Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Constellations and Transitions: Combining Macro and Micro Perspectives on Migration and Citizenship....Pages 3-14
The Role of the Press in the Reproduction of Racism....Pages 15-29
The Migration Imaginary and the Politics of Personhood....Pages 31-41
Multilingualism, Heterogeneity and the Monolingual Policies of the Linguistic Integration of Migrants....Pages 43-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Peer Relations Among Immigrant Adolescents: Methodological Challenges and Key Findings....Pages 57-65
Methodological Challenges in an Immigrant Study in Norway....Pages 67-77
Bullying and Victimization in Ethnically Diverse Schools....Pages 79-88
Aggressive Behaviour in Native, First- and Second-Generation Immigrant Youth: Testing Inequality Constrained Hypotheses....Pages 89-98
Friendship Homophily Among Children and Youth in Multicultural Classes....Pages 99-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Anthropological Perspectives on a Multidisciplinary Field of Research....Pages 113-116
Transnational Belonging, Non-ethnic Forms of Identification and Diverse Mobilities: Rethinking Migrant Integration?....Pages 117-128
“It’s Like Belonging to a Place That Has Never Been Yours.” Deportees Negotiating Involuntary Immobility and Conditions of Return in Cape Verde....Pages 129-140
Violence, Memory, and Vietnamese-Irish Identity....Pages 141-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Ego Documents Entered Migration History....Pages 155-159
Wrapped-Up Memory: Things and Their Order in the Estate of Martha Teichmann (Saxony/New York, 1888–1977)....Pages 161-174
“My Dearest Love…” Love, Longing, and Desire in International Migration....Pages 175-186
A Worker Writes His Life: Narrative Strategies of an Austro-Hungarian Migrant to the United States....Pages 187-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
The Discursive Construction of “Migrants and Migration”....Pages 205-212
Migration in Archaeology: An Overview with a Focus on Ancient Egypt....Pages 213-226
The Ambivalence of Migration in Early Modern Thought: Comments on an Intellectual History of Human Mobility....Pages 227-237
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Migrations and Conquest: Easy Pictures for Complicated Backgrounds in Ancient and Medieval Structures....Pages 239-248
Immigrants and Parasites: The History of a Bio-social Metaphor....Pages 249-258
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Fundamentals of Diffusion and Spread in the Natural Sciences and Beyond....Pages 261-266
The Spread of Ragweed as a Diffusion Process....Pages 267-274
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Media and Migration: Exploring the Field....Pages 277-282
Dynamics of Representation in Discourse: Immigrants in the British Press....Pages 283-295
Humanitarian Discourse Legitimating Migration Control: FRONTEX Public Communication....Pages 297-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Migration and the Genes....Pages 311-314
Modern Human Migrations: The First 200,000 Years....Pages 315-326
Migration and the Origin of Species....Pages 327-339
Back Matter....Pages 341-358