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The article focuses on jurists of Emperor Henry VII in Italy between legal practice and policy advice and planned trials against the Municipality of Bologna and other political actors in Romagna. It mentions intensity in the Roman migration practice of the German Middle Ages presumably unique event. It also mentions possibilities of a trial against Bologna and the legal quality of the arguments and to evaluate classic legal opinions.

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The paper examines the notion of integration through formal education by focusing on immigrant families in Germany. The article focuses on the predominant discourse that persists in reiterating the binary code of the formal education system, which encompasses educational success or failure as a synonym for the migration policy code of integration or disintegration. This equation is made even stronger by a meritocratic philosophy that doesn't consider the othering processes and ignores all the restrictions that migrant youth face in education, the labour market, and the market for vocational training. The ambiguity between the actual possibilities and the attainable goals, embodied in the predominant imperative of “social mobility through education”, creates resistance within the group of immigrant parents and youth. The article argues that under these conditions, the family system may provide alternative ways of recognition for young people, which can be taken as a counter-concept with its own values that reject media-mediated narratives of integration and their symbolic representatives. By utilizing empirical data, the article provides insight into the past and present experiences of family members and the factors that contribute to the resistance of immigrant families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper examines the commercial migration and networking practices of German merchants from north German port towns and the textile regions of the hinterland. The focus will be on those merchants who settled in London. I argue that they contributed to turning London into the hub of global trade through their geographical networking strategies. The second part the paper analyses legal and social integration into the local commercial elite of London. I show that through membership of business and cultural institutions, intermarriages and godparenthood they created a European and cosmopolitan business elite that generated a framework of a common business culture, thus paving the way for the globalization of trade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compares common narrative and writing strategies in Marica Bodrožić's German novel Sterne erben, Sterne färben. Meine Ankunft in Wörtern von (2007) and Gazment Kaplani's greek novel με λένε Ευρώπη (2010) (They Call Me Europe). My thesis is that the perception of the narrative theme of modern migration creates common narrative and writing strategies leading to a ›migratory memory of European literature‹. On the level of genre the paper focuses properly on the autobiographical consistency of the texts, while on the level of the content on the significance of modern migration, the reminiscences of Communism in former Serbia and Albania and finally the Balkan and Balkanism as literary construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the migration literature has since long dealt with the question of alterity and worked on sharpening of contours of the ›Self‹ and the ›Other‹, the contemporary authors with the so called migration background tend to focus on the overlapping rather than segregating the categories of alterity. Irena Brežná's multidimensional work looks at ›constructions‹ such ›nation as Space‹ and the spatial category of ›Heimat‹ in the specific German context. This paper concentrates on Irena Brežná's attempts to overcome the alleged segregation of ideological constructs like ›Heimat‹ and the ›Foreign‹ and how she takes a step forward in the trans-integrational direction. The paper argues with the help of her novel The thankless Foreigner that her conscious polemical approach towards concepts such ›land of origin‹ and ›land of arrival‹ no longer serve any purpose as far as the creative expression in multiple languages is concerned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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For several years, South Africa has been a world leader in deporting people en masse. This paper analyses the contradictions that exist between South Africa's progressive asylum and refugee laws and its very rigid practice of mass deportation. These contradictions are instrumentalised by the Department of Home Affairs as part of a policy to control and manipulate migration, often executed by the police in a violent and arbitrary manner; the authorities primarily target people from Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The article argues that the current state of affairs can only be fully understood within historical context. Therefore, it is important to keep in mind that rigid controls of immigration and the practice of deportation were established during the colonial period and institutionalised during apartheid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ,Auslandsdeutsche', emigrants from Germany living abroad, played an important role in Nazi ideology and propaganda. They were seen as outposts of the German nation to be mobilised for the political purposes of the Third Reich. In this context, research into emigration took on special importance in order to identify and localise individuals with German origins all over the world. Researchers following a different, non-political agenda were marginalised and suppressed. The controversy analysed in this paper between the Bonn-based scholar Joseph Scheben and the „Deutsches Ausland-Institut" (DAI) in the early 1940s on the methodology of research into emigration paradigmatically demonstrates this development. Being interested in emigration as such, Scheben belonged to a somewhat older research tradition based on international cooperation. The DAI, on the other hand, argued from the viewpoint of Nazi racial science and political rationale in line with the Foreign Office in Berlin. Research into emigration in National Socialism was to be conducted for political purposes and therefore kept secret. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Increasingly challenged by a growing number of deaths in the Mediterranean and critical public debates, EU policy makers continue their more-of-the-same approach regarding external border policies, turning to the prevailing security-focussed paradigm for a solution. This paper argues that such an approach will do nothing to solve the problem of deadly and inhumane external borders, but may well exacerbate it. Although conceptions of migration vary (development potential, demographic necessity, security risk), the European migration and border regime appears to have developed a self amplifying dynamic, while real alternatives seem politically blocked. This article argues that central assumptions underlying the current approach do not hold and suggests policy alternatives, which would strengthen coherence between the EU's border policies and human rights agenda taking into account inherent tensions between migration and the (welfare) state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of the present paper is to demonstrate, based on a special digital program containing the lists of telephonic customers from 2005 in Germany, that the family names and ethnonyms Sass/Saß in German, the Romanian Sas, Sas(s)u, Sascu, the Hungarian S(z)asz, whose origin is first of all the name of the old tribe of Northern Saxons (Nieder)sachsen (old German sahso, middle German sachse, northern German sasse), based on this, the German colonists who came in Transylvania in the 12th century were called in Latin Saxones, in German Siebenbüger Sachsen, in Romanian saşi, their geographic spreading in Germany is different due to the fact that, in the case of names such as Sass/Saß, we can speak about indigenous names, formed on the territory of Germany, especially in northern lands Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein (see Map 1), while in the second case, we are dealing with names having a foreign origin (Romanian or Hungarian) that appeared in Transylvania and then reached Germany due to the phenomenon of migration from east to west, specific to the 20th and the 21st centuries for political-economic reasons (spreading in the richly industrialized lands of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Hessen and Nordrhein-Westfalen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Migration studies tend to oscillate between pure descriptivism and strong theory. Until today theories of migration either explicitly or implicitly refer to neoclassical presumptions on labour markets or tend to proliferate funcionalist ex-post concepts. So do theories of migration systems overemphasize the primacy of political and economical structures over collective and individual ageny of migrants. The paper argues that a shift in theoretical perspectives is linked the settings in the political arena of migration. Epistemological barriers are relate to political ones, this relation is condensed in certain figures of migration. One of the leading figures of current migration is the „illegal migrant“. The paper tries to grasp how illegal migration is related to changing patterns of work and production and whether the concept of a migration regime would be more appropriate to understand the ongoing processes, since it focusses on agency rather than on systemic logic. Finally the paper aims at exploring if migration can be conceived as a social movement. In this regard, the programmatic concept of the autonomy of migration is significant, because it looks for a political perspective over the questions of exodus and flight that are stake in global migration today. The paper claims that the comprehension of the relation of flight and immobilization demands both historically and actual a shift of paradigms in migration politics and theory. The concept of migration regime can help here as it puts agency, namely the struggles of migration in the foreground of any understanding of migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As a consequence of the emigration caused by Nazi persecution, in the 1930s and 1940s a number of cafés were established in New York’s Central Park, which in different ways referred back to the Vienna of the preceding decades. This contribution discuss two forms of expression for the ‘friendly’ or ‘cosy’ sociability (Ur-Wiener Gemütlichkeit) linked with this phenomenon: on the one hand, the Viennese coffeehouses as spaces for the staging of so-called Ur-Wiener Gemütlichkeit, and on the other hand, the shows and performances put on in these cafés. These shows drew on and dealt with images or imaginings of ‘Old Vienna’, including figures of discourse (such as the suburb of Grinzing or favoured locations for summer holidays outside Vienna) and musical shows or plays that had achieved cult status (e.g. Im weißen Rößl, Die Klabriaspartie). The author considers how the refugee community was constructed in this way and looks at which images und identifications were selected for this purpose. At the same time, the article indicates which functions the networks among the refugee community could fulfil in mediating (Jewish and non-Jewish) conceptions and perceptions of Ur-Wiener Gemütlichkeit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article, the authors present results of research on labor relations in the tourism sector on the Greek island of Crete and in the German capital Berlin. In both places, EU mobility regimes and labor migration intertwine within a constellation of crisis, and specific practices and strategies of migration and migrant labor are observable. Building on the theoretical examination of differential inclusion, perspectives on tourism and approaches to citizenship, the authors state a “Europeanization from below”. This develops past elitist community-building processes or invoking, form-giving structures and policies. It occurs as a self-empowering practice, in which, however, new forms of exploitation in the course of a (self-) precarization are also recognizable. These lead to an increasing blurring of the boundaries between the categories of mobility/stay and work/tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Nation-state based migration regimes have often fatal consequences. Their justification presupposes the superiority of nationally designed interests in relation to the needs and the human rights of migrants. As a result the legitimization of migration regimes is called into question, and open borders are reclaimed. In this paper positions are discussed which nevertheless try to justify the necessity of nation states and their migration regimes. Against this background it is argued that it is required to develop a critical perspective which avoids the apparent alternative, open borders or justification of existing migration regimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The main theme "Identity and Alterity" requires a comprehensive view over the literary personages who are characterized by their backgrounds, their language and their food culture as well. Therefore, an interdisciplinary extending of perspectives should enhance the mere literary analysis. For this purpose the fields of study Sociolinguistics and Gastrosophy (a still insufficiently acknowledged humane discipline) are advisable. The sociolinguistic perspective illustrates the acquired or renegotiated spiritual home and identity of the personages within their language, whereas the gastrosophic perspective investigates their identity considering specific eating habits. The migration background of the reviewed author functions as a mirror which reflects and conveys these aspects in an inventive way. The paper intends to demonstrate to what extend the suggested approaches are suitable for analyzing a transcultural text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fair Trade in Mexico as a tool for rural development? Taking Mexico as an example, this paper examines the potential of Fair Trade as a rural development strategy. It is argued that Fair Trade's impact on rural development needs to be analyzed in the context of other income strategies that the rural poor pursue. I discuss migration and participation in Fair Trade as different possibilities to generate income in rural areas and assess their abilities to stimulate rural development. My findings suggest that participation in Fair Trade results in some positive effects on the livelihoods of the rural population. These effects stem from strengthening Fair Trade Cooperatives and the existence of broader Mexican Fair Trade Institutions. Whereas Fair Trade includes some possibilities for rural development, I argue that, nevertheless, Fair Trade has to be combined with broader and multiple development strategies to substantially improve rural livelihoods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper inquires into the relationship between migration, memory and literature. It analyses aspects of the family novel to see why it gives the topic of migration a suitable form of expression. By personalising historical turning points and internalising the discourses of their time, representatives of different generations juxtapose concurring visions, giving an insight into how both memory and texts are created. Perception transforms with the changing of the cultural framework. Here the dualism between mother tongue and foreign language is important, as is the aspect of work, related to the social capital of the migrant. Finally, I refer to the trope of return, which becomes an instance of intercultural exchange. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]