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Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change
This open access book explores the transformative effects of remittances. Remittances are conceptualized as flows of money, objects, ideas, traditions, and symbolic capital, mapping out a cross-border space in which people live, work, and communicate with multiple belongings. By doing so, they effect social change both in places of origin and destination. However, their power to improve individual living conditions and community infrastructure mainly results from global inequality. Hence, we challenge the remittance mantra and go beyond the migration-development-nexus by revealing dependencies and frictions in remittance relations. Remittances are thus scrutinized in their effects on both so...
Migrant Narratives
With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community. Driven by an agenda of deep listening, each chapter presents a narrative directly derived from qualitative research, an outline of the methodological framing as well as narrative analysis. Through close attention to the narrative, its performative aspects and its ruptures and silences, authors identify patterns and material in the fabric of such telling and retelling of stories that open up new perspectives on the migrant experience. This book develops a methodology of "dw...
The Greek Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic of Germany (1960–1974)
Was migration to Germany a blessing or a curse? The main argument of this book is that the Greek state conceived labor migration as a traineeship into Europeanization with its shiny varnish of progress. Jumping on a fully packed train to West Germany meant leaving the past behind. However, the tensed Cold War realities left no space for illusions; specters of the Nazi past and the Greek Civil War still haunted them all. Adopting a transnational approach, this monograph retargets attention to the sending state by exploring how the Greek Gastarbeiter’s welfare was intrinsically connected with their homeland through its exercise of long-distance nationalism. Apart from its fresh take in postwar migration, the book also addresses methodological challenges in creative ways. The narrative alternates between the macro- and the micro-level, including subnational and transnational actors and integrating a diverse set of primary sources and voices. Avoiding the trap of exceptionalism, it contextualizes the Greek case in the Mediterranean and Southeast European experience.
The Good, Bad, and Challenging Migrant
In post-migrant societies, belonging, identity and transnationality go far beyond inclusion and exclusion. Intersecting elements behind circulating conflicts and political narratives shape »the good, bad and challenging migrant«. Fatma Haron scrutinizes the impact of social remittances on the transnational identification process between new Tyrol and new Turkey. The empirical data is gathered through ethnographic fieldwork and semi structured narrative interviews analyzing the social, political, and cultural influence on identification processes between Turkey and Tyrol.
Difference and Sameness in Schools
Presenting European Anthropology of Education through eleven studies of European schools, this volume explores the constructing and handling of difference and sameness in the central institutions of schools. Based on ethnographic studies of schools in Greece, England, Norway, Italy, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Austria, Russia, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark, it illustrates how anthropological studies of schools provide a window to larger society. It thus offers insights into cultural lessons taught to children through policies, institutional structures and everyday interactions, as well as into schools’ entanglement in state projects, cultural processes, societal histories and conflicts, and hence into contemporary Europe.
'Es wäre ja schade, wenn alles geklärt wäre.'
Ingo Schneider ist ein im Vielnamensfach Europäische Ethnologie breit aufgestellter Forscher und Hochschullehrer, in dessen Arbeiten Neugier, kognitive Beweglichkeit und Verantwortung zentrale Elemente sind. Das vorliegende Buch versammelt Aufsätze einiger langjähriger Wegbegleiter:innen, Kolleg:innen und Schüler:innen und spiegelt die inhaltliche Vielfalt der Themen, die ihn und sein Umfeld angetrieben haben und antreiben. Denn wenn dieses Buch auch anlässlich seiner Pensionierung erscheint - von Ruhestand kann wohl keine Rede sein.
Die Lebenswelt zum Thema
Durch Schulangebote der Persönlichkeitsbildung rückt die Lebenswelt der Schüler*innen ins Rampenlicht pädagogischer Praxis. Vor diesem Hintergrund wendet sich der Autor der Frage zu, wie sich Unterricht in dem an österreichischen Bundeshandelsakademien und -schulen (BHAK/BHAS) etablierten Schulfach „Persönlichkeitsbildung und Soziale Kompetenz“ (PBSK) in einer ersten Klasse einer Handelsschule gestaltet. Im Fokus stehen Interaktionen und Praktiken, die den Schüler*innen ermöglichen, ihre Alltagsthemen in pädagogischen Kontexten zu reflektieren.
Mehrsprachigkeit trifft auf Schule
In dieser Dissertation wird der Fokus auf einen Aspekt des Bildungssystems im Bundesland Vorarlberg gerichtet, der zwar bereits seit über 50 Jahren fester Bestandteil des Systems ist, aber dennoch über Jahrzehnte hinweg als Randthema in der bildungswissenschaftlichen Diskussion in Österreich insgesamt behandelt wurde. Die schulische Eingliederung von mehrsprachig aufwachsenden Lernenden im Zusammenhang mit weiter zurückliegenden und aktuelleren Migrationsbewegungen, der daraufhin erfolgte schulisch-institutionelle Umgang mit diesem Phänomen und die damit verbundenen Veränderungs- und Entwicklungsprozesse im Mehrebenensystem Schule bilden das Kernstück dieser interdisziplinär angelegten Forschungsarbeit.
