Heritagization of Chinese Migration

In the last few decades, migrants’ past experiences and memories have become increasingly recognized as a heritage. While this can be seen as a positive shift towards a more inclusive evaluation of the past, migration heritage is still overwhelmingly portrayed through a binary between the country of origin and country of settlement. This tendency obscures the multiple transnational connections migrants sustain with different locations along the migration process. Drawing on examples of Chinese migration to Europe, this article argues in favour of forgoing the national(istic) approach to heritagization and instead focusing on the connections formed during a century of Chinese migration to Europe

Kitajski migranti in covid-19: Mobilnost in izključevanje med pandemijo

The article analyzes the practices of exclusion and discrimination against Chinese migrants in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights the mechanisms of exclusion towards Chinese migrants in the countries of settlement, the country of origin and their transnational communities as well as the resistance to discrimination. The author connects these practices to specific sets of mobility imaginaries and speculates about the effects of such exclusions in rearranging the relationship between the conceptual pair “migrant–citizen”.Prispevek prinaša analizo mehanizmov izključevanja kitajskih migrantov med pandemijo covida-19. Avtorica najprej pokaže na značilnosti izključevanj in diskriminacije, s katerimi so se soočili kitajski migranti po izbruhu virusa tako v državah priselitve, v transnacionalni skupnosti in tudi ob povratku v državo izvora, kot tudi odzive na tovrstna dejanja med migranti. Avtorica ugotavlja, da so prav vsem oblikam izključevanja podložene specifične predstave o mobilnosti ter da je učinek tovrstnih izključevanj med drugim tudi reinterpretacija razmerja med dvojico »migrant – državljan«

O mlečni formuli in plenicah: Prepletene mobilnosti predmetov in ljudi v kitajskih transnacionalnih družbenih prostorih

The article addresses multiple mobilities within Chinese transnational spaces by highlighting the circulation of products for children between Chinese migrants and members of their social networks in China. It focuses on the buying, sending and/or selling of milk formula and diapers as a special type of commodity that brings light to the complex relationships of (im)mobile Chinese and draws attention to the role of objects in producing particular types of transnational subjects – migrants as intermediaries between producers outside China and consumers within China. The paper aims to add to the discussion on commodities consumed by children as well as to illustrat what specific objects tell us about diverse experiences of migration.Članek oblike mobilnosti v kitajskih transnacionalnih prostorih naslavlja z analizo kroženja proizvodov za nego otrok med kitajskimi migranti in člani njihovih družbenihmrež na Kitajskem. Osredotoča se na nakupovanje, pošiljanje in prodajo mlečne formule in otroških plenic kot izdelkov, ki razkrivajo kompleksne družbene odnose (ne) mobilnih kitajskih subjektov. Analizira vznik posebnega tipa transnacionalnih subjektov – migrantov kot posrednikov med proizvajalci zunaj Kitajske in potrošniki na Kitajskem in razkriva povezave med predmeti in raznolikimi izkušnjami migracij ter prispeva k diskusiji o potrošnji otrokom namenjenih izdelkov

How To Set Up An Information Platform For Migrants

Transnational multilingual information platform Danube Compass, part of the DRIM project (Danube Region Information Platform for Economic Integration of Migrants) financed by the European Union's Danube Transnational Programme, was created with the aim to improve access to information for migrants in eight countries along the Danube river. What we have learned in the process is what this handbook is all about. Its aim is to support the creation of similar platforms in other regions and is intended for organizations and institutions involved in the integration of newly arrived migrants. It should be helpful for anyone who is thinking of gathering focused information about arriving, working and living in another country. It provides hands-on checklists and ideas about how to implement one’s own platform for supporting migrants’ integration on local or national level.Transnacionalna informacijska platforma Danube Compass, del projekta DRIM (Danube Region Information Platform for Economic Integration of Migrants), ki je financiran s strani EU in Transnacionalnega programa Podonavje, je bila oblikovana s ciljem izboljšati dostop do informacij za migrante v osmih državah Podonavja. 'Priročnik za pripravo informacijske platforme za migrante', s podnaslovom 'Kaj smo se naučili pri oblikovanju transnacionalnega večjezičnega informacijskega orodja Kompas Podonavja/ Danube Compass', naslavlja proces nastajanja te platforme in ponuja koristne nasvete in predloge za pripravo sorodnih platform, bodisi na nacionalni ali lokalni ravni. Namenjen je institucijam in organizacijam, ki se ukvarjajo z integracijo migrantov in ki želijo pripraviti kataloge informacij namenjenih migrantom za lažje vključevanje v družbe naselitve

Morje mnogih rib: odbiranja preteklosti v severovzhodnem Jadranu

The paper discusses heritagization, remembering, and past presencing in the North East Adriatic through the four fish species that serve as nodal points in the interplay between the past and the present. Following the selected fish species, the paper explores the diversity of imaginaries that pertain to the mediation of the past in the present in the field of ethnological study in the North East Adriatic.V članku so tematizirani procesi dediščinjenja, spominjanja in sedanjenja preteklosti v severovzhodnem Jadranu. Pri tem se avtorice osredinjajo na štiri ikonične ribe, ki služijo kot kristalizacijske točke prepleta med sedanjostjo in preteklostjo. Sledeč ribam so v članku predstavljeni mnogovrstni imaginariji razumevanja preteklosti v etnološkem preučevalnem polju severovzhodnega Jadrana

Clinical outcomes and risk factors for COVID-19 among migrant populations in high-income countries: a systematic review.

Background: Migrants in high-income countries may be at increased risk of COVID-19 due to their health and social circumstances, yet the extent to which they are affected and their predisposing risk factors are not clearly understood. We did a systematic review to assess clinical outcomes of COVID-19 in migrant populations, indirect health and social impacts, and to determine key risk factors. Methods: We did a systematic review following PRISMA guidelines (PROSPERO CRD42020222135). We searched multiple databases to 18/11/2020 for peer-reviewed and grey literature on migrants (foreign-born) and COVID-19 in 82 high-income countries. We used our international networks to source national datasets and grey literature. Data were extracted on primary outcomes (cases, hospitalisations, deaths) and we evaluated secondary outcomes on indirect health and social impacts and risk factors using narrative synthesis. Results: 3016 data sources were screened with 158 from 15 countries included in the analysis (35 data sources for primary outcomes: cases [21], hospitalisations [4]; deaths [15]; 123 for secondary outcomes). We found that migrants are at increased risk of infection and are disproportionately represented among COVID-19 cases. Available datasets suggest a similarly disproportionate representation of migrants in reported COVID-19 deaths, as well as increased all-cause mortality in migrants in some countries in 2020. Undocumented migrants, migrant health and care workers, and migrants housed in camps have been especially affected. Migrants experience risk factors including high-risk occupations, overcrowded accommodation, and barriers to healthcare including inadequate information, language barriers, and reduced entitlement. Conclusions: Migrants in high-income countries are at high risk of exposure to, and infection with, COVID-19. These data are of immediate relevance to national public health and policy responses to the pandemic. Robust data on testing uptake and clinical outcomes in migrants, and barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccination, are urgently needed, alongside strengthening engagement with diverse migrant groups

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Martina Bofulin offers a fine-grained analysis of complex relationships, practices and representations of Chinese migrants from Qingtian who live in Slovenia, but maintain active and manifold ties with their place of origin in southeast China as well as with friends and family living in Europe and beyond. Through her intensive multi-sited ethnographic research she reveals the opportunities and constraints at both ends of migration process that shape the everyday experiences of this group. The book ('Home and away: Chinese migration to Slovenia') goes beyond the mechanistic explanations of migration pull and push factors and describes a complex mix of migration regimes, discursive spaces, forms of consumption, family practices and individual imaginations blurring the line between home and away.Martina Bofulin v monografiji analizira proces priseljevanja kitajskih državljanov v Slovenijo na prelomu dvajsetega v enaindvajseto stoletje. Besedilo osvetljuje kompleksne odnose, prakse in reprezentacije najštevilčnejše populacije med priseljenci iz Ljudske republike Kitajske v Sloveniji – Qingtiancev, ki sedaj živijo v Sloveniji, vendar ohranjajo stike in vzdržujejo prekomejne aktivnosti, ki obsegajo tako kraj izselitve, torej Qingtian na jugovzhodu Kitajske, kot tudi številne lokacije priselitve v Evropi, pa tudi drugje. Na podlagi dolgoletne večprizoriščne etnografske raziskave avtorica pokaže na priložnosti in prisile na obeh straneh migracijskega procesa ter na izvirne odgovore Qingtiancev, katerih prakse in strategije so utemeljene v prepričanju, da je prostorska mobilnost tudi družbena