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Aida Makoto: Notes from an Apathetic Continent
Following the huge success of Murakami Takashiâs (b. 1962) Superat movement, Japanese contemporary art since 2000 has been mostly represented internationally by Murakami and artists associated with his style, such as Nara Yoshitomo (b. 1959) (see Chapter 38). The dominant fame of Super-at art poses an issue about the rival claims of Aida Makoto (b. 1965) who, in Japan, is often mentioned as the most representative artist to emerge during the 1990s. Edgy, erratic, and extraordinarily diverse in his production, Aida is often seen by even his most fervent admirers as an artist for domestic consumption only, too complex in his self-referential Japaneseness (Yamashita 2012). Yet his oeuvre deserves close attention, as it taps into live-often quite unpalatable-aspects of Japanese popular culture, articulating ambiguous commentary on attitudes, events, and politics well beyond Superatâs more commercial and exportable style
The limits of liberalism, and the limits of critique
Book Review Symposium on Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Contro
Intégration: 12 propositions (Integration: 12 Proposals)
Developing the critique of notions of the âintegration of immigrantsâ, twelve propositions are advanced to diagnose the methodological nationalism of mainstream approaches. The concept of âintegrationâ contains assumptions about the nature and functioning of modern society which, in a post-industrial and post-colonial context, are falsely trapped within the normative bounds of thinking for the nation-state. An alternate empirical operationalisation is suggested that would render traditional types of assimilation and integration research obsolete
Integration: twelve propositions after Schinkel
By way of a commentary on Willem Schinkelâs âAgainst âimmigrant integrationâ: For an end to neocolonial knowledge productionâ in this volume, I propose twelve propositions in order to rethink the academic use of the concept âintegrationâ in contemporary migration studies. The notion of âimmigration integrationâ is deeply embedded in a methodological nationalism found throughout mainstream research and policy making on âimmigrationâ that reproduces a colonial, nation-state centred vision of society sustained by global inequalities. The article broadly shares Schinkelâs arguments, while suggesting specific operationalisations which could advance a more autonomous social scientific understanding of how the categorisation of international migration and mobilities is used by nation-states to sustain particular orders and hierarchies of social power
The fourth freedom: Theories of migration and mobilities in 'neo-liberal' Europe
The article challenges the orthodoxy of current critical readings of the European crisis that discuss the failings of the EU in terms of the triumph of âneo-liberalismâ. Defending instead a liberal view on international migration, which stresses the potentially positive economic, political and cultural benefits of market-driven forces enabling movements across borders, it details the various ways in which European regional integration has enabled the withdrawal of state control and restriction on certain forms of external and internal migration. This implementation of liberal ideas on the freedom of movement of persons has largely been of benefit to migrants, and both receiving and sending societies alike. These ideas are now threatened by democratic retrenchment. It is Britain, often held up as a negative example of âneo-liberalismâ, which has proven to be the member state that most fulfils the EUâs core adherence to principles of mobile, open, nondiscriminatory labour markets. On this question, and despite its current antiimmigration politics, it offers a positive example of how Europe as a whole could benefit from more not less liberalization
EVERYDAY EUROPE AND TOMORROWâS EUROPE: is there a future for Social Transnationalism? A response to readers.
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Commentary: A Citizenship without Social Rights? EU Freedom of Movement and Changing Access to Welfare Rights
Despite not being grounded in the classic nationâbuilding dynamic of citizenship identified by T.H.Marshall, EU citizenship offers social rights and welfare protection to nonânationals on a principle of nonâdiscrimination. We narrate a creeping process of retrenchment by which European member states have used policy strategies to undermine this principle, by transforming the unique idea of free movement of persons in the EU to just another form of âimmigrationâ which can be subject to selectivity and exclusion. As Europeâs multiple recent crises have unfolded, political resources were found to effect this transformation tangibly via reshaping access to welfare for EU citizens. Focusing on the cases of the UK and Germany, we discuss how, despite their distinctive welfare regimes and labour market systems, these two countries have led the way toward a dismantling of nonâdiscrimination for EU citizens and effectively the end of the anomalous âpostânationalâ dimension of European citizenship
EU children in Brexit Britain: reânegotiating belonging in nationalist times
© 2019 The Authors. International Migration © 2019 IOM This article contributes to debates on identification, home and belonging by focusing on EU children in Brexit times. The article combines attention to the emotional and affective side of integration with a focus on the effects of the discursive practices of the state on these processes. The article explores how Italian children and their parents navigate the increasingly neo-assimilationist pressures in Britain. Specifically, it looks at children's ways of accommodating their parentsâ values of mobility, multilingualism and transnationalism with the revived nationalist logic now dominant. The article argues for renewed scrutiny into the role of public discourses on migrantsâ experiences, which illuminate the redrawing of the boundaries between inclusion and exclusion at moments of crisis
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