Academic Exchanges and Transnational Relations: Cuba and the United States
In: Latin American perspectives: a journal on capitalism and socialism, Band 33, Heft 5, S. 43-57
ISSN: 0094-582X
In: Latin American perspectives: a journal on capitalism and socialism, Band 33, Heft 5, S. 43-57
ISSN: 0094-582X
In: Journal of contemporary China, Band 14, Heft 43, S. 269-289
ISSN: 1469-9400
The article deals with the comprehensive analyse of the national minorities of Transcarpathia due to their position, their role and existing problems of the life activity in modern Ukrainian society. Key words: ethnic identity, political society, national minorities, integrational policy. ; Здійснено комплексний розгляд питань національних меншин на Закарпатті з позиції їхнього становища, ролі та існуючих проблем життєдіяльності в сучасному українському суспільстві. Ключові слова: етнічна самоідентифікація, поліетнічне суспільство, національні меншини, інтеграційна політика.
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In: Studies in Asian Americans
The Philippines play a major role in expanding the international Filipino community through its promotion of international labor migration-Filipinos can currently be found in over 130 countries throughout the world. As the first major work to conceive of Filipino immigration as a diaspora, this study analyses the diasporic nature of Filipino relations, identities, and communities and shows how these transnational phenomena are socially constructed by the everyday actions and activities of Filipino Americans. Instead of focusing on an ethnic minority and its relation to its host society, a di
This chapter investigates the general social and political conditions of disporan Kurds in Sweden who have created considerable networks and organizations that function for them not only as a substantial means of integration in their residing society, but also as genuine transnational institutions that aim, in one way or another, to affect the politics of their former homelands. The formation and the development of the Kurdish diaspora in Sweden depends on two principal factors: the social and political composition of the Kurdish population in Sweden which shows an exceedingly diversified diaspora and the advantageous Swedish political climate which, promotes diasporic and transnational activities among the Kurds. Certain scholars regard Sweden as a center of gravity where the development of the Kurdish culture, Kurdish politics and generally speaking the Kurdish identity is considered as a response to those repressive policies that the dominant states have imposed on the Kurds throughout the years. In the regard, the diasporic and transnational activities among the Kurds in Sweden partly transfer the Kurdish nationalist movement to a transnational and de-territorial context.
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In: Cambridge studies in international relations 128
In: Migration studies, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 554-572
ISSN: 2049-5846
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This article examines agency unfolding in the relationships that Afghan migrants and return migrants maintain with Afghanistan. Based on qualitative case studies of Afghan diaspora groups in Germany and the UK and Afghan return migrants in Kabul, we focus on how people engage with and position themselves in relation to Afghanistan. Drawing on Emirbayer and Mische's tri-dimensional concept of agency in combination with Vigh's idea of social navigation, we approach affective relations and forms of practical (transnational) engagement as expressions of agency. Research on migrants and return migrants is seldom brought together. However, exploring the types of engagement of these two groups with Afghanistan is telling for three reasons. First, it enables us to identify parallels and differences in the way Afghan migrants and return migrants relate to Afghanistan. Secondly, we uncover how ideas of change vary in different settings and under different socio-political conditions. Thirdly, we demonstrate that ties between people and place are not innate but an expression of agency and self-positioning. These in turn are contingent on individual characteristics and the context in which people are embedded. Compared to policy-oriented discussions on the migration-development nexus and on forms and outcomes of migrant engagements, our study yields a more nuanced understanding of entanglements between agency and engagement among Afghan migrants and return migrants.
In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Band 10, Heft 3
Anhand der Fallrekonstruktion eines kubanischen Migranten in Berlin gebe ich einen Einblick in diachronisch/ biografische Dynamiken ethnischer Zugehörigkeiten und in Formen transnationaler Beziehungen. Zudem wird die Situation kubanischer Migrant/innen in Deutschland dargestellt.
In: Politologický časopis, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 280-296
ISSN: 1211-3247
Drawing on case-studies from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, International Migration and Sending Countries demonstrates how sending countries are emerging as complex and significant actors in migration politics. It shows how a more nuanced understanding of sending countries' policies towards their emigrants and diasporas is relevant for both academic and public policy debates on issues of migration control and development. In addition, wider issues are considered such as the implications of migrants' cross-border membership, dual allegiances and transnational practices, together with the scope and powers of the state in a period of globalization.
In: Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Arbeit, Sozialstruktur und Sozialstaat, Abteilung Ungleichheit und soziale Integration, Band 2004-201
"European countries are becoming increasingly politically integrated and the process of integration has accelerated in recent years. But how much social integration is there within the Community? This article supplies a definition of European social integration, and thereby lays down the foundations necessary for answering this important sociological question. Instead of analysing the EU as a political system, I view the EU as a social space of non-state actors of different nationality, and concentrate on the intergroup relations between the national collectivities involved in the amalgamation process. I define social integration as being transnational and macro-social, my definition has a quantitative dimension (relating to mutual relevance) as well as a qualitative dimension (relating to cohesion). I will argue that this definition is more useful than the European Commission's approach, which equates social integration with the convergence of living and working conditions, and also more useful than the social policy approach, which equates social integration with the convergence of regulations and social policies." (author's abstract)
In: Political science quarterly: PSQ ; the journal public and international affairs, Band 130, Heft 2, S. 383
ISSN: 0032-3195
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 130, Heft 2, S. 383-384
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 57, S. 247-248
ISSN: 1835-8535