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New speakers and use of Russian in the Northern Norway

Description
The NEW_WAY project will look at trajectories across the lifespan among Russian-speaking linguistic actors, and on the role of speaking/writing Russian in the political economy of Northern Norway around the Russian-Norwegian border. With the end of Cold War and implementation of more flexible border policies, Northern Norway, as other regions neighbouring with ex-USSR, got placed into the heart of geopolitics, global migration and sea trade, security and environmental crises. In the two decades after the Warsaw Pact dissolution, use and acquisition of Russian by different social actors, including speakers of other languages, has renewed its significance in the multilingual economy of the region. With this MSCA action, I would bring my competence on biographical research, knowledge of Russian and expertise on Russian-speaking migrant communities to complement the Norwegian research team. I wish to expand the biographical workshops methods with nexus analysis supervised by the world-renowned expert in nexus analysis. I will gain understanding of Northern borderland multilingual policies and practices in order to reveal deep-running social processes present and past (e.g. legal recognition, language investment and commodification, identity and community building etc.) with implications for social cohesion and peaceful neighbouring policy across other borderlands in Europe, as well as with potential for theory building and terminology creation. The project is expected to open ways to understanding the dynamics of decision-making that multilingual speakers undertake in investing into and building their individual language repertoires. Building from multi-sited ethnographic and biographical accounts, the project has a potential to construct a holistic perspective on multilingual practices and decision-making. The resulting picture goes beyond the sum of its elements and will inform critical rethinking of the concepts of community, diaspora, minority,majority and language.
Year 2018
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43051 Project

De(constructing) the refugees’ right to the city: State-run camps versus commoning practices in Athens, Thessaloniki and Mytilene

Year 2018
Book Title International Interdisciplinary Conference on Refugees and Forced Immigration Studies
 Conference Proceedings
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43053 Book Chapter

Reassessing Late Ottoman Literatures within a Mediterranean Framework

Description
Arslan’s project proposes a new paradigm for studying late Ottoman literatures that were written in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and in different languages such as Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, and French by situating these literatures in a multilingual and multicultural Mediterranean framework instead of their respective national communities. His project will build upon three dimensions that constitute the objectives of his study. (i) The history dimension will map out literary and cultural exchanges within the nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Mediterranean through archival research and digital humanities techniques. (ii) The criticism dimension will demonstrate that thematic preoccupations of Mediterranean literatures—including but not limited to diaspora, travel, imperialism, cultural hybridity, and fluidity of borders and identities—were also defining characteristics of late Ottoman literatures via a close reading of canonical late Ottoman works. (iii) The theory dimension will draw upon the latest debates in postcolonial studies, migration and diaspora studies, and world literature to examine how the Mediterranean can be used as a category of analysis in cultural and literary studies. Building upon these three objectives, Arslan’s project will put two fields—Mediterranean studies and Ottoman studies—in dialogue with each other to generate a disciplinary transformation of both, while undermining the ways in which late Ottoman literatures have been categorised and studied. Having just finished his Ph.D., Arslan hopes to have an advantageous start at his career by the end of this fellowship through completing a substantial portion of a sole-authored monograph, publishing peer-reviewed articles and policy briefs, organising conference panels and communication activities, and joining networks of scholars in North Africa, Europe, and the Middle East who work on Mediterranean and Ottoman studies.
Year 2018
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43054 Project

Convergence through conflict: A case study of a US Spanish-language publication’s efforts to grow a national audience

Authors Andrea Hickerson
Year 2018
Journal Name Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture
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43055 Journal Article

Why to employ foreign academics in Poland? Perspective of heads of university research teams

Authors Kamil Łuczaj, Janusz Mucha
Year 2018
Journal Name Studia Migracyjne-Przegląd Polonijny
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43056 Journal Article

Minority Languages, Major Opportunities.Collaborative Research, Community Engagement and Innovative Educational Tools

Description
The linguistic and cultural diversity of Europe is crucial to the capacity for problem solving and creative thinking upon which our general wellbeing and economic prosperity depend in an increasingly global and technological society. However, language diversity and immigration are often seen as threats and are challenged by discriminatory attitudes and state policies. COLING will provide justification for the strengthening and revitalization of minority languages, as well as guidelines to implement concrete programs for this purpose. The project’s objectives focus on developing and sharing expert knowledge on language revitalization programs that combine community-driven and top-down approaches; promoting engaged collaboration among academic, nonprofit and community-based institutions; developing efficient teaching methodologies, teacher training, and curricula for minority languages; establishing a new international academic program in minority studies at the partner institutions, in which the new methodologies and curricula will be employed. To this end, COLING affiliated researchers will work together to a) document and archive linguistic-cultural diversity and language practices of indigenous communities and migrants; b) explore the Trans-Atlantic perspectives and historical ties between the Americas and Europe that demonstrate the cultural resilience of indigenous peoples and the evolution of heritage cultures in mixed societies; c) develop innovative teaching methodologies through content modules in textual and digital formats and d) investigate the causative and correlative relationships between language identities, linguistic and cultural discrimination, self-confidence, trauma and well-being, and social cohesion in multilingual and multicultural contexts. COLING will organize summer schools, workshops, trainings to bring together researchers, practitioners and community members, permitting the exchange of skills, best practices and research results.
Year 2018
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43057 Project

Con-Communities von syrischen Flucht-Migranten in Deutschland

Principal investigator Anton Escher (Principal Investigator)
Description
Die Lebenswelt in Deutschland verändert sich durch die Zuwanderung von Flüchtlingen. Darunter befindet sich ein hoher Anteil von Personen aus Syrien. Zur lebensweltlichen Orientierung vernetzen sie sich kommunikativ, schließen sich bestehenden Gemeinschaften an und gründen Gemeinschaften über nationale Grenzen hinweg zur Verfolgung ihrer Interessen. Dort finden sie Informationen zur Bewältigung ihrer alltäglichen Probleme und zur Erfüllung ihrer Lebensvorstellungen. Die gängigen Migrationstheorien und Konzepte sind nur bedingt geeignet, die Dynamik der neuen Organisationen von Flucht-Migranten zu erklären, die im Weiteren als „Con-Communities“ bezeichnet werden. Heuristisch gesprochen ist Con-Communities als ein theoretisches Konzept zu sehen, das auf empirischer Basis eine Theoriebildung ermöglicht („Grounded Theory“). Mit der „Arbeit am Begriff“ können Dimensionen und Phänomene einbezogen werden, die mit bisherigen Ansätzen nicht erfasst werden. Vor diesem Hintergrund lautet die Fragestellung des beabsichtigten Projektes: Wie entstehen und wirken Con-Communities von syrischen Flucht-Migranten mit geteiltem impliziten Wissen und mit gleichgerichteten Interessen in Deutschland? Der geographisch-ethnographische Zugriff auf Con-Communities soll einerseits über syrische Flucht-Migranten und andererseits über Cultural Brokers (Vermittler, Organisatoren, Anführer) erfolgen. Als Erhebungseinheiten sind Syrer, Syrerinnen und deren Kommunikationspartner sowie Vertreter bestehender Kollektive (Cultural Brokers, Singles, Paare, Familien, Clans, Ethnien, Vereine, Flüchtlingsorganisationen u.a.) zu betrachten. Die Gesprächspartner werden mit unterschiedlicher Herkunft und Zugehörigkeit sowie unabhängig vom Asylstatus in ländlichen und urbanen Räumen aufgesucht. Die empirische Arbeit endet, sobald keine neuen Typen von Con-Communities mehr isoliert werden können und eine Sättigung bei der Erkenntnis über das Entstehen und Wirken unterschiedlichster Typen eintritt. Der theoretisch-empirische Zugang wird Praktik- und digital-orientiert gestaltet. Die gewählten Erhebungstechniken sind ero-epische Gespräche, narrative Interviews, teilnehmende Beobachtung und die Analyse gemeinschaftsbildender Aktivitäten im Internet. Interessen, Wissen, Kompetenzen und Strategien in den unterschiedlichen Con-Communities werden über Praktiken, Routinen, Kommunikation und Erzählungen der Untersuchungseinheiten erhoben. Weitere Informationen zum Wirken von Con-Communities liefern die von den Mitgliedern und Helfern sowie Institutionen ins Leben gerufenen Projekte für Flüchtlinge. Das Ziel der Studie ist, auf der Basis einer empirischen Analyse der Lebenswelt syrischer Flucht-Migranten in Deutschland unter heuristischem Bezug auf die Konzepte „Gemeinschaft“, „Ethnie“, „Nation“, „Imagined Community“, „Weak Ties“, „Neo-Tribes“ und „Communities of Practice“ eine „Theorie der Con-Communities von Flucht-Migranten“ im digitalen Zeitalter zu formulieren.
Year 2018
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43059 Project

Afrikanische Migrationsrouten durch Zentralamerika: Entortung, transitorische Verortung und ambivalente Migrationsknotenpunkte

Principal investigator Heike Drotbohm (Principal Investigator)
Description
Dieses Forschungsprojekt widmet sich den emergenten Routen afrikanischer MigrantInnen, die bei dem Versuch, Nordamerika zu erreichen, mehrere zentralamerikanische Länder durchqueren. Auf empirischer Ebene reagiert das Projekt damit auf die wachsende Anzahl afrikanischer MigrantInnen und Geflüchteter in Zentralamerika und ordnet deren Erfahrungen in den Kontext weltumspannender und ungleicher Migrationsrouten, -krisen und -industrien ein. Auf theoretischer Ebene trägt das Projekt zu einem kritischen Verstehen der Dynamiken zwischen Migration, Ent- und Neuverortung und (Im)mobilitäten bei. Das Projekt untersucht, inwieweit die Dialektik zwischen Entortung (displacement) und (Neu-)Verortung (emplacement) auf die verlängerten und in hohem Maße unberechenbaren Migrationsrouten im Globalen Süden angewandt werden kann. Ethnographisch erfasst werden insbesondere die migrantischen Routen und das, was wir ‚Migrationsknotenpunkte’ des Schmuggelns, der Überwachung und der Solidarität nennen. Indem sich das ethnographische Verstehen migrantischer Trajekte an Reiseverläufen und Knotenpunkten orientiert, trägt das Projekt zu einer Theoretisierung ambivalenter, verflochtener und re-lokalisierter Verläufe der (Im-)mobilisierung bei. Durch seine Konzentration auf Ereignisse und Erfahrungen vor dem Erreichen des Globalen Nordens widerspricht das Projekt vereinfachenden, policy-orientierten Interpretationen und Repräsentationen von MigrantInnen und Geflüchteten auf dem Weg durch Länder des Globalen Südens, deren Erfahrungen aus ihrem Verlauf heraus erforscht werden müssen.
Year 2018
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43060 Project

From Kurdistan to Europe: Kurdish Literary, Artistic and Cultural Activism by Kurdish Women Intellectuals

Description
Kurdish women have been involved in film production, radio broadcasts and exhibitions, as well as in the production of a substantial number of books, journals and other publications in both Kurdish and national languages of the European states. However, the aesthetic and intellectual production of Kurdish women, which leads to the empowerment of women and advancement of gender equality in the Kurdish diaspora, has not been the subject of any notable research yet. By going beyond stereotypical portrayals of Kurdish women, presented as either victim of honour-based violence or someone who suffers violent conflict, this research will deal with the gendered experiences of Kurdish diaspora from the four regions of Kurdistan (Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey) in terms of the growth of aesthetic, literary and cultural practices by migrant Kurdish women in five nation-states (Belgium, France, Sweden, Germany, UK) along with their impacts on larger societal debates within a comparative approach. It will also investigate the varying migrant incorporation regimes of selected European countries, including the impacts of the recent influx of Syrian Kurdish refugees. It includes ethnographic fieldwork, along with multi-sited research techniques carried out in the capitals of selected European states, data collection of both primary sources (creative, literary and cultural productions) and secondary sources (EU documents, annual progress reports, press releases). This study has a potential to encourage the maximization of networks of educational and intellectual revitalization in European states. It will also encourage other Kurdish migrant women to become factors of change and reach others. This is an interdisciplinary project aiming to fill in a significant gap in the relevant socio-political, gender, migration and cultural academic studies and policy debates within the European Research Area. It is in line with the EC’s strategy for gender equality provision.
Year 2018
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43061 Project

Architekturen des Asyls: Aneignungsprozesse in Flüchtlingsunterkünften

Principal investigator Philipp Misselwitz (Principal Investigator)
Description
Auf Basis architektur- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Methoden untersucht das Forschungsprojekt die physisch-materiellen und symbolischen Aneignungsprozesse von geflüchteten Menschen an unterschiedlichen Asylorten. Damit rückt es das handlungsrelevante Raumwissen in einer hochmobilen Ausnahmesituation (Flucht) in den Mittelpunkt. Empirisch ist die Studie so angelegt, dass syrische Geflüchtete vergleichend in Deutschland (Berlin) und Jordanien (Zataari) untersucht werden.
Year 2018
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43062 Project

End to Dream? British Retired Residents in Spain and their Return Patterns

Authors Jordi Giner-Monfort
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Spatial and Organizational Dynamics
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43063 Journal Article

The Role of the Ethnic Majority in Integration Processes: Attitudes and Practices towards Immigrants in Catalan Institutions

Description
This project proposal aims to take research on diversity management and integration further by focusing on how ethnic diversity is represented in three central Catalan institutions: the public school system, the Catalan police force and the City council of Barcelona. The case of Catalonia appears particularly relevant for an empirical study on the actual representation of diversity given its pronounced intercultural policy focus, while socio-economic inequality between natives and immigrants is vast, and many immigrants live in situations of precariousness and marginalization. The proposal addresses key priorities set by the H2020/Europe in a changing world-Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies program, and contributes to European excellence in the social sciences by proposing a research program designed to i) increase knowledge on diversity management and obstacles for the participation/representation of immigrants in societal institutions, and ii) develop an action strategy to address shortcomings in this area, based on the view that research on social challenges as inequality and discrimination to a greater extent should contribute to combat these problems through practical implementation. The proposal is based upon the assumption that there is broad awareness of the problems with misrepresentation and discrimination of immigrants within Catalan institutions, but that these problems are merely addressed at the discursive level; what is lacking are measures to accomplish better practices. At the theoretical level, the concept of interculturalism will be critically examined and de facto representation will be introduced as a central, complementary concept. The knowledge and action strategies generated through this project will be transferrable and useful in other contexts, also at the European level.
Year 2018
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43065 Project

Foreigners, citizens and the tyrannical edges of the 'Vox Populi' : empirical and normative evidence from Switzerland

Authors Jean-Thomas ARRIGHI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra : Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials
Year 2017
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43068 Working Paper

Immigrant Bilingualism in Spain: An Asset or a Liability?

Authors Maria Medvedeva, Alejandro Portes
Year 2017
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 2
43071 Journal Article

Back to Square One: Socioeconomic Integration of Deported Migrants

Authors Anda M. David
Year 2017
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 1
43072 Journal Article

The Effect of Visas on Migration Processes

Authors Mathias Czaika, Hein de Haas
Year 2017
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 18
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43073 Journal Article

Female migration and native marital stability : insights from Italy

Authors Daniele VIGNOLI, Elena PIRANI, Alessandra VENTURINI
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of family and economic issues, 2017, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 118-128
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43074 Journal Article

Linguodidactic Profiling in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language to Labour Migrants

Authors Anzhela Dolzhikova, Victoria Kurilenko, Yulia Biryukova, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION
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43076 Journal Article

The dynamics of transnational family relations and remittance flow in Ethiopia

Authors Girmachew Adugna
Year 2017
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
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43077 Journal Article

Trends and patterns of post-communist migration from Russia to New Zealand since the 1990s

Authors Oksana Opara
Year 2017
Journal Name ASIAN AND PACIFIC MIGRATION JOURNAL
43078 Journal Article

Welfare, Work and Migration from a Gender Perspective: <i>Back to ‘family settings’?</i>

Authors Pirjo Pöllänen, Olga Davydova-Minguet
Year 2017
Journal Name Nordic Journal of Migration Research
43079 Journal Article

Religion und Bildungserfolg im Migrationskontext – Theoretische Argumente, empirische Befunde und offene Fragen

Authors David Ohlendorf, Matthias Koenig, Claudia Diehl
Year 2017
Journal Name KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
43080 Journal Article

Cultural Differences in the Role of Economic Competitiveness in Prejudice toward Immigrants and Foreign Workers

Authors Hyeyoung Shin, John F. Dovidio
Year 2017
Journal Name Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy
43081 Journal Article

Revolution and migration: the sugar road in the Americas

Authors Nathalie Dessens
Year 2017
Journal Name CARAVELLE
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43082 Journal Article

Working in Sex Education with Young Migrants: A Practical Insight

Authors Christina Witz, Helge Jannink
Year 2017
Journal Name ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SEXUALFORSCHUNG
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43083 Journal Article

Service Needs of Immigrants and Refugees

Authors M. Reza Nakhaie
Year 2017
Journal Name JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION
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43089 Journal Article

The Development and Psychometric Properties of the Immigration Law Concerns Scale (ILCS) for HIV Testing

Authors Julia Lechuga, Carol L. Galletly, Michelle R. Broaddus, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name JOURNAL OF IMMIGRANT AND MINORITY HEALTH
43091 Journal Article

Seeing the World Through the Other's Eye: An Online Intervention Reducing Ethnic Prejudice

Authors GÁBOR SIMONOVITS, GÁBOR KÉZDI, PÉTER KARDOS
Year 2017
Journal Name American Political Science Review
Citations (WoS) 2
43092 Journal Article

Breaking the silence of racism injuries: a community-driven study

Authors Bonnie Lee, Peter Kellett, Kamal Seghal, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
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43095 Journal Article

The nexus of motivation–experience in the migration process of young Romanians

Authors Dumitru Sandu, Georgiana Toth, Elena Tudor
Year 2017
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 2
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43096 Journal Article

From 'A Frontier Land' to 'A Piece of North Africa in Italy': The Changing Politics of 'Tunisianness' in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily

Authors Ilaria Giglioli
Year 2017
Journal Name International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Citations (WoS) 1
43097 Journal Article
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