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An Aethetics of Narrative Performance : Transnational Theater, Literature, and Film in Contemporary Germany
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ISBN: 9780814211977 0814211976 9780814292983 0814292984 0814270204 Year: 2012 Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press,


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Transnational migration, gender and rights
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ISBN: 1280120428 9786613524287 1780522037 9781780522036 9781280120428 1780522029 9781780522029 9781780522029 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald,

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The last decades have shown an increase in the migration from poor and conflict ridden states to the affluent peaceful north. Part of this migration is constituted by refugees and asylum seekers, while the other part, grossly put, is constituted by labour migrants who seek to improve their lives and future prospects through their work power. There are of course not only push factors causing migrants to leave, but also pull factors as when the middle classes enjoy an increase in their living standards which cause them to employ domestic help in their homes. Different regulations apply for migrants within different national contexts and also within the same nation and have different impact on the migrants manoeuvring possibilities and rights, and may leave them vulnerable to exploitation. As migration is gendered in that different motivations often exist for men and women, so are the possibilities that are offered, exemplified by the fact that very many women migrate as domestic workers, as nannies, or as au pairs, yet basically perform the same duties but are defined differently according to the rules that apply. As the work the female migrants perform is very often and traditionally regarded as womens work it does not qualify as real work and, consequently, it is not necessary to pay them a proper salary. This book examines the vulnerability caused by migration or rather the fact that the vulnerability of women may cause a forced migration and the ways in which this is dealt with by national authorities in affluent European states.


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Transnational networks : German migrants in the British Empire, 1670-1914
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ISBN: 1280496231 9786613591463 9004229574 9789004229570 9004223495 9789004223493 9781280496233 6613591467 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Non-British migrants and their communities were an integral part of the multifaceted and multicultural nature of the British Empire. Their history, however, goes beyond a clearly delineated narrative of the Empire and includes transnational and truly global dimensions. German migrants and their transnational network creation within the structures of the British Empire, pursued over more than two centuries in a multitude of geographical settings, is the constitutive framework of the present volume. Eight contributions cover economic, cultural, scientific and political themes. The book questions traditional nation-centred narratives of the Empire as an exclusively British undertaking.


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Divergence and convergence in the nation state : the roles in religion and migration
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ISBN: 9781620811184 1620811189 9781613244647 1613244649 Year: 2012 Publisher: Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers,


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Migration and transformation : multi-level analysis of migrant transnationalism
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ISBN: 9401783861 9400739672 9786613709325 9400739680 1280798939 Year: 2012 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer,

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People’s transnational ties and activities are acquiring ever greater importance and topicality in today’s  world.  The focus of this book lies in the complex and multi-level processes of migrant transnationalism in four transnational spaces: India-UK, Morocco-France and Turkey-Germany and Estonia-Finland. The main question is, how people’s activities across national borders emerge, function, and change, and how are they related to the processes of governance in increasingly complex and interconnected world?   The book is based on the findings of a three-year research project TRANS-NET which brough together internationally acknowledged experts from Europe, Asia and Africa. As no single discipline could investigate all the components of the topic in question, the project adopted a multi-disciplinary approach: among the contributors, there are sociologists, policy analysts, political scientists, social and cultural anthropologists, educational scientists, and economists.   The chapters show that people’s transnational linkages and migration across national boundaries entail manifold political, economic, social, cultural and educational implications. Although political-social-economic-educational transformations fostered by migrant transnationalism constitute the main topic of the book, the starting assumption is that the large-scale institutional and actor-centred patterns of transformation come about through a constellation of parallel processes.


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Beyond methodological nationalism : research methodologies for cross-border studies
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ISBN: 9780415899628 9780415754576 9780203121597 9781136328244 9781136328282 9781136328299 0415754577 Year: 2012 Volume: 24 Publisher: New York : Routledge,


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Living intersections : transnational migrant identifications in Asia
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ISBN: 9400798105 9400729650 9400729669 Year: 2012 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer,

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This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience. The contributors—all specialist scholars in anthropology, geography, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology—present new approaches to intersectionality analysis, focusing on the migrants’ performance of their identities as the core indicator to unravel the mutual constituitivity of cultural, social, political, and economic characteristics  rooted in different places, which characterizes transnational lifestyles. The book answers one key question: What happens to people, communities, and societies under globalization, which is, among others, characterized by increasing cultural disidentification?


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Migrants and strangers in an African city : exile, dignity, belonging
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ISBN: 1280125802 9786613529664 0253000750 0253000815 0253000823 9780253000750 9780253000811 9780253000828 9781280125805 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of ""strangers."" Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism


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The evolution of European identities : biographical approaches
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ISBN: 9780230302563 0230302564 1349337595 9786613844651 1137009276 1283532204 Year: 2012 Publisher: Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan,


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Of little comfort : war widows, fallen soldiers, and the remaking of nation after the Great War
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ISBN: 0814748406 0814749054 9780814748404 9780814749050 9780814748398 0814748392 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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During and especially after World War I, the millions of black-clad widows on the streets of Europe’s cities were a constant reminder that war caused carnage on a vast scale. But widows were far more than just a reminder of the war’s fallen soldiers; they were literal and figurative actresses in how nations crafted their identities in the interwar era. In this extremely original study, Erika Kuhlman compares the ways in which German and American widows experienced their postwar status, and how that played into the cultures of mourning in their two nations: one defeated, the other victorious. Each nation used widows and war dead as symbols to either uphold their victory or disengage from their defeat, but Kuhlman, parsing both German and U.S. primary sources, compares widows’ lived experiences to public memory. For some widows, government compensation in the form of military-style awards sufficed. For others, their own deprivations, combined with those suffered by widows living in other nations, became the touchstone of a transnational awareness of the absurdity of war and the need to prevent it.

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