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Communities surviving migration? : the migration-community-environment nexus / James P. Robson, Dan Klooster, and Jorge Hernández-Díaz -- Population, territory, and governance in rural Oaxaca / Jorge Hernández-Díaz and James P. Robson -- Migration dynamics and migrant organising in rural Oaxaca / Jorge Hernández-Díaz and James P. Robson -- Avatars of community : the Zapotec migrants of Zoogocho micro-region / Jorge Hernández-Díaz -- Santa María Tindú : the tip of a melting iceberg / Dan Klooster -- Children of the wind : migration and change in Santa María Yavesia / Mario Fernando Ramos Morales and James P. Robson -- More space and more constraint : migration and environment in Santa Cruz Tepetotutla / Dan Klooster -- Migration, community, and land use in San Juan Evangelista Analco / Fermín Sosa Pérez and James P. Robson -- Adaptive governance or cultural transformation? : the monetization of usos y costumbres in Santiago Comaltepec / James P. Robson -- The changing landscapes of indigenous Oaxaca / James P. Robson and Dan Klooster -- Migrant organising, village governance, and the ephemeral nature of translocality / Jorge Hernández-Díaz and James P. Robson -- Communities shaping migration : the migration-community-environment nexus / Dan Klooster, James P. Robson, and Jorge Hernández-Díaz

Cover -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Urban Cartographies -- LEGIBILITY -- 1 Metaphor City -- 2 The Virtuality of Urban Culture: Blanks, Dark Moments, and Blind Fields -- 3 Serendipitous City: In Search of an Aleatory Urbanism -- 4 The Cartographatron - Between Media and Architecture: McLuhan, Giedion, Tyrwhitt, and Doxiadis -- 5 The Artist as Urban Researcher: Research, Representation, and Image-Relations in the City -- NAVIGATION -- 6 Where Are We? Who Am I? Self-Identification with(in) the City -- 7 The City as Gamespace: Alternate Reality Games and Other Fictions -- 8 Remapping the Space Between: Sovereignty, Globalization, and Media Representation in Rio de Janeiro -- 9 The Urban Night -- LOCALE -- 10 "The Company of Strangers": Urban Cultural Diversity and Colonial Connections in Twentieth-Century Popular Fiction and Cinema -- 11 Mapping the Spatial Practices of the Cinema and Protest: Visualizing and Archiving the Urban Space of Tokyo -- 12 Cinematic Border Spaces: Translocality and the Moving Image -- 13 Art and the Post-Urban Condition -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

AbstractThis article investigates the impact of male migration on left-behind women in nineteenth-century Chongqing, focusing on the intersection among gender, migration, and religion. It analyze the unintended consequences of failed male migration, in which the husband's failure to send regular remittances was prone to cause tremendous anxiety and financial difficulties for his wife. In the absence of strong male-centered kinship organizations, Chongqingese women exploited unorthodox options to support themselves. Buddhist monasticism proved appealing because it provided both a stable source of livelihood and an inclusive all-female space. However, female renunciation was controversial because it challenged state-sponsored patriarchal values. Returned husbands enlisted the state's help in revoking their wives' religious decisions. Paradoxically, for vulnerable women like concubines, nunhood proved an attractive option because it helped them obtain migration-triggered divorces on favorable terms. They strategically synergized the bodily practice of monastic celibacy with the discourse of female chastity to assure their estranged spouses of lifelong commitments to non-remarriage. By doing so, these women succeeded in receiving generous financial compensation. This study highlights how the combination of religion and translocality enabled women to renegotiate their positionality within the patriarchy.

Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents Page -- List of figures and tables Page -- List of contributors Page -- Preface Page -- 1 Introduction: Embedding borderlands resilience -- PART 1 Borders and resilience in "exceptional circumstances" -- 2 Border security interventions and borderland resilience -- 3 Cross-border resilience in higher education: Brexit and its impact on Irish-Northern Irish university cross-border cooperation -- 4 Politics of resilience . . . politics of borders? In-mobility, insecurity and Schengen "exceptional circumstances" in the time of COVID-19 at the Spanish-Portuguese border -- PART 2 Tracing space: Social relations and movement as resilience -- 5 Resilience at Hungary's borders: Between everyday adaptations and political resistance -- 6 Mobility turbulences and second-home resilience across the Finnish-Russian border -- 7 "Stateless" yet resilient: Refusal, disruption and movement along the border of Bangladesh and India -- PART 3 Making time: Identity-formation and historical memory as resilience -- 8 Schleswig: From a land-in-between to a national borderland -- 9 Borderlands, minority language revitalization and resilience thinking -- 10 A resilient Bel Paese? Investigating an Italian diasporic translocality between France and Luxembourg -- 11 Line-practice as resilience strategy: The Istrian experience -- 12 Epilogue: Borderland resilience: Thriving in adversity? -- Index.

ABSTRACTNew York City (NYC) garnered significant national and international attention when it emerged as the coronavirus epicentre in the USA, in spring 2020. As has been widely documented, this crisis has disproportionately impacted minority, immigrant and marginalized communities. Among those affected were people from Mustang, Nepal, a Himalayan region bordering Tibet. This community is often rendered invisible within larger Asian immigrant populations, but the presence of Mustangis in the US has transformed their translocal worlds, lived between Nepal and NYC. Seasonal mobility and life‐stage wage labour in cosmopolitan Asia have been common in Mustang for decades. More permanent moves to NYC began in the 1990s. These migrations were based on assumptions about attaining financial stability in the US in ways deemed unattainable in Nepal. An ethnographic focus on one translocal Mustangi family frames this discussion of how COVID‐19 has overturned previously held ideas around migration to NYC and uncovered new forms of precarity. The authors build on theories of transnationalism and translocality to position migration as a cyclical process whereby the well‐being of Mustangis in Nepal and NYC rests on the reliability of global migratory networks and translocal kinship relations — a basis for security and belonging that COVID‐19 has challenged and reconfigured.

Abstract Migration and mobility are major characteristics of societies worldwide. The reasons for and pathways of migrations vary, as do perceptions of migration. Political debates are often organised normatively: the debate on the sustainable development goals presents migration foremost as a development issue resulting from global inequalities. The problems faced by particular migrants, and what a more sustainable approach to migration would look like are, therefore, often lost in political debates. We aim to address those gaps: the article conceptualizes, based on established academic debates, how sustainability in migration can be addressed systematically, which aspects are important for a more sustainable migration process and which trade-offs and injustices exist from several perspectives. We create a conceptual framework of sustainability in migration processes, building on the concepts of inter- and intragenerational justice, commonly accepted as the core of the sustainability concept. We apply this conceptual framework to empirical findings on labour migration and multilocality in Kyrgyzstan. The case enables consideration of the nested system effects of scale and translocality. This research is novel because it bridges the divided literature on migration, justice and sustainability, integrates theoretical and empirical insights and provokes a debate on which kind of migration we want to achieve.

Migration and mobility are major characteristics of societies worldwide. The reasons for and pathways of migrations vary, as do perceptions of migration. Political debates are often organised normatively: the debate on the sustainable development goals presents migration foremost as a development issue resulting from global inequalities. The problems faced by particular migrants, and what a more sustainable approach to migration would look like are, therefore, often lost in political debates. We aim to address those gaps: the article conceptualizes, based on established academic debates, how sustainability in migration can be addressed systematically, which aspects are important for a more sustainable migration process and which trade-offs and injustices exist from several perspectives. We create a conceptual framework of sustainability in migration processes, building on the concepts of inter- and intragenerational justice, commonly accepted as the core of the sustainability concept. We apply this conceptual framework to empirical findings on labour migration and multilocality in Kyrgyzstan. The case enables consideration of the nested system effects of scale and translocality. This research is novel because it bridges the divided literature on migration, justice and sustainability, integrates theoretical and empirical insights and provokes a debate on which kind of migration we want to achieve.

"This contribution reminds us of the fact that the
analysis of processes of transnationalization and
transfer across borders are not only important for
European history but that these processes can also
be observed for and between regions in Africa, in
the Middle East and in Asia. The article points out
that reciprocal relations and interactions between
these regions are by no means recent phenomena,
even if they increased and underwent signifi cant
transformations in the modern period as a result
of historical changes. The article presents preliminary
results of an ongoing research programme
at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin /
Germany on south-south relationships in past and
present. The concept of 'translocality' focuses on
the relationship between spatial fl ows and social
or cultural change in non-European regions. This
relationship is seen as a fi eld of tension, involving
entanglements at a variety of scales, from small to
global. Thus the article aims at opening up the discussion
on global history to a variety of regional
and local levels of analysis in order to strengthen
non-European perspectives. The focus is on the dialectics
of transfer and demarcation as a crucial
access to the understanding of globalization." (author's abstract)

Older people play a key role in intergenerational households across the developing world, including in caring for the children of migrants. However, research on 'translocal households' in Africa and Asia focuses almost exclusively on households headed by working-age husbands and wives and fails to substantially incorporate older people, whether as household heads or household members. This article presents findings from Kiboga District, Uganda on intrahousehold dynamics and wellbeing within translocal households containing older people and younger migrants. A relational approach is adopted to interrogate gendered notions of dependence, independence and interdependence within these intergenerational relationships. 'Translocal interdependencies' are found to underpin these households and are critical to the wellbeing of older people, migrants and their children. However, households are also diverse in character, occupying a 'spectrum of translocality' ranging from coherent, supportive translocal households, to those with less unified and less reliable—but often highly persistent—linkages between migrants and older people. Further, older women may overstate, and older men understate, the translocal support to which they have access, with important consequences for development programming targeted at older people. Debates about ageing and development need to reflect the key role played by older people within these gendered webs of translocal interdependence, while acknowledging and seeking to address the many challenges they face.

What accounts for the nation's persistence as a central object of identification in anticolonial movements during the 1960s? How can we understand the appeal of nationalism when it simultaneously could signify one path to and a pitfall of decolonisation, as Frantz Fanon warned? This article addresses some of these questions concerning anticolonialism, its political possibilities, decolonial fantasies and desires in Iran. I discuss how Jalal Al-e Ahmad articulated a diagnosis of cultural imperialism, gharbzadegi, that expressed tensions between the translocality to which his framework aspired and the rigid confines of the nation-state model. This imbroglio, I claim, reverberated through the pathologisation of the national group, with the wounds of colonial violence unsettling and reforming different national attachments in Iran. To support this argument, I read the specific conditions, dynamics and sociohistorical processes in which Al-e Ahmad was immersed alongside the transnational structures to which they were related. Juxtaposing this pathological discourse with his travelogues, we can grasp a specific articulation of the translocal-national dyad that informed Al-e Ahmad's life and found expression in his limited theorisation of gharbzadegi. Analysing this particular context, I argue that this entanglement exposes the limits and pitfalls of anticolonialism in Iran. Souffrir pour/contre la nation : gharbzadegi et les tensions de l'anticolonialisme en Iran

Islam and Heritage in Europe provides a critical investigation of the role of Islam in Europe's heritage. Focusing on Islam, heritage and Europe, it seeks to productively trouble all of these terms and throw new light on the relationships between them in various urban, national and transnational contexts. Bringing together international scholars from a range of disciplines, this collection examines heritage-making and Islam in the context of current events in Europe, as well as analysing past developments and future possibilities. Presenting work based on ethnographic, historical and archival research, chapters are concerned with questions of diversity, mobility, decolonisation, translocality, restitution and belonging. By looking at diverse trajectories of people and things, this volume encompasses multiple perspectives on the relationship between Islam and heritage in Europe, including the ways in which it has played out and transformed against the backdrop of the 'refugee crisis' and other recent developments, such as debates on decolonising museums or the resurgence of nationalist sentiments. Islam and Heritage in Europe discusses specific articulations of belonging and non-belonging, and the ways in which they create new avenues for re-thinking Islam and heritage in Europe. This ensures that the book will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students engaged in the study of heritage, museums, Islam, Europe, anthropology, archaeology and art history.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Note -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Translocal Familyhood and Lifelines Across Borders -- Translocality, Translocal Familyhood and Lifelines -- Intersectional Analysis and Methodological Approach -- Structure of the Book -- Translocal Familyhood in a Changing Migration Landscape: The Ways Forward -- References -- Section I Everyday Emotions -- 2 Overcoming the Burden of Distance: Emotions in the Family Lives of Estonian Men Working in Finland -- Introduction -- Theoretical Overview of Men and Emotions in Migration -- The Study Context: Work Migration From Estonia to Finland -- Methodology: Research Conversations With Migrant Men -- The Pride of Being the Family Provider -- Missing Out On Life Back Home -- (Almost) Unspeakable Emotions -- Jealousy, Guilt and Remorse -- Emotional Presence Versus Distance -- Conclusion: Doing Translocal Family as Emotion Work -- Notes -- References -- 3 Place Attachment and Translocal Ties: Adult Descendants of Polish Migrants in Sweden -- Introduction -- Significant Locations -- What About Poland? -- Concluding Discussion: Linked Locations On Different Scales -- Notes -- References -- Commentary On Chapters 2 and 3 Translocal Lifelines Through the Lens of Emotion: Dealing With Distance and Connection -- The Materiality of "Being There" -- Room for Expansion -- In Praise of Explorative Research -- References -- Section II Gender and Inequality -- 4 Negotiating Same-Sex Family Space Between Finland and Russia -- Introduction -- Approaching Translocal Same-Sex Family Relationships -- Towards Privilege: Migration for the Sake of One's Family -- Beyond Privilege: Mobility Within Uncertainty and Deprivation.

A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice. "Reinventing Human Rights" offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global problems. Charting a new path--away from either common critiques of the various incapacities of the international human rights system or advocacy for the status quo--Mark Goodale offers a new vision for human rights as a basis for collective action and moral renewal. Goodale's proposition to reinvent human rights begins with a deep unpacking of human rights institutionalism and political theory in order to give priority to the "practice of human rights." Rather than a priori claims to universality, he calls for a working theory of human rights defined by "translocality," a conceptual and ethical grounding that invites people to form alliances beyond established boundaries of community, nation, race, or religious identity. This book will serve as both a concrete blueprint and source of inspiration for those who want to preserve human rights as a key framework for confronting our manifold contemporary challenges, yet who agree--for many different reasons--that to do so requires radical reappraisal, imaginative reconceptualization, and a willingness to reinvent human rights as a cross-cultural foundation for both empowerment and social action.

Intro -- Preface -- Home No More Home to Me By Robert Louis Stevenson -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Cost-and-Benefit Analysis: Decision-Making in Migration -- Globalization, Public Policy and Assimilation of Return Migration -- Public Policy Implications of International Migration for Global Governance -- Migrant Transnationalism and Family-Based Migration -- Globalized Economic Space, Transnationalism and Translocality -- Some Theoretical and Methodological Considerations -- On a National Level and Public Policy -- Migrant's Coping Strategies as Responses to Policies -- Ritual Process, Community Development and De-alienation in Chinese Diasporic Communities -- Chinese Ritual Performance as De-alienation -- Ethnic Chinese Community Development As De-alienation -- Return Migration, Social Action and Public Policy -- Analytic Procedure and Aims of Study -- References -- Chapter 2: The Hong Kong Study -- Research Methods and Demographic Characteristics of Returnee Respondents in Hong Kong -- Vignettes of Four Returnees -- Factors Associated with Return Migration -- Plight and Delight of the Mobile Migrants: Hidden Injuries of Global Mobility -- Adjustment to Local Environment -- Migrant Coping Strategies as Responses to Immigration Policies: Migrant's Cost-and-Benefit Analysis -- Suggestions to Other Returnees: Looking Beyond the Horizons of Costs and Benefits -- What Will the Future Hold? -- Some Reflections -- Policy Recommendations to the Hong Kong Government -- References -- Chapter 3: The Singapore Study -- Research Methods and Demographic Characteristics of Returnee Respondents in Singapore -- Evolution of Government Policies and Programs: Cost-and-Benefit Calculation in Historical Perspective -- Reasons for Increased Momentum in Attracting and Hiring Foreign Talent.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY -- Ontology and epistemology -- Gaze -- Discourses and narratives -- Narrative study of lives -- Interviews and video diary room -- Young women interviewed 2003 -- Young men interviewed 2003 -- Interview schedule 11th July 2003 -- Interpretation and analysis of stories -- Thematic investigation -- Examples of themes/codes initially identified and later refined -- Social research ethics -- CHAPTER TWO JOURNEYS -- Translocality -- Two-way travelling -- Going over there: four weddings and a funeral -- Village: out of sight but not out of mind -- Negotiating the borders -- Change -- CHAPTER THREE HOMELAND -- Being 'valayati': what they think of us -- Returning to Britain: back to 'reality' -- Home from home from home -- Territory: familiar places -- CHAPTER FOUR RACE AND NATION -- Immigration -- Integration and segregation -- Inclusion and exclusion -- Nation -- Dual nationality -- 'Race' -- Immigrant relatives -- CHAPTER FIVE DIASPORA -- Heritage -- Degrees of belonging -- Chain diaspora -- CHAPTER SIX UMMAH -- 'Othering' of the Oriental Islamic World in the West -- Muslim subjectivities and Ummah -- Being a Muslim in the West -- Ummah and the current world order -- Community: a mixed blessing -- CHAPTER SEVEN GENDER -- Gender: it's a man's world -- CHAPTER EIGHT KIN -- Biraderi/family: 'blood, soil, milk and honour' -- The price of belonging versus the price of exclusion -- CHAPTER NINE GENERATION AND CHANGE -- Youth -- Education: missing out -- Mixing: diverse friendships -- Human Rights -- CHAPTER TEN LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL SHIFT -- Language: our language -- Bilingualism and culture -- Shifting future perspectives -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.