Social Reproduction Gone Wrong? The Citizenship Revocation and Rehabilitation of Young European Women Who Joined ISIS

Some European women who joined the Islamic State during the 2010s have had their citizenship revoked, which leaves them in a liminal state in camps at the Syrian border. Others have been able to return home, where they face prosecution and potential pathways to “rehabilitation.” This article turns to media discussions of two cases that have been extensively discussed in the media: Shamima Begum, a British national whose citizenship was revoked, and Laura Hansen, a Dutch national who was rehabilitated. Our analysis homes in on the symbolic dimension of social reproduction, showing how media representations of these two women as mothers, wives, and daughters play a critical role in media justifications of revocation and rehabilitation. We argue that media discourses create a gendered, racialized, and class-based conceptualization of citizenship unattainable to those whose social reproductive labor is deemed a threat to the nation-state.Peer Reviewe

The Transformative Forces of Migration: Refugees and the Re-Configuration of Migration Societies

In this thematic issue, we attempt to show how migrations transform societies at the local and micro level by focusing on how migrants and refugees navigate within different migration regimes. We pay particular attention to the specific formation of the migration regimes that these countries adopt, which structure the conditions of the economic, racialised, gendered, and sexualized violence and exploitation during migration processes. This interactive process of social transformation shapes individual experiences while also being shaped by them. We aim to contribute to the most recent and challenging question of what kind of political and social changes can be observed and how to frame these changes theoretically if we look at local levels while focusing on struggles for recognition, rights, and urban space. We bring in a cross-country comparative perspective, ranging from Canada, Chile, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and to Germany in order to lay out similarities and differences in each case, within which our authors analyse these transformative forces of migration

The ‘Arab Clans’ Discourse: Narrating Racialization, Kinship, and Crime in the German Media

In the last decade’s media discourse, particular Arab immigrant groups received the name ‘Arab clans’ and have been portrayed as criminal kinship networks irrespective of actual involvement in crime. We question how ‘Arab clans’ are categorized, criminalized, and racialized in the German media. To answer this question, we collected clan-related mainstream media articles published between 2010 and 2020. Our first-step quantitative topic modeling of ‘clan’ coverage (n = 23,893) shows that the discourse about ‘Arab clans’ is situated as the most racialized and criminalized vis-à-vis other ‘clan’ discourses and is channeled through three macro topics: law and order, family and kinship, and criminal groupness. Second, to explore the deeper meaning of the discourse about ‘Arab clans’ by juxtaposing corpus linguistics and novel narrative approaches to the discourse-historical approach, we qualitatively analyzed 97 text passages extracted with the keywords in context search (KWIC). Our analysis reveals three prevalent argumentative strategies (Arab clan immigration out of control, Arab clans as enclaves, policing Arab clans) embedded in a media narrative of ethnonational rebirth: a story of Germany’s present-day need (‘moral panic’) to police and repel the threats associated with ‘the Arab clan Other’ in order for a celebratory return to a nostalgically idealized pre-Arab-immigration social/moral order

The Migration-Security Nexus: International Migration and Security Before and After 9/11

Faist T. The Migration-Security Nexus: International Migration and Security Before and After 9/11. In: Bodemann YM, Yurdakul G, eds. Migration, Citizenship and Ethnos. New York: Palgrave Macmillan; 2006: 103-120

Effects of Intensive Cell Phone (Philips Genic 900) Use on the Rat Kidney Tissue

Purpose: To investigate effects of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) emitted by cell phones on therat kidney tissue.Materials and Methods: Twenty-one male Albino rats were divided into 3 groups, each comprising7 rats. Group 1 was exposed to a cell phone in speech mode for 8 hours/day for 20 days andtheir kidneys were removed. Group 2 was exposed to EMR for 20 days and then their kidneys wereremoved after an interval of 20 days. Cell phone used in the present study was Philips Genie 900,which has the highest specific absorption rate on the market.Results: Light microscopic examination of the kidney tissues obtained from the first group of ratsrevealed glomerular damage, dilatation of Bowman’s capsule, formation of large spaces betweenthe tubules, tubular damage, perivascular edema, and inflammatory cell infiltration. The mean severityscore was 4.64 ± 1.7 in group 1, 4.50 ± 0.8 in group 2, and 0 in group 3. While there was nosignificant difference between group 1 and group 2 (P > .05), the mean severity scores of groups 1and 2 were significantly higher than that of the control group (P = .001 for each).Conclusion: Considering the damage in rat kidney tissue caused by EMR-emitting cell phones,high-risk individuals should take protective measures