International migration in New Zealand: Context, components and policy issues

This paper explores Aotearoa/New Zealand’s distinctive heritage as both a ‘traditional land of immigration’ as well as a ‘country of emigration’, with particular reference to contemporary policy issues and research initiatives. An underlying theme of the argument is the need for an approach which takes account of all types of movement into and out of the country when researching immigration, both as a process and as a policy domain

[Rezension zu:] Jonathan Wagner. A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. 281 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 9780774812153

Jonathan Wagner has written a monograph on a migration movement that was in many ways a peripheral one. From a Canadian perspective, Germans accounted for a relatively minor share of immigrants, compared to former residents of the British Isles, of eastern or southern Europe. Seen from Germany, Canada was one of many destinations for migrants who wished to leave the country and were prepared to travel over long distances, but were, for whatever reason, not attracted by the United States, the destination for the overwhelming majority of transcontinental emigrants. Nevertheless, the movement from Germany to Canada was significant in absolute and often symbolic terms. The way Wagner tells it, the story of German-Canadian migration was a tale of parallel experiences: both Germany and Canada experienced federation and increasing international autonomy from the 1860s; both were ruled by domineering conservative figures presiding over de facto liberalization in the 1870s; both participated in the First World War, and both went through traumatic economic crises in the interwar period. ..

The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey

This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and approaches of applied economics to investigate a range of historical issues and there are strong parallels with the questions that have been addressed in the literature on contemporary migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is organised around six themes that include: the forces driving migration, over time and across space; the assimilation of migrants and their effects on wages and income distribution in source and destination countries; and the evolution of immigration policy. While this literature has drawn heavily on the tool kit of applied economists it also provides a wider perspective on many of the issues that concern migration today.international migration, economic history

Emigracja i diaspora w dyskursie politycznym w Polsce w latach 1991-2015

The text analyzes the political discourse in Poland for the presence of the topic of emigration and diaspora. The study is a qualitative content analysis, the subject of the analysis are programs of political parties, materials and documents created for election campaigns and exposé of prime ministers, forming successive governments. The analysis covers the period from election 1991 to the 2011-2015 parliamentary term. A more detailed analysis covers the years 2005-2011, the period after the Polish accession to the EU, symbolizing the beginning of the last wave of mass emigration. The main research questions concern the space, form and the recipients of political message on the theme of emigration and diaspora, its changes over time and the relationship between the declarations contained in the political parties programs, prime ministers exposé and later in government initiatives. The analysis showed that subjects relating to emigration and diaspora were present (though to varying degrees) during each election campaign, and the greatest interest in them took place during the elections in 2007. These topics were also not the subject of political controversy: the various political parties were rather consistent in the diagnosis of the situation and the solutions proposed in the programs, government initiatives on emigration and Poles living abroad met with symbolic resistance from the political opponents

Historical Internal Migration in Ireland

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Variation der Variation oder Variante der Romanze? Zum zweiten Satz aus Mozarts Streichquintett Es-dur KV 614

Musik – Transfer – Kultur ist das Thema der Festschrift für Horst Weber, die damit die Forschungsinteressen des Jubilars sowie die Ausstrahlung und Bedeutung seiner eigenen Arbeiten spiegelt. In den Beiträgen des Bandes wird untersucht und dargestellt, auf welche Weise die Musik in Interaktion mit anderen kulturellen Erscheinungen tritt und dadurch als Form des kulturellen Handelns sichtbar wird. Einer der Schwerpunkte ist hierbei der Kulturtransfer, der durch Emigration von Musikerinnen und Musikern sowie anderer Kulturschaffender aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland erzwungen wurde, doch wird auch die daran anknüpfende Problematik einer Remigration solcher Kulturschaffenden in die ehemalige Heimat nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg thematisiert. Music – transfer – culture is the theme of this Festschrift for Horst Weber, reflecting both his research interests and the transmission and significance of his work. The contributions investigate the ways in which music interacts with other cultural phenomena and thus becomes apparent as a form of cultural action. A particular focus is the cultural transfer forced by the emigration of musicians and other artists from Nazi Germany, but the related problem of such artists’ return to their former homeland after the Second World War is also a theme