Strangers, Migrants, Exiles
Title | Strangers, Migrants, Exiles PDF eBook |
Author | Frauke Reitemeier |
Publisher | Universitätsverlag Göttingen |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN | 386395033X |
Migrants and Strangers in an African City
Title | Migrants and Strangers in an African City PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Whitehouse |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2012-03-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0253000750 |
In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today's globalized world.
Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers
Title | Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers PDF eBook |
Author | Kobena Mercer |
Publisher | Turner A&r Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Art |
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"Migration throws objects, identities and ideas into flux across a global network of travelling cultures. Examining life-changing journeys that transplanted artists and intellectuals from one cultural context to another, Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers offers a thematic overview of the critical and creative role of estrangement and displacement in the story of 20th-century art.Revealing the traumatic conditions that shaped numerous variants of modernism – among indigenous artists in Australia and Canada as much as émigré art historians from Central Europe – these critical studies also highlight multidirectional patterns of cross-appropriation that trouble the settled boundaries of national belonging, whether manifested in 1920s Nigeria or in post-modern works by black British artists of the 1980s. Coming up to date with historical perspectives on conceptual art’s engagement with alterity, Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers makes a unique contribution to art history’s rapprochement with the post-colonial turn.--
Experiencing Exile
Title | Experiencing Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Dr David van der Linden |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2015-01-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 147242929X |
The persecution of the Huguenots in France, followed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, unleashed one of the largest migration waves of early modern Europe. Focusing on the fate of French Protestants who fled to the Dutch Republic, Experiencing Exile examines how Huguenot refugees dealt with the complex realities of living as strangers abroad, and how they seized upon religion and stories of their own past to comfort them in exile.
Continental Strangers
Title | Continental Strangers PDF eBook |
Author | Gerd Gemnden |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2014-02-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231166796 |
Hundreds of German-speaking film professionals took refuge in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, making a lasting contribution to American cinema. Hailing from Austria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine, as well as Germany, and including Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Zinnemann, Billy Wilder, and Fritz Lang, these multicultural, multilingual writers and directors betrayed distinct cultural sensibilities in their art. Gerd Gemünden focuses on Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat (1934), William Dieterle’s The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942), Bertold Brecht and Fritz Lang’s Hangmen Also Die (1943), Fred Zinneman’s Act of Violence (1948), and Peter Lorre’s Der Verlorene (1951), engaging with issues of realism, auteurism, and genre while tracing the relationship between film and history, Hollywood politics and censorship, and exile and (re)migration.
Welcoming the Stranger
Title | Welcoming the Stranger PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Soerens |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2018-07-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830885552 |
World Relief staffers Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths about immigration, show the limits of the current immigration system, and offer concrete ways for you to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors.
Strangers No More
Title | Strangers No More PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Alba |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2015-04-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1400865905 |
An up-to-date and comparative look at immigration in Europe, the United States, and Canada Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries—France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands—and, across the Atlantic, in the United States and Canada. This systematic, data-rich comparison reveals their progress and the barriers they face in an array of institutions—from labor markets and neighborhoods to educational and political systems—and considers the controversial questions of religion, race, identity, and intermarriage. Richard Alba and Nancy Foner shed new light on questions at the heart of concerns about immigration. They analyze why immigrant religion is a more significant divide in Western Europe than in the United States, where race is a more severe obstacle. They look at why, despite fears in Europe about the rise of immigrant ghettoes, residential segregation is much less of a problem for immigrant minorities there than in the United States. They explore why everywhere, growing economic inequality and the proliferation of precarious, low-wage jobs pose dilemmas for the second generation. They also evaluate perspectives often proposed to explain the success of immigrant integration in certain countries, including nationally specific models, the political economy, and the histories of Canada and the United States as settler societies. Strangers No More delves into issues of pivotal importance for the present and future of Western societies, where immigrants and their children form ever-larger shares of the population.