Locating Guyane

Locating Guyane
Title Locating Guyane PDF eBook
Author Sarah Wood
Publisher Contemporary French and Franco
Pages 248
Release 2018
Genre History
ISBN 1786941112

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This collection of essays explores historical and conceptual locations of Guyane, as a relational space characterised by dynamics of interaction and conflict. Does Guyane have, or has it had, its own place in the world, or is it a borderland which can only make sense in relation to elsewhere?

Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers in Latin America

Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers in Latin America
Title Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers in Latin America PDF eBook
Author Raanan Rein
Publisher BRILL
Pages 369
Release 2020-06-08
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004432248

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Scholarship on ethnicity in modern Latin America has traditionally understood the region’s various societies as fusions of people of European, indigenous, and/or African descent. These are often deployed as stable categories, with European or “white” as a monolith against which studies of indigeneity or blackness are set. The role of post-independence immigration from eastern and western Europe—as well as from Asia, Africa, and Latin-American countries—in constructing the national ethnic landscape remains understudied. The contributors of this volume focus their attention on Jewish, Arab, non-Latin European, Asian, and Latin American immigrants and their experiences in their “new” homes. Rejecting exceptionalist and homogenizing tendencies within immigration history, contributors advocate instead an approach that emphasizes the locally- and nationally-embedded nature of ethnic identification.

Locating Guyane

Locating Guyane
Title Locating Guyane PDF eBook
Author Catriona MacLeod
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Pages 248
Release 2018-05-01
Genre History
ISBN 1786948664

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This collection of essays explores historical and conceptual locations of Guyane, as a relational space characterised by dynamics of interaction and conflict. Does Guyane have, or has it had, its own place in the world, or is it a borderland which can only make sense in relation to elsewhere?

Bridging Fluid Borders

Bridging Fluid Borders
Title Bridging Fluid Borders PDF eBook
Author Fabio Santos
Publisher Routledge
Pages 161
Release 2021-12-30
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1000531805

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Interweaving rich ethnographic descriptions with an innovative theoretical approach, this book explores and unsettles conventional maps and understandings of Europe and the Americas. Through an examination of the recently inaugurated cross-border bridge between France’s overseas department of French Guiana and Brazil’s northern state of Amapá, which effectively acts as a one-way street and serves to perpetuate inequalities in a historically deeply entangled region, it foregrounds the ways in which borderland inhabitants such as indigenous women, illegalised migrants, and local politicians deal with these inequalities and the increasingly closed Amazonian border in everyday life. A study that challenges the coloniality of memory, this volume shows how the borderland along and across the Oyapock River, far from being the hinterland of France and Brazil, in fact illuminates entangled histories and their concomitant inequalities on a large scale. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and border studies with interests in postcolonialism, memory, and inequality.

Maroon Cosmopolitics

Maroon Cosmopolitics
Title Maroon Cosmopolitics PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 396
Release 2018-12-10
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9004388060

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Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation sheds further light on the contemporary modes of Maroon circulation and presence in Suriname and in the French Guiana. The contributors assembled in the volume look to describe Maroon ways of inhabiting, transforming and circulating through different localities in the Guianas, as well as their modes of creating and incorporating knowledge and artefacts into their social relations and spaces. By bringing together authors with diverse perspectives on the situation of the Guianese Maroon at the twenty-first century, the volume contributes to the anthropological literature on Maroon societies, providing ethnographic, and historical depth and legitimacy to the contemporary lives of the descendants of those who fled from slavery in the Americas.

Global Processes of Flight and Migration

Global Processes of Flight and Migration
Title Global Processes of Flight and Migration PDF eBook
Author Eva Bahl
Publisher Göttingen University Press
Pages 282
Release 2020
Genre Emigration and immigration
ISBN 3863954548

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The case studies in this volume illustrate the global dimension of flight and migration movements with a special focus on South-South migration. Thirteen chapters shed light on transcontinental or regional migration processes, as well as on long-term processes of arrival and questions of belonging. Flight and migration are social phenomena. They are embedded in individual, familial and collective histories on the level of nation states, regions, cities or we-groups. They are also closely tied up with changing border regimes and migration policies. The explanatory power of case studies stems from analyzing these complex interrelations. Case studies allow us to look at both “common” and “rare” migration phenomena, and to make systematic comparisons. On the basis of in-depth fieldwork, the authors in this volume challenge dichotomous distinctions between flight and migration, look at changing perspectives during processes of migration, consider those who stay, and counter political and media discourses which assume that Europe, or the Global North in general, is the pivot of international migration.

Exile/Flight/Persecution

Exile/Flight/Persecution
Title Exile/Flight/Persecution PDF eBook
Author Maria Pohn-Lauggas
Publisher Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Pages 267
Release 2023
Genre Exiles
ISBN 3863956095

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Experiences, processes and constellations of exile, flight, and persecution have deeply shaped global history and are still widespread aspects of human existence today. People are persecuted, incarcerated, tortured or deported on the basis of their political beliefs, gender, ethnic or ethno-national belonging, religious affiliation, and other socio-political categories. People flee or are displaced in the context of collective violence such as wars, rebellions, coups, environmental disasters or armed conflicts. After migrating, but not exclusively in this context, people find themselves suddenly isolated, cut off from their networks of belonging, their biographical projects and their collective histories. The articles in this volume are concerned with the challenges of navigating through multiple paradoxes and contradictions when it comes to grasping these phenomena sociologically, on the levels of self-reflection, theorizing, and especially doing empirical research.