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Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
1. Aufl.
Description
Religion gilt als wichtige Ressource zur Artikulation von kulturellen Identitäten - besonders bei Menschen mit erhöhter Mobilität. Ethnologische Forschungen haben dazu beigetragen, die transnationale Perspektive in der Migrationsforschung zu etablieren, indem nicht nur die verschiedenen Aufenthaltsorte von Migranten und Migrantinnen und ihren Familienangehörigen, sondern auch die Transaktionen und Vernetzungen zwischen diesen in den Blick gerückt...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
1. Aufl.
Description
This volume puts an emphasis on the question how children themselves experience and manage migration and by means of which they construct an identity for themselves which takes into account their experiences from both their places of origin and their host societies. What role does the cultural background of the society of origin on the one hand and the strategies of integration found in the host society on the other play in the creation of identity...
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
People who are "on the move," particularly migrants and the displaced, often inhabit places that are considered temporary, peripheral, and remote. (Un)Settling Place recentralizes these "out-of-the-way" places as key sites in the shaping of people's mobility and identities. Ranging from the surveillance and care that migrants experience to the re-creation of social ties and the re-claiming of space, this collection volume seeks to show how a critical...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives, across the globe and throughout the centuries, on the complexity of the nexus between work and the life course. For industrialized regions, from Germany and Western Europe to China and Japan, it questions the widespread notion of an overall growing working life course instability, since the 1970s. For unindustrialized or industrializing regions, from West Africa to state socialist East Central...
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
For centuries, Africa's Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the African continent and beyond engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange and various forms of conflict. This book provides a wide-ranging look at how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in religion, language, economics and various other social...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Die Begriffe, mit denen über Migration und Diversität geforscht und diskutiert wird, sind keineswegs neutral, sondern das Ergebnis sozialer Praktiken und als solches selbst Gegenstand von Konflikten. Die Beiträger*innen untersuchen die Genese und den umstrittenen Gebrauch zentraler Migrationsbegriffe, ihr historisches Gewordensein und ihre politischen Implikationen. Sie setzen sich mit Begriffen auseinander, an denen sich häufig Kontroversen entzünden,...
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Houses and homes are dynamic spaces within which people work to organize and secure their lives, livelihoods and relationships. Written by a team of renowned historians and anthropologists, and and accompanied by original photography by Maurice Weiss, To Be at Home: House,Work, and Self in the Modern World compares the ways people in different societies and historical periods strive to make and keep houses and homes under conditions of change, upheaval,...