163 research outputs found
On the Use of Visual Methods to Understand Local Immigration Politics
In this chapter, I present the making of an ethnographic film, which I filmed during a research project in geography carried out from 2013 to 2017 and entitled Victory Day. The chapter provides a reflection on the use of film to capture political actions, specifically the ones targeting immigrant groups. It also shows the extent to which filmmaking relates to experiences of the participants involved, and to the sensorial experience of a place. With this, it builds on previous works that have highlighted the potential of moving images to represent the sensory, experiences and intersubjectivities. Finally, it tackles the ethics of working in conflict cities, and even more specifically, when participants take a hawkish stand in that conflict.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
The role of established immigrants within institutionalised immigrant integration in Israel
To which extent does the participation of âco-ethnicsâ in immigrant integration policy implementation enable a more accommodating approach towards newcomers? Whereas immigrant integration policymaking has usually been envisaged through a host/stranger prism, Israel municipal departments for âAliyah and absorptionâ (that is for Jewish immigration, and the integration of new Jewish immigrants) provides an interesting case: the last decades, they have primarily recruited established first-generation immigrants to cater for the newest Jewish immigrants settling in their cities. This article offers some new insights regarding the participation of these established immigrants in the implementation of Israel immigrant integration policies. On the one hand, these municipal service workers, and other local actors working towards immigrant integration, have permitted a more pluralist approach to socio-cultural integration; on the other hand, the rather partial diversity of these established immigrants âmostly Western Russian-speaking immigrantsâ, has limited the potential for an alternative, less âethno-centredâ approach to immigrant settlement to develop.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Border regions, migration and place-making: the case of TrĂĄs-os-Montes in Portugal
This contribution focuses on the implications of an enquiry on return
migration in a border region. The northeastern region of TrĂĄs-osMontes in Portugal is a paradigmatic area of out-migration, from
colonial migrations to the ones to western and northern Europe during
the Estado Novo, and the more recent migrations post-2008 crisis. The
area went through dramatic demographic losses, accounting for a third
of its population between the 1960s and 2000s. But it is also one of the
areas with the highest rate of new residents - many of them coming
(back) from France. The back and forth of inhabitants is only one form
of mobilities in the history of the peninsula: as a border region, TrĂĄsos-Montes is recently revisiting its transcultural heritage, such as the
one of the Sephardic Jewish community, the Mirandese minority and
more. Enquiring at the border hence holds many meanings, both in time
and space, and both for those who stay and those mobile. Based on Pratt
(1991) or Cohen & Sheringham (2017)'s understanding of âcontact
zonesâ, I explore the dynamics of place production in such a cultural
space of encounters, conflicts, and renewal between several
communities, in a region which has historically functioned as a
transitional space. The theoretical reflection is accompanied by
preliminary results of an ethnographic fieldwork conducted between
2018 and 2020 in the region. The case study of a village embedded in
various networks, through out-migration and return migration, shows
the extent to which the regional efforts to promote the area as âopen to
the outsideâ deny the potential of Portuguese migrants and returnees as
active place-makers.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
In Solidarity: Ma(r)king and rescaling solidarity boundaries towards migrants
The core idea for this Special Issue is to reflect upon the dynamics of participation both by
individuals and by groups acting in solidarity with migrants in different contexts at the individual, local and
transnational levels. Using the concept of âsolidaritiesâ to address the relation between persons who have
experienced migration and persons who have not, and between people and institutions, enables research
to escape the âus vs. themâ dichotomy, extending the debate on deservingness to society as a whole.
Moreover, with the development of crossborder volunteering and the diffusion of multi-scalar partnerships
between subnational governments and civil society organisations, solidarities are rescaled, and encompass
new forms beyond national welfare mechanisms. Bringing together a rich collection of empirical cases that
ranges from the reception of the Rohingya refugees in the Cox Bazar region of Bangladesh to border
crossings along the Balkan route, from disaster solidarity in the Hanshin area in Japan to Ukrainian refugee
reception in Italy, we explore acts of solidarity in different contexts as a way to try and make sense of when
solidarity towards migrants is a political act, when it is about providing basic provisions subcontracted by
the state to local or non-governmental actors, and when it is an act of defiance against the state.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
âItâs a Matter of Life or Deathâ: Jewish Migration and Dispossession of Palestinians in Acre
In this article, we aim to identify the actors and unpack the discourses and administrative practices used to increase current
mobilities of people (Jewish immigrants, investors, tourist visitors, and evicted residents) and explore their impact on the
continuity of the settler-colonial regime in pre-1948 Palestinian urban spaces which became part of Israel. To render these
dynamics visible, we explore the case of Acreâa pre-1948 Palestinian city located in the north-west of Israel which during
the last three decades has been receiving about one hundred Jewish immigrant families annually. Our findings reveal a
dramatic change in the attempts to judaise the city: Mobility policies through neoliberal means have not only been instrumental
in continuing the processes of displacement and dispossession of the Palestinians in this so-called âmixed city,â but
have also recruited new actors and created new techniques and opportunities to accelerate the judaisation of the few
Palestinian spaces left. Moreover, these new mobility policies normalise judaisation of the city, both academically and
practically, through globally trendy paradigms and discourses. Reframing migration-led development processes in cities
within a settler-colonialism approach enables us to break free from post-colonial analytical frameworks and re-centre the
native-settler relations as well as the immigrants-settlersâ role in territorial control and displacement of the natives in the
neoliberal era.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Le paradoxe de la diversité : développement économique et stratification sociale dans les villes de développement en Israël
La notion de diversitĂ© a Ă©tĂ© rĂ©cemment mobilisĂ©e dans le champ des politiques locales dâintĂ©gration, telles quâenvisagĂ©es en AmĂ©rique du Nord, en Europe (Schiller, 2016) et depuis peu en IsraĂ«l. La rationalitĂ© mise en avant est de capter puis de mettre en valeur la diversitĂ© des populations comme outil de restructuration socio-Ă©conomique et de dĂ©veloppement urbain. Cependant, lâassociation diversitĂ©-dĂ©veloppement urbain, lorsquâelle se rĂ©alise dans le cadre de politiques dâorientation nĂ©olibĂ©rale, câest-Ă -dire sous la pression dâintĂ©rĂȘts Ă©conomiques immĂ©diats, ne va pas de soi. Elle risque dans les faits de dissimuler des problĂšmes structurels dâinĂ©galitĂ© et de domination, voire de conforter les effets dâune certaine ethno-stratification prĂ©gnante dans la sociĂ©tĂ© israĂ©lienne. Dans cet article, Ă partir de lâĂ©tude de trois villes de dĂ©veloppement â Acre, Arad et Kiryat Shmona â nous montrons comment la doctrine de la diversitĂ© entre en tension avec le cadrage ethno-national qui gouverne les enjeux de lâintĂ©gration, dont elle rĂ©ussit au final, tant bien que mal, Ă sâaccommoder.The âdiversityâ approach has recently been introduced within the context of local immigrant integration policies in Northern America, Europe (Schiller 2016), and more recently in Israel. This approach implies that ethnic diversity can be leveraged and become a tool for socio-economic restructuring and urban development. Nevertheless, the diversity/urban development nexus, when implemented through neoliberal urban policies (that is, policies that respond to immediate economic growth interests) comes with the risk of dissimulating and even reinscribing the effects of a certain ethnic stratification, that is pronounced in the Israeli society. In this article, analyzing the local diversity policies made by three âdevelopment townsâ â Acre, Arad and Kiryat Shmona â we show the extent to which the diversity doctrine is in tension with the ethno-national frame governing integration stakes, even though it eventually succeeds in accommodating the latter.El paradoja de la diversidad: desarrollo econĂłmico y estratificaciĂłn social en las ciudades de desarrollo en Israel
El enfoque de la diversidad esta hoy dĂa aplicado en el contexto de las polĂticas locales de integraciĂłn, adoptadas por varias ciudades en AmĂ©rica del Norte, Europa, y mĂĄs recientemente Israel. Se propone fructificar la diversidad Ă©tnica de las poblaciones como herramienta de reestructuraciĂłn socioeconĂłmica y de desarrollo urbano. Sin embargo, la asociaciĂłn entre diversidad y desarrollo urbano, cuando se implementa a travĂ©s de polĂticas urbanas de orientaciĂłn neoliberal (es decir, polĂticas que responden a unos intereses de crecimiento econĂłmico inmediato), no es evidente. De hecho, corre el riesgo de ocultar problemas estructurales de desigualdad y poder, e incluso de reforzar los efectos de una estratificaciĂłn Ă©tnica arraigada en la sociedad israelĂ. BasĂĄndonos en el estudio de tres âciudades de desarrolloâ â Acre, Arad y Kiryat Shmona â en este artĂculo cuestionamos cĂłmo la doctrina de la diversidad entra en tensiĂłn con el marco Ă©tnico-nacional que gobierna los problemas de integraciĂłn, para al final lograr acomodarle mal que bien.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Visual Methodology in Migration Studies
This open access book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical studies. The first section looks at how various visual methods, including photography, film, and mental maps, may be used to analyse the spatial presence of migrants. The second section addresses the processual building of narratives around migration, thereby using formats such as film and visual essay, and reflecting upon the ways they become carriers and mediators of both story and theory within the subject of migration. Section three focuses on vulnerable communities and discusses how visual methods can empower these communities, thereby also focusing on the theoretical and ethical implications of migration. The fourth section addresses the issue of migrant representation in visual discourses. The fifth and concluding section comprises of a single methodological chapter which systematizes the use of visual methods in migration studies across disciplines, with regard to their empirical, theoretical, and ethical implications. Multidisciplinary in character, this book is an interesting read for students and migration scholars who engage with visual methods, as well as practitioners, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, curators of exhibitions who engage with a topic of migration visually.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Visual Methods in Migration Studies: new possibilities, theoretical implications, and ethical questions
The purpose of this brief is to reflect critically on the use of visual methods in migration studiesand to provideconcrete examples of their application. We propose to think of the adoption of a visual methodology as a way to access and produce knowledge within the field of migration studies, rather than relying on disciplinaryframing. Based on a collection of empirical cases, we show that researchers can mobilise still and movingimages in the context of knowledge production.Specifically addressed in this brief are mental maps.In the field of migration studies, visual methods generate new possibilitiesfor data collection and their analysis. Nevertheless, questions pertaining to methodological challenges,theoretical implications, as well as ethics remain. This briefis based on a volume entitled âVisual Methods in Migration Studies: new possibilities theoretical implications, and ethical questionsâ, currently in the process of edition. The proposal has won the IMISCOE competitive book for call last fall, and publication is foreseen in 2020info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Schiller, Maria, European Cities, Municipal Organizations and Diversity : The New Politics of Difference
Introduction Dans son ouvrage European Cities, Municipal Organizations and Diversity The New Politics of Difference, Maria Schiller (2016) entreprend dâanalyser lâĂ©mergence dâune nouvelle organisation municipale : les services de promotion de la « diversité ». Ce faisant, elle interroge lâĂ©volution des politiques dâaccueil des immigrĂ©s telles que formulĂ©es par les municipalitĂ©s de grandes villes europĂ©ennes. En effet, la notion de « diversité » correspond ici Ă une Ă©tiquette attribuĂ©e aux po..
Crafting an Event, an Event on Craft. Working Together to Represent Migration Experiences
We are concerned. We are three early-career researchers in the feld of international
migration and we are concerned. This concern arises from our respective feldwork.
On the one hand, we witness a politics which toughens eligibility to asylum and
makes the access to reside in a foreign country precarious. On the other hand, we are
witnesses of an ever more polarised discourse induced by an emergency-like and
securitised management of migration fows. European policies aiming at controlling
migration routes favour exclusion (erections of walls, multiplication of hotspotsâ
logics) and death (in the last 25 years, IOM estimates account for 40,000 humans
who died or disappeared on migration routes, with 6000 in 2016 only). These migration policies are the result of a selective amnesia: only certain striking fgures, facts
and images participate in their production. Secondly, our concern grows while we
witness a lack of circulation between scientifc knowledge and measures adopted at
a political level: our researchesâ results are too often confned to the scientifc
sphere.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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