Living with Others: Fostering Radical Cosmopolitanism Through Citizenship Politics in Berlin

A growing refugee and migration crisis has imploded on European shores, immobilizing E.U. countries and fuelling a rise in far-right parties. Against this backdrop, this paper investigates the question of how to foster pluralism and a cosmopolitan desire for living with others who are newcomers. It does so by investigating community-based, citizen-led initiatives that open communities to newcomers, such as refugees and migrants, and foster cultural pluralism in ways that transform understandings of who is a citizen and belongs to the community. This study focuses on initiatives which seek to build solidarity and social relations with newcomers, but in ways that challenge citizen/non-citizen binaries based on one of our field research sites: Berlin, Germany. The paper brings insights from critical citizenship studies, exploring how citizenship is constituted through everyday practices, into dialogue with radical cosmopolitanism, particularly through Derrida’s works on ‘unconditional hospitality’. This radical cosmopolitan literature theorizes possibilities for building relational ontologies between guest and host, citizen and newcomer, in ways that are not based on exclusion, but engagement with difference and which challenge antagonistic forms of self-other and citizen-non-citizen dichotomies. Illustrative examples based on community-led initiatives in Berlin demonstrate how this spirit of radical communitarianism is put into practice through everyday lived experience and demonstrate that it is possible to develop a cosmopolitan spirit through exchange and transformation of both the self and other by engaging with rather than seeking to eliminate difference in the aims of constituting a universal around which cosmopolitanism can be built

Snapshots From the Margins: Transgressive Cosmopolitanisms in Europe

Right-wing parties and governments in Europe have recently expressed greater hostility towards cultural pluralism, at times officially denunciating multiculturalism, and calling for the closure of borders and denial of rights to non-European nationals. Within this context, this article argues for rethinking Europe through radically transgressive and transnational understandings of cosmopolitanism as articulated by growing transnational populations within Europe such as immigrants, refugees, and irregular migrants. Transgressive forms of cosmopolitanism disrupt European notions of borders and identities in ways that challenge both liberal multiculturalism and assimilationist positions. This article explores the limits of traditional cosmopolitan thinking while offering a vision of cosmopolitanism based on everyday negotiations with cultural differences, explained using two illustrative examples or snapshots

Technology Across the Border, New England and the Southern New Brunswick Cotton Industry, 1880-1884

New England textile entrepreneurs, mill architects, and consultants had a direct influence on cotton textile production in southern New Brunswick in the early 1880s. In an advisory capacity, they offered advice on capitalization, equipment, labor models, product, and management strategies, vastly affecting the community landscape in Maritime textile towns. This paper examines the distinct influences of New England\u27s textile entrepreneurs on three southern New Brunswick cotton mills built in the early 1880s. Judith Rygiel is a doctoral student in history at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She grew up in Moncton, New Brunswick, near a cotton mill. Her 1998 M.A. thesis, Women of the Cloth-Weavers in Charlotte and Westmorland Counties, New Brunswick, 1871-1891 is a comparative study of women;s work in the St. Croix and the Moncton cotton mills

Quand Anchise vient de loin : Mobilité socioprofessionelle de fils d'immigrants d'origine européenne s'étant installés en France durant l'entre-deux-guerres

http://barthes.ens.fr/clio/revues/AHI/articles/volumes/destinim.htmlWe here look at the social mobility of sons of foreign migrants who settled in the Cher (France), during the interwar period. We then comparer their destinies to those of children born in France of french parents.Ce texte examine la mobilité géographique des fils des migrants européens installés dans le département du Cher durant l'entre-deux-guerres. Il tente, comparant leurs trajectoires à celle d'une population dont les deux parents sont nés en France de parents français, de mesurer le poid de l'origine étrangère sur les trajectoires sociales

Issue 14: Welcoming Diversity: The Role of Local and Civil Society Initiatives in Integrating Newcomers

In a global context marked by growing international forced displacement and migration, societies are becoming increasingly more diverse. The question of how to live together with newcomers has become a policy issue of utmost concern. While populist governments in Europe and in the US are failing to offer citizens andnewcomers alternative models for living together that encourage greater ethnic, cultural and religious plurality, in this report we highlight the contributions and lessons drawn from local and civil-society initiatives that have been successful in bringing hosts and newcomers together. We explore three such cases: Riace, a small Italian village where the leadership of a mayor and his policies allowed the presence of refugees to revitalize the community; a cultural center in Gaziantep, Turkey, where Syrian refugees are able to experience normalcy as artists, writers and community organizers; and a kitchen project in Berlin, Germany, which started in 2013 by bringing refugees and Berliners together to cook, share a meal, and to socialize. We highlight the importance of a three-pronged approached to integration that combines governmental leadership, solid integration policies, and civil-society and locally-based initiatives that allow for personal interchanges between newcomers and hosts. These interchanges contribute to changing notions of who does and does not belong and are invaluable in showing where the key to co-existence lies

Les traces de la mobilité géographique

Cet article examine, à travers l'exemple de la mobilité géographique de populations étrangères implantées dans le département du Cher durant l'entre-deux-guerres, l'intérêt du recours à la quantification pour l'historie

Les politiques d'immigration en France des années 1970 aux années 1990

National audienceImmigration policies have been at the center of the political scene in France from the seventies until the mid nineties. The center-right governments of the seventies took a tough stance on immigration, trying to reduce the number of foreign migrants living in France. The left during the 1981-1983 period opened the borders and guaranteed the rights of foreign residents. This strong opposition left way for a discreet bi-partisan policy, in place until the mid 1990's of limiting the number of entries while at the same time offering long term legal foreign residents a safe sojourn.Ce texte revient sur les grandes orientations des politiques suivies par la France en matière d'immigration. Confronté au brutal retournement de la conjoncture économique, le pouvoir giscardien tente, sans succès, de fermer les frontières et de provoquer une importante vague de retours. La gauche au pouvoir, de 1981 à 1983, faisant le pari d'un retournement de la conjoncture ouvre au contraire les frontières tout en garantissant les droits des étrangers. L'échec de ces deux stratégies aboutit à un compromis bi-partisan, dénié par les principales forces politiques, qui combine contrôle des entrées, garantie des droits des résidents en règle, coopération européenne et demeure en place jusque dans les années 1990

Refoulements et renouvellement des cartes de " travailleur étranger " dans le Cher durant les années 1930

During the economic crisis of the thirties, the french administration decides to expell a large number of foreign workers. We here look at this period through the eyes of migrants and local administrators (in the center of France) and show how the local context shapes they way national decisions are implemented.La crise des années trente conduit les politiques et les administrateurs de la troisième république à provoquer le départ de nombreux étrangers présents sur le territoire français, considérés comme "en surnombre dans l'économie nationale". Nous approchons ici cette période par une étude des conditions de renouvellement des titres de séjour et de travail des étrangers résidant alors dans le centre de la France. Cette approche par l'observation de l'interaction entre immigrés et fonctionnaires chargées de l'application de ces politiques permet de montrer l'impact du contexte local sur les décisions prises

Le choix du migrant. Préface à la seconde édition du Bon grain et l'ivraie

International audienceL'étude des politiques migratoires des pays occidentaux et de leur mise en oeuvre implique à la fois l'étude des pratiques de leurs agents, et non seulement des dispositifs, mais aussi, pour autant que l'on puisse les reconstituer, des pratiques des migrants eux-mêmes