National Paradigms of Migration Research
von: Dietrich Thränhardt, Michael Bommes
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress, 2010
ISBN: 9783862340934
Sprache: Englisch
325 Seiten, Download: 3079 KB
Format: PDF, auch als Online-Lesen
| Contents | 7 | ||
| Preface | 9 | ||
| Introduction: National Paradigms of Migration Research | 11 | ||
| I. Nation States as Constitutive Frame for the Problem of International Migration | 14 | ||
| II. National Paradigms of Migration Research? The Relationship of Politics and Science in Migration Research | 26 | ||
| References | 36 | ||
| Part I: Immigration as a Part of National Identity: Two Traditional Immigration Countries | 41 | ||
| Canadian Multiculturalism as an Ethos, Policy and Conceptual Lens for Immigration Research | 43 | ||
| Abstract | 43 | ||
| Introduction: Canada as an Immigrant Society in Comparative Perspective | 43 | ||
| The Historic Roots of Canadian Nation Building and the Emergence of Multiculturalism | 45 | ||
| The Multiculturalist Turn of Modern Canadian Society | 48 | ||
| Framing the Research Questions on Migration: Towards a Canadian Paradigm? | 52 | ||
| Conclusions: Towards a Canadian Paradigm? | 58 | ||
| References | 59 | ||
| Aborigines, Anglos and Asians – Discourses on Multiculturalism and National Identity in Australian Migration Research | 63 | ||
| Abstract | 63 | ||
| Institutionalisation of Research on Immigration, Ethnic and Multicultural Studies | 63 | ||
| Consensus on Multiculturalism | 67 | ||
| Bringing Skin Colour Back In – Discourses on Race and Culture | 72 | ||
| On Race and Land – The Particular Relevance of Space in Australian Discourses on Migration and Multiculturalism | 74 | ||
| Summary | 76 | ||
| References | 77 | ||
| Part II: How to Integrate Migration into Old Nation State Narratives | 81 | ||
| How to Face Reality. Genres of Discourse within Durch Minorities Research | 83 | ||
| Abstract | 83 | ||
| Introduction | 83 | ||
| The Performative Power of Language | 84 | ||
| Genres of Discourse | 85 | ||
| New Realism | 94 | ||
| ›Monstrous‹ Alliances | 99 | ||
| The Genre of Heterogeneity | 102 | ||
| Epilogue | 105 | ||
| References | 107 | ||
| Beyond the Race Relations Model: Old Patterns and New Trends in Britain | 111 | ||
| Abstract | 111 | ||
| British ›Race Relations‹ Research: Model or Disaster? | 111 | ||
| The Disciplinary Structure of British Research | 112 | ||
| The Race Paradigm: Brief Remarks on the Development of a Tradition | 113 | ||
| Current Trends | 116 | ||
| Conclusions | 122 | ||
| References | 122 | ||
| Migration Research in Germany: The Emergence of a Generalised Research Field in a Reluctant Immigration Country | 129 | ||
| Migration Research on Expellees, Refugees and Ethnic Germans: A Means to Cope with Irreversible Outcomes of the National Catastrophe | 130 | ||
| Migration Research on Labour Migration: The Emergence of Social Integration as the Main Research Paradigm in the German Sozialstaat | 135 | ||
| Migration Research after 1989: The Institutionalisation of General Migration Research in Germany | 150 | ||
| Conclusion | 162 | ||
| References | 167 | ||
| Migration Studies in Austria – Research at the Margins? | 189 | ||
| Abstract | 189 | ||
| Introduction | 189 | ||
| One Paradigm or Many? | 190 | ||
| Are Paradigms Contested or Widely Shared? | 193 | ||
| Are There Blind Spots in Migration Research? | 196 | ||
| The Institutional Framework | 201 | ||
| References | 203 | ||
| Part III: Emerging Research in New Migration Countries | 207 | ||
| Italy – Migration Research Coming of Age | 209 | ||
| Abstract | 209 | ||
| Introduction | 209 | ||
| Making Sense of Italian Exception. The Prevailing Macro- Structuralist Paradigm | 211 | ||
| From Emergency to Integration, to Security. The Framing of Immigration in the Italian Changing Political Agenda | 214 | ||
| Bringing Actors Back In? Competing Paradigms in Contemporary Migration Research | 218 | ||
| Italian Migration Studies Today. Gaps and Perspectives | 226 | ||
| References | 228 | ||
| Japan: A Non-Immigration Country Discusses Migration | 235 | ||
| Abstract | 235 | ||
| Japanese Exceptionalism | 235 | ||
| Japan’s Non-Immigration Policy | 236 | ||
| The Beginning: Entertainment and Undocumented Immigrants | 239 | ||
| Little Asylum in Japan | 240 | ||
| Intensity of Discussion | 241 | ||
| Programme 1: Ethnic Japanese | 243 | ||
| Programme 2: Trainees | 244 | ||
| Programme 3: Language Students | 245 | ||
| Research Paradigms and National Context | 246 | ||
| Cultural Approach | 246 | ||
| Human Rights Perspective | 247 | ||
| Focus on Local Municipalities, Communities, and NGOs | 249 | ||
| Desiderata | 251 | ||
| Conclusions | 251 | ||
| References | 254 | ||
| Migration Research in a Transformation Country: The Polish Case | 261 | ||
| Abstract | 261 | ||
| Open and Hidden Agendas | 261 | ||
| The Social and Political Perception of the Phenomenon of Emigration | 262 | ||
| Changes in Migratory Patterns into Poland after 1989 | 266 | ||
| References | 268 | ||
| Part IV: New Nation States: Defining Nations and Their Migration Contexts | 269 | ||
| India and its Diaspora. Changing Research and Policy Paradigms | 271 | ||
| Abstract | 271 | ||
| Introduction | 271 | ||
| National Policy and Research Paradigms and the Indian Diaspora | 273 | ||
| Paradigms in Indian Diaspora Research | 287 | ||
| Internal Migration | 295 | ||
| Conclusions | 296 | ||
| References | 297 | ||
| The National Context of Migration Research in Malaysia. Which Nation, What State, Whose Migration? | 303 | ||
| Abstract | 303 | ||
| Introduction | 303 | ||
| Contemporary Labour Migration to Malaysia | 305 | ||
| The Ambiguity of the Illegal | 307 | ||
| The Unfinished State | 310 | ||
| Conclusion | 313 | ||
| References | 314 | ||
| A Paradigm for Nigerian Migration Research? | 317 | ||
| Abstract | 317 | ||
| Introduction: Wrong Questions, Likely Answers | 317 | ||
| Paradigms in Nigerian Research Discourse | 318 | ||
| Migration Policy in Nigeria: A Short Survey | 320 | ||
| Shaping and Agenda Setting in an Autocratic Democracy | 321 | ||
| A Basis for Research: The Nigerian University System | 322 | ||
| Conclusive Remarks: If there is none, do we need one? | 323 | ||
| References | 324 | ||
| The Authors | 325 |