Immigration Studies

Abstract The contemporary framing in American public discourse on immigrants is examined through a data-driven metaphor analysis. The print media texts of the 1994 political debate and campaign in California over an anti-immigrant referendum, Proposition 187, is analyzed. An ongoing cataloguing of metaphors from hundreds of Los Angeles Times articles displays the discourse that reflects and informs California public opinion. The metaphors discerned includeIMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS'.

‘Post-raciality’ encompasses seemingly antithetical positions: victory or utopia. However, one could argue that both are constitutive of a moment missed, the moment being that which comes after the ‘end of history’. An understanding of the post-racial requires that ‘it’ be situated within the paradigms which rejected ‘the conservatism of Left or Right’ and which branded the present as one of ‘no alternatives’, and consequently for many offered ‘no future’. Understood thus, the post-racial becomes an anti-utopian tool which validates the absence of alternative or big ‘P’ politics. Political elites aim to make us feel better about ourselves in the absence of solution. This is no cynical ruse; post-raciality is not a neo-liberal construct. Rather, post-racial pessimism is the logical outcome of the collapse of the emancipatory politics which defied modern oppression. This paper offers a meta-analysis of post-raciality and argues that therapolitics presents us with a line of continuity predicated on ‘safety’ and ‘trust’ which connects Clinton’s One America initiative, the establishment of the Other Than Mexican migrant category under the Bush administration, and Obama’s response to immigration and ‘hate’.

"Au sein des journaux Le Canada et Le Devoir, de 1944 à 1959, le caricaturiste Robert La Palme livre une critique assidue à Maurice Duplessis, premier ministre de la province de Québec. Durant ces années, La Palme produit des milliers de caricatures, un véritable théâtre où s’anime la société canadienne-française, dans laquelle le caricaturiste tire à boulets rouges sur celui que l’on appelait le « cheuf », son parti, l’Union nationale, et son gouvernement, que l’on a qualifié de « régime ». Ce faisant, La Palme consacre un pan important de son œuvre aux questions sensibles et délicates de l’immigration, des étrangers, de l’« autre » qui ponctuent son récit, faisant écho aux débats ayant alors cours dans le Québec d’après-guerre. Dans cet article, nous nous proposons d’analyser le regard que le caricaturiste pose sur ces questions. En nous intéressant aux débats concernant la chose sous l’ère duplessiste, nous étudierons le traitement qu’en fait l’artiste dans ses caricatures, c’est-à-dire comment il amène ces enjeux dans l’espace public, plus précisément dans un contexte électoral où s’affrontent unionistes et libéraux, et ce, en recourant à un arsenal de stéréotypes, de clichés et de codes visuels. Si le caricaturiste traite fréquemment de ces enjeux pour ce qu’ils sont, soit des questions brûlantes d’actualité, La Palme, en bon polémiste, le fait d’abord et avant tout dans l’optique d’attaquer et de faire un mauvais parti à l’Union nationale et à son chef, son ennemi de toujours.

Between 1944 and 1959, in Le Canada and Le Devoir newspapers, caricaturist Robert La Palme tirelessly criticized Maurice Duplessis, Premier of the province of Québec. During these years, La Palme produced thousands of caricatures, a real theatre where the French-Canadian society came alive, in which the caricaturist drew under heavy fire the one then known as the « cheuf », his party, the National Union, and his governement, referred to as a « regime ». In doing so, La Palme devoted an important part of his works to the sensitive topic regarding immigration issues, foreigners, the « other », that all ponctuate his narrative, echoing the ongoing debates in postwar Québec. In this article, we propose to analyze the view of the caricaturist on these issues. By giving particular attention to debates concerning these matters under the Duplessis era, we will study the treatment given to these by the artist in his caricatures, that is how he brought these issues into the public space, specifically in electoral context where Unionists and Liberals alike faced each other, using an arsenal of stereotypes, clichés and visual codes. If the caricaturist frequently treated these issues for what they were, which were burning and sensitive issues, La Palme, as a good polemicist, did it first and foremost in order to attack the National Union and his chief, his old enemy."

"Readings in Twenty-First-Century European Literatures brings together analyses of post-2000 literary works from twelve European literatures. Sharing a common aim – that of taking the first step in identifying and analysing some of the emergent trends in contemporary European literatures – scholars from across Europe come together in this volume to address a range of issues. Topics include the post-postmodern; the effect of new media on literary production; the relationship between history, fiction and testimony; migrant writing and world literature; representation of ageing and intersexuality; life in hypermodernity; translation, both linguistic and cultural; and the institutional forces at work in the production and reception of twenty-first-century texts. Reading across the twenty chapters affords an opportunity to reconsider what is meant by both ‘European’ and ‘contemporary literature’ and to recontextualize single-discipline perspectives in a comparatist framework.

Contents: Camille de Toledo: Zwischen-las-lenguas is where I stand – Margaret-Anne Hutton: Introduction – Kristin Veel: Surveillance Narratives: Overload, Desire and Representation in Contemporary Narrative Fiction – Erika Fülöp: The Blogosphere and the Gutenberg Galaxy and Other Impossible Oppositions: Éric Chevillard’s L’Autofictif – Ricardo Fernández Romero: Dirty Metaphysics: The Novels of Pablo Sánchez – Nicolas Dreyer: Contemporary Russian Fiction: insanis, demens et delirans? – Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf: ‘Écrire le réel malade’: Régis Jauffret’s Shocking Panorama of Contemporary French Society in Microfictions (2007) – Léa Vuong: Pascal Quignard’s Metamorphoses: A Contemporary Recuperation of Literary Fairy Tales – Angela Kershaw: Reading Némirovsky Now: Resistant Representations of the Second World War in Twenty-First-Century French Literature – Peter Sjølyst-Jackson: Reframing History: Fiction and Testimony in Roy Jacobsen’s The Loggers – Anja Gerigk: Memory Trouble After Post-Histoire: Terézia Mora’s Alle Tage – Sven Kramer: Reconsidering ‘Heimat’: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Novel Heimsuchung (2008) – Andrea Gazzoni: Migrant Storytelling: Trauma, History, Stories and Restoration in Cross-Cultural Literature in Contemporary Italy – Nathalie Froloff: A Radical Renewal of the Autobiography in French Contemporary Literature: Ernaux and Carrère – Angelika Baier: Intersections: Hermaphroditism as a ‘Travelling Concept’ in Ulrike Draesner’s Novel Mitgift (2002) – Catherine du Toit: Ageing in the Twenty-First Century – Michèle A. Schaal: The Hypermodern Condition in Isabelle Flükiger’s Novels – Christina Chandler Andrews: The Phenomenology of Inter-Subjectivity and Co-Existence in the Post-9/11 World: McEwan’s Saturday and Amis’s ‘The Last Days of Muhammad Atta’ – Naòmi Morgan: Translation x 2: Yasmina Reza’s Le Dieu du carnage from French to Afrikaans, from Script to Stage – Helen O’Sullivan: Learning Words: Language Learner Narrative in the Twenty-First Century – Gunhild Berg/Rainer Godel: How to Create a Literary Trend, or How to Establish a Winner: An Analysis of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2000-2010 – Sandra Vlasta: ‘Literature of Migration’: A New Trend in ‘Austrian Literature’ in the Twenty-First Century? "

"Millaista on elää Kreikassa suomalaisena naisena? Miten kotiutuminen ja sopeutuminen onnistuvat? Mitkä ovat kaksikulttuurisen avioliiton haasteet? Hyväksyykö kreikkalainen suku uuden jäsenen? Miten onnistuvat sijoittuminen työelämään ja tulevaisuuden suunnitelmat kahdessa kotimaassa?

VTT Johanna Järvinen-Tassopoulos on tutkija, joka on perehtynyt erityisesti uuden ranskalaisen sosiologian teoriaan ja käytäntöön."

"Since the immigration legislation of 1965, marriage to American citizens and resident aliens has been one of the primary paths for migration to the United States. Despite the rapid growth of the Asian American population over the course of the late twentieth century, Asian Americans had still reached only 3
per cent of all Americans by 2000, meaning that Asian marriage migration to the United States has been largely through marriage to non-Asians. In this study, we look at exogamy among Vietnamese Americans using U.S. Census data (1980, 1990, and 2000) from 5 per cent PUMS sets made available through the IPUMS project. We ask: (1) What are the predictors of exogamy among Vietnamese Americans? (2) How do the rates of exogamy of Vietnamese American women compare to those of Vietnamese American men? (3) How have the predictors of
exogamy and the apparent characteristics of the exogamously married changed over the decades of refugee movement from Vietnam to North America? We review data from the years 1980, 1990, and 2000. In the assimilationist view of immigration associated with the classic work of Milton M. Gordon, exogamy is the final stage of immigrant incorporation into a host country. Migration through marriage, which has become a major source of immigration to the United States since the Immigration Act of 1965, reverses this assimilationist pattern, placing marriage before immigration and incorporation, or at the earliest stages
of immigration and incorporation. Our findings are relevant to understanding the specific Vietnamese experience in the United States. They highlight the continuing but declining importance of the Vietnam War in creating close connections between Vietnamese and other people in the United States, even
after the war had ended. The findings also suggest how these connections changed as a result of Vietnamese mass migration to America."

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Dans un contexte où les processus de production et de transfert des expertises techniques sont imbriqués dans une logique de marché à l’échelle mondiale, les systèmes de santé contemporains sont interpellés par de nombreux défis liés à la mobilité internationale des professionnels de la santé. Nous inspirant de diverses approches de l’anthropologie de la santé et de la sociologie des organisations, nous souhaitons examiner les dynamiques complexes qui se tissent entre des phénomènes globaux associés à la mondialisation des sociétés contemporaines et des enjeux locaux associés à la mobilité internationale des professionnels de la santé, plus spécifiquement, l’intégration de médecins diplômés à l’étranger sur le marché du travail québécois. Cet article vise à souligner la contribution d’une approche socio-anthropologique de la santé mondiale afin de mettre au jour l’interrelation entre des jeux de pouvoir locaux et des inégalités sociales à l’échelle mondiale.


Mots-clés : Migration, médecins diplômés à l’étranger, intégration professionnelle, santé mondiale, Québec – Canada.

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In a context where the processes of production and transfer of technical expertise are nested in a logic of global markets, current health care systems have to face many challenges related to the international mobility of health professionals. Inspired by theoretical approaches of anthropology of health and the sociology of organizations, we discuss the complex dynamics between global phenomena associated to the globalization of contemporary societies and local issues concerning the international mobility of health professionals and, in this specific case, the integration of international medical graduates in Quebec’s labor market. In this perspective, a socio-anthropological approach to Global Health sheds light on the interplay between local power strategies and global social inequalities.

Keywords: Migration, International Medical Graduates, Occupational integration, Global Health, Quebec – Canada."

A pdf is available by request to jmheyman@utep.edu .  U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officers of Mexican ancestry do not identify with Mexican and other Latin American immigrants. Instead, they understand themselves as U.S. citizens who reject both domestic racism and ethnic loyalties that cross national borders. Their self understandings emerge from processes that include U.S. citizenship ideology and social mobility into primary labor market jobs with stability, benefits, and progressive careers. These processes insulate them from the experience of immigrants in casual and insecure labor markets devoid of social benefits. Thus they differ from immigrants not only in being on opposite sides of the bureaucratic encounter but also in being at opposite poles of bureaucratized social citizenship. This suggests that a cause of opposition to immigration in advanced capitalist societies is that citizenship based job and benefit systems restrict the scope of empathy.

""In her groundbreaking and innovative study, the author takes us on a fascinating journey through some of Madrid's multilingual and multicultural schools and reveals the role played by linguistic practices in the construction of inequality through such processes as what she calls "de-capitalization" and "ethnicization". Through a critical sociolinguistic and discourse analysis of the data collected in an ethnographic study, the book shows the exclusion caused by monolingualizing tendencies and ideologies of deficit in education and society.
The book opens a timely discussion of the management of diversity in multilingual and multicultural classrooms, both for countries with a long tradition of migration flows and for those where the phenomenon is relatively new, as is the case in Spain. This study of linguistic practices in the classroom makes clear the need to rethink some key linguistic concepts, such as practice, competence, discourse, and language, and to integrate different approaches in qualitative research.
The volume is essential reading for students and researchers working in sociolinguistics, education and related areas, as well as for all teachers and social workers who deal with the increasing heterogeneity of our late modern societies in their work.""