Abstract
Migration, identity, and space are entangled and mutually influential. The question “How does migration take place” not only demands an examination of the causes, consequences, and depictions of migration in different parts of the world and different moments in history, it also calls attention to the crucial role that space and place have in such an examination. The approaches and methodologies in this collection differ with regard to the questions these ask and the evidence they use to substantiate their claims. Yet in spite of these differences, a number of shared themes emerge. While differentiating voluntary migration from forced migration is important, what makes these very diverse experiences comparable is the undeniable relationship with the physical and imaginary space that they traverse and eventually occupy.
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Notes
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For more information on the specific situation at the Carl Duisburg-Haus in Berlin, see the video “Beschlagnahmtes Haus in Berlin: Plötzlich Flüchtlingsheim” from Der Spiel Online, 6 October 2015. http://www.spiegel.de/video/fluechtlinge-beziehen-beschlagnahmtes-haus-in-berlin-video-1614019.html.
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Silvey, “Power, Difference, and Mobility.”
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Anderson, Imagined Communities, 6–7.
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This definition is taken from UNESCO. “Learning to Live Together” http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/international-migration/glossary/migrant/.
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Knowles et al., Geographies of the Holocaust, 4.
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Chen, Introduction to Cities; Tuan, Space and Place.
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Pearce, “Framing the Days,” 2.
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Massey, Space, Place, and Gender, 154.
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Ibid.
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Knowles et al., Geographies of the Holocaust, 4.
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Brubaker and Cooper, “Beyond Identity,” 9.
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Silvey, Power, Difference, and Mobility, 499.
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Ibid.
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UNESCO, for example, defines displacement as “the forced movement of people from their locality or environment and occupational activities. It is a form of social change caused by a number of factors, the most common being armed conflict. Natural disasters, famine, development and economic changes may also be a cause of displacement.” http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/international-migration/glossary/displaced-person-displacement/.
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Silvey, “Power, Difference, and Mobility,” 491.
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Yuval-Davis, “Belonging and the Politics of Belonging,” 16.
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Ibid.
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Bhabha, “From Citizen to Migrant.”
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Shohat, “The Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic,” 44.
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Aydemir and Rotas, “Introduction,” 7.
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The field-specific journals include International Migration (Washington DC: Institute for the Study of International Migration), International Migration Review (NY Center for Migration Studies), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Brighton: University of Sussex Centre for Migration Research), Journal of Refugee Studies (Oxford: Refugee Studies Centre).
- 22.
Benmayor and Skotnes, “Some Reflections on Migration and Identity,” 4.
- 23.
Favell, “Rebooting Migration Theory” 260.
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Hannam et al. “Mobilities, Immobilities, and Moorings.”
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The 1951 Refugee Convention spells out that a refugee is someone who “owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.”
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Legomsky, “Refugees, Asylum, and the Rule of Law in the US,” 14.
- 28.
King, “Towards a New Map of European Migration,” 92.
- 29.
Ibid., 93.
- 30.
Anderson, Imagined Communities, 6–7.
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Linhard, T., Parsons, T.H. (2019). Introduction: How Does Migration Take Place?. In: Linhard, T., Parsons, T.H. (eds) Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77956-0_1
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