The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire

With the growing insurrections in Syria in 2011, an exodus in large numbers have emerged. The turmoil and violence have caused mass migration to destinations both within the region and beyond. The current "refugee crisis" has escalated sharply and its impact is widening from neighbouring countries toward Europe. Today, the Syrian crisis is the major cause for an increase in displacement and the resultant dire humanitarian situation in the region. Since the conflict shows no signs of abating in the near future, there is a constant increase in the number of Syrians fleeing their homes. However, questions on the future impact of the Syrian crisis on the scope and scale of this human mobility are still to be answered. As the impact of the Syrian crisis on host countries increases, so does the demand for the analyses of the needs for development and protection in these countries. In this special issue, we aim to bring together a number of studies examining and discussing human mobility in relation to the Syrian crisis.

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Race, Gender, and Border Control in the Western Balkans

10.1093/oso/9780198814887.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Sanja Milivojević

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Production ◽

Asylum Seekers ◽

Former Yugoslavia ◽

Border Control ◽

Western Balkans ◽

Irregular Migrants ◽

Criminological Inquiry ◽

Gender And Migration ◽

And Migration ◽

The Impact

This chapter looks at the intersection of race, gender, and migration in the Western Balkans. Immobilizing mobile bodies from the Global South has increasingly been the focus of criminological inquiry. Such inquiry, however, has largely excluded the Western Balkans. A difficult place to research, comprising countries of the former Yugoslavia and Albania, the region is the second-largest route for irregular migrants in Europe (Frontex 2016). Indeed, EU expansion and global developments such as wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq have had a major impact on mobility and migration in the region. The chapter outlines racialized hierarchies in play in contemporary border policing in the region, and how these racialized and gendered practices target racially different Others and women irregular migrants and asylum seekers. Finally, this chapter maps the impact of such practices and calls for a shift in knowledge production in documenting and addressing such discriminatory practices.

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The Impact of the Executions in the German-Speaking Lands of the Holy Roman Empire

The Dynamics of the Early Reformation in their Reformed Augustinian Context ◽

10.1017/9789048550876.009 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 171-194

Keyword(s):

Roman Empire ◽

Holy Roman Empire ◽

German Speaking ◽

The Impact

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Does Emancipation Matter? Fertility of Chinese International Migrants to the United States and Nonmigrants during China’s One-child Policy Period

International Migration Review ◽

10.1177/0197918321994789 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 019791832199478

Author(s):

Wanli Nie ◽

Pau Baizan

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

International Migration ◽

Chinese Women ◽

The United States ◽

Selection Effects ◽

Birth Cohorts ◽

Family Policies ◽

Chinese Migrants ◽

And Migration ◽

The Impact

This article investigates the impact of international migration to the United States on the level and timing of Chinese migrants’ fertility. We compare Chinese women who did not leave the country (non-migrants) and were subject to restrictive family policies from 1974 to 2015 to those who moved to the United States (migrants) and were, thus, “emancipated” from these policies. We theoretically develop and empirically test the emancipation hypothesis that migrants should have a higher fertility than non-migrants, as well as an earlier timing of childbearing. This emancipation effect is hypothesized to decline across birth cohorts. We use data from the 2000 US census, the 2005 American Community Survey, the 2000 Chinese census, and the 2005 Chinese 1 percent Population Survey and discrete-time event history models to analyze first, second, and third births, and migration as joint processes, to account for selection effects. The results show that Chinese migrants to the United States had substantially higher childbearing probabilities after migration, compared with non-migrants in China, especially for second and third births. Moreover, our analyses indicate that the migration process is selective of migrants with lower fertility. Overall, the results show how international migration from China to the United States can lead to an increase in migrant women’s fertility, accounting for disruption, adaptation, and selection effects. The rapidly increased fertility after migration from China to the United States might have implications on other migration contexts where fertility in the origin country is dropping rapidly while that in the destination country is relatively stable.

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Ciguapas in New York: Transcultural Ethnicity and Transracialization in Dominican American Performance

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021875811001332 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 139-153 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

EMILIA MARÍA DURÁN-ALMARZA

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Dominican Republic ◽

Identity Formation ◽

The Usa ◽

And Migration ◽

The 1960S ◽

Definition Of ◽

Dominican Women ◽

The Impact ◽

Dominican American

The Dominican American community in New York is perhaps one of the best examples of how processes of transculturation are affecting traditional definitions of ethnic identification. Given the intense economic, social and cultural transnational exchanges between the island and the USA from the 1960s, Dominicanyorks have been challenging the illusion of homogeneity in the definition of Americanness for decades, creating transnational social networks that transcend traditional national and ethnographic boundaries. The theatrical works of Josefina Báez, a Dominican American performer living in New York, and Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso, a Dominican poet and playwright who lived and worked in the US metropolis for decades before moving back to the Dominican Republic, lyrically explore issues of diaspora, identity and migration and the impact these phenomena might have in the lives of migrant Dominican women. Presenting diasporic experiences from two differing but interconnected locales – New York and the Dominican Republic – these plays offer two complementary views on the ways in which ethnicity, race, social class, age and geopolitical location interact in the formation of transcultural identities, thus contributing to develop a hemispheric approach to the study of identity formation in the Americas.

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