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Seeking Asylum in Israel
Since 2005, approximately 70,000 asylum-seeking refugees from Sudan and Eritrea have entered Israel. This, along with the highly publicised anti-African immigrant riots in Israel in 2012 and 2014 and the current global refugee crisis, has meant that the issue of African migration has become increasingly controversial. Here Gilad Ben-Nun looks at this phenomenon in its historical and contemporary contexts, and compares it to the wider debates surrounding the Palestinian refugees in the region and the concept of their right of return. He argues that this newer, African migration issue has forced Israel to move from conceiving of itself as an 'exceptional' state and now has to view itself as a ...
Christian Theology in the Age of Migration
We are living in the "Age of Migration" and migration has a profound impact on all aspects of society and on religious institutions. While there is significant research on migration in the social sciences, little study has been done to understand the impact of migration on Christianity. This book investigates this important topic and the ramifications for Christian theology and ethics. It begins with anthropological and sociological perspectives on the mutual impact between migration and Christianity, followed by a re-reading of certain events in the Hebrew Scripture, the New Testament, and Church history to highlight the central role of migration in the formation of Israel and Christianity. Then follow attempts to reinterpret in the light of migration the basic Christian beliefs regarding God, Christ, and church. The next part studies how migration raises new issues for Christian ethics such as human dignity and human rights, state rights, social justice and solidarity, and ecological justice. The last part explores what is known as "Practical Theology" by examining the implications of migration for issues such as liturgy and worship, spirituality, architecture, and education.
Debating Disaster Risk
Dealing with the risks of climate change and disaster is a political process. It produces winners and losers, mobility and permanence, radical change and continuity, relief and suffering. For some, it ultimately leads to life or death. Yet consultants, academics, humanitarian agents, and politicians often simply propose well-intentioned ideas—resilience, sustainability, community participation, emergency shelter, green development—while failing to perceive the blind spots and unintended consequences of such approaches. Debating Disaster Risk brings together leading global experts to explore the controversies that emerge—and the tough decisions that must be made—when cities, people, a...
The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment
Featuring a stellar international cast list of leading and cutting-edge scholars, The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment presents the state of the art of the discipline that considers ecological issues and crises from a political economy perspective. This collective volume sheds new light on the effect of economic and power inequality on environmental dynamics and, conversely, on the economic and social impact of environmental dynamics. The chapters gathered in this handbook make four original contributions to the field of political economy of the environment. First, they revisit essential concepts and methods of environmental economics in the light of their polit...
New Border and Citizenship Politics
This collection examines the intersections and dynamics of bordering processes and citizenship politics in the Global North and Australia. By taking the political agency of migrants into account, it approaches the subject of borders as a genuine political and socially constructed phenomenon and transcends a state-centered perspective.
Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities
This Handbook brings together 40 of the world’s leading scholars and rising stars who study international law from disciplines in the humanities – from history to literature, philosophy to the visual arts – to showcase the distinctive contributions that this field has made to the study of international law over the past two decades. Including authors from Australia, Canada, Europe, India, South Africa, the UK and the USA, all the contributors engage the question of what is distinctive, and critical, about the work that has been done and that continues to be done in the field of ‘international law and the humanities’. For many of these authors, answering this question involves refle...
Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing transnational climate movement. A dual focus on climate politics and civil society provides a hitherto unavailable broad and systematic analysis of the current global movement, highlighting how its dynamic and diverse character can play an important role in environmental politics and climate protection. The range of contributors, from well-known academics to activist-scholars, look at climate movements in the developed and developing world, north and south, small and large, central and marginal. The movement is examined as a whole and as single actors, thereby capturing its scope, structure, development, activities and influence....
Das neue Deutschland
Die Begriffe Migration, Mobilität, kulturelle Vielfalt, Integration und Gemeinschaft begleiten uns schon seit Jahren. In diesem Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung im Deutschen Hygiene-Museum Dresden (8. März bis 12. Oktober 2014) steuern Autor/-innen aus unterschiedlichsten (Herkunfts-)Ländern und unterschiedlichsten Bereichen des gesellschaftlichen und politischen Lebens in Deutschland Texte und Statements bei. Nach einem "Fotoessay" mit vielen farbigen, ausdrucksstarken und charakteristischen Fotografien folgen die jeweils nur wenige Seiten langen Textbeiträge, die sich mit allen Facetten des alltäglichen Lebens befassen: Heimat und Fremde, Politik und Wissenschaft, Bildung und Schule, Kultur, Kleidung und Kommunikation. Wie hat sich Deutschland (bereits) verändert, wie wird Deutschland von den "neuen Deutschen" gesehen und wie hat sich unser eigener Blick auf uns selbst gewandelt? Die Texte enthalten viele persönliche Erfahrungen der Autor/-innen und lesen sich auch für Nicht-Ausstellungsbesucher sehr anschaulich. In dieser derart umfassenden Darstellung keine speziellen Vergleichstitel. (2)
Ein Leben hier gemacht
”Ein Leben hier gemacht“ haben viele der ehemaligen italienischen ”Gastarbeiterinnen“ und ”Gastarbeiter“ in der Schweiz. Sie haben geheiratet, Kinder groß gezogen, sind alt geworden, aus der Erwerbstätigkeit ausgeschieden. Was dieses Altern ausmacht, das wird in diesem Buch aus einer biographisch-rekonstruktiven Perspektive erörtert. Die Fallanalysen von sieben Ehepaaren bieten einen differenzierten Einblick in die unterschiedlichen Ausgestaltungen des Lebens in der Schweizer ”Gastarbeit“ und deren Bedeutung für das Altern in der Migration. Damit leistet die Studie einen Beitrag zu einem bisher wenig beachteten Bereich der Migrationsforschung. Eva Soom Ammann (Dr. phil.) ist Sozialanthropologin und in der angewandten Forschung im Bereich Migration, Alter und Gesundheit tätig. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Migrationsforschung, Biographieforschung, Alterssoziologie, Familiensoziologie und Geschlechterforschung.
