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Berghahn is also delighted to present a selection of titles on\u00a0Refugee & Migration Studies<\/a>:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each country, and examines the interaction of economic, social, and cultural rationales in determining migrant legality. Rather than investigating the failure of borders to keep unauthorized migrants out, the author highlights the different policies of each country as \u201cborder-drawing\u201d actions. Policymakers draw lines between different migrant groups, and between migrants and citizens, through considerations of both their economic utility and skills, but also their places of origin and prospects for social integration. Overall, migrant worker legality is arranged against the backdrop of the specific vision each country has of itself in an economically competitive, globalized world with rapidly changing welfare and citizenship models.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gender has a profound impact on the discourse on migration as well as various aspects of integration, social and political life, public debate, and art. This volume focuses on immigration and the concept of diaspora through the experiences of women living in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Through a variety of case studies, the authors approach the multifaceted nature of interactions between these women and their adopted countries, considering both the local and the global. The text examines the \u201cmaking of the Scandinavian\u201d and the novel ways in which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation state.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The relationship between migration and development is becoming an important field of study, yet the fundamentals \u2013 analytical tools, conceptual framework, political stance \u2013 are not being called into question or dialogue. This volume provides a valuable alternative perspective to the current literature as the contributors explore the contradictory discourses about migration and the role these discourses play in perpetuating inequality and a global regime of militarized surveillance. The assumptions surrounding the assymetrical transfers of resources that accompany migration are deeply skewed and continue to reflect the interests of the most powerful states and the institutions that serve their interests. Those who seek to address the morass of development failure, vitriolic attacks on immigrants, or sanguine views about migrant agency are challenged by this volume to put aside their methodological nationalism and pursue alternative pathways out of the quagmire of poverty, violence, and fear that is enveloping the globe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant\u2019s movements not only as geographical movements from here to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential experience of living \u201cin between\u201d or on the \u201cborderlands\u201d between differently figured life-worlds. Focusing on memories, nostalgia, the here-and-now social experiences of daily living, and the hopes and dreams for the future, the volume demonstrates how all interact in migrants\u2019 and refugees\u2019 experience of identity and quest for well-being.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to \u201cbelong\u201d in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings\u2014and, with these, the relevant forms of mobility, place-making and identifications\u2014are being recontextualized and modified by emerging discourses of climate change and sea-level rise.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since the time of the Grand Tour, the Italian region of Tuscany has sustained a highly visible American and Anglo migrant community. Today American women continue to migrate there, many in order to marry Italian men. Confronted with experiences of social exclusion, unfamiliar family relations, and new cultural terrain, many women struggle to build local lives. In the first ethnographic monograph of Americans in Italy, Catherine Trundle argues that charity and philanthropy are the central means by which many American women negotiate a sense of migrant belonging in Italy. This book traces women\u2019s daily acts of charity as they gave food to the poor, fundraised among the wealthy, monitored untrustworthy recipients, assessed the needy, and reflected on the emotional work that charity required. In exploring the often-ignored role of charitable action in migrant community formation, Trundle contributes to anthropological theories of gift giving, compassion, and reflexivity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. It explores how the conception of belonging changed over time and space from the 1500s onwards, how communities dealt with the welfare expectations of an increasingly mobile population that migrated both within and between states, the welfare rights that were attached to those who \u201cbelonged,\u201d and how ordinary people secured access to welfare resources. What emerged was a sophisticated European settlement system, which on the one hand structured itself to limit the claims of the poor, and yet on the other was peculiarly sensitive to their demands and negotiations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n These transfers of sovereignty resulted in extensive, unforeseen movements of citizens and subjects to their former countries. The phenomenon of postcolonial migration affected not only European nations, but also the United States, Japan and post-Soviet Russia. The political and societal reactions to the unexpected and often unwelcome migrants was significant to postcolonial migrants\u2019 identity politics and how these influenced metropolitan debates about citizenship, national identity and colonial history. The contributors explore the historical background and contemporary significance of these migrations and discuss the ethnic and class composition and the patterns of integration of the migrant population.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Between 1880 and 1914 several million Eastern Europeans migrated West. Much is known about the immigration experience of Jews, Poles, Greeks, and others, notably in the United States. Yet, little is known about the paths of mass migration across \u201cgreen borders\u201d via European railway stations and ports to destinations in other continents. Ellis Island, literally a point of passage into America, has a much higher symbolic significance than the often inconspicuous departure stations, makeshift facilities for migrant masses at European railway stations and port cities, and former control posts along borders that were redrawn several times during the twentieth century. This volume focuses on the journeys of Jews from Eastern Europe through Germany, Britain, and Scandinavia between 1880 and 1914. The authors investigate various aspects of transmigration including medical controls, travel conditions, and the role of the steamship lines; and also review the rise of migration restrictions around the globe in the decades before 1914.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Charting the experiences of internally or externally migrant communities, the volume examines social transformation through the dynamic relationship between movement, reproduction, and health. The chapters examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are not only embedded in their own unique health worldviews, but also influenced by the history, policy, and politics of the wider state systems. The research among migrant communities an understanding of how ideas of reproduction and \u201ccultures of health\u201d travel, how healing, birth and care practices become a result of movement, and how health-related perceptions and reproductive experiences can define migrant belonging and identity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ———————————————————————————————————————————–<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From Berghahn Journals<\/a>:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies<\/em> is a new peer-reviewed journal publishing cutting-edge research on the processes, structures and consequences of the movement of people, resources, and commodities. Intellectually rigorous, broadly ranging, and conceptually innovative, the journal combines the empiricism of traditional mobility history with more recent methodological approaches from the social sciences and the humanities.<\/p>\n The journal’s scholarly essays, book and exhibit reviews, artwork and photography, as well as special features provide a rich variety of perspectives that include: analyses of the past and present experiences of vehicle drivers, passengers, pedestrians, migrants, and refugees; accounts of the arrival and transformation of mobility in different nations and locales; and investigations of the kinetic processes of global capital, technology, chemical and biological substances, images, narratives, sounds, and ideas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On December 18, the international community recognizes and celebrates the rights of migrants around the world. 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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BORDER DRAWING<\/a>
\nArranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies
\nRegine Paul<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/AkmanNegotiating.jpg\")
NEGOTIATING IDENTITY IN SCANDINAVIA<\/a>
\nWomen, Migration, and the Diaspora
\nEdited by Haci Akman<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/SchillerMigration.jpg\")
MIGRATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND TRANSNATIONALIZATION<\/a>
\nA Critical Stance
\nEdited by Nina Glick Schiller and Thomas Faist<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/GronsethBeing.jpg\")
BEING HUMAN, BEING MIGRANT<\/a>
\nSenses of Self and Well-Being
\nEdited by Anne Sigfrid Gr\u00f8nseth
\nEpilogue by Nigel Rapport<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/HermannBelonging.jpg\")
BELONGING IN OCEANIA<\/a>
\nMovement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications
\nEdited by Elfriede Hermann, Wolfgang Kempf and Toon van Meijl<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/TrundleAmericans.jpg\")
AMERICANS IN TUSCANY<\/a>
\nCharity, Compassion, and Belonging
\nCatherine Trundle<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/KingMigration.jpg\")
MIGRATION, SETTLEMENT AND BELONGING IN EUROPE, 1500-1930S<\/a>
\nComparative Perspectives
\nEdited by Steven King and Anne Winter<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/BosmaPostcolonial.jpg\")
POSTCOLONIAL MIGRANTS AND IDENTITY POLITICS<\/a>
\nEurope, Russia, Japan and the United States in Comparison
\nEdited by Ulbe Bosma, Jan Lucassen, and Gert Oostindie<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/BrinkmannPoints.jpg\")
POINTS OF PASSAGE<\/a>
\nJewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain 1880-1914
\nEdited by Tobias Brinkmann<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/Unnithan-KumarCultural.jpg\")
THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION<\/a>
\nMigration, Health and Family Making
\nEdited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Sunil K. Khanna<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/jnls\/jnl_cover_trans.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
Transfers<\/a>
\nInterdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies<\/p>\n