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Decolonizing History: Algeria, Palestine, and the Movement for Migrant Rights in Postcolonial France
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 454–469.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Olivia C. Harrison Abstract The borders between North and South quickly erode when we study the history of anti-colonial revolutions. This is perhaps especially true of France, where the Palestinian revolution has been a rallying cry in the struggle for migrant rights for the past half century...
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in In the Shadow of the Silk Road: Border Regimes and Economic Corridor Development through an Unremarkable Pakistan-China Border Market
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2019
Figure 2. Afiyatabad is home to a migrant labor force that live in rooms that are either adjacent to or above shops, or clustered into hostels such as the one in this photograph. Photograph by the author, 2016.
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in Decolonizing History: Algeria, Palestine, and the Movement for Migrant Rights in Postcolonial France
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 August 2022
Figure 3. Veteran migrant rights activist Philippe Tancelin reads from his book Les tiers idées while three Athenians hold up photographs of members of the theater troupe Al Assifa (from left to right, Tancelin, Geneviève Clancy, and Mohamed “Mokhtar” Bachiri). Stage-right a television set
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 420–426.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Southern Africa . London : Zed Books , 2006 . Owen Joy N. “ ‘On se débrouille’: Congolese Migrants’ Search for Survival and Success in Muizenberg, Cape Town .” PhD diss. , Rhodes University , 2011 . Ross Fiona C. Raw Life, New Hope: Decency, Housing, and Everyday Life in a Post...
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Drivers across the Desert: Infrastructure and Sikh Migrants in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, 1919–31
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (3): 375–388.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., through the case of the rise and decline of Sikh migrant communities in eastern Iran, it examines how the borderlands came into being in the absence of strong state authorities. It argues that the prosperity of Sikh migrants depended on the new infrastructural system, which in turn depended...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 14–20.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Moha Ennaji The major aspiration of Moroccan migrants was, and remains, the realization of their migration project, which is the improvement of their well-being and that of their families. Over the years, the migration project led to the emergence of a nuclear family in the host country...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 47–57.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Tobias Brinkmann The article discusses the impact of World War I on Jewish migrants from Eastern Europe. In modern Jewish history the experience of immigration is almost synonymous with movement to and settlement in immigrant neighborhoods in the heart of big metropolitan cities, especially New...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 533–546.
Published: 01 December 2010
... for the migration of many Iranian women moving into the informal economy of sex work. In this essay, I argue that the disjuncture between paradigms of Iranian women's sexualities and actual experiences of and reasons for migration to Dubayy results in complicated challenges to migrant Iranian women's agency as well...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 86–94.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Priti Ramamurthy Abstract The urban experience remains inextricably entangled with the rural for millions of poor migrants to cities in the global South who labor in informal economies. Translocal households, households that share the labor and costs of social reproduction spatially across the city...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 49–62.
Published: 01 May 2019
... lower-income migrants, and deadly competition for elected party and government positions in postapartheid South Africa. The discussion focuses on describing the relationship between these three phenomena alongside aspects of multiparty politics, single-party rule, and violent contests for profitable...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 35–42.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and more categories of people inhabit camps than ever before, from refugees and migrants to the homeless and detainees, but the camp form today proliferates at the heart of urban space and across the global North/global South divide. Camps are no longer temporary sites of emergency management...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 443–454.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Melissa Kelly War and political persecution led thousands of Iranians to migrate to Sweden in the 1980s and 1990s. Forced to flee from their homeland to a relatively unknown place, the lives of these migrants changed both abruptly and dramatically. Since their arrival in Sweden, and up...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 214–237.
Published: 01 May 2012
... modern design and planning, a synthesis between traditional and modern culture can be observed in this neighborhood. Five decades after its design, the original low-density residential neighborhood has been transformed into a mixed-use, medium-density neighborhood with new migrants consisting of half...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 80–90.
Published: 01 May 2022
... finance reshapes the resources of the Eastern Mediterranean and migrant laborers depart its shores to work in textile mills in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States. Stephen Hymer's seminal essay, “Robinson Crusoe and the Secret of Primitive Accumulation” memorably reads this passage from Robinson...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 413–421.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Judith Surkis Abstract In contemporary France, the problem of “immigrant youth”—French citizens, born to migrant parents, often from former French colonies—symbolizes the question of minority and national belonging. The development and disciplining of immigrants have, for several decades, formed...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 8–23.
Published: 01 May 2019
... in Kampala. Husbands must obtain an official Certificate of Permanent Residency, which allows women to then receive a “dependent pass” to reside in Kampala. Certificates of Permanent Residency are the preferred official legal status for the majority of new long-term residents and migrants in Uganda...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 176–190.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Migration and the Formation of Multiethnic States . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2001 . Gutman David . “ Agents of Mobility: Migrant Smuggling Networks, Trans-hemispheric Migration, and Time-Space Compression in Ottoman Anatolia, 1888-1908 .” InterDisciplines: Journal of History...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (1): 61–62.
Published: 01 May 1990
... with the high prices of today,
promised me a job as a domestic servant in Pakistan thus driving most to take jobs abroad While
for a salary of Rs. 2,500 (US$62.50)a month. But helping these migrant workers, is it not necessary for
when I got to Karachi, I found that he had given me us to think...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 427–436.
Published: 01 December 2017
... . Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press , 1994 . Nieftagodien Noor . “ Migrants: Vanguard of the Workers’ Struggles? ” In A Long Way Home: Migrant Worker Worlds, 1800–2014 , edited by Delius Peter Phillips Laura Rankin-Smith Fiona , 224 – 40 . Johannesburg : Wits University...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1982) 2 (2): 1–11.
Published: 01 August 1982
...). In most oil states, migrants comprise the bulk of the
labor force, and in two -- Kuwait and the UAE -- the majority of the population as well
(MEED, 1977 a & b). The unprecendented scale and rapidity of this migration have raised
many questions about its effects on the labor-exporting and labor...
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