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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 11–19.
Published: 01 April 2023
... circumstances that migrants face, which intentionally strive to make their journeys and refuge as traumatic as that which they flee. This is irresolvable in a world where conflict and catastrophic environmental transformations promise more migration, not less, not least because the countries refugees flee...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 184–199.
Published: 01 October 2012
...Sara R. Farris Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 Femonationalism and the "Regular" Army of Labor Called Migrant Women SaraR. Farris The First World talces on a role like that of the old-fashioned male in the family-pampered, entitled, unable to cook, clean, or find his socks...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Rosie Bsheer abstract This article takes up the occluded history of a particular category of migrant—the migrant scholar—in late Ottoman Mecca. It does so through the trajectory of the prominent Indian religious and anti-colonial scholar Muhammad Rahmatullah al-Kairanawi (1818–1891...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 217–232.
Published: 01 October 2019
... 2016, recounted his experience with migrants who told him what he had to do.1 They asked us what can we do?I was a priest here since 1980. They asked, Can't you help us? I said, Yes, what should we do? They said, You have an old right-asylum in the church. It is.from the medieval period. In the Bible...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 40–44.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., and ways of being. It is the local and the familiar. I was not the only native returnee in the village that summer of 2021. Everywhere I turned I met migrants who had traveled back to the bled . This was unusual for the many villagers who live and work in Morocco’s economic capital, Casablanca, as well...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 117–121.
Published: 01 April 2020
... articulation of his relationship in Familiar Stranger to those Caribbean migrants arriving in Britain as part of the Empire Windrush generation he talks about. Hall was categorically not one of them, as he is at pains to tell us; the boat he traveled on was not the one they took. But he is drawn again...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... concatenates inequity: the North’s loss is wrenching; the Global South’s, endemic. Trusted vernaculars of hate around refugees and migrants are repackaged into the discovery of epidemiological lexicons. Suturing pandemic histories to subaltern futures, Thiranagama weaves collective and personal histories...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (1): 80–105.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of an Indigenous detective who marshals an unlikely coalition of Indigenous peoples, migrants, and dissenting settlers against the confluence of state and extraction-industry interests. In so doing, it articulates a nuanced allegory that highlights the possibility of a critical knowledge of settler colonialism...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): i–iv.
Published: 01 October 2012
... and Equality Joan Wallach Scott 107 122 148 INTERVENTIONS Is Another Language Possible? Afsaneh Najmabadi Femonationalism and the "Regular" Army ofLabor Called Migrant Women Sara R. Farris Innocence and Experience: Melodramatic Narratives of Sex Trafficking and Their Consequences for Law and Policy Carole S...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 October 2012
... of rural, displaced, and landless 20 8 HISTORY ofthe PRESENT migrants (including girls and young women) seeking work is caused by-to mention only some factors-inadequate government attention to rural in frastructure, including water and irrigation for small farmers; development policies that favor large...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
... first developed his methods of nonviolent resistance ( satyagraha ) while organizing South African Indian migrant communities in resistance to colonial racism, his politics conspicuously failed to extend to anti-racist solidarity with Black Africans. Indeed, one of the rhetorical flourishes Gandhi...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 April 2017
... and are shaped by the social and cultural worlds they enter here. Drawing on scholarship about ethnic g roups from around the g l obe, the chapters i l l u minate the often fra u g ht jou rney many migrants u n dertake from mistrusted " Other" to sometimes-welcomed citize n . Contributors: J a m e s R. Barrett...
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (2): 265–274.
Published: 01 October 2011
... the former. In Germany, gay and lesbian associations suggested, with a grain ofsalt, that the questions on homophobia submitted to migrants should be submitted to all Germans-including Pope Benedict. InFrance, I have argued that discussions about homophobia in the racialized "banlieues" should take place...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 123–126.
Published: 01 April 2023
... coordination centers that took over the job of the state. Volunteers donned homemade PPE kits to provide everything from ration packets for stranded daily wage earners left without sources of income to water bottles for the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers fleeing larger cities on foot. Instagram...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 271–282.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of urbanization. As rural migrants, mostly former peasants from surrounding areas, crowded into the urban setting seeking industrial jobs, they crafted new ways to supply themselves and their families with food, including the meat that their factory wages afforded. Wet markets helped to draw poultry and pigs from...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 146–151.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the working-class “migrant” of the so-called Windrush generation—Akala is emphatic in locating himself as the product of a single-parent, working-poor family, dependent on the welfare state, who came of age on the streets of northwest London. Describing the first time in which he was stopped and searched...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 April 2018
.... First came the migrant laborers who helped Germany to rebuild itselfafter World War II. In the second stage migrants arrived seeking permanent residency and even German citizenship. They soughtto continue to livetheir traditional, religious way oflife, whichincluded ritual slaughter ofanimals both...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 122–128.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., perspectives that are decidedly not familiar and possibly even strange to them. On encountering the fragment cited, many of our students (who may not only be bartenders but also, variously, LGBTQ, migrants—of more or less precarious legal status—in short, complex social beings) might venture to suggest...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 27–54.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean in recent years, it is only this one dead body that has become the subject ofextensive visual representa tion and the carrier of wide-ranging political meanings. The photograph ofthe dead boy was taken by Turkish news photographer Niliifer Demir and published...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 133–145.
Published: 01 October 2016
...-slavery white nationalists that organized the colonization of Liberia during the nineteenth century. Though Smith is likely related to Nancy Ann Smith, another migrant to Liberia about whom I have written elsewhere, it is not clear from McDonogh's list of deportees whether she is "Julia, wife of Augustine...
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