Boats, planes and trains: British migration, mobility and transnational experience

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Lunt
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Retirement Migration ◽  
Migration Experience ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Qualitative Work ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Post War ◽  
Migratory Experience

This paper discusses the paucity of scholarship on contemporary British international migration experience, and highlights why British nations are viewed as beyond detailed international migration and transnational scholarship. Resisting this closure, discussion invokes a transnational lens to explore three flows: post-war migration of British citizens to traditional destinations; British retirement migration to the Mediterranean; and British professional migration. The paper adds its voice to a growing body of work that argues for a widening of the migration agenda to include qualitative work and a transnational approach to enable British migratory experience to be fully investigated.

The departure of the Greeks from Egypt, 1961: the perspective of Greek diplomacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Many ◽  
Economic Failure

The departure of the greater part of the Greek community from Egypt is one of the many sad stories of the post-war Mediterranean. This article focuses upon the reports of the Greek Consul-General in Alexandria, Byron Theodoropoulos, regarding the Egyptian ‘Socialist Laws’ of summer 1961, which gave the coup de grâce to the Greek community. It argues that the expulsion of the Greeks was part of a wider redistribution of power in the region. This episode, together with similar experiences in other parts of the Mediterranean, evidently cemented the determination of a younger generation of political leaders and diplomats to seek Greece's future in the cosmopolitan, post-nationalist West, rather than in a ‘Near East’ rife with nationalism and economic failure.

A RE-EXAMINATION OF EARLY WHEEL POTTING IN CRETE

2013 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 31-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Jeffra
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Geographical Distance ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Experimental Type ◽  
Technological Transition ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Wheel Throwing ◽  
Forming Methods

The manner in which Minoan potters first employed the pottery wheel has become a matter of some debate. A growing body of work has taken a sceptical approach to the transition from hand-building to wheel-throwing techniques in a number of contexts, finding that the idea of a technological transition of this nature is not supported by the ceramic evidence. Although a small number of publications have addressed this topic as it relates to Minoan Crete, in light of the evidence from contemporary areas around the Mediterranean and Near East it has become necessary to establish firmly what types of techniques and methods were being used as potters first employed this tool. In order to assess the types of primary forming techniques used by potters during the periods between Middle Minoan IB (when the wheel was first regularly used) and Late Minoan IA (by which time vessels of all sizes were regularly formed with some type of rotation), an experimental type set was produced. Analysis was conducted by correlating the macroscopic features produced with specific forming methods, and then comparing those features against material from Knossos, Palaikastro and Myrtos–Pyrgos. The results of that comparison challenge the established notion that potters had developed wheel-throwing skills during these early periods. Instead, a more complex picture emerges which reveals a process of gradual acquisition of combination techniques (wheel and coils). The pattern of uptake indicates a level of cohesion across the potting community of central and eastern Crete, irrespective of the geographical distance between the three sites studied.

scholarly journals International migration experience and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Mexico

2020 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 105077
Author(s):  
Joshua Wassink
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Migration Experience

Migration, Family Formation and Fertility in the Americas

2020 ◽  
pp. 019791832092335
Author(s):  
David P. Lindstrom ◽  
Anairis Hernandez-Jabalera ◽  
Silvia Giorguli Saucedo
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Marital Dissolution ◽  
Marital Stability ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Mexican Migration ◽  
First Birth ◽  
Migration Experience ◽  
Early Migration

In many low- and medium-income countries that are the traditional sources of international migrants, total fertility rates have dropped to levels at or near replacement. In this context of low fertility, we expect migration’s effects on fertility to operate primarily through marital timing and marital stability. We examine the effects of international migration on age at first marriage, union dissolution, timing of first birth, and completed fertility, using retrospective life-history data collected in Mexico and eight other Latin American countries by the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) and the Latin American Migration Project (LAMP). Using discrete-time hazards and Poisson regression models, we find clear evidence that early migration experience results in delayed marriage, delayed first birth, and a higher rate of marital dissolution. We also find evidence among women that cumulative international migration experience is associated with fewer births and that the estimated effects of migration experience are attenuated after taking into account age at union formation and husbands’ prior union experiences. As fertility levels in migrant origin and destination countries continue on their path toward convergence, migrant fertility below native fertility may become more common due to migration’s disruptive effects on marital timing and marital stability and the selection of divorced or separated adults into migration.

Sunset Lives: British Retirement Migration to the Mediterranean

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 579-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. Mason
Keyword(s):  
Retirement Migration ◽  
The Mediterranean

scholarly journals International Migration and Health in the Countries of Origin. The Effect on Households with Migrants and/or Recipients of Remittances, and on Returned Migrants. A Systematic Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (37) ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Luis Miguel Tovar Cuevas ◽  
María Teresa Victoria Paredes ◽  
Camilo Zarama ◽  
Matheo Arellano Morales
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Anthropometric Measures ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
General Health Condition ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
Migratory Experience

This work represents a systematic literature review that studies the effect of international migration on the health of households in the countries of origin and of returned migrants. The effect is due to: 1) remittances, 2) transfer of ideas, habits and behavioral norms, and 3) the previous migratory experience of returned migrants. Aspects of health that may be affected are fertility rate, general health condition, access to health services, mental health, life expectancy, anthropometric measures and nutrition, health expenditure, risk factors or health protectors. The search included articles and documents published between January 2000 and August 2017, written in English or Spanish, included in the databases Jstor, Proquest, IDEAS-RePec, Scielo, Google Scholar and PubMed. Based on quantitative and qualitative methodologies, the 85 selected articles, found positive and/or negative effects on health of children, adolescents, women, older adults and returned migrants. This systematic review offers a broad look of the effects of international migration on the health of the ones who stay, which results useful for policy makers and researchers. Not all findings are consistent and therefore, further research on the matter is necessary, considering qualitative approaches.

‘Islam is a Place Inside Myself’: Material and Immaterial Re-Positioning of Religion in the Living Experience of Unaccompanied Muslim Minors in Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 441-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Elia ◽  
Valentina Fedele
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Unaccompanied Minors ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Migration Experience ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
Control Dynamic ◽  
Migratory Experience ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Role Of Religion

European sociological studies on refugees who are hosted by national protection systems primarily focus on intervention practice and are particularly attentive to the regulatory and social conditions that produce refugees’ precariousness. Studies that consider refugee subjectivity through migratory experiences are rare. In the case of unaccompanied minors, a protection/control dynamic is widespread, as the vulnerability of young refugees is often used as a pretext for setting up institutions to contain their aspirations and their life plans. This article argues that analysis of the role of religion, i.e., the place of the religious in the experiences of unaccompanied minors, is a way to focus on the subjectivities of young refugees, thereby building an understanding of the essential issues surrounding the migration experience. The article is based on research conducted in Calabria, in southern Italy, involving unaccompanied Muslim minors hosted in reception centres. With the aim to understand the religiosity of individuals, this empirical investigation presents the migratory experience of each minor, taking into account trajectories, family ties, and ways of transitioning into adulthood. Considering how these three areas are interconnected by the young refugees’ ‘musulmanity’ (their sense of being Muslim) has made it possible to be attentive to their agency, to the meaning these minors give to their actions, and to their migratory experiences.

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