(Be)Longing: Coping Among Ageing Filipinas In Valencia, Spain

Author(s): Mari-An Santos,Alvarez Catis / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The Philippines is one of the largest migrant-sending countries in the world. Through their remittances, Filipino migrants sustain their families and the Philippine economy. Much literature has examined the phenomenon from perspectives of families left behind, but their emotional narratives are understudied. From narratives of ageing Filipinas (Filipino women) in Valencia, Spain who have lived there for more than 10 years, using the decolonised methodology of Sikolohiyang Pilipino or SP (Philippine Psychology), this research examines what drives their (be)longing. It is part of a larger study conducted from March to April 2019. The research reveals that the Filipino emotional culture of utang na loob drives coping in two ways: through faith in God within the context of the Catholic church and compassion built within Filipino communities over time. These are only some among a multitude of narratives of searching and finding a semblance of home... away from home. Considering what they contribute to the sending and receiving countries, these emotional narratives must be considered to address the psychosocial needs of migrants now and long after recovery from the global pandemic.

(In)visibility of the Displaced Populations: the Blind-Spot Effect

Author(s): Svitlana Balinchenko / Language(s): English Issue: 47 (02)/2020

In this paper, conflict-triggered internal displacement is reviewed through the visibility of migration affected groups, as well as their access to decision-making. The blind-spot effect in the migration studies extends the cognitive and social implications of the systems theory, and engulfs both hypovisibility through anopticism and pseudo-assimilation, and hypervisibility through panopticism and excessive control of the displaced citizens. In the context of the impact of IDP status on visibility assessment, I suggest supplementing the migration-studies’ concepts of “phlogiston” and “witch” with that of “ethanethiol”, thus starting a discussion on the role of the otherness marker in the migrantising of citizens. The case of protracted internal displacement in Ukraine due to the Russia-backed armed conflict serves as an illustration of the displaced populations’ visibility challenges and solutions.

(Nie)planowane (nie)powroty Ukraińców pracujących w Polsce w drugiej dekadzie XXI wieku. Czynniki warunkujące przeobrażenia migracji czasowych w osiadłe

Author(s): Maria Zielińska,Dorota Szaban / Language(s): Polish Issue: 76/2021

The article attempts to use the concept of social anchoring to analyse the phenomenon of temporary migration of Ukrainians working in Poland in the second decade of the 21st century.The concept is relatively new in Polish migrant literature and refers to the process of searching for life’s backrest points – anchors, allowing individuals to achieve psychosocial stability and to function effectively under new conditions. The collective of Ukrainians constitutes an interesting research category due to the fact that Poland is their main place of choice for migration both for a limited period of time – short (about one year), a certain long (several years) and for permanent residence. In its post-war history, Poland experiences for the first time contact with a mass migrant, not only taking up gainful employment, but settling with his family and attempting integration and assimilation into Polish society. Although Poles have fiercely opposed refugees from Syria or Africa, they hardly see Ukrainian migration as a threat to themselves. With an empirical base in the form of 36 interviews conducted among Ukrainian citizens employed in Poland in 2019, we would like to try to describe the differences in the projections of Ukrainian migration in the context of declarations on staying/leaving the country of migration after achieving the targets.

(Re)producing Boundaries While Enforcing Borders in Immigration Detention

Author(s): Laura Rezzonico / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2020

Immigration detention centres can be conceptualised as sites of bordering that separate the wanted from the unwanted and reify the boundary between citizens and non-citizens. Using boundary making as an analytical lens that allows getting insights into the work of borders, this paper addresses the relationship between staff and detainees in these ambiguous sites, asking how staff members engage in boundary work to distance themselves from the pains of detainees and to legitimise their work in an institution of exclusion. It considers boundary making based on three kinds of categories – race, ethnicity and culture; (il)legality and (un)deservingness; and unknownness and criminality – that are morally charged. Through the construction of detainees as culturally and morally different, illegal and undeserving, as well as potentially dangerous, prison staff contribute to the reinforcement of borders, legitimating their exclusionary dimension.

(red.) Grażyna Firlit-Fesnak, Justyna Godlewska-Szyrkowa, Cezary Żołędowski: Migracje i migranci w pismach Ludwika Krzywickiego, Floriana Znanieckiego, Józefa Chałasińskiego. Wybór tekstów

Author(s): Anna Karnat / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

Review of: Anna Karnat - Migracje i migranci w pismach Ludwika Krzywickiego, Floriana Znanieckiego, Józefa Chałasińskiego. Wybór tekstów, (red.) Grażyna Firlit-Fesnak, Justyna Godlewska-Szyrkowa, Cezary Żołędowski, Oficyna Wydawnicza Aspra, Warszawa 2013, s. 232

(red.) Natalia Bloch: Wszyscy jesteśmy migrantami. (Od)zyskiwanie migracyjnej pamięci

Author(s): Mariusz Dzięglewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

Review of: Mariusz Dzięglewski - Wszyscy jesteśmy migrantami. (Od)zyskiwanie migracyjnej pamięci, (red.) Natalia Bloch, Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznań 2016, ss. 346

(red.) Sławomir Łukasiewicz: Polska emigracja polityczna 1939–1990. Stan badań

Author(s): Mirosław Boruta / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

Review of: Mirosław Boruta - Polska emigracja polityczna 1939–1990. Stan badań, (red.) Sławomir Łukasiewicz, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej. Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, Warszawa 2016, ss. 600

(По)граничността в многобройните ѝ изменения (Nira Yuval-Davis, Georgie Wemyss, Kathryn Cassidy, Bordering. Cambridge, UK, Medford, MA: Polity, 2019)

Author(s): Stephan E. Nikolov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

1866 Girit İsyanı ve Giritli Aileler Meselesi

Author(s): Hayrettin Pinar / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 19/2022

The Uprising of Crete in 1866 was one of the most important topics of the imperial political agenda for three years. During the Uprising of 1866 the Ottoman statesmen acted carefully to prevent the European intervention like in all problems of the 19th century. Especially the European intervention was enacted upon the Christian population through the 19th century and the Ottoman statesmen never desired the repetition of the same story. European states were very interested in Orthodox population of the island who had to migrate from the island because of the lack of security. Both the Sublime Porte and the Foreign Ministry followed very cereful policies to provide the coming back of the Christian population who had migrated to Greece. That is to say the Ottoman statesmen tried to show kindnes of the state and to prevent the European intervention which was promulgated under the paranthesis of humanitarian intervention.

1913-1917 Yılları Arasında Bulgaristan'dan Yapılan Göçler ve Emlak-ı Metruke Sorunları

Author(s): Suat Zeyrek,Hasan Hakan Ulutin / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 18/2020

In this article, despite being allied with the Ottoman Empire the policies of Bulgaria of which is force immigration against Turks and Muslims in Western Thrace between 1913-1917 will be discussed. In addition, land problems arising from migration will be discussed. Muslims were forced to migrate between the years 1913-1920, despite the explicit provision that "Turks staying in Bulgaria after the Balkan War will have equal rights with the Bulgarians" written in the Treaty of Istanbul (29 September 1913). The lands abandoned by the Muslims were occupied by the Bulgarians. During the war, some Bulgarians left the Ottoman lands and went to Bulgaria. The lands abandoned by the Muslims who left Bulgaria and the Bulgarians who immigrated to Bulgaria have become a problem between the two countries. A "miscellaneous commission" has been established to solve the problems that arise. It is understood that in this uncompromising policy followed by Bulgaria against the Ottoman Empire, Bulgarians trusted the Germans.

1933 Sonrası Türkiye’ye Sığınan Nazi Karşıtı Aydınlar ve Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyatın İki Kurucu Adı: L. Spitzer ve E. Auerbach

Author(s): Gülnihal Gülmez / Language(s): Turkish Publication Year: 0

7 Nisan 1933’de, Almanya’da, Hitler hükümetinin ırkçı yasalarından ilki olan ve Nazi yöneticilere rejim düşmanlarından, özellikle de Yahudilerden kurtulma fırsatı sunan, “devlet memurluğu mesleğinin ihyasına dair yasa” kabul ediliyordu. Ari ırktan olmadıkları için üniversitelerdeki kürsülerinden kovulan çok sayıda bilim adamının Nazi Almanya’sını terk etmek zorunda kaldığı bu 1933 yılında, hemen hemen aynı tarihlerde, kuruluşunun henüz onuncu yılındaki genç Türkiye Cumhuriyeti de bizzat Atatürk’ün öncülüğünde, kökten bir üniversite reformu gerçekleştirme çabasındaydı. Her iki ülkenin tarihindeki bu ilginç kesişme, Nazilerin kovduğu birçok akademisyenin mesleklerine Türk üniversitelerinde devam edebilmelerini sağladı.

1980 Sonrası Türkiye’nin Büyük Kent Sorunu ve Göç Olgusu

Author(s): Ece Demiray Erol,İbrahim Erol / Language(s): Turkish Publication Year: 0

Türkiye’de 1980 sonrası değişen bölgesel politikalar çerçevesinde büyük şehirlerin nüfusları aşırı bir biçimde artmıştır. Türkiye’deki göç hareketlerinin artışında Neoliberal politikalar ve küreselleşme hareketleri etkili olmuştur. Bu göç olgusunun perde arkasında büyük kentlerdeki daha iyi yaşam koşullarının varlığı, yeni iş fırsatları, eğitim ve sağlık hizmetlerinden daha iyi yararlanma ile kültür olanakları ön plana çıkmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı büyük kent sorununu analiz etmek, büyük kentlerin olumlu ve olumsuz etkilerini tartışarak optimal şehir büyüklüğünü ortaya koymak ve bu çerçevede göç olgusunu değerlendirmektir. Değerlendirmeyi zorlaştıran en önemli etken bu alandaki çalışmaların çok az olmasıdır.

2021 COMAGI - 1st International Conference on Migration and Gender Issues - Book of Abstracts

Author(s): / Language(s): English

This Collection of abstracts is devoted to exploring migration and gender problems worldwide during the 1st International Conference on Migration and Gender Issues (2021 COMAGI). Among the problems that have been explored during the conference, were issues of human capital, social Inequalities, gender-specific consumption patterns, behavioural insights, gender quotas, labour migration, gender policy, local governments, physically challenged women, women’s emigration, etc.

21. YÜZYIL BÖLGE ÇALIŞMALARI: ÜÇ YAKLAŞIM

Author(s): Derya GÖÇER / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 2/2022

In 21st century, area studies are undergoing deep transformations. Part of these transformations are occurring in parallel to transformation in disciplines in social sciences, reflecting the discussions around themes of this period, such as uni/multi polarity; globalization and migration. On the other hand, new theoretical and methodological tendencies that are unique to area studies are also emerging. Behind this period of transformations, there lies a painful process of criticism and self-reflection. This study will map out the area studies in this century and present its new approaches. 21st century area studies will be divided into three axes: mainstream area studies; comparative area studies and critical area studies. It will present their solutions to the traditional problems of the field and their interplay with one another. It will examine how that solve the classic tensions such as universal vs particular; theory vs empirical data; their knowledge production processes and their ontological approach to the “area”.

30 lat rosyjskiej polityki imigracyjnej i jej znaczenie z perspektywy Federacji Rosyjskiej i obszaru poradzieckiego

Author(s): Andrzej Szabaciuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2021

The article aims to analyze the immigration politics of the Russian Federation from the perspective of the last three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union. We have considered its importance from the point of view of the domestic and foreign policy of the state. Since 2000, with the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s first presidency, we have been observing a significant increase in the importance of the immigration policy of the Russian Federation, which was an important component of the Russian population policy and one of the key instruments to counteract the deepening depopulation of the state. However, the growing popularity of labor migration to the Russian Federation and the low effectiveness of managing migration flows resulted in a massive influx of irregular migrants, which have used some of the Russian political circles to fuel anti-immigration sentiments. Because of this politics, since 2007, we have been observing a gradual departure from the earlier model of immigration policy, open to labor migration from the Commonwealth of Independent States, towards a policy limiting the influx of Muslim migrants from Central Asia. At the same time Russian government have invited Russian-speaking people from the post-Soviet area to settle in Russia. The introduced restrictions allowed the Russian Federation to use the facilitation of access to the Russian labor market as an instrument encouraging the political and economic integration of the post-Soviet states within the structures controlled by the Russian Federation. The increase in the political component of immigration policy did not change the fact that it was thanks to the influx of people from the post-Soviet area that Russia avoided the depopulation that is currently observed in Ukraine. Analyzing the situation of the Russian Federation and its politics towards the post-Soviet region, the realistic paradigm was used as it best reflects the specificity of the region.

70 Years After the Declaration of Independence – Is There a Coherent Immigration Policy in Israel?

Author(s): Rami Goldstein / Language(s): English Issue: 17/2019

This article examines the immigration policy in Israel 70 years after the nation’s declaration of independence. Israel was established in an attempt to create a shelter for Jews in the Diaspora. Therefore, the policy of Israel towards immigrants has been sometimes criticized as being racist, discriminatory, or undemocratic. But is there a coherent immigration policy in Israel? In fact, aside from the Law of Return of 1950, which refers exclusively to Jewish immigrants, Israel still lacks a proper legal framework that can regulate foreign immigration. In many cases, immigration policy in Israel seems to be unclear and incoherent. With today’s reality of the global migration crisis, this legal vacuum represents a dangerous gap that prevents the State of Israel from effectively coping with the problem with respect to international law and humane standards. This paper will critically review the major features of current immigration policies, such as the policy of “direct absorption,” the expulsion of African immigrants, and the new procedures of the asylum seekers’ process in Israel.

93 HARBİ’NDEN SONRA LİVANE MUHACİRLERİNİN YAŞADIĞI SIKINTILAR

Author(s): Zemzem Yücetürk / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 14/2022

With the Berlin Treaty signed after the Ottoman-Russian War between the Ottoman Empire and Russia in 1877-78, the Ottoman State left Kars, Ardahan and Batumi to Russia. The Livane District, which is the accident of the Batumi Sandjak, also known as the Sanjak of Lazistan, has thus passed under Russian rule. The people of this region abandoned to Russia did not want to leave the region they were in after the war, as they resisted the occupation during the war. However, since the Ottoman Empire decided to evacuate these regions, they had to migrate. According to the agreement made with Russia, many people settled in other lands of Anatolia in a period of three years. Migrations were made to cities such as Istanbul, Samsun, Çorum, Tokat, Yozgat, Adapazarı, Izmit and especially Bursa. In this study, it was tried to reveal the problems experienced by the people of Livane District during and after the migrations. People who wanted to migrate faced the obstacles of Russian and Armenian officials during real estate sales, and most of them had to sell their properties at low prices. The people who immigrated to the Ottoman State and remained in the Livane District, worried about the law of their properties and asked for help from the state. The Russian State tried to prevent the immigration of the people. When the immigration of the Muslim people was tried to be prevented by the local government, they asked for help from the Ottoman Empire. Most of the people, on the other hand, faced epidemic diseases during their migration as they were unable to pay even for the road and water costs. When they came to Anatolia, the people faced with settlement problems remained in misery. Despite all these negativities, the Ottoman Empire carried out the necessary work for the settlement of the refugees, and rewarded the people who were served in the treatment of those who were infected with epidemic diseases during the migration of the Livane immigrants and the provision of food during the transportation of these people to Anatolia. In this study, the problems experienced by the people of Livane during and after the migrations were tried to be revealed.

A BRIEF DOSSIER. MIGRATION AND FACTS: ROMANIA AND ITALY

Author(s): Samira Cîrlig,Alin Bulumac / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The migration phenomenon is gaining momentum in Romania’s recent history.Even though the official statistics are incomplete, the increasing trend cannot beoverlooked. One of the European countries where the Romanians could easily integratewas Italy, a country that became a favourite destination. Here, in 2019, the numbersshowed that more than 1.2 million137 Romanians officially migrated, from a total ofapprox. 10 millions 138 that are currently abroad, which means approx. 12.06%139 ofthe Romanian diaspora can be found in Italy. The data used in the present paper wasgathered from both official sources (statistical data published by the national statisticalinstitute, statistics of various associations, official statements, etc.) and unofficial ones,most of them highlighted by the media (secondary analysis). By analyzing the datacollected, we will try to reveal the magnitude of the phenomenon, and the social,economic, psychological, cultural, political and legal-administrative implications in acomparative manner: for both Romania and Italy. Thus, we will name the accumulationof these particular implications the Italian dossier of the Romanian emigration.

A capital contribution to the Serbian diaspora studies

Professor Vladimir Grečić, PhD, Serbian Creative Intelligence in the Diaspora, Novi Sad: Matica srpska, 2019, 350 pp.

Author(s): Ljubiša R. Mitrović / Language(s): English,Serbian Issue: 1/2021

The paper presents a review of the studies in relation to the matter of external migrations conducted by Professor Vladimir Grečić and, in particular, his latest book Serbian Creative Intelligence in the Diaspora. The conclusion is that the value of this monograph is not only in its scholarly contribution to the perception of this important matter, but also in its relevance to the rational establishment of a strategy and upgrading of Serbia’s public policy in the area of home country-diaspora relationship.

A case for Cosmopolitan, pragmatic sociology in the context of migrant youth integration

Author(s): Sirkka Komulainen / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Migration has become increasingly political and urgent on a global scale (Cuomo, 2011; Castles, 2014). Europe (the primary focus of this paper) has witnessed unprecedented flows and moves of migrants a great deal of whom are young people and young adults. Public discourses on migration matters continue to be polarised, especially around the migrations of young men. Nations that may have previously expressed a great deal of solidarity towards immigration are growing reticent in their public accounts.