Migrations : interdisciplinary perspectives

This volume covers the most important contributions to and discussions at the international symposium **Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1-3, July, University of Vienna),** **organised by** Renée Schroeder and Ruth Wodak which was dedicated to the multiple interdisciplinary dimensions of ‘migrations’, both from the viewpoints of the Social Sciences and Humanities as well as from the manifold perspectives of the Natural Sciences. The book is organized along the following dimensions: Urban Development and Migration Peer Relations in Immigrant Adolescents: Methodological Challenges and Key Findings Migration, Identity, and Belonging Migration in/and Ego Documents Debating Migration Fundamentals of Diffusion and Spread in the Natural Sciences and beyond Media Representations of Migrants and Migration Migration and the Genes Front Matter....Pages i-xix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Constellations and Transitions: Combining Macro and Micro Perspectives on Migration and Citizenship....Pages 3-14 The Role of the Press in the Reproduction of Racism....Pages 15-29 The Migration Imaginary and the Politics of Personhood....Pages 31-41 Multilingualism, Heterogeneity and the Monolingual Policies of the Linguistic Integration of Migrants....Pages 43-54 Front Matter....Pages 55-55 Peer Relations Among Immigrant Adolescents: Methodological Challenges and Key Findings....Pages 57-65 Methodological Challenges in an Immigrant Study in Norway....Pages 67-77 Bullying and Victimization in Ethnically Diverse Schools....Pages 79-88 Aggressive Behaviour in Native, First- and Second-Generation Immigrant Youth: Testing Inequality Constrained Hypotheses....Pages 89-98 Friendship Homophily Among Children and Youth in Multicultural Classes....Pages 99-109 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Anthropological Perspectives on a Multidisciplinary Field of Research....Pages 113-116 Transnational Belonging, Non-ethnic Forms of Identification and Diverse Mobilities: Rethinking Migrant Integration?....Pages 117-128 “It’s Like Belonging to a Place That Has Never Been Yours.” Deportees Negotiating Involuntary Immobility and Conditions of Return in Cape Verde....Pages 129-140 Violence, Memory, and Vietnamese-Irish Identity....Pages 141-151 Front Matter....Pages 153-153 Ego Documents Entered Migration History....Pages 155-159 Wrapped-Up Memory: Things and Their Order in the Estate of Martha Teichmann (Saxony/New York, 1888–1977)....Pages 161-174 “My Dearest Love...” Love, Longing, and Desire in International Migration....Pages 175-186 A Worker Writes His Life: Narrative Strategies of an Austro-Hungarian Migrant to the United States....Pages 187-201 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 The Discursive Construction of “Migrants and Migration”....Pages 205-212 Migration in Archaeology: An Overview with a Focus on Ancient Egypt....Pages 213-226 The Ambivalence of Migration in Early Modern Thought: Comments on an Intellectual History of Human Mobility....Pages 227-237 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 Migrations and Conquest: Easy Pictures for Complicated Backgrounds in Ancient and Medieval Structures....Pages 239-248 Immigrants and Parasites: The History of a Bio-social Metaphor....Pages 249-258 Front Matter....Pages 259-259 Fundamentals of Diffusion and Spread in the Natural Sciences and Beyond....Pages 261-266 The Spread of Ragweed as a Diffusion Process....Pages 267-274 Front Matter....Pages 275-275 Media and Migration: Exploring the Field....Pages 277-282 Dynamics of Representation in Discourse: Immigrants in the British Press....Pages 283-295 Humanitarian Discourse Legitimating Migration Control: FRONTEX Public Communication....Pages 297-308 Front Matter....Pages 309-309 Migration and the Genes....Pages 311-314 Modern Human Migrations: The First 200,000 Years....Pages 315-326 Migration and the Origin of Species....Pages 327-339 Back Matter....Pages 341-358 Annotation This volume covers the most important contributions to and discussions at the international symposium Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1-3, July, University of Vienna), organised by Renée Schroeder and Ruth Wodak which was dedicated to the multiple interdisciplinary dimensions of migrations, both from the viewpoints of the Social Sciences and Humanities as well as from the manifold perspectives of the Natural Sciences. The book is organized along the following dimensions:Urban Development and MigrationPeer Relations in Immigrant Adolescents: Methodological Challenges and Key FindingsMigration, Identity, and BelongingMigration in/and Ego DocumentsDebating Migration Fundamentals of Diffusion and Spread in the Natural Sciences and beyondMedia Representations of Migrants and Migration Migration and the Genes This book covers breakthroughs in sequencing methodology which offer new insight into metabolic and regulatory networks, as well as clues to the evolution of degradation pathways and to molecular adaptation strategies to changing environmental conditions.