Description
Book SynopsisEngaging with the complex natures of space and belonging, Migrations and Diasporas provides a means for understanding the plight of migrants and diasporas as they move through a world divided between those committed to welcoming them into their communities and those who perceive them as a problem or threat.
Split into two parts, chapters address a range of critical issues, including the inclusive practices of both state and non-state actors, practices of exclusion expressing xenophobia and nativist policies that can jeopardize migrant safety, and the geographies and spaces that can restore lost histories, as well as help migrants negotiate new boundaries. Capturing institutional and organized civil society practices, the authors build an understanding of the struggles and challenges migrants and diasporas face, including climate change, assimilation, and complex legal systems. Grounded in a rich interdisciplinarity, contributors bring together perspectives from international relations, political science, law, philosophy, development economics, peace and conflict studies, forest and food sciences, linguistics, pedagogy, and human geography, as well as contexts across the United States, Australia, Europe, Honduras, Canada, New Zealand, Lebanon, Ukraine, Syria, and Armenia, from the Trump era to the Rwandan genocide.
Advocating for a more welcoming world involves respecting the human dignity and fundamental rights of all individuals, regardless of their place of origin or immigration status. This perspective offers a powerful insight into the dynamics of social justice across borders.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Embracing Interdisciplinary Approaches to Better Understand the Challenges Facing Migrations and Diasporas; William Arrocha and Elena Xeni
Part I. Moving Between Inclusion and Exclusion
Practices of Inclusion
Chapter 1. Expanding the Legal and Political Boundaries of “Sanctuary” Through Practices of Compassionate Migration in the American Context; William Arrocha
Chapter 2. Defending Human Dignity: Redefining the European Commission’s Approach to Migrant Women; Alexandra Patton
Chapter 3. The Experience of Syrian-Armenian Integration in the ‘Homeland’; Sona Nersisyan and Lusine Tanajyan
Practices of Exclusion
Chapter 4. Trump’s Muslim Ban: A Social and Political History; Louise Cainkar
Chapter 5. Treating People as a Security Threat: Australia’s Response to the Issue of Asylum-Seekers; Biplab Debnath
Chapter 6. Dispelling the Myth of the Wealthy American Expat, or Are Americans Free to Live Outside the United States?; Laura Snyder
Geographies and Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion
Chapter 7. The Place of ‘Place’ in Intersectionality: Developing a Critical Place Theory; Hazel T. Biana
Chapter 8. Climate Change Impacts, Food Insecurity and Migration: An Analysis of the Current Crisis in Honduras; Ingrid Fromm
Part II. Generating Spaces for Inclusion Through Interdisciplinary Practices
Pedagogies and Spaces of Assimilation, Integration, and Inclusion
Chapter 9. Towards a Common Theory of Second-Generation Assimilation: Comparing United States and European Studies on Education and Labour Market Integration; Kacper Grass
Chapter 10. Refugee Students’ Writing in a New Language: Implications for Differentiated Writing Instruction; Ekaterina Midgette
Chapter 11. Emotional Wellness, Varied Immigrant Settlement Programming in Western Canada, and Service Responsiveness; Cesar Suva and Katerina Palova
Chapter 12. Centre Stage to Display Case – Exhibiting Chinese Immigration in New Zealand; Christopher Sommer
Diasporas as Processes of Power, Inclusion, and Identity
Chapter 13. Tracing Stories of a Family Language: Personal Accounts of Diasporic Experience; Ana Jovanović, Ana Kojadinović, and Alexandra Portmann
Chapter 14. Domestic Ethnicity: The Lebanese and Ukrainian Diasporas in the Host-Region of Newfoundland; Mariya Lesiv and Wyatt Hirschfeld Shibley
Chapter 15. Diaspora as Practice for Young Migrants; Catherine Rita Volpe
Chapter 16. The Burden of the Rwandan Diasporic Identity: From Social Categorization to Silencing; Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod
Chapter 17. Why the Need for Interdisciplinarity to Explain the Struggles and Spaces for the Inclusion of Migrations and Diasporas?; William Arrocha
