The actual situation in Europe seems to emphasize that our modern society is still not ready to accept migration as an important part of human history. Instead of welcoming immigrants and refugees with open arms, state power is trying to restrict asylum for those who are in need. The reasons, why people leave their home countries are different: human trafficking, prosecution, war, or just the hope for a better future. Despite the ethical and moral perspective and the duty of a modern democratic state to support those in need, restrictions and limitations of civil rights often seem to be the sole answer. While the members of the European Union are accusing each other, a solution for the problem of refugee migration is far away.
The relationship between migration and state power has always been difficult. To highlight its history the third volume of Global Humanities is going to deal with the philosophy and the history of this interrelationship as well as its reception in popular media. It will analyze the difficulties with regard to migration and state power from Huguenot France to Korea and Taiwan after 1945. Furthermore, by providing historical case studies, it will be shown that the problems of migration movements are not new at all and that there have always been similarities with regard to the reaction to those movements, which more than resembles the actual situation in Europe and other parts of the world.
With contributions by Scott Craig, Matthew Douglas, Frank Jacob, Olga Kachina, Ann-Judith Rabenschlag, Verena Risse, Nicole Beth Wallenbrock, Ashley Zampogna-Krug.
Contents
Editorial 7
Migration, State Power, and Philosophy
Verena Risse The Sovereign and the Individual. Assessing the Rights-Mediated Relationship between Migrants and States 15
Matthew Douglas Nîmes and the Huguenot Cross. An Emigrant Symbol of Persecution in an Era of Religious Toleration 27
Scott Craig Punishment, Forced Migration and Political Power in the Early Modern British Atlantic, 1660–1730 40
Olga Kachina From Russia to America. A Case Study of White Russian Refugees from Udmurtia 52
Ashley Zampogna-Krug “Nothing Can Keep Me in This Country Any Longer”. Fleeing Italian Fascism amid Repression, Surveillance, and Restriction 70
Frank Jacob The End of an Empire, the Beginning of Migration, and the Fate of Settler Colonialists. Korea, Taiwan, and Settler Colonialism since 1945 86
Ann-Judith Rabenschlag Negotiating Anti-Racism. Language, Migration, and State Power in the GDR 103
Migration, State Power, and Popular Media Nicole Beth Wallenbrock Clandestine Boat Immigration in French Film. The Homo Sacer on the Norman Coast: Welcome (2009) and Le Havre (2011) 123
Reviews 139
Table of Figures 147