Pub Date : 2016-05-03DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1198583
S. Köngeter, S. An
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Pub Date : 2016-05-03DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1183305
Cristina Chevereșan
year, it is crucial to utilize their skills and knowledge, and the book neatly outlines the existing challenges facing immigrant and refugee children in the education system, and evidence-based recommendations for policy change. As a first-generation immigrant parent who also has work experience with immigrants and refugee torture survivors, i found the content of the book deeply resonating with me on a personal and a professional level. This book can be an effective resource for teachers, teachers in training, and social workers working with refugee families and children. The book unravels many of our own implicatedness in prolonging social injustice with regards to the education of refugee students. various research articles in the book unearth the impact of social inequities on immigrant and refugee students in Canada, and its contribution to the ongoing legacy of colonialism.
{"title":"Parallel encounters: Culture at the Canada-US border","authors":"Cristina Chevereșan","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2016.1183305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2016.1183305","url":null,"abstract":"year, it is crucial to utilize their skills and knowledge, and the book neatly outlines the existing challenges facing immigrant and refugee children in the education system, and evidence-based recommendations for policy change. As a first-generation immigrant parent who also has work experience with immigrants and refugee torture survivors, i found the content of the book deeply resonating with me on a personal and a professional level. This book can be an effective resource for teachers, teachers in training, and social workers working with refugee families and children. The book unravels many of our own implicatedness in prolonging social injustice with regards to the education of refugee students. various research articles in the book unearth the impact of social inequities on immigrant and refugee students in Canada, and its contribution to the ongoing legacy of colonialism.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123649694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-03DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1186420
G. Forino
At the end of August 2015, the refugee crisis was mounting across the whole European Union, and particularly in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Things were becoming heated, not only in terms of high temperatures, but also in terms of tension and debate within the European Union about how to manage what was, and still is, rightly considered a humanitarian crisis (Forino, 2015). Refugees from the Middle East, mainly – but not limited to – fleeing from conflict areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, and Iraq, were trying to enter the European Union area via Turkey and Greece, towards aspired destinations in Northern Europe. In the Balkan area and Eastern Europe, refugees were contained in organized or spontaneous transit camps close to national borders or in the main railway stations of cities. In those camps, ignominious conditions of depersonalization and deprivation of human rights and primary needs took place for thousands of people. Those lives and those bodies, in those conditions, were a classic example of the “bare life” as theorized by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben (2005). The bare life of refugees results from a neoliberal governance of the European Union and member states, using the state of exception as a core instrument of national sovereignty, and dividing people – and related rights – who have a recognized citizenship under a legal system from those who do not (Agamben, 2005). This life becomes stripped of any political and legal significance and protection, banished from collectivity, and perpetually exposed to violation and deprivation (Ziarek, 2012). During that time, I was traveling on my own, and had neither volunteerism or research purposes, nor was I working for non-governmental organizations or international institutions. Therefore, this report is simply based on a personal and subjective experience (see also Forino, 2015). The report presents a very brief description of the life conditions and the surrounding environments of the transit camps, in the following order: Gevgelija (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, FYROM), on the FYROM-Greece border; the Central Station in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia; Kanjiža (Serbia), on the Serbia-Hungary border; and the Keleti Station in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. Camps were visited between 28 August
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Pub Date : 2016-05-03DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1184819
Nadia Kutscher, Lisa-Marie Kreß
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Pub Date : 2016-05-03DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1181437
Annegret Stechow
Abstract Existing literature suggests that lacking economic success prevents migrants from returning to the country of origin because they feel ashamed and fear rejection by families. This article addresses the return of irregular migrants who have not been able to meet social expectations in successful migration. Insights were gained from qualitative interviews with returned migrants during anthropological fieldwork in Ghana in 2012. Drawing on the narrative of female migrant Grace, this article shows that some migrants opt for return – despite being “early.” Exploring her perspective, it asks how return can become a preferred option despite having failed expectations and how familial obligations and negotiations shape the decision and capability to return without turning it into a social disaster. Thus, the role of familial relationships in enabling a return “preparedness” is addressed. It will be argued that changed constellations within transnational familial arrangements, moral dimensions of care, and cultural notions of familial relationships shape the return process. Furthermore, the article raises the issue of social assistance for migrants affected by deportability, which can facilitate their agency for mobility.
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Pub Date : 2016-05-03DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1186376
Rumana Hashem, Paul V. Dudman
This report is an excerpt of a working paper on a civic engagement project that focuses on the oral narratives in which contradictory narratives of transcultural encounters of refugees and undocumented migrants in London are being illustrated. The project, entitled “Democratic Access or Privileged Exclusion? Civic Engagement through the Preservation of and Access to Refugee Archives,” was undertaken in 2015 by focusing on the preservation of refugees’ and migrants’ lived experiences in London. It sought to use existing archives held within the University of East London’s (UEL) Library as a basis to forge new partnerships between students, academics, archivists, and refugee community groups in order to deconstruct and preserve refugee-history. The aims and objectives of the project, among others, included: (a) to engage with local communities in an attempt to establish a Living Refugee Archive and to promote and enable accessibility and engagement with existing collections, (b) to incorporate digital content collected as part of UEL’s Oral History Project which would ultimately help facilitate continued discussions and civic engagement activities, and (c) to help encourage interaction between archivists, historians, NGOs, and the communities themselves as to how the refugee experience can be adequately collated, preserved, and documented. In this report we draw on the collated oral histories of refugees, in particular those in which paradoxical narratives of transcultural encounters of refugees and migrants from outside the European Union are obvious. By way of examples, we document that whilst refugees and migrants from outside the European Union bring in significant resources (such as culture, food, dress, language), their encounters with British residents in London are paradoxical. The report sought to substantiate the argument that in an era of global movement and global conflict the meaning of home to a refugee is “multiple, complex and in process” (Taylor, 2015, p. 11), while the home they hope for is often denied to them, and they are being constructed as “others.” The report also demonstrates that experiences of refugees and migrants vary based on their ethnicity, nationality, and geopolitical situation, and lived experience of EU and non-EU refugees and migrants can be different.
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Pub Date : 2016-05-03DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1182313
Tatjana Fenicia, Markus Kaiser, Michael Schönhuth
Abstract This paper investigates return motives and strategies of (late) resettlers who returned to Russia after some years of migration experience in Germany. The empirical results are based on qualitative and quantitative data collected in 2009–2011. Our sample illustrates the transnational projects of return and the gendered perspective in the different aspects of remigration. The research results show that family remigration was mostly initiated and enacted by the male returnees. Most interviewed wives justified their decision to return with the objective to comply with the wishes of their husbands. Therefore the family decision-making to return is a field of gendered negotiations with sometimes biased winning and losing for the parties involved.
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Pub Date : 2016-05-03DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1182312
Paula Pustułka, Magdalena Ślusarczyk
Abstract The paper discusses the short-term visits to the home country among Polish female migrants residing in the United Kingdom and Norway. Grounded in the theoretical approaches of transnationalism, as well as return and visiting friends and relatives (VFR) mobility, it analyzes empirical material from in-depth interviews. The main argument points to the feelings of ambivalence that accompany the maintenance of family ties during stays in Poland. In addition, it categorizes examples of intergenerational compensatory, cultivation, and indulgent family practices. In reviewing the intra-European setting of transnational familyhood, the paper addresses the significance of the particular Central and Eastern European context.
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Pub Date : 2016-05-03DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2016.1180878
Raluca Bejan
Us and Them is a conceptually rich book. It enhances the field of migration theorizing across borders and within borders. It is mainly focused on the nationwide British context, yet the presented ideas could easily transverse transnational fields. Anderson cuts across disciplinary boundaries in juxtaposing the concepts of exclusion and inclusion, particularly in relation to the production of immigration status and the division of people into desirable and undesirable, deserving and undeserving, citizens and migrants, legals and illegals.
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