burgeoning recently. This article considers the dominant theoretical models used to explore these movements and suggests that it is time to rethink some of our theoretical presumptions. Recent permutations of this theoretical model, shifting from globalization to network theoretical models, make this reconsideration of migration-related theories necessary. Drawing on the groundbreaking work done in the 1990s and on Rafaelle Poli’s rapidly expanding body of work, it becomes apparent that a more flexible, open-ended theoretical model is necessary. This article reviews these theoretical models before making a suggestion of how international sport migration might be better framed for understanding how migration is structured and experienced in multiple locations around the world. Considering that migrants are bodies moving through space, it seems crucial to return migrants to space-based models of movement thereby advocating a theoretical model that takes into account the complexly dynamic relationships between migrants, institutions, and places.

Cree Contraband or Contraband Crees? Early Montanan Experiences with Transnational Natives and the Formation of Lasting Prejudice, 1880-1885

by Brenden Rensink