{"id":7545,"date":"2015-12-18T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=7545"},"modified":"2025-05-20T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:08:10","slug":"international-migrants-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/international-migrants-day-2","title":{"rendered":"International Migrants Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December 18, the international community recognizes and celebrates the rights of migrants around the world. Since year 2000, the international community has recognized International Migrants Day<\/a> to highlight the human rights of migrants\u00a0and\u00a0express our support and solidarity.<\/p>\n

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To honor the day Berghahn\u00a0is\u00a0offering a 25% discount <\/strong>on all our Refugee & Migration Studies<\/a> books for the next 30 days. At checkout, simply enter the code IMD15<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Berghahn Journals<\/a> is delighted\u00a0to present a Free Virtual Issue<\/strong> dedicated to migration with hope that this will contribute to the overall discussion of the lives of migrants.<\/p>\n

Click Here to Access the Special Virtual Issue!<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Below is a\u00a0selection of relevant titles on\u00a0Refugee & Migration StudiesInternational Migrants Day<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"BUSH BOUND<\/a>
\nYoung Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa
\nPaolo Gaibazzi<\/p>\n

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Whereas most studies of migration focus on movement, this book examines the experience of staying put. It looks at young men living in a Soninke-speaking village in Gambia who, although eager to travel abroad for money and experience, settle as farmers, heads of families, businessmen, civic activists, or, alternatively, as unemployed, demoted youth. Those who stay do so not only because of financial and legal limitations, but also because of pressures to maintain family and social bases in the Gambia valley. \u2018Stayers\u2019 thus enable migrants to migrate, while ensuring the activities and values attached to rural life are passed on to the future generations.<\/p>\n

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\"\"MAKING UBUMWE<\/a>
\nPower, State and Camps in Rwanda’s Unity-Building Project
\nAndrea Purdekov\u00e1<\/p>\n

Volume 34, Forced Migration<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

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Since the end of the Rwandan genocide, the new political elite has been challenged with building a unified nation. Reaching beyond the better-studied topics of post-conflict justice and memory, the book investigates the project of civic education, the upsurge of state-led neo-traditional institutions and activities, and the use of camps and retreats shape the \u201cideal\u201d Rwandan citizen. Rwanda\u2019s ingando camps offer unique insights into the uses of dislocation and liminality in an attempt to anchor identities and desired political roles, to practically orient and symbolically place individuals in the new Rwandan order, and, ultimately, to create additional platforms for the reproduction of political power itself.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0PART I: INTRODUCTION<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE AGENDAS OF TIBETAN REFUGEES<\/a>
\nSurvival Strategies of a Government-in-Exile in a World of Transnational Organizations
\nThomas Kauffmann<\/p>\n

Volume 33, Forced Migrat<\/i>i<\/i>on<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

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Since the arrival of the first Tibetans in exile in 1959, a vast and continuous wave of international \u2013 especially Western \u2013 support has permitted these refugees to survive and even to flourish in their temporary places of residence. Today, these Tibetan refugees continue to attract assistance from Western governments, organizations and individuals, while other refugee populations are largely forgotten in the international agenda. This book shows and discusses how Tibetan refugees continue to attract resources, due, notably, to the dissemination of their political and religious agendas, as well as how a movement of Western supporters, born in very different conditions, guaranteed a unique relationship with these refugees.<\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BORDER DRAWING<\/a>
\nArranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies
\nRegine Paul<\/p>\n

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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

Read\u00a0Introduction: <\/strong>Labor Migration Management: A Case for Interdisciplinary and Interpretive Policy Studies\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"NEGOTIATING IDENTITY IN SCANDINAVIA<\/a>
\nWomen, Migration, and the Diaspora
\nEdited by Haci Akman<\/p>\n

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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

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Forthcoming in Paperback!<\/em><\/p>\n

BEING HUMAN, BEING MIGRANT<\/a>
\nSenses of Self and Well-Being
\nEdited by Anne Sigfrid Gr\u00f8nseth
\nEpilogue by Nigel Rapport<\/p>\n

Volume 23, EASA Series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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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

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\"\"BELONGING IN OCEANIA<\/a>
\nMovement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications
\nEdited by Elfriede Hermann, Wolfgang Kempf and Toon van Meijl<\/p>\n

Volume 3, Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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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

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\"\"Forthcoming in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

MIGRATION, SETTLEMENT AND BELONGING IN EUROPE, 1500-1930S<\/a>
\nComparative Perspectives
\nEdited by Steven King and Anne Winter<\/p>\n

Volume 23, International Studies in Social History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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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

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\"\"POINTS OF PASSAGE<\/a>
\nJewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain 1880-1914
\nEdited by Tobias Brinkmann<\/p>\n

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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

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\"\"THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION<\/a>
\nMigration, Health and Family Making
\nEdited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Sunil K. Khanna<\/p>\n

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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

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\"\"Honorable Mention 2013 PROSE Awards, Archaeology and Anthropology <\/strong><\/p>\n

New in Paperback!<\/em><\/p>\n

PLACES OF PAIN<\/a>
\nForced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities
\nHariz Halilovich<\/p>\n

Volume 10, Space and Place<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is, overall, a carefully researched book following the tradition of Geertzian thick description in an effort to contribute theoretically through the concept of translocalism, analyze reflexively via the author\u2019s own history of displacement and emplacement, and comment in a heartfelt way on how refugees recreate social worlds even after massive destruction. Halilovich\u2019s account deserves room in any upper-level, if not introductory, undergraduate or graduate course covering some aspect of international migration, especially forced displacement \u2014 a phenomenon impacting some 50 million people around the world today.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 International Migration Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Chapter 1. <\/strong>Introduction: The Journey through Bosnian War\u2012torn Communities<\/a><\/p>\n

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WIND OVER WATER<\/a>
\nMigration in an East Asian Context
\nEdited by David W. Haines, Keiko Yamanaka, and Shinji Yamashita<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026this book is a worthy addition to migration research and Asian studies. It is warmly recommended to scholars, advanced graduate students, and anyone else interested in people on the move in Asia and beyond.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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FRAGMENTED FATHERLAND<\/a>
\nImmigration and Cold War Conflict in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1980
\nAlexander Clarkson<\/p>\n

Volume 34, Monographs in German History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cDrawing on a vast number of government records, including the national and local intelligence services as well as extensive press and secondary sources, Clarkson deftly and cogently analyzes the evolution of the FRG’s policies, from the conservative front line Cold War state of the 1950s that strongly supported anticommunist immigrants from Eastern Europe and the Balkans to a detente-seeking government in the late 1960s and 1970s that balanced the anti-colonial and anti-authoritarian movements within its borders with its core political and economic interests.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong>: New Neighbours, New Challenges: Recognising Diversity<\/a><\/p>\n

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From Berghahn Journals<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"Transfers<\/a>
\nInterdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies<\/p>\n

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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

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