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Labour Lines and Colonial Power: Indigenous and Pacific Islander Labour Mobil…
Today, increases of so-called ‘low-skilled’ and temporary labour migrations of Pacific Islanders to Australia occur alongside calls for Indigenous people to ‘orbit’ from remote communities in search of employment opportunities. These trends reflect the persistent neoliberalism within contemporary Australia, as well as the effects of structural dynamics within the global agriculture and …
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Europe's Invisible Migrants
Following the decolonization movements that swept the globe after World War II, between four and six million people were 'returned' to Europe from the colonies.
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Entre le mil et le franc, Un siècle de migrations circulaires en Afrique de …
L’histoire présentée dans cet ouvrage est celle de la migration telle que perçue et remémorée par les femmes et les hommes qui se sont déplacés, depuis 1900, à l’intérieur comme à l’extérieur du Burkina Faso, de même que par celles et ceux qui y sont retournés.
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Population, providence and empire
The book knits together two of the most significant themes in the social and cultural history of modern Ireland - mass emigration and religious change - and aims to provide fresh insight into both. It addresses the churches' responses to emigration, both in theory and in practice. The book also assesses how emigration impacted on the churches both in relation to their status in Ireland, and in …
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Chapter 8 Categorising What We Study and What We Analyse, and the Exercise of…
A lot of qualitative researchers have a healthy wariness about straightforward categorisation and modelling endeavours undertaken by quantitative researchers. Too often, variables and measurements are too rigid in quantitative analysis to take stock of all the complexity and context-dependency of human behaviour, attitudes and identities. In the worst-case scenario for migration studies, this l…
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The Fixer Visa Lottery Chronicles
In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money for the embassy interview to the gamesmanship of those adding spouses and dependents to their dossiers, the application process is complicated, exp…
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Encoding Race, Encoding Class Indian IT Workers in Berlin
In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied, raced, and classed nature of cognitive labor. In addition to conducting fieldwork and interviews in IT offices as well as analyzing political cartoons, advertisements, and reports on white-collar work, Amrute spent…
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Mobilizing Global Knowledge Refugee Research in an Age of Displacement
In 2018, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees documented a record high 71.4 million displaced people around the world. As states struggle with the costs of providing protection to so many people and popular conceptions of refugees have become increasingly politicized and sensationalized, researchers have come together to form regional and global networks dedicated to working with dis…
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Mobile Entrepreneurs
Migration, mobility, and globalization are transforming ways of working and living. Business activities, relationships and a sense of belonging are often not tied to any one place. This book explores biographies of highly mobile startup founders who often run startups that have been called „born global“. It describes how they move, how they orientate and perceive themselves, and how migrati…
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Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers The Course and Context of Belgian Settleme…
In this comprehensive study of Belgian settlement in western Canada, Cornelius Jaenen shows that Belgian immigration was unique in its character and brought with it significant benefits out of proportion to its comparatively small numbers. Canadas first Immigration Act (1869) included Belgium among the “preferred countries” from which immigrants should be sought, but unlike many other Europ…
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