Migration, Development, and Transnationalization: A Critical Stance
Author: Nina Glick Schiller and Thomas Faist
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Year of Publication: 2010
Print Length: 213 pages
Genre: Fiction / Historical Fiction, Classical Fiction, Children
Area: The United Kingdom (UK)
Topic: Children & Childhood, Refugees & Forced Migration, Internally Displaced Person (IDP), War
The relationship between migration and development is becoming an important field of study, yet the fundamentals – analytical tools, conceptual framework, political stance – are not being called into question or dialogue. This volume provides a valuable alternative perspective to the current literature as the contributors explore the contradictory discourses about migration and the role these discourses play in perpetuating inequality and a global regime of militarized surveillance. The assumptions surrounding the assymetrical transfers of resources that accompany migration are deeply skewed and continue to reflect the interests of the most powerful states and the institutions that serve their interests. Those who seek to address the morass of development failure, vitriolic attacks on immigrants, or sanguine views about migrant agency are challenged by this volume to put aside their methodological nationalism and pursue alternative pathways out of the quagmire of poverty, violence, and fear that is enveloping the globe.
Nina Glick Schiller is Director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and the founding editor of the journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
Thomas Faist is Professor of Transnational and Development Studies in the Department of Sociology, Bielefeld University. He serves on the editorial board of The Sociological Quarterly, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Migration Letters, and South Asian Diaspora.
Table of Contents
Foreword: “At a time when millions of children all over the world are being torn away from family and home by the threat and violence of war, stories of evacuee children during the Second World War take on a new and powerful resonance and relevance.”
Chapter 1. “Carrie had often dreamed about coming back.”
Chapter 2. “For several minutes neither of them dared to break it. Then Nick said, ‘I want Mummy.’”
Chapter 3. “He wasn’t an Ogre, of course. Just a tall, thin, cross man with a loud voice, pale, staring, pop-eyes, and tufts of spiky hair sticking out from each nostril.”
Chapter 4. “But the door opened inward, like magic, and they fell through it to light, warmth, and safety.”
Chapter 5. “A warm, safe, lighted place. Hepzibah’s kitchen was always like that, and not only that evening.”
Chapter 6. “Mr Evans said, ‘Did you see my sister? House in good order? Get a good tea?’”
Chapter 7. “‘I don’t know,’ Carrie said. ‘I don’t know.’”
Chapter 8. “Carrie said to Hepzibah, ‘Mr Evans hates the Americans.’”
Chapter 9. “She said, ‘Things are seldom as bad as you think they’re going to be. Not when you come to them. So it’s a waste of time, being afraid. You remember that!’”
Chapter 10. “‘I was only trying to put myself in his place,’ Carrie said. ‘I felt sorry for him.’”
Chapter 11. “Mr Evans’s rages were noisy while they lasted but they didn’t last long.”
Chapter 12. “‘I mean, I do want to go, in a way, but in another way I’d rather stay here. I wish there was two of me, really. I feel torn in two.’”
Chapter 13. “‘Honestly, Carrie, I don’t think Auntie Lou will be worried.’”
Chapter 14. “She cried and cried and Nick sat and watched.”
Chapter 15. “Even thirty years later, when she was quite old enough to know it wasn’t her fault, that a house didn’t burn down because a girl threw a skull into a horse pond, she still cried in much the same way when she thought of it.”
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Nina Bawden was a popular British novelist and children’s writer. Her mother was a teacher and her father a marine. When World War II broke out she spent the school holidays at a farm in Shropshire along with her mother and her brothers, but lived in Aberdare, Wales, during term time. Bawden attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Her novels include Carrie’s War, Peppermint Pig, and The Witch’s Daughter.
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