Generations Apart

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 128-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kassahun Kebede
Keyword(s):  
Generational Differences ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethiopian Immigrants ◽  
Accurate Picture ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Migration Experiences

This study of Ethiopian immigrants in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area suggests that the continued involvement of immigrants with their place of origin is significantly shaped by pre-immigration and migration experiences. From my historically informed ethnographic work as well as the analysis of my informants’ pre-migration class and political backgrounds and the reasons why they left Ethiopia since the 1960s, three generations emerge: the Royalists, the Revolutionaries, and the DVs (Diversity Visa immigrants). In this article I explore the multiple and often contradictory narratives and discourses that characterize these generations. I also explore the ways in which the heterogeneity between the generations is manifested in their way of experiencing the United States, in their relationship with the homeland, and in the inter-generational interactions that bind them to one another. I use this case study to argue that attending to pre-migration intra- as well as inter-generational differences in immigrants’ experiences and views of their home and receiving countries will yield a fuller and more accurate picture of transnational migration.

Who Can Say They Are Apathetic and Listless Now?

2019 ◽  
pp. 42-67
Author(s):  
Douglas K. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
The United States ◽  
American People ◽  
World War ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
And Migration ◽  
War Production ◽  
Migration Experiences

Roughly 65,000 Native American people enlisted for overseas service or contributed domestically to war production industries during World War II. Expansive off-reservation work and migration experiences created a historical precedent and network for subsequent waves of Native peoples who moved to cities for new opportunities and better standards of living after making significant contributions to the United States’ victory in World War II. Meanwhile, paying attention to Native American patriotism and urban labor, the federal government began envisioning an urban relocation program.

scholarly journals Spiritual Cosmopolitanism, Transnational Migration, and the Bahá’í Faith

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 19-44
Author(s):  
Layli Maria Miron
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Baha'i Faith ◽  
Universal Love

Scholars have wrestled with the question of how people can be persuaded to extend feelings of kinship beyond their own ethnic or national groups. This article identifies spiritual cosmopolitanism, whose principles of universal love and harmony can be found in the teachings of the Bahá’í Faith, as key to such borderless solidarity. Drawing on data gathered from interviews with Iranian refugees who have settled in the United States, the article demonstrates how cosmopolitan principles shape the worldviews of Bahá’ís. Through this case study, spiritual cosmopolitanism’s potential to enrich public arguments for the inclusion of Others such as immigrants becomes apparent.

A Goudstikker van Goyen in Gdańsk: A Case Study of Nazi-Looted Art in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-96
Author(s):  
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
River Landscape ◽  
Provenance Research ◽  
Red Flag ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Nazi Era

Abstract:This article traces the provenance and migration of a painting by Jan van Goyen (1595–1656), River Landscape with a Swineherd, from the Jacques Goudstikker Collection and now in Gdańsk Muzeum Narodowe. After the “red-flag sale” of the Goudstikker Collection in July 1940 to German banker Alois Miedl, and then to Hermann Göring, this painting—after its sale on Berlin’s Lange Auction in December 1940 to Hitler’s agent Almas-Dietrich—was returned to Miedl-Goudstikker in Amsterdam. Miedl then sold it (with two other Dutch paintings) to the Nazi Gauleiter of Danzig, Albert Forster, among many wartime Dutch acquisitions for the Municipal Museum (Stadtmuseum). Evacuated to Thuringia and captured by a Soviet trophy brigade, it thus avoided postwar Dutch claims. Returned to Poland from the Hermitage in 1956, it was exhibited in the Netherlands and the United States (despite its Goudstikker label). Tracing its wartime and postwar odyssey highlights the transparent provenance research needed for Nazi-era acquisitions, especially in former National Socialist (NS) Germanized museums in countries such as Poland, where viable claims procedures for Holocaust victims and heirs are still lacking. This example of many “missing” Dutch paintings sold to NS-era German museums in cities that became part of postwar Poland, raises several important issues deserving attention in provenance research for still-displaced Nazi-looted art.

Employer Agency and Migration Networks in Post-War Sweden: The Case of Manufacturing Companies and Migrant Workers in Västmanland County

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-210
Author(s):  
Olle Jansson
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Migration Networks ◽  
International Labour Migration ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Post War ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Second World

This article investigates the influence and agency of employers for international labour migration through a case study on networks and migration to a county in Sweden in the decades after the end of the Second World War. Earlier research has focused on the supply-side of networks, such as contacts between migrants and prospective migrants and their place of origin, and how such relations led to cumulative effects, with increased migration over time. This article shows how employers in Västmanland County were, sometimes with the help of government agencies, able to solve their labour requirements through the active creation of migration networks. The article contributes to a deeper understanding of the functions of networks for international migration through developments on the demand-side of labour markets.

Transnational Migration and Entrepreneurialism: Indians in the U.S. Technology Sector

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roli Varma
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business Partnerships ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Indian Immigrants ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The U.S

AbstractIn the past, large multinational corporations led entrepreneurial activities in the technology sector, creating value and stimulating growth by bringing new ideas to market. Further, they were in charge of the growth internationally. In the last two decades, however, immigrants have increased their percentage in starting technology companies in the United States, as well as investing in technology companies, building business partnerships, allocating resources, exchanging information, and tapping technical expertise in their home countries. This paper presents a case study of Indian immigrants in the U.S. technology sector to demonstrate how entrepreneurialism is changing with transnational migration. Indian immigrants are actively contributing to an emergent global reality where the borders containing them in the field of technology are increasingly virtual, and beyond the control of any country.

scholarly journals Preservation Of A Time-Based Media Installation : A Case Study of George Eastman House 1968 and 2008 Exhibitions, Conscience The Ultimate Weapon

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Carver-Kubik
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
Photographic Print ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Public Demonstrations

In July of 1968, George Eastman House opened Conscience the Ultimate Weapon (Conscience), an innovative audio-visual installation consisting of projected images dissolving from one to the next, accompanied by a synchronized soundtrack. Under the direction of Nathan Lyons, curator at George Eastman House from 1959 to 1969, the exhibition projected 780 photojournalistic images by Benedict J. Fernandez III, depicting protests and public demonstrations that affirmed political dissent throughout the United States during the 1960s. This provocative, political, and ultimately controversial exhibition was firmly grounded in the conflicts of the time. Further, it challenged the exhibition standards of an institution that was known primarily for the promotion of the photograph as fine art and the celebration of the photographic print. In 2008, George Eastman House created an interpretation of this historically important exhibition using modern technology within a contemporary social and political context. Through a case study comparing the 1968 George Eastman House exhibition, Conscience, with the 2008 interpretation of Conscience, this paper will provide an analysis of the preservation issues surrounding these time-based media installations.

scholarly journals An Event History Analysis of Latin American Migrant Coupleses

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maite Michell Gómez-Gómez ◽  
Adriana Carolina Silva-Arias ◽  
Jaime Andrés Sarmiento-Espinel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Event History ◽  
Reproductive Decisions ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migration Event

The purpose of this paper was to study the association between migration and reproductive decisions in Mexico, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Colombia. An event history analysis was used to study the fertility and migration decisions made by a sample of couples from those countries. This study found a disruption in fertility before migrating. After the migration event and settlement, fertility increased to the same levels as the place of origin for migrants who stayed longer at their destination, particularly for those who migrated to the United States. Couples in which only the man migrated had a higher migratory prevalence. These men were young and had low human capital. Although the proportion of couples in which both members migrated was low, those couples stayed longer at their destination and their fertility disruption before migrating was highest.

scholarly journals Preservation Of A Time-Based Media Installation : A Case Study of George Eastman House 1968 and 2008 Exhibitions, Conscience The Ultimate Weapon

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Carver-Kubik
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
Photographic Print ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Public Demonstrations

In July of 1968, George Eastman House opened Conscience the Ultimate Weapon (Conscience), an innovative audio-visual installation consisting of projected images dissolving from one to the next, accompanied by a synchronized soundtrack. Under the direction of Nathan Lyons, curator at George Eastman House from 1959 to 1969, the exhibition projected 780 photojournalistic images by Benedict J. Fernandez III, depicting protests and public demonstrations that affirmed political dissent throughout the United States during the 1960s. This provocative, political, and ultimately controversial exhibition was firmly grounded in the conflicts of the time. Further, it challenged the exhibition standards of an institution that was known primarily for the promotion of the photograph as fine art and the celebration of the photographic print. In 2008, George Eastman House created an interpretation of this historically important exhibition using modern technology within a contemporary social and political context. Through a case study comparing the 1968 George Eastman House exhibition, Conscience, with the 2008 interpretation of Conscience, this paper will provide an analysis of the preservation issues surrounding these time-based media installations.

Liberating Free Labor

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Urban
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
White Female ◽  
Free Markets ◽  
Irish Women ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Surplus Population ◽  
Irish Migrants

Chapter 1 follows the enterprising activities of Vere Foster, a member of the Anglo-Irish gentry who funded the emigration of approximately 1,250 Irish women from post-famine Ireland during the 1850s. Foster’s efforts serve as a case study that illuminates the ideologies of white settlerism and Anglophone imperial unity, and shows how they worked together in concert. Foster was convinced that the best way to govern rural Ireland’s surplus population and inadequate lands was to finance and coordinate the integration of young migrant women into wage labor positions as servants in the United States, in areas of the country where the supply of white female workers was scarce. In order to assuage concerns about the moral and sexual dangers that free markets and migration posed to young Irish women, Foster endeavored to establish transatlantic networks of migration rooted in what he presented as racial and familial values of protection and mutuality. As this chapter concludes, the Irish migrants Foster sponsored developed different interpretations of what it meant to work for wages in household service, and what the commodification of their labor signified to both Ireland and the United States.

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