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Book Migration Landing Spaces

Download or read book Migration Landing Spaces written by Martina Bovo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at migrant landing spaces, exploring the processes and infrastructures which people encounter as they navigate urban spaces along the central Mediterranean route. The book argues that there remains a theoretical and practical difficulty in grasping the complexity of migrant arrivals. Migrants are often unsure whether they will stay or leave, their mobility is uncertain. Despite this, they face rigid binaries and categories within administrative policy and planning which tries to pin them down as either permanent or temporary. Drawing on extensive original research in southern Italy, this book suggests that we should instead think of ‘landing spaces’: parts of the city that work as infrastructures for landing, that allow for an open and dynamic use of the urban space and provide opportunities for encounter and information exchange as migrants consider their next steps. Combining an ethnographic gaze with insights from urban planning, architecture, geography, social sciences and migration studies, this book invites us to look closer at the interactions between people, practices and places as migrants land in Europe.

Book Forced Migration in Transit

Download or read book Forced Migration in Transit written by Ludger Pries and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares the life courses of forced migrants in two of the world’s most important transit countries: Turkey and Mexico. It examines the local, regional, and global contexts of their experiences, trajectories, and biographical projects, caught between return, stay, and forward movement. Forced migration has increased rapidly around the world in recent years, with Mexico and Turkey experiencing particularly high numbers of migrants, as conflict, violence, authoritarian regimes, environmental disasters, economic instability, lack of opportunity, and generalized violence have driven people to leave their homes in search of a better life. With a special focus on organized violence, this book analyzes the specific impact of organized violence on the trajectories and biographies of forced migrants, situating these life courses in the political, economic, cultural, and social contexts of the countries of origin (Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria; El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) and in the country of transit (Turkey and Mexico). Using extensive original empirical data and analysis, it argues that forced migration is a long-lasting social process based on everyday actions and social practices throughout the migration trajectory. Systematically comparing two of the world’s most important transit countries, this book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of migration, politics, international relations, and sociology.

Book The Making of Migration

Download or read book The Making of Migration written by Martina Tazzioli and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants governed as individual subjects and as part of groups? What are the modes of control, identification and partitions that migrants are subjected to? Bringing together an ethnographically grounded analysis of migration, and a critical theoretical engagement with the security and humanitarian modes of governing migrants, the book pushes us to rethink notions that are central in current political theory such as "multiplicity" and subjectivity. This is an innovative and sophisticated study; deploying migration as an analytical angle for complicating and reconceptualising the emergence of collective subjects, mechanisms of individualisation, and political invisibility/visibility. A must-read for students of Migration Studies, Political Geography, Political Theory, International Relations, and Sociology.

Book Liminal Spaces  Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora

Download or read book Liminal Spaces Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora written by Grace Aneiza Ali and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liminal Spaces is an intimate exploration into the migration narratives of fifteen women of Guyanese heritage. It spans diverse inter-generational perspectives – from those who leave Guyana, and those who are left – and seven seminal decades of Guyana’s history – from the 1950s to the present day – bringing the voices of women to the fore. The volume is conceived of as a visual exhibition on the page; a four-part journey navigating the contributors’ essays and artworks, allowing the reader to trace the migration path of Guyanese women from their moment of departure, to their arrival on diasporic soils, to their reunion with Guyana. Eloquent and visually stunning, Liminal Spaces unpacks the global realities of migration, challenging and disrupting dominant narratives associated with Guyana, its colonial past, and its post-colonial present as a ‘disappearing nation’. Multimodal in approach, the volume combines memoir, creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, art and curatorial essays to collectively examine the mutable notion of ‘homeland’, and grapple with ideas of place and accountability. This volume is a welcome contribution to the scholarly field of international migration, transnationalism, and diaspora, both in its creative methodological approach, and in its subject area – as one of the only studies published on Guyanese diaspora. It will be of great interest to those studying women and migration, and scholars and students of diaspora studies. Grace Aneiza Ali is a Curator and an Assistant Professor and Provost Fellow in the Department of Art & Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Her curatorial research practice centers on socially engaged art practices, global contemporary art, and art of the Caribbean Diaspora, with a focus on her homeland Guyana.

Book Space Trek

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerome Clayton Glenn
  • Publisher : Stackpole Books
  • Release : 2017-09-15
  • ISBN : 0811766675
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Space Trek written by Jerome Clayton Glenn and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass human migrations into outer space may begin this century! Are Earth’s inhabitants prepared for this next giant leap? Millions of tax dollars are being employed in NASA and Defense Department research facilities to answer this urgent question. Can humankind migrate to space intelligently, in a civilized manner without real Star Wars? Are these justifiable economic, political, and philosophical reasons for undertaking such a vast project? What legal and institutional implications will surface in distinguishing Earthkind from Spacekind? The immediate and long-range effects of space migration—on earth and its inhabitants, on the solar system and its pioneers—are brought into sharp focus here, within the perspective of the heated debates now taking place in the highest government, scientific, business, and academic circles. From the development of the space shuttle Enterprise and the uses and objectives of the Space Transportation System to the U.S. and Soviet space arsenals of hunter-killer satellites and Fractional Orbit Bombardment Systems (FOBS)—all known aspects of space migration and colonization are examined and presented with a depth and clarity appreciated by laymen, popular scientist, and aerospace engineer alike.

Book Migration

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robin Baker
  • Publisher : Holmes & Meier Pub
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780841908680
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Migration written by Robin Baker and published by Holmes & Meier Pub. This book was released on 1982 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In and Out  Rights of Migrants in the European Space

Download or read book In and Out Rights of Migrants in the European Space written by Francesco Lo Piccolo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cities Learning from a Pandemic

Download or read book Cities Learning from a Pandemic written by Simonetta Armondi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COVID-19 has stressed the condition of radical uncertainty that increasingly characterises our times and compels cities to learn new ways to cope with unexpected global urban challenges. The volume proposes preparedness as a key concept in urban geography, planning, and policy, inviting international scholars to discuss its pros and cons. Firstly, it builds a critical theoretical framework around the concept of preparedness in relation to the COVID-19 effects and other interconnected crises. Then, the authors put at work and redefine preparedness, starting from worldwide surveys, research experiences, public discourses and spatial strategies analysis in Europe and, more extensively, in Italy. Finally, the closing section goes beyond the view of preparedness as an emergency tool, proposing to interpret it more broadly as a technology supporting a sustainable urban transition. The book mainly targets academics in urban planning, policy, and geography. However, the prominence of the topic of preparedness makes the volume an essential reading not only within social sciences but further in engineering, basic sciences, and life science. In addition, the book provides directions to practitioners and civic leaders in supporting cities and regions to prepare themselves in the face of pandemics and unpredictable socio-environmental shocks.

Book The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in East Asia

Download or read book The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in East Asia written by Brenda Yeoh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world globalises, more people than ever are on the move, including the many professional, managerial and entrepreneurial elites—often referred to as ‘international talent’—who circulate between cities in response to career and business opportunities. While much has been written about the economic motivations behind these mobilities, less is known about the everyday experiences and encounters of highly skilled transnational migrants, who, with the rise of Asia as an economic powerhouse and cultural magnet, are not only increasingly Asian in composition but also rapidly attracted to the globalising cities in Asia. The book demonstrates how the migratory moves of transnational elites are not only implicated in the reality of multiple belongings, but are also intertwined with the broader cultural politics of specific places. By exploring the interfaces of contact and their diverse subjectivities from race and gender to class and nationality, this collection as a whole—with papers examining talent moving among cities in China, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Britain and Canada—paints a decidedly complex picture of how talented migrants inhabit the world in ‘more-than-rational’ ways. Through the lens of the everyday, this book uncovers the ways in which ‘cosmopolitanisms’ are forged in uneven and contested ways in different localities, as well as offer new insights into cities as transnational spaces of encounter in the 21st century. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Book Migration of Freshwater Fishes

Download or read book Migration of Freshwater Fishes written by Martyn Lucas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent studies have increasingly demonstrated the widespread existence of spatio-temporal variations in the abundance and distribution of species of freshwater fishes, previously assumed not to move between habitats. These movements are often on a seasonal or ontogenetic basis, for spawning, feeding and refuge, and in many cases are fundamental for the successful completion of lifecycles. This important book provides a single source for a range of previously widely dispersed information on these movements of fish in fresh waters, covering potamodromous fishes as well as the more familiar diadromous species, worldwide. Contents include full descriptions of types of migration and spatial behaviour, the stimulus and capacity for fish to migrate, the effects of climate on patterns of migratory behaviour, a taxonomic analysis (mostly by family) of freshwater fish migration, methods for studying migration, and details of the impacts of man's activities on freshwater fish migration. Migration of Freshwater Fishes provides an excellent and comprehensive reference to which the river manager, biologist or student can now refer to obtain information, advice and current opinion on the migratory behaviour of most taxonomic groups of fishes occurring in fresh water. University libraries and aquatic research stations should also have copies of this essential reference book on their shelves. Well-known international authors. Of great commercial importance to fisheries and professional angling bodies. Draws together much new information in one place. Detailed review of world wide migratory behaviour for most groups of freshwater fishes. Pure and applied relevance, for academics, fisheries scientists, river managers and conservationists. This comprehensive book includes 67 tables and figures and over 1,400 references.

Book Migration  Dislocation and Movement on Screen

Download or read book Migration Dislocation and Movement on Screen written by Ruxandra Trandafoiu and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary screen industries such as film and television have become primary sites for visualizing borders, migration, maps, and travel as processes of separation and dislocation, but also connection. Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen pulls case studies in film and television industries from throughout Europe, North Africa, and Asia to interrogate the nature of movement via moving images. By combining theoretical, interdisciplinary engagements with empirical research, this volume offers a new way to look at screen media's representations of our contemporary world's transnational and cosmopolitan imaginaries.

Book Cinemas of the Black Diaspora

Download or read book Cinemas of the Black Diaspora written by Michael T. Martin and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the cinematic traditions and film practices in the black Diaspora. With contributions by film scholars, film critics, and film-makers from Europe, North America and the Third World, this diverse collection provides a critical reading of film-making in the black Diaspora that challenges the assumptions of colonialist and ethnocentrist discourses about Third World, Hollywood and European cinemas. Cinemas of the Black Diaspora examines the impact on film-making of Western culture, capitalist production and distribution methods, and colonialism and the continuing neo-colonial status of the people and countries in which film-making is practiced. Organized in three parts, the study first explores cinema in the black Diaspora along cultural and political lines, analyzing the works of a radical and aesthetically alternative cinema. The book proceeds to group black cinemas by geographical sites, including Africa, the Caribbean and South America, Europe, and North America, to provide global context for comparative and case study analyses. Finally, three important manifestoes document the political and economic concerns and counter-hegemonic institutional organizing efforts of black and Third World film-makers from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Cinemas of the Black Diaspora should serve as a valuable basic reference and research tool for the study of world cinema. While celebrating the diversity, innovativeness, and fecundity of film-making in different regions of the world, this important collection also explicates the historical importance of film-making as a cultural form and political practice.

Book The contributions of the MUNA network to CUCS Naples 2022  Proceedings of MUNA sessions  CUCS Coordinamento Universitario per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo  Naples 21st 23rd April 2022

Download or read book The contributions of the MUNA network to CUCS Naples 2022 Proceedings of MUNA sessions CUCS Coordinamento Universitario per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo Naples 21st 23rd April 2022 written by Gilberto Sammartino and published by FedOA - Federico II University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Italiano]: Il Consortium Muna (Mediterranean and Middle East University Network Agreement) è stato fondato nel 2015 e rinnovato nel 2021, quando 30 Università provenienti da tutti i Paesi dell'area mediterranea e alcune altre dal Medio Oriente hanno firmato l'Accordo Quadro. Come scritto nell'Accordo Quadro, anche in questo spazio Muna della Conferenza CUCS, proponiamo tre diversi temi principali: MARE NOSTRUM (il nostro Mare, il Mediterraneo), PERSONA (l'Uomo) e ORBIS (la Terra), per riassumere le proposte di Cooperazione tra le Università di Muna Network. La prima sessione è dedicata al campo di ORBIS per condividere la sostenibilità, attraverso la biodiversità come elemento chiave per lo sviluppo del suolo in diversi aspetti come la gestione sostenibile dell'agricoltura, della fauna e della flora, con impatto nel campo della veterinaria. Tuttavia, un focus è anche legato all'inclusione e all'integrazione nelle città sostenibili in questo periodo di pandemia e flussi migratori rispetto al problema dei cambiamenti climatici nell'area mediterranea. La seconda sessione è incentrata su PERSONA, per condividere le esperienze nell'immunodeficienza primaria innata con i contributi di diverse Università di diverse aree del Mediterraneo, esaminando approcci di prevenzione e cura, anche attraverso la proposta di uno studio comparativo. Vengono discusse le differenze culturali in questo periodo di pandemia e la situazione dei diritti umani nel bacino mediterraneo. L'ultimo punto è MARE NOSTRUM, incentrato sullo sfruttamento delle risorse mediterranee proposto dalle Cooperazione Internazionale tra Muna Partners. Oltre allo sfruttamento, vengono ulteriormente sviluppati i temi del miglioramento della qualità dell'acqua, della salvaguardia del settore ittico e dell'obbligatoria migliore organizzazione delle aree portuali. In conclusione, una tavola rotonda discute le opportunità della Cooperazione, soprattutto per capire quali proposte possono essere seguite nella Cooperazione Universitaria e magari per definire progetti futuri./[English]: The Muna Consortium (Mediterranean and Middle East University Network Agreement) was founded in 2015 and renewed in 2021, when 30 Uni¬versities coming from all Countries of Mediterranean area and some others from Middle East signed the Fra¬mework Agreement. As written in the Framework Agreement, also in this Muna space in the CUCS Conference, we propo¬se three different main themes: MARE NOSTRUM (our Sea, the Mediterranean), PERSONA (Man) and ORBIS (the Earth), to summarize the proposals of Co¬operation between Muna Network Universities. The first session is dedicated to the field of ORBIS to share the sustainability, through the biodiversity as a key ele¬ment for the development of soil in different aspects as agricolture, fauna and flora sustainable management, with impact in the field of veterinary. Neverthless, a focus is also related to the inclusion and integration in the sustainable cities during this time of pandemia and migration flows with regard to the problem of clima changes in the Mediterranean area. The second session is focused on PERSONA, to share the experiences in the primary immunodefi¬ciency inborn with the contributions of different Uni¬versities of different mediterranean area, examinating approaches of prevention and treatment, also thorough the proposal of a comparative study. Culture differencies in this pandemia period and the situation of human rights in the medi¬terranean basin are discussed. The last item is MARE NOSTRUM, foused on exploitation of the Mediterannean resources proposed by International Cooperations among Muna Partners. Besides the exploitation, the the¬mes of improving the quality of water, the safe¬guarding of ittic sector and the mandatory better organization of port areas are further developed. In conclusion, a round table discusses the oppor¬tunities of the Cooperation, especially to understand which proposals can be followed in the Universities Cooperation and maybe to establish future projects.

Book Timespace and International Migration

Download or read book Timespace and International Migration written by Elizabeth Mavroudi and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Migration  Mobility and Human Rights at the Eastern Border of the European Union

Download or read book Migration Mobility and Human Rights at the Eastern Border of the European Union written by Grigore Silaşi and published by Ovidiu Laurian SIMINA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sexuality of Migration

Download or read book The Sexuality of Migration written by Lionel Cantu and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award in Latino Studies Honorable Mention from the Latin American Studies Association The Sexuality of Migration provides an innovative study of the experiences of Mexican men who have same sex with men and who have migrated to the United States. Until recently, immigration scholars have left out the experiences of gays and lesbians. In fact, the topic of sexuality has only recently been addressed in the literature on immigration. The Sexuality of Migration makes significant connections among sexuality, state institutions, and global economic relations. Cantú; situates his analysis within the history of Mexican immigration and offers a broad understanding of diverse migratory experiences ranging from recent gay asylum seekers to an assessment of gay tourism in Mexico. Cantú uses a variety of methods including archival research, interviews, and ethnographic research to explore the range of experiences of Mexican men who have sex with men and the political economy of sexuality and immigration. His primary research site is the greater Los Angeles area, where he interviewed many immigrant men and participated in organizations and community activities alongside his informants. Sure to fill gaps in the field, The Sexuality of Migration simultaneously complicates a fixed notion of sexual identity and explores the complex factors that influence immigration and migration experiences.

Book WORLD HISTORY  JOURNEYS

    Book Details:
  • Author : Candice Goucher
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-09-13
  • ISBN : 1134723547
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book WORLD HISTORY JOURNEYS written by Candice Goucher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a thematic approach, this innovative textbook explores the history of the world, from its earliest prehistory to the present age of globalization.