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neoliberal framework can potentially enhance discrepancies and reinforce power imbalances between refugee and governance actors ( Ayoubi and Saavedra, 2018 ). Imaginaries of digital innovation in global migration governance fail to account for digital inequalities among target audiences of technological solutions, that is, people in situation of forced displacement ( Madianou, 2019 ). Critical insights into the disconnections between digital imaginaries of private actors (sectors
) and with aid agencies centrally featured providing aid to forcibly displaced individuals. Taking a historical look at representations of refugees and a critical look at Hine’s World War I photography made for the American Red Cross thickens what has otherwise remained a very thin area of scholarship on this collection of the celebrated photographer’s work. Likewise, these photographs take on a new significance in the current era of unparalleled global migration, providing an important lens for gaining perspective on the present. Over the past century, the figure
While most of the Germans who suffered expulsion during the First World War lived within British shores, the Royal Navy brought Germans from throughout the world to face incarceration in the their network of camp. This book offers a new interpretation of global migration from the early nineteenth until the early twentieth century. It examines the elite German migrants who progressed to India, especially missionaries, scholars and scientists, businessmen and travellers. The book investigates the reasons for the migration of Germans to India. An examination of the realities of German existence in India follows. It then examines the complex identities of the Germans in India in the century before the First World War. The role of the role of racism, orientalism and Christianity is discussed. The stereotypes that emerged from travelogues include: an admiration of Indian landscapes; contempt for Hinduism; criticism of the plight of women; and repulsion at cityscapes. The book moves to focus upon the transformation which took place as a result of this conflict, mirroring the plight of Germans in other parts of the world. The marginalisation which took place in 1920 closely mirrored the plight of the German communities throughout the British Empire. The unique aspect of the experience in India consisted of the birth of a national identity. Finally, the book places the experience of the Germans in India into four contexts: the global history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; German history; history of the British Empire in India; and Indian history.
dealing critically with perceived blind spots), ‘many famous re-writings’ of Brontë’s novel ‘focus on a heterosexual love relationship’ either to deconstruct its myth or reinforce its ubiquity (Rubik and Mettinger-Schartmann, 2007: 12). Gail Jones’s Sixty Lights, a complex refiguration of narrative inheritance and exploration of what is obscured behind ‘memorable patterns’, not only focuses on the nature of love, and embodied emotion, but also deals directly with the modes of intergenerational and global migrations of meaning that have affected cultural (and personal
rapid changes. 12 This book begins to fill this lacuna. The theoretical landscape and the road ahead The shift in perspective I propose—from the more familiar locus of studying the movement of people across borders to critically investigating the movement of borders to regulate the mobility of people —reveals a paradigmatic and paradoxical shift in the political imagination and implementation of the sovereign authority to screen and manage global migration flows in a world filled with multiple sources of law: formal and informal, hard and soft, local, national
The monument debates of the past decade, together with concerns over systemic injustice, extraction economies, and ecological disaster, as well as phenomena of global migrations and tourism, and the interleaving of live and mediated images and experience on social media, have given rise to new practices of public art and commemoration. Artists often strive to represent not specific events, persons, or points of agreement, but vast contentious problems—for publics at home and abroad, on the ground and online. A new site-specificity and media-friendly approaches to conveying it, sometimes via objects, sometimes through ‘transparent’ photographic mediums, come to the fore in recent monumental art, but also in debates about what to do with older monuments and architecture in urban space, particularly when these are the products of terror that require removal, modification, or other forms or recontextualization. Taking case studies ranging from Chicago and Berlin to Oslo, Bucharest, and Hong Kong, in media ranging from marble and glass to cardboard boxes, graffiti, and the re-enactment of historical documents, the book argues that history is being materialized by contemporary artists and activists in a register that harks back to the engaged realism of nineteenth-century art, updated to do justice both to embodied experiences of caring, and also to vaster, less tangible systems of power and information.
up to ninety day labourers commonly out of employ: in 1831 an assisted parish scheme caused fifty-six of the poor to emigrate from Benenden.9 This, however, was highly unusual and a tiny component of the emerging emigrant flows across the country. Strong support for the discontinuity thesis comes from the quantitative historians Hatton and Williamson. They see a clear discontinuity in the decades after 1820 when, they claim, ‘global migrations changed dramatically’. There was ‘a regime change in world migrations’ – in scale, composition and freedom. Mass emigration
Global migration and the diasporisation of Chinese art The increasing diasporisation of art and culture is a far-reaching and profound shift resulting from global migration and its rapidly changing nature. As a global transnational process, migration has produced global diasporas (Cohen, 1997 ) that fuel the dissemination of ‘diasporic imaginaries’ (Mishra, 1996 ). To take account of these developments, diaspora research has undergone a process of reorientation over recent decades. Along with transcending the limiting classical notions of diaspora as
‘precariat’ have all served to make small-scale entrepreneurialism, on the streets or elsewhere, a topical issue, and not an inevitably nostalgic one. Stedman Jones raised the (for him) unresolved question of whether immigrants (he names the Irish and Jewish specifically) were incorporated into or excluded from the idea of the ‘cockney’. I have argued that the historical street markets always retained the potential to hybridise culture across ethnicity, but in the present too mass movements of global migration again point to the persistence of the informal economy, and the
in tropical regions, or of other people of colour, continue to include traces of our colonial heritage? Recognizing and analysing these traces of colonial heritage and exploring the perspectives of other cultures are essential when investigating health and disease. This is significant since global migration movements make the permeability of boundaries and transmission of humans, and therefore diseases, more common then perhaps ever before in human history. Notes 1 M. Hardt and T. Negri, Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), pp. 135–6. 2 K