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The new carve-up
In: South: the Third World magazine, Heft 18, S. 7-10
ISSN: 0260-6976
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Alfred Grosser (1er février 1925 - 7 février 2024)
In: Allemagne d'aujourd'hui: revue d'information et de recherche sur l'Allemagne
ISSN: 0002-5712
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In memoriam Alfred Grosser (1925-2024)
In: Revue d'Allemagne et des pays de langue allemande
ISSN: 0151-1947
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50 Jahre Elysée-Vertrag: Charles de Gaulle - Konrad Adenauer = Les 50 ans du Traité de l'Elysée
In: Dokumente: Zeitschrift für den deutsch-französischen Dialog = Documents : revue du dialogue franco-allemand, Heft 3, S. 39-74
ISSN: 0012-5172
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How the box became black: brokers and the creation of free migrant
In: Pacific affairs, Band 85, Heft 1, S. 21-46
ISSN: 0030-851X
Migration brokers and the organization of human mobility did not always exist in a black box. Before the early twentieth century, most attention from lawmakers, journalists and reformers actually focused on brokers and the infrastructure of human movement. By the late nineteenth century, however, three processes had begun to push migration brokers and infrastructure out of the limelight: 1) Brokers and middlemen were increasingly demonized as the source of migration evils. This happened at a discursive level of depicting brokers as padrones, crimps, smugglers and, more generally, as the remnants of pre-modern culture that undermined the benefits of migration. Laws to regulate brokers also had the practical effect of pushing many brokerage activities underground, even as they created new opportunities for brokers to help migrants negotiate the new legal requirements. This demonization of brokers came hand in hand with 2) the emerging ideal of the "free" migrant as an atomized, self-motivated individual. Brokers were thought to interfere with the freedom that was believed to characterized a genuine migrant. Finally, 3) the new immigration laws of the early 20th century focused on regulating entry at the border rather than the process of migration, and concentrated on the "free" individual migrant as the legitimate object of selection. The practical enforcement of these laws further made brokers invisible. Today, these combined factors continue to draw attention away from employers of migrants and broader structural processes and onto brokers as explanations for the inequities and exploitation surrounding migration. (Pac Aff/GIGA)
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Motor und Ideengeber: Erinnerungen an den Gründer von B.I.L.D.-GÜZ
In: Dokumente: Zeitschrift für den deutsch-französischen Dialog = Documents : revue du dialogue franco-allemand, Heft 3, S. 34-35
ISSN: 0012-5172
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