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Refugees in Higher Education
This edited volume addresses critical issues surrounding higher education access for students of refugee backgrounds. It combines a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives on the challenges, opportunities, experiences and expectations of refugee students, as well as some of the institutional frameworks that facilitate their access to higher education. Following a critical discussion of the notion of ‘integration’, the team of authors who are made up of academics and refugee students critically investigate higher education as an objective of as well as a means to greater inclusion and integration.
Fortress Europe?
An unprecedented number of people is currently on the move seeking refuge in Europe. Large parts of European societies respond with anxiety and mistrust to the influx of people. Nationalist, anti-migrant parties from Slovakia over Germany to the UK have gained increasing support among the electorate and challenge the political mainstream. Europe is struggling how to respond. While the search for solutions is ongoing one pattern seems to be emerging: Fortress Europe is in the making. Unfortunately, few of these discussions and measures consider the structural root causes and dynamics of migration, the motives of migrants or societal challenges more thoroughly. This book seeks to address this deficit. Taking migration and asylum policies as a starting point, it analyses the various dimensions underpinning migration. In doing so, it identifies why receiving countries are in many ways part of the problem. To eschew an overtly Euro-centric perspective and stimulate a debate between science and politics, it contains contributions by academics and practitioners alike from both shores of the Mediterranean.
Ethnomarketing und Integration
Die Ausrichtung unternehmerischer Aktivitäten an ethnischen Minderheiten erlebt in westlichen Einwanderungsgesellschaften einen regelrechten Boom - ein Trend allerdings, der keineswegs unumstritten ist. Die einen sehen Ethnomarketing als »Wunderwaffe der Integration«, die anderen befürchten ein Abgleiten ins »Ghetto-Marketing«. Anhand von Fallstudien aus Deutschland, den USA und Großbritannien untersucht Hannes Schammann erstmals den Zusammenhang von Ethnomarketing und Integration. Im Schnittpunkt von Kultur-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften entwickelt er dazu eine originär »kulturwirtschaftliche« Perspektive.
Cities, Migration, and Governance
This volume examines how cities, migration, and urban governance are intertwined. Questioning and re-working the conceptual reliance on “scales” and “levels”, it draws on examples from both Europe and North America to conceptualize the variety of cities as re-active and pro-active within “glocal” and “socio-territorial dynamics”. The book covers the governance of the myriad dimensions of urban life, such as work, housing, racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, the arts, leisure, and other cultural practices, political participation, social movements, and “contentious politics” in North American and European cities. While cities might implement “integration policies,” the c...
Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities
A pathbreaking call to halt the intertwined crises of cultural heritage attacks and mass atrocities and mobilize international efforts to protect people and cultures. Intentional destruction of cultural heritage has a long history. Contemporary examples include the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, mosques in Xinjiang, mausoleums in Timbuktu, and Greco-Roman remains in Syria. Cultural heritage destruction invariably accompanies assaults on civilians, making heritage attacks impossible to disentangle from the mass atrocities of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing. Both seek to eliminate people and the heritage with which they identify. Cultural Heritage and Mass ...
Theorizing Local Migration Law and Governance
In many regions around the world, the governance of migration increasingly involves local authorities and actors. This edited volume introduces theoretical contributions that, departing from the 'local turn' in migration studies, highlight the distinct role that legal processes, debates, and instruments play in driving this development. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, it demonstrates how paying closer analytical attention to legal questions reveals the inherent tensions and contradictions of migration governance. By investigating socio-legal phenomena such as sanctuary jurisdictions, it further explores how the law structures ongoing processes of (re)scaling in this domain. Beyond offering conceptual and empirical discussions of local migration governance, this volume also directly confronts the pressing normative questions that follow from the growing involvement of local authorities and actors. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
International Migration and Refugee Law. Does Germany's Migration Policy Toward Syrian Refugees Comply?
Germany will spend around $6.6 billion to cope with an estimated 800,000 refugees expected to have entered the country in the year 2016; this reality indeed extending further into 2017. Despite this overwhelming number of people entering the country, Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that there is “no legal limit to the number of asylum seekers Germany will take in in the coming years.” The announcement by Merkel’s coalition government followed Germany and Austria opening their borders to the large numbers of refugees making their way north and west from the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere. In particular, this statement came after the Syrian refugee crisis created the biggest refugee c...
Fluchtziel D
"Wir schaffen das" war der wohl meist zitierte Satz von Kanzlerin Angela Merkel im Jahr 2015. Knapp eine Million Asylsuchende sind im vergangenen Jahr nach Deutschland eingereist. Und nicht zufällig erinnert der Ausspruch Merkels an Obamas Credo "Yes, we can" zu Beginn seiner Amtszeit. Die Bilder vom Münchner Hauptbahnhof, an dem die Geflüchteten von Einheimischen mit Luftballons und Geschenken willkommen geheißen wurden, dominierten wochenlang die Medien – es herrschte Ausnahmezustand. "Mit ihrer Entscheidung, syrische und andere Geflüchtete nach Deutschland weiterreisen zu lassen, wurde Angela Merkel zu einer herausragenden europäischen Figur – auf gleicher Höhe mit dem Nachkrie...
Curtain up
Curtain up explores city diplomacy in global migration governance. The author lays out the paradox that cities, although increasingly de facto migration actors in an urbanizing world, lack channels to influence international policies that directly impact local realities. Drawing on ten case studies from around the world, the author shows that local governments strive to overcome this paradox through global-level interaction with national and international actors contributing to the emergence of a role of cities in global migration governance. Cities draw on this role to influence migration narratives, place local issues on global agendas and demand a seat at decision-making tables. Advancing...
Über Grenzen
Globale Migrations- und Fluchtbewegungen prägen gegenwärtig politische, gesellschaftliche und wissenschaftliche Debatten. Bildete Europa am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs eine der größten flüchtlingsgenerierenden Regionen, steht es heute vor allem als Ziel weltweiter Migration im Fokus. Der Sammelband bietet auf aktuellem Forschungsstand ein breites Panorama an zeithistorischen, politik- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Beiträgen. Sie diskutieren kontroverse Begriffe wie »Arbeits- und Wirtschaftsmigration«, »Zwangsmigration« und »politische Flucht«, analysieren Netzwerke, Infrastrukturen und Akteure verschiedener Migrationsregime und fragen nach Konzepten und Praktiken politischer Steuerung. Mit Fallbeispielen zu Europa, Nord-, Mittel- und Südamerika, zu Afrika, Asien und dem Nahen Osten vom Zweiten Weltkrieg bis in die Gegenwart leistet der Band einen fundierten und facettenreichen Beitrag zu einem hochaktuellen Forschungsfeld.
