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Journal articles on the topic "Migrant otherness"
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Carrier, Neil, and Gordon Mathews. "Places of Otherness." Migration and Society 3, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 98–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arms.2020.030109.
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This article looks at two urban landscapes critical for mobility within the Global South: Eastleigh, Kenya, and Xiaobei, China. While different, they are both centers of global trade that attract migrants seeking livelihoods, and are also regarded with great ambivalence within the countries that host them. We explore this ambivalence, showing how it links to fear of the “others” who animate them, and to broader politics in which migrants become caught. Such places often simultaneously attract members of the host society for a taste of the other, or business opportunities, yet also repel and induce fear as places of danger. For the migrant population, there is also ambivalence—as they are places that offer both opportunity for social mobility, yet also places of hard lives and immobility. In short, both are critical nodes in patterns of South-South mobility where dynamics of such mobility and reaction to it can be understood.
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Alù, Giorgia. "Order and otherness in a photographic shot: Italians abroad and the Great War." Modern Italy 22, no. 3 (August 2017): 291–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2017.34.
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This article explores the meaning of photographic portraits of First World War Italian migrants, in terms of the tensions that emerge from their visual codes and the extent to which the subject’s interior reality and individuality might emerge from the reassuring surface imagery of photography and war. By analysing photographs of Italian migrants who either joined Italy’s army or enrolled in their adopted country’s army, we can see how the ‘otherness’ of the war – its artificial face of idealised glory, honour, and ordinariness, as presented through the portrait’s aesthetic codes – supplants the ‘otherness’ of the migrant individual, that is, their ambivalent life in between different cultures, traditions and identities. Yet, beyond the physical and psychological annihilation of the modern war, the photographic portrait, with its fabricated order and ‘otherness’, becomes, for the migrant soldier, a means of giving coherence to his dislocated existence. The nostalgic visual codes of the photograph, however, evoke an order that is now denied by the destructive mobility and mobilisation of both migration and war.
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Rosa, Fernanda R., and Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez. "Aesthetics of Otherness: Representation of #migrantcaravan and #caravanamigrante on Instagram." Social Media + Society 8, no. 1 (January 2022): 205630512210876. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051221087623.
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This article examines the representation of the migrant caravan on Instagram showing how an aesthetics of otherness has prevailed in this representation. Aesthetics of otherness is the result of the interaction between platform users’ selections and platform affordances that creates a gap between the marginalized other and the user. Based on a qualitative content analysis of posts with the hashtags #caravanamigrante and #migrantcaravan, this research reveals that the two hashtags form parallel, although not alike, communicative spaces where migrant caravan representation is mostly mediated by professionals and organizations interested in promoting their own work and not by the migrants themselves. Despite this trend, users posting with #caravanamigrante were less likely to hijack the intent of the public, more likely to reference reasons for migration, and overall less likely to employ the aesthetics of otherness, which point to the possibility of circumventing the role of the platform in shaping the representation of marginalized people and social justice movements.
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Palenga‐Möllenbeck, Ewa. "Making Migrants’ Input Invisible: Intersections of Privilege and Otherness From a Multilevel Perspective." Social Inclusion 10, no. 1 (March 22, 2022): 184–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v10i1.4789.
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For some years, the German public has been debating the case of migrant workers receiving German benefits for children living abroad, which has been scandalised as a case of “benefit tourism.” This points to a failure to recognise a striking imbalance between the output of the German welfare state to migrants and the input it receives from migrant domestic workers. In this article I discuss how this input is being rendered invisible or at least underappreciated by sexist, racist, and classist practices of othering. To illustrate the point, I will use examples from two empirical research projects that looked into how families in Germany outsource various forms of reproductive work to both female and male migrants from Eastern Europe. Drawing on the concept of othering developed in feminist and postcolonial literature and their ideas of how privileges and disadvantages are interconnected, I will put this example into the context of literature on racism, gender, and care work migration. I show how migrant workers fail to live up to the normative standards of work, family life, and gender relations and norms set by a sedentary society. A complex interaction of supposedly “natural” and “objective” differences between “us” and “them” are at work to justify everyday discrimination against migrants and their institutional exclusion. These processes are also reflected in current political and public debates on the commodification and transnationalisation of care.
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Bertucci, Marie-Madeleine. "Propositions pour l'étude de la notion de mise en altérité." Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique, no. 75 (January 1, 2021): 125–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.26034/tranel.2021.3008.
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In a first step, this article aims to show that the notion of "mise en altérité" leads to the presentation of otherness as a negative and stigmatised difference, an inverted representation of the self, the other being reduced to the condition of a foreigner, which is embodied in particular in the figure of the ancient barbarian. It then leads to the identification of otherness with an elsewhere, a metaphor for an unequal political vision of social space, particularly in medieval thought, and finally to the reduction of otherness to a deficit, a dissimilarity, a source of heterogeneity. In a second step, we will highlight the processes of otherness and minorisation of migrant minority populations through racism and insult, and then we will study the impact of diasporas on the construction of the otherness of migrants. The analysis of diasporic situations brings out the tensions inherent in situations of mobility, which is identified as facts of retraditionalisation and demodernisation resulting fr om cultural difference and leading to a risk of endogamy, and beyond that, to ethnicisation and racisation.
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Mohammed, Hesham M. M. "“Third-class humanˮ: On representation of the image of ethnic migrant in modern Russian drama (on the example of the play “Khach” by U. B. Gitsareva)." Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures] 62 (2021): 246–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2021-62-246-257.
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The paper discusses artistic portrayal of an ethnic migrant in the modern Russian drama on the example of the play “Khach” (2014) by U. B. Gitsareva. The author focuses on the way migration is described and what are the meanings that inform this social phenomenon in the play. The play`s poetics is about giving a voice to migrants and distinguishing them from the mute mass, which organically fits into general tendency of Documentary Theater. The study highlights the concept of “strangeness” (“Otherness”), which is realized here both through a spatial chronotope and artistic objectivity; identifies and systematizes discursive means and mechanisms for constructing the image of an ethnic migrant, reveals perception and attitude of the host community towards the ethnic migrants, explores characteristics attributed to him in the host environment, analyzes how the topic of public recognition is embodied in everyday language and indicates strategies for migrants to overcoming “strangeness” (“otherness”). The author also substantiates the issue`s relevance for literary research. The choice of the paper`s subject is determined by the lack of studies of the given issue in terms of the modern Russian literature. As the analysis shows the play “Khach” is a comprehensive attempt at generalization, built into both the socio-psychological and ideological context.
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Stamenković, Ivana. "Religious elements of media reporting on migrants: A comparison of journalist and reader perspectives." Socioloski pregled 58, no. 3 (2024): 291–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/socpreg58-51132.
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Given that media narratives about migrants are permeated with political, economic, and religious factors, the aim of this analysis is to identify and compare patterns in reporting on the migrant crisis with patterns in readers' comments. This is to determine whether there are differences between these narratives in terms of how migrants are described and referred to, with a particular focus on the presence of religious elements. The sample used to analyze media reporting patterns in relation to the migrant crisis consists of journalistic articles from the online editions of the daily newspapers Politika and Kurir. Additionally, the sample includes the readers' comments accompanying these articles about the migrant crisis and migrants, which were published during 2015 and 2017. The research has found that there is a statistically significant difference between the reporting patterns of journalists and the commenting patterns of readers concerning several reference dimensions (Stamenković, 2021). Among these, the category of Otherness, with emphasized religious elements, stands out particularly, as well as the negative characterization of migrants as an aggressive, militant, and conquering group.
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Ghorashi, Halleh. "“Dutchness” and the migrant “other”." Focaal 2010, no. 56 (March 1, 2010): 106–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2010.560109.
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Peter Jan Margry and Herman Roodenburg, eds., Reframing Dutch culture: Between otherness and authenticity. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, 291 pp., ISBN 978-0-754-64705-8 (hardcover).Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam, and the limits of tolerance. New York: Penguin Books, 2006, 288 pp., ISBN 978-0-143-11236-5 (paperback).
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ERGÜN, Didem Başak. "Migrant Chic : Vilification by fashion photography." Revue plurilingue : Études des Langues, Littératures et Cultures 2, no. 1 (December 2, 2018): 10–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.46325/ellic.v2i1.22.
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This article analyses Hungarian fashion photographer Norbert Baksa‟s controversial photography series entitled “Der Migrant”.The images are claimed to present a social commentary on the refugee crisis by the photographer. However, the critical analysis of the photos reveals that Baksa‟s images depict an obscene Oriental Otherness through portraying a Janus-faced refugee figure which embodies an oversexualized Oriental femininity mongrelized with dangerous, strange and fearful Muslim otherness.
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Cet article analyse les séries photographiques controversées du photographe de mode hongrois Norbert Baksa intitulées "Der Migrant". Les images prétendent présenter un commentaire social du photographe sur la crise des réfugiés. Cependant, l'analyse critique des photos révèle que les images de Baksa représentent une altérité orientale obscène à travers la représentation d'une figure de réfugié au visage Janus qui incarne une féminité orientale exagérée, associée à une altérité musulmane dangereuse, étrange et effrayante.
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Pio, Edwina, and Caroline Essers. "Professional Migrant Women Decentring Otherness: A Transnational Perspective." British Journal of Management 25, no. 2 (February 27, 2013): 252–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12003.
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VILLA, ILARIA. "HUMANS AND NON-HUMANS: REPRESENTATION OF DIVERSITY AND EXCLUSIONARY PRACTICES IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION TV SERIES." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/852591.
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Questa tesi si propone di esaminare la rappresentazione di diversità, xenofobia, razzismo e pratiche di esclusione in due serie TV di fantascienza di recente produzione: Humans (Sam Vincent e Jonathan Brackley, Channel 4 e AMC, UK e USA, 3 stagioni, 24 episodi, 2015-2018) e The Aliens (Fintan Ryan, E4, 1 stagione, 6 episodi, 2016). Entrambe le serie sono ambientate nel Regno Unito, in un presente alternativo in cui oltre agli umani è presente un’altra specie umanoide senziente: androidi nel primo caso, alieni nel secondo. In entrambe le serie, il gruppo di non-umani è costretto ad una posizione sociale subalterna e i protagonisti non-umani subiscono discriminazione e razzismo da parte degli umani: in questo modo, si rappresenta metaforicamente la condizione dei migranti e delle minoranze etniche nel Nord Globale di oggi. Partendo da questa simbologia, il mio scopo è di analizzare Humans e The Aliens attraverso un approccio culturalista, per determinare se queste due serie presentino particolari innovazioni nella rappresentazione della diversità all’interno del genere fantascientifico.
Nell’introduzione spiego i motivi che mi hanno portata a scegliere questo argomento di studio e fornisco una cornice metodologica per la mia analisi. Traccio poi un quadro generale dei tropi dell’alieno e dell’androide come metafore di alterità, basandomi sull’attuale stato dell’arte nei principali campi di studio coinvolti: fantascienza, cinema e televisione, studi culturali, studi sulle migrazioni. Evidenzio che nel cinema, in particolare, la rappresentazione di alieni e androidi è stata spesso considerata eccessivamente semplificata e binaria, con personaggi non-umani presentati come univocamente positivi o negativi. Ipotizzo, quindi, che le serie TV contemporanee, che sono spesso lodate per la loro capacità di raccontare storie corali e sfaccettate, possano fornire rappresentazioni della diversità più complesse, in cui si dà spazio a molteplici punti di vista e a una pluralità di prospettive.
Nel primo capitolo spiego il motivo per cui ho scelto Humans e The Aliens e analizzo la rappresentazione della diversità nelle due serie, concentrandomi sulla costruzione e imposizione dell’alterità, sullo status sociale dei personaggi non-umani, sulle spazialità dell’abiezione, e su come tutti questi aspetti possano essere letti come metafora della condizione dei migranti nel Nord Globale, in particolare nel Regno Unito e negli Stati Uniti.
Nel secondo capitolo analizzo la caratterizzazione di androidi e alieni nelle due serie, dimostrando attraverso quali strategie questi personaggi vengano arricchiti di voce e agency, e come la lunghezza e l’organizzazione temporale della narrazione permettano effettivamente di presentare punti di vista diversi e in contrasto tra loro. Esamino poi la narrazione affettiva in Humans e The Aliens, che ritengo innovativa rispetto a casi precedenti nella fantascienza, e traccio una possibile connessione con la recente rilevanza dell’affetto notata già da tempo da studiosi di molte discipline filosofiche, psicologiche e umanistiche e divenuta sempre più importante in tempi recenti nell’ambito degli studi culturali, dell’analisi del discorso, della comunicazione politica e della teoria dei media.
Nelle conclusioni confermo che Humans e The Aliens presentano alcune interessanti innovazioni nella rappresentazione della diversità all’interno del genere fantascientifico; queste innovazioni sono rese possibili dalla specificità del mezzo narrativo utilizzato e sono coerenti con tendenze culturali e comunicative recenti. Infine, suggerisco alcune domande e questioni rimaste da esplorare e propongo possibili sviluppi di ricerca futuri.This work examines the representation of diversity, xenophobia, racism, and exclusionary practices in two recent science fiction TV series: Humans (Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley, Channel 4 and AMC, UK and USA, 3 seasons, 24 episodes, 2015-2018) and The Aliens (Fintan Ryan, E4, 1 season, 6 episodes, 2016). Both series are set in the United Kingdom and represent an alternative present in which another sentient humanoid species exists alongside humans: androids in one case, aliens in the other. In both series, the group of non-humans is confined to a subaltern position in society, and the main non-human characters face discrimination and racism in their everyday life: this makes them clear symbols for migrants and ethnic minorities in countries of the Global North today. Based on this metaphor, my aim is to analyse the two series using a cultural approach, to determine whether they bring any innovation to the representation of difference within the science fiction genre. In the Introduction, I explain the reasons behind my choice of this research topic and provide the theoretical framework for my analysis. I then provide a general overview of the tropes of the alien and the android as symbols of racial difference, based on the current state of the art in science fiction studies, film and television studies, cultural studies, and migration studies. I highlight how the representation of aliens and androids in science fiction cinema, in particular, has often been considered oversimplified, portraying non-humans univocally as either positive or negative characters. I suggest that contemporary TV series might provide more complex representations of diversity, since TV series in the twenty-first century have been praised for their potential to tell multifaceted and multi-perspectival stories. In the first chapter, I explain why Humans and The Aliens were chosen for my analysis, and I explore the portrayal of difference in the two series, focusing on how the creation and enforcement of otherness, the social status of non-humans, and the rendering of spatialities of abjection mirror social issues related to the current condition of migrants in the Global North, specifically in the United Kingdom and in the United States. In the second chapter, I provide an analysis of the characterisation of non-humans in the two series, examining the representational strategies through which they are given voice and agency, and demonstrating how the length and structure of the narrative do indeed allow for the presence of multiple, often contrasting points of view and the creation of intense bonding with the audience. I hence expand on affective narrative in Humans and The Aliens, arguing that it presents some novelties in the science fiction genre and that these novelties are possibly connected to the ‘affective turn’ noted by philosophers and scholars across the Humanities, which has recently acquired increasing momentum in the fields of cultural studies, political communication, and discourse and media theory. In the Conclusions, I argue that Humans and The Aliens are innovative in their representation of difference within the science fiction genre; this complex and effective representation is allowed by the specificity of the narrative medium and is coherent with recent cultural and communicative trends. Finally, I suggest some questions and issues that might be addressed by future research in this field.
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Ouadi-Chouchane, Ibtissam. "Les représentations de l’altérité migrante originaire d’Afrique, du Proche et du Moyen-Orient dans la littérature espagnole 2000-2018." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Strasbourg, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024STRAC024.
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Cette recherche explore le genre théâtral et ses ponts avec le genre romanesque dans la représentation de l’altérité migrante dans la littérature espagnole contemporaine entre 2000 et 2018. En nous concentrant sur les migrations africaines et proche et moyen-orientales, qui ont marqué les côtes espagnoles dès les années 1990, nous comparons l’évolution de la figure de l’altérité migrante entre les années 1990 et 2000, marquée par un tournant dramaturgique et littéraire. L’analyse s’élargit aux dramaturges de langue arabe ayant vécu ce phénomène migratoire, interrogeant la manière dont le théâtre et le roman construisent la figure de l’altérité migrante et cristallisent les stéréotypes alimentés par nos sociétés. Ces œuvres, loin d’une simple mimésis, questionnent le regard social façonné par les médias et offrent un espace pour examiner les contours de l’altérité migrante, ainsi que les stratégies littéraires et dramatiques qui la mettent en débat. Nous questionnons enfin l’impact de ces représentations sur la société espagnole, confrontée depuis les années 1990 à des flux migratoires massifs, et sur les nouvelles lois qui en découlent (Loi organique 4/2000 et ses modifications successives). En dernière instance, cette littérature dramatique nous permet d'évaluer en quoi elle participe à la construction de la citoyenneté et de l’engagement civique, en offrant un prisme critique sur la figure de l’AutreThis research explores the theatrical genre and its connections with the novelistic genre in the representation of migrant otherness in contemporary Spanish literature between 2000 and 2018. Focusing on African and Middle Eastern migrations that have reached Spanish shores since the 1990s, we compare the evolution of the figure of migrant otherness between the 1990s and 2000s, marked by a dramaturgical and literary shift.The analysis extends to Arabic-speaking playwrights who have experienced this migratory phenomenon, questioning how theater and the novel construct the figure of migrant otherness and crystallize the stereotypes perpetuated by our societies. These works, far from mere mimesis, challenge the social gaze shaped by the media and provide a space to examine the contours of migrant otherness, as well as the literary and dramatic strategies that bring it into debate.Finally, we examine the impact of these representations on Spanish society, which has been confronted with massive migratory flows since the 1990s, and on the new laws that have emerged in response (Organic Law 4/2000 and its successive amendments). Ultimately, this dramatic literature allows us to assess how it contributes to the construction of citizenship and civic engagement by offering a critical lens on the figure of the Other
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Ngeh, Jonathan. "Conflict, marginalisation and transformation : African migrants in Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-43340.
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Migrants from the Global South, coming to Sweden predominantly since the 1980s, have become a major focus of public discussions about immigration. The fears of and resentments toward the migrant ‘other’ appear to have shifted from European migrants to migrants of the Global South. Numerous studies (and official reports) showing the marginalisation of these migrants confirm their spotlight position. The aim of this thesis is to describe and explain the kind of challenges which African migrants face in their local Swedish context and to find out if they undergo any significant transformations affecting their identities and/or ways of life. This objective was pursued through a field study of African migrants from Cameroon and Somalia living in the city of Malmö. The empirical material consisted of semi-structured interviews with individuals and groups and participant observations at migrant cultural associations. The analysis utilised two main theoretical frameworks: theory of conflict transformation and theories of discrimination (racism). The choice of the former was made to illuminate the agency of migrants by highlighting their capacity to act in their own interests within the host society. A major strength of this approach is that it draws attention to the (re)actions of both ‘natives’ and migrants towards each other. Theories of discrimination address the important issue of unequal power relations working against migrants, which tend to be neglected in conflict theory. The advantage of using these different theoretical approaches is that they complement each other and thus strengthen the theoretical discussion in the thesis. Analysis of the empirical material indicated that established practices in major institutions, as well as individual actions at the micro level of society, contribute to the marginalisation of migrants. A major finding was that both migrants and ‘natives’ are involved in practices that produce experiences of marginalisation and discrimination for the former. Actions that produced conflicts, material deprivation and exclusion were identified with both migrants and ‘natives’. However, actions by ‘natives’ had a more negative impact than those by migrants. This was seen as the result of the fact that ‘natives’ have greater influence in society because of their relative position of power. Finally, the thesis showed that migrants perceive the challenges confronting them in Sweden in different ways, due to the specific experiences they face in Sweden but also by reason of their experiences in their countries of origins and their different migration histories. Some of them saw the practices that produced their marginalisation as infringements on their basic rights and responded by actively fighting back. Others were less critical of similar practices and did little or nothing about them. Important differences between migrants were also noted in relation to their transformations in Sweden affecting important aspects of their lives: their identities, power relations among them and between them and the host society, gender relations, and their ways of dealing with the challenges with which they were confronted. These differences were seen as a result of the heterogeneity of the migrants under study, who nevertheless are often homogenised as the African ‘other’. This heterogeneity consisted of hierarchical gender relations, varying access to material resources, and membership in exclusive networks of belonging based on particularistic national and regional identities.
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Norin, Michael. "Offer eller en problemkategori : En kritisk diskursanalys av hur EU-migranter skildras i svensk press." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Socialt arbete, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-30728.
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Studiens syfte var att undersöka hur EU-migranter framställs i de två mest spridda nyhetstidningarna i Sverige år 2015, Aftonbladet och Expressen. En kritisk diskursanalys användes som metod för att besvara studiens syfte och frågeställningar. Studiens teoretiska fundament utgjordes av socialkontruktionism, kritisk diskursanalys och teorier kopplade till andrafiering. Studiens huvudresultat visade att de två nyhetstidningarna beskrev EU-migranter som romer, bulgarer eller rumäner och som sjuka, fattiga samt utsatta levandes under osanitära förhållanden. Vidare så beskrevs att de protesterade och etablerade olagliga bosättningar. De framställdes som beroende av svenskars hjälp och att deras handlingsutrymme var begränsat. Tre diskurser hittades: Rättsdiskurs – med krav på lag och ordning gällande hanteringen av EU-migranter, Offerdiskurs – fokus på EU- migranternas utsatthet och hjälpbehov, samt Ansvarsdiskurs - vem bär ansvaret för att hjälpa EU-migranterna i deras situation. EU-migranter andrafierades som avvikande, onormala samt ett hot mot svensk lag, ordning och värderingar.The purpose of the study was to examine how EU-migrants was depicted in the two top selling newspapers in Sweden year 2015, Aftonlandet and Expressen. A critical discourse analysis was used to answer the purpose and questions of the study. The theoretical foundation consists of social constructionism, critical discourse analysis and theories linked to otherness. The main result showed that the two newspapers described EU- migrants as romas, Bulgarians or Romanians and being sick, poor and vulnerable, living in unsanitary conditions, setting up illegal settlements. They were depicted as having limited agency and being dependent of the help from swedes. Three discourses were found: Legal discourse – demanding law and order in handling the EU-migrants, Victims discourse – focusing on the EU-migrants vulnerability and need of help, and Responsibility discourse – discussing who’s responsible for helping the EU-migrants out. EU-migrants was constructed as the other by portraying them as deviant and a threat to Swedish law, order and values.
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Desplechin, François. "L'identité dans l'exil : Clinique auprès de sujets migrants, la question de l’identité dans la psychanalyse." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM3050/document.
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L'objectif de ce travail de thèse est :- de penser le concept de l'identité dans la psychanalyse à travers la clinique de patients migrants de première génération (demandeurs d'asile à Marseille, migrants en situation irrégulière à Barcelone)- de travailler sur les faits cliniques suivants : comment comprendre que certains patients en arrivent à dire "je ne sais plus qui je suis", connaissent des inhibitions à "habiter le lieu" (F. Benslama), ou encore manifestent un effondrement psychique au moment de l'annonce d'un accord d'asile politique ? La proposition qui est faite est que ces faits cliniques relèvent « d'une clinique de l'identité » et s'adressent inconsciemment à la représentation de soi. Penser l'identité dans l'exil conduit à faire l'hypothèse que l'accès à soi est indexé à l'expérience de l'altérité. Pour cela, l'exil pourra être interprété au niveau psychique comme l'expérience d'une altération de la relation à l'Autre, c'est-à-dire comme une expérience qui pourra entraîner, pour le sujet, une altération de la relation à soi.Cela conduit à faire l'hypothèse qu'au cœur de la migration se trouve un fantasme inconscient de trahison qui s'adresserait à l'identité et qui s'échafauderait sur une appréhension plus inconsciente encore, qui serait celle pour le sujet d'une crainte indicible liée à l'angoisse de l'oubli.L'accompagnement clinique pourra alors être pensé comme un « travail d'identité », c'est-à-dire comme un travail de reconnaissance de la singularité de l'épreuve du sujet, afin que celui-ci puisse renouer le dialogue avec lui-même et que l'exil puisse s'ouvrir dans sa dimension ontologique, c'est-à-dire comme expérience d'identitéThe purpose of this doctoral thesis is:- to think identity in psychoanalysis through the clinical care of first generation migrants (asylum seekers in Marseille, migrants in irregular status in Barcelona)- to work on those clinical facts : how can we understand that some patients are able to say "I don't know who I am", how can we understand that they go through some inhibitions to "live in the place" (F. Benslama), and how can we understand that some of them go through psychic collapse at the moment of the announcement of an agreement for political asylum?The hypothesis that I make is that these clinical facts can be understood as a "clinic of identity". The purpose to think identity through exile lead us to the hypothesis that the access of self-representation is built on the experience of otherness. This is why the exile can be interpreted (as a psychical experience) as an alteration of the relationship with the Other, which means as an alteration of self-representation.This implies to make the hypothesis that there is, inside of the question of exile, an unconscious phantasy of treason, and that this phantasy is related with the identity, and that this phantasy is based over the unspeakable fear of being forgotten.The clinical care will then be understood as an "identity work", which means as a work of recognition of the singularity of the event that the subject goes through, so that the patient would be able to restart the dialogue with himself. Then the exile may be thought in its ontological dimension : it means as an experience of identity
El objetivo de esta tesis es :- por una parte, pensar el concepto de identidad en el psicoanálisis a través de la clínica con pacientes emigrantes de primera generación (solicitantes de asilo político en Marsella, inmigrantes de primera generación en situación irregular o ilegal en Barcelona)- por otra parte, de trabajar sobre los siguientes hechos clínicos relacionados con la cuestión de la identidad: ¿cómo entender el echo de que algunos pacientes llegan a decir "ya no sé quién soy", como entender el echo de que algunos manifiesten inhibiciones obvias con el echo de "habitar en el lugar" (F. Benslama), o como entender que algunos vivan un colapso psíquico en el momento del anuncio de un acuerdo de asilo político?La propuesta que hago es que estos hechos clínicos se puedan entender como relevantes de "una clínica de la identidad", lo que significa que se dirigen inconscientemente a la cuestión de la representación de si mismo.Pensar la identidad a través de exilio o de la migración conduce a sostener la hipótesis de que el acceso a si mismo está indexado sobre la presencia del Otro. En consecuencia, el exilio puede interpretarse, al nivel psíquico, como la experiencia de una alteración de la relación hacia el Otro, es decir, como una experiencia que puede conducir el sujeto (el paciente) hacia una alteración de la relación con si mismo.Esto supone hacer la hipótesis que, dentro del corazón de la migración, se encuentra una fantasía inconsciente de traición o de falta, fantasía que se dirige hacia la identidad, y que se construye sobre un temor, aún más inconsciente, relacionado, por el sujeto, con una angustia indecible relacionada con la angustia del olvido.Entonces el acompañamiento clínico podrá pensarse como un "trabajo de identidad", es decir como un trabajo de reconocimiento de la singularidad del experiencia que vive el sujeto (el paciente) en exilio, para que pueda reanudar el diálogo con si mismo, y para que el exilio pueda abrirse en toda su dimensión ontológica, es decir, como una experiencia de identidad
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Tocaciu, Roxana Luisa. "Un ailleurs intouchable : impasses institutionnelles et solutions subjectives dans l'accueil d'une population migrante d'origine rom." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM3071.
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A partir du postulat psychanalytique de l'inconscient qui inscrit le manque au coeur sujet, cette thèse doctorale met en avant l'articulation universelle du sujet à la culture, au-delà des déclinaisons particulières qui viennent métaphoriser – à travers les signifiants de chaque culture – l'interdit fondamental structurant cette articulation et les prescriptions culturelles formulées à partir de celui-ci. Pour ce faire nous nous sommes appuyés sur l’expérience du vécu subjectif de l'exil entraînant une mise en suspens des illusions fondatrices de l'appartenance dans le contexte de notre rencontre clinique avec un membre de la communauté migrante rom en Île-de-France. En disant rom, nous parlons d'une appartenance culturelle et sociale qui, d'un point de vue psychanalytique, fonctionne selon des coordonnées symboliques. Ces coordonnées, avant d'être spécifiques à une culture, sont universelles à ce que Freud appelle la Kultur : le sujet soumis à l'interdit fondamental trouve sa place dans l'ordre des générations et dans la différence des sexes. C'est à partir de cette place que ce tisse le désir du sujet qui doit faire avec son manque qui se décline et circule à travers les signifiants de sa culture. Si une particularité est à prendre en compte, elle est à situer au niveau des conditions sociales de la réalisation du mouvement migratoire : la conservation de l'organisation des structures sociales de la communauté en terre étrangère permet le maintien de la place symbolique initiale du sujet au sein de son univers d'appartenance. Ainsi, si l'amarrage symbolique du rom migrant ne s'abîment pas, bien qu'il soit constamment confronté avec un imaginaire qui pullule autour de la figure de l’étranger, c'est parce qu'il a scellé son inscription dans un ailleurs inaliénable et intouchable (dit Athiganos en grec ancien) par les effets immédiats du dépaysement et de la non-reconnaissance d'une place chez l'autre. Ainsi nous avons pu comprendre, dans ce contexte migratoire particulier, que l'exil ne commence pas avec le déplacement mais lors de la séparation d'avec la communauté d'appartenance, avec la confrontation à un manque de sens au coeur de soi qui émerge dans la rencontre à l'étranger provoquant une mise en question radicale de la place symbolique initiale du sujet.Face l'évocation nostalgique de la perte du sujet exilé, l'adresse du clinicien aura consisté à écouter de manière respectueuse les contenus – objets de la perte, que le patient présente comme étant d'ordre culturel – mais d'y aller au-delà, de centrer son attention sur le processus même de la perte et de l'épreuve de l'ébranlement identitaire que traverse le sujet, en se découvrant orphelin des illusions qui fondaient son appartenance et sa place symbolique qui soutenait son désir. Les questionnements qui surgissent dans ce contexte seront celles qui mènent vers la subjectivité du patient, relevant les lignes de faille de sa suture symbolique: interrogations des origines, de l'ordre familial, du rapport aux parents, des droits et privilèges des autres membres de la fratrie, de ses propres choix sexuels, etc.Au cours du notre suivi clinique nous avons pu observer un usage subjectif de place accordé à l'étranger, en tant que territoire d’aliénation symbolique nécessaire au sujet aux prises avec le désir menaçant de l'Autre féminin, dont le sujet se sauve à travers un mouvement d'auto-exil. Entendu et accueilli dans la parole, il a pu se métaphoriser en un exil fécond. C'est suite à une opération d'appropriation de ce déracinement subjectif, qu'une installation a été possible dans un espace symbolique autre que celui des origines, métaphorisé par l'hébergement social, devenu espace d'accueil de cet exil subjectif premierThis doctoral thesis emphacises the universal relation between subjet and culture from the standpoint of the psychoanalytic postulate of the unconscious as determining the fundamental lack of the subject, all of this beyond particular cultural declensions which “metaphorise” – through the signifiers of each culture – the fundamental prohibition which structures this relation as well as the cultural commandments thereby expressed.For this purpose, we base ourselves on the subjective experience of exile in real life as suspending the fundamental illusions of belonging, more specifically within the context of our clinical encounter with a member of the Roma migrant community within the Ile-de-France region. When using the term “Roma”, we refer to cultural and social backgrounds which, from the point of view of psychoanalysis, function according to symbolic coordinates. Such coordinates, before becoming culturally specific, are universal through what Freud designates as Kultur: the subject, who is subjected to the fundamental prohibition, finds a meaningful place within the order of generations and within gender differences. It is from this place that the subject, who must make do with his lack – lack which declines and circulates within the signifiers of his culture –, weaves his desire.If any particularity is to be taken into account, it must be located within the social conditions determining the migratory movement: the compositional safeguarding of the community's social structures even in foreing land permits the subject's initial symbolic configuration within his place of belonging to be conserved. Hence, if the symbolic mooring of the migrant Roma is not lost, even though he is constantly confronted with an imaginary overrun with figures of foreignness, it is because he has sealed its inscription within an elsewhere which is unalienable and intangible (said Athiganos in ancient Greek) as an immediate consequence of the unfamiliarity and the disallowance of a place among the others.Following this view we may understand, in such a particular migratory context, how exile does not commence with displacement, but rather through separation from a community of belonging, through confrontation with the lack of meaning within oneself – lack of meaning emerging within the encounter with the foreigner, radically questionning the subject's original symbolic place.Facing the exiled subject's nostalgic evocation of his loss, the clinician's task is to respectfully acknowledge these contents – as lost objects, which are presented by the patient as being of cultural order – , and go beyond, to focus upon the psychic process of loss itself, as well as the weakening of identity as a trial endured by the subject, as the latter becomes orphaned from the illusions founding the membership and symbolic place which suppored hitherto his desire. The questions arising from such a context will be those which lead to the patient's subjectivity, bringing out the fault lines of his symbolic composition: doubts of his origins, of the family order, of linkages with parents, of the rights and privileges of his siblings, of his own sexual choices, etc.Throughout our clinical follow-up, we observed a subjective usage of the place given to the foreigner, as a symbolic territory of alienation indispensable to the subjet facing the threatening desire of the feminin Other, from which the subject flees through a movement of auto-exile. If met and acknowledged through speech, he could metaphorise himself in a prolific exile. Following the operation of such subjective uprooting was the possibility that a symbolic space other than that of the origins be invested, metaphorised through social accomodation, to become a space capable of accomodating the initial subjective exile
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Bento, Paulo Tiago. "Travel writers, tourist writers, migrant writers: a sociological qualitative and quantitative analysis of factual literature on contemporary Portugal and Spain." Doctoral thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/6571.
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Com base num corpus de nove obras de não-ficção sobre os países da Península Ibérica, é realizada uma análise sistemática das representações que essas obras transmitem, comparando-as com resultados da literatura das ciências sociais sobre esses países. As características estruturais dos textos associadas à produção e apresentação de tais representações também são consideradas. O ponto de partida para estas duas tarefas é uma definição de imagem do social, juntamente com o conceito de leitor de senso comum, visto que um dos objetivos é considerar representações tal como surgem ao público. As imagens são quantificados em termos da sua densidade, grau de generalidade, formas de conhecimento e fontes de conhecimento, bem como quanto aos temas que consubstanciam e às dualidades sociedade tradicional / sociedade moderna e diferença / semelhança fundamental da alteridade (sendo a quantificação considerada necessária para evitar o problema da quantificação implícita identificado nos estudos sobre literatura de viagens produzidos pelas Humanidades). Tais dados alimentam uma análise individual e comparativa de cada obra, complementada por dados qualitativos. Os padrões identificados – preconceito estrutural, tipos de autenticidade, apresent(ific)ação do passado e esteticização do social – são relacionados com uma tipologia de escritores (viajantes, turistas e emigrantes) elaborada com base nos estudos sobre literatura de viagens e turismo, bem como atendendo às circunstâncias materiais e epistemológicas do contacto dos autores com a alteridade. Algumas das associações – assim como a respetiva ausência – servem de base a uma discussão de possibilidades de causalidade (por exemplo, com base nas origens dos autores) e destacam possíveis funções culturais específicas desempenhadas pela literatura factual sobre a alteridade.Based on a corpus of 9 non-fiction works dealing with Portugal or Spain, a systematic analysis is performed of the representations those works convey, comparing them with views of the literature of social science on such countries. The texts’ structural features associated with the production and presentation of such representations are also analysed. The departing point for both tasks is a definition of image of the social, along with the concept of commonsensical reader, as one of the goals is to consider the representations as they would appear to audience. Images are quantified in terms of their density, degree of generality, forms of knowledge and sources of knowledge. They are also quantified in terms of the themes they convey and the dualities traditional society/modern society and fundamental similarity/difference of otherness (quantification being considered necessary to avoid the problem of the implicit quantification found in the literature on travel writing produced by Humanities). Such data feed an individual and comparative analysis of each work, complemented by qualitative data. The emerging patterns – structural prejudice, types of authenticity, present(ific)ation of the past and aestheticization of the social – are related with a typology of writers (travellers, tourists and migrants) based on literature on tourism and travel writing, as well as on the material and epistemological circumstances of the authors’ contact with otherness. Some of the associations – as well as their absence – underpin a discussion of possibilities of causation such as the origins of authors and highlight possible specific cultural functions performed by the factual literature on otherness.
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Němečková, Michaela. ""Až přijdou do Prahy, bude pozdě" Obsahová analýza mediálních sdělení zaměřených na tzv. migrační krizi a její genderový rozměr." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-406169.
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This thesis focuses on the presentation of the so-called migration and refugee crisis of 2015- 2016 in the news coverage published by the main Czech daily newspapers. The thesis is a gender analysis of media messages during that period. In the framework of this thesis, I have analysed through qualitative content analysis written media reports as well as photographs of newly arrived migrants and other visual materials published in the media in order to illustrate migrants in Czech daily newspapers Blesk, Lidove noviny, Mlada fronta Dnes, and Pravo during the month of January 2016. The thesis focuses on how masculinity/femininity is constructed in media messages. Furthermore, the thesis looks into the construction and representation of otherness through media messages dedicated to so-called migration crisis. The aim of the thesis is to critically assess how newly arrived migrants are depicted by the main four Czech dailies, and to analyse and explain the mechanisms through which certain characteristics associated with newly arrived migrants are emphasised or suppressed. Key words: Media - gender - masculinity - femininity - migration - migration crisis - refugee crisis - religion - ethnicity - otherness
Books on the topic "Migrant otherness"
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F, Hancock Ian, ed. Migrant and nomad: European visual culture and the representation of "Otherness". Essen: Blaue Eule, 2007.
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Permanent Outsiders in China: American Migrants' Otherness in the Chinese Gaze. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2021.
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Liu, Yang. Permanent Outsiders in China: American Migrants' Otherness in the Chinese Gaze. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2021.
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Liu, Yang. Permanent Outsiders in China: American Migrants' Otherness in the Chinese Gaze. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2021.
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Liu, Yang. Permanent Outsiders in China: American Migrants' Otherness in the Chinese Gaze. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2021.
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Michael, Olga, Claire Nally, Gillian Whitlock, Amy Carlson, Emma Parker, M. Shalini, and Moncy Mathew. Human Rights in Graphic Life Narrative. Edited by Elleke Boehmer and Katherine Collins. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350329782.
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Surveying print and digital graphic life narratives about migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, this book investigates how comics and graphic novels witness human rights transgressions in contemporary Anglophone culture and how they can promote social justice. With thought given to how the graphic form can offer a powerful counterpoint to the legal, humanitarian and media discourses that dehumanise the most violated and dispossessed, but also how these works by western creatives may unconsciously reproduce Western neo-colonial presentations of the ‘other,’ Olga Michael focuses on gender, childhood and space within works from the United States, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Palestine, the United Kingdom, Syria, Italy, France, Niger, South Africa, Libya and Sri Lanka. Combining the familiar with the lesser-known, this book covers the work of Thi Bui’s Best We Could Do, Mia Kirshner’s I Live Here, Francesca Sanna’s The Journey, Safda Ahmed’s Villawood: Notes from an Immigration Detention Centre and the works of Joe Sacco. Interdisciplinary in its consideration of life writing, comics and human rights studies, and comparative in approach, this book explores such topics as including the aesthetics of visualised suffering; spatial articulations of human rights violations; the occurrence of violations whilst crossing borders; the gendered dimensions of visually-captured violence; and how human rights discourses intersect with graphic depictions of the dead. In so doing, Michael establishes how to read human rights and social justice comics in relation to an escalating global crisis and deftly complicates negotiations of ‘otherness’ in discussions surrounding refugees and migration. A vitally important work to the humanities sector, this book underscores the significance of emphatic and ethical readings as forms of secondary witnessing.
Book chapters on the topic "Migrant otherness"
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Lozanovska, Mirjana. "Abjection, otherness, performativity." In Migrant Housing, 31–50. New York : Routledge, 2019. |: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203701300-3.
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Lashchuk, Iuliia. "Female Migrant as Other: Communicating Otherness Through Artistic Practices of Ukrainian Female Migrants." In Palgrave Studies in Otherness and Communication, 263–77. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65084-0_16.
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Adisa, Olumide. "Centring Otherness with Migrant Women Affected by Domestic Abuse." In Palgrave Studies in Otherness and Communication, 237–53. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73788-6_16.
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Dumlao, Remart, Ariane Macalinga Borlongan, Kevin Anthony Sison, Mikhail Alic C. Go, and Nathaniel Oco. "Othering of Migrants in the Press: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Representation of Migration in Newspapers in Top Migrant Destination Countries." In Palgrave Studies in Otherness and Communication, 15–30. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65084-0_2.
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Savić, Bojan. "13. ‘A Small Plot of New Land at All Times’." In Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe, 129–36. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0331.13.
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In this chapter, I explore the normalization of my own vulnerability and immigrant otherness through a subjectivity of hope and aspiration. In particular, I embed my problematization of – and coping with – personal precarity (as a working-class Serbian academic in Belgium and the United States) in discourses of aspirational temporality and de-territorialized hope for happiness.
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Monteiro, Daniela, Emília Araújo, and Ana Azevedo. "The Time of the Outside: Exploring the Representation of Migrant and Refugee Individuals in Local Newspapers." In Palgrave Studies in Otherness and Communication, 49–65. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65084-0_4.
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Wickramasinghe, Nira. "Migration, Migrant Communities and Otherness in Twentieth-Century Sinhala Nationalism in Sri Lanka (up to Independence)." In Community, Empire and Migration, 153–84. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05743-3_6.
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Wickramasinghe, Nira. "Migration, Migrant Communities and Otherness in Twentieth-Century Sinhala Nationalism in Sri Lanka (up to Independence)." In Community, Empire and Migration, 153–84. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780333977293_6.
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Rapanta, Chrysi, and Susana Trovão. "Intercultural Education for the Twenty-First Century: A Comparative Review of Research." In Dialogue for Intercultural Understanding, 9–26. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71778-0_2.
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AbstractBased on the assumption that globalization should not imply homogenization, it is important for education to promote dialogue and intercultural understanding. The first appearance of the term ‘intercultural education’ in Europe dates back to 1983, when European ministers of education at a conference in Berlin, in a resolution for the schooling of migrant children, highlighted the intercultural dimension of education (Portera in Intercultural Education 19:481–491, 2008). One of the mandates of intercultural education is to promote intercultural dialogue, meaning dialogue that is “open and respectful” and that takes place between individuals or groups “with different ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic backgrounds and heritage on the basis of mutual understanding and respect” (Council of Europe in White paper on intercultural dialogue: Living together as equals in dignity. Council of Europe, Strasbourg, p. 10, 2008). Such backgrounds and heritages form cultural identities, not limited to ethnic, religious and linguistic ones, as culture is a broader concept including several layers such as “experience, interest, orientation to the world, values, dispositions, sensibilities, social languages, and discourses” (Cope and Kalantzis in Pedagogies: An International Journal 4:173, 2009). As cultural identities are multi-layered, so is cultural diversity, and therefore it becomes a challenge for educators and researchers to address it (Hepple et al. in Teaching and Teacher Education 66:273–281, 2017). Referring to Leclercq (The lessons of thirty years of European co-operation for intercultural education, Steering Committee for Education, Strasbourg, 2002), Hajisoteriou and Angelides (International Journal of Inclusive Education 21:367, 2017) argue that “intercultural education aims to stress the dynamic nature of cultural diversity as an unstable mixture of sameness and otherness.” This challenge relates to the dynamic concept of culture itself, as socially constructed, and continuously shaped and reshaped through communicative interactions (Holmes et al. in Intercultural Education 26:16–30, 2015).
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Donatiello, Davide. "Sticky, Valuable, Contested: The Reputation of Migrants and Their Groups." In Palgrave Studies in Otherness and Communication, 233–46. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65084-0_14.
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Konstantinov, V. V., E. A. Klimova, and R. V. Osin. "Socio-psychological adaptation of children of labor migrants in the conditions of preschool educational institutions." In INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL ONLINE CONFERENCE. Знание-М, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.38006/907345-50-8.2020.143.155.
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In the modern world, labour migrants come to developed countries with their children, including children of preschool age, in search of better jobs. It is children who are most vulnerable in the framework of the migration process as they need to adapt to life in a new multicultural environment. Today, in fact, there is absence of fundamental developments aimed at solving difficulties of an adaptation process for children of labour migrants who have insufficient experience in constructive sociopsychological interaction and are involved in building image representation systems of significant others and of their own selves. The paper presents results of an empirical study implemented on the basis of preschool educational institutions of the Penza region in which 120 children of labour migrants participated between the ages of 6–7 years. Authors conclude that children of labour migrants are the most vulnerable social group in need of psychological support. Most pronounced destructive impact on a pre-schooler’s personality is expressed in a child-parent relationship. As main effects of a maladaptive behaviour of children from migrant families we can highlight: expressed anxiety, decreased self-esteem, neurotic reactions in social interaction, identification inconsistency, reduced social activity, intolerance of otherness and constant stress due to expectations of failure. Most children from migrant families express decreased or low self-esteem. The nature of a parent-child relationship is expressed in a collective image of a parent, in particular the image of the mother, and acts as an indicator of well-being / dysfunction of a child’s personal development, his attitude to the world and his own self.
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Su, Freya, David Beynon, and Van Krisadawat. "Otherness and Cultural Change on Marginal Sites: The Siting and Establishment of Daoist Temples in Australia." In The 39th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. PLACE NAME: SAHANZ, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a5044p5626.
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Otherness relegates newly arrived migrants in Australia to the fringes and periphery of established territories. Whether the land allotted to them is on the outskirts of a town, or within industrial areas of a city, the prevailing attribute of these sites is their low significance and value to the existing population. Then, as migrant communities develop these localities, the identity of such areas is profoundly altered, particularly by the establishment of culturally and socially specific institutions. As examples, this paper draws comparisons between three Daoist temples in Australia: the Guan Di Temple (former Joss House) at Weldborough, Tasmania; the Yiu Ming Temple, in Alexandria, NSW; and the Guan Di Temple, Springvale, Victoria. They represent temples established in the colonial period, in the early years of Australia’s Federation and in the late twentieth century under conditions of governmental multiculturalism respectively. The paper will not focus so much on these temples as individual buildings, but rather investigate their influences on the urban morphologies of particular times and places, and how tracing these can provide a specific cultural history in relation to architecture and planning practices. Each of these buildings illustrates distinct tactics for occupying environments. These temples demonstrate how marginalised communities have been influential in developing or redeveloping the identities of surrounding areas. They are also illustrative of how the reassertion of marginalised cultural histories can challenge Australia’s planning policies and practices.