Global Humanities 2 (2016), 3

Title 
Global Humanities 2 (2016), 3
Other title information 
Migration and State Power

Published on
Berlin 2016: Neofelis Verlag
Frequency 
is published biannual
ISBN
978-3-95808-040-9
Extent
226 S.
Price
€ 25.00

 

Kontakt

Organization name
Global Humanities – Studies in Histories, Cultures, and Societies
Country
Germany
c/o
Neofelis Verlag, Kuglerstraße 59, 10439 Berlin, <info@neofelis-verlag.de>
By
Ermel, Annika

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.

Table of contents

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

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