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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 40–44.
Published: 01 April 2023
... refuge and an economic sanctuary from the urban precarities of the pandemic. Amid heightened precarity and uncertainty, experiences of place, communal lifeworlds, and kinship expanded and retracted. Migration took on an ever-elastic character, bending, stretching, retracting, altered by force ( Beggs...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... before the current pandemic. Pandemic histories invite us to think with and alongside these lived modes of life and survival, not as dire responses to a pandemic but as historiographical forms that migrate, contaminate, and infuse life precisely at the moment of extinction. As such, we believe...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 184–199.
Published: 01 October 2012
... report on women'sinternational migrations argue, "is close to half.'1 The dramaticrise ofthese feminized migration flows is to a great extent due to the increasing demand for workers in the care and domestic industry, with Europe con stituting no exception. Nonetheless, the image of the immigrant...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 200–218.
Published: 01 October 2012
... labor; abusive conditions ofwork; migration within and across national boundaries (the latter, often undocumented); global inequality; and gender subordination and sexuality.For a rich understand ing of the forces that shape trafficking, it is vital to keep all these elements in play, in spite ofthe...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2020
... writing within national paradigms (Peter). Here, we retrace Transylvania’s longue durée with a focus on migrations and empires. Already in the medieval period, the layering of multiple migratory and imperial formations shaped what would become Transylvania—from Avars in the sixth and seventh...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 140–145.
Published: 01 April 2020
... fascinating and suggestive passages in Familiar Stranger link migration and the political project of federation in the Caribbean, one widely supported by the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in Britain. “The idea for the Federation had not originated in the diaspora,” Hall observes, “but it was positively nurtured...
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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 (2020) 10 (2): 187–207.
Published: 01 October 2020
... with movable type? Did printing technologies spread to Europe through the migration of Sīn-speakers across North Africa and into Andalusia? Understanding the mechanisms of transfer of print technologies requires a sensitive engagement with the history of the ghurabā’ , beginning with their language...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 233–236.
Published: 01 October 2019
... relations, immigration policies, and the processes of incorporation, integ ratio n , an d accu ltu rati o n . Each issue contains a rticles, review essays, a n d single book reviews. Official journal of the I m migration and Ethnic History Society. M e m berships sta rt at $45.00 for i ndivid u a l s...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 April 2018
... with contemporary "inter national" law), migrated between the thirteenth and eighteenth century across different academic disciplines. These disciplines included compet ing faculties oftheology, as well as philosophy and law. The disciplines and the debates about sovereignty and the territorial powers ofearthly...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 133–135.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and Empowerment . London : Pluto , 2010 . Sayigh Rosemary . Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries; A People’s History . London : Zed , 1979 . Suleiman Jaber . “ Marginalised Community: The Case of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon .” Development Research Centre on Migration...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2023
... as cosmological histories that predate the advent of Saudi rule. As Kairanawi’s travels show, there are multiple registers of migration, historically and in present-day Mecca, not simply or only for religious rites or specific forms of labor. Migrants were central to modern political and intellectual life...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 146–154.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., a group that came in search of fertile lands and sustenance. In these accounts, devadasis were described as being primarily "chattel;' enslaved workers, whose services shifted into regimes of sex and art only after their migration into foreign lands. The term "Gomantak;' for instance, is the Sankritised...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 123–126.
Published: 01 April 2023
... nationwide twenty-one-day lockdown scheduled to begin at midnight ( Modi ). In the chaos and panic that ensued, India witnessed what was described as “the largest mass migration since partition” ( Mathew ). Overnight, the same WhatsApp groups that had been used to organize marches turned into relief...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 271–282.
Published: 01 October 2022
... not surprising that most of the largest slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants in the United States have migrated toward “right to work” states in the former cotton-producing hubs of the Southeast or Great Plains regions like South Dakota and recruit their workforce from the Global South. Since 1980...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
... to sell the Louisiana territory to the United States. A massive migration from Haiti, made up of free people of color, whites, and enslaved people forced to migratewithslaveholders, brought ten thousand new residents to New Orleans, doubling the city's population, and between five and ten thousand...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 April 2017
..., such as energy and climate change, migration or gender issues:'1 Most importantlyfor our purposes here, the Lisbon Declaration also alluded to the prehistory of the EU-Africa partnership.Starting out on a conciliatory note, acknowledging that "we have come together in awareness of the lessons and experiences...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 April 2023
... for migrating during a lockdown asked us if we believed in the virus. “What harm can a beautiful flower do to people that they haven’t done to themselves?” she asked, wrapping together her hands and opening the fingers to imitate a blooming flower. Looking at our confused expressions, she asked another question...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 4–28.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of the faculties: 1 This approach focuses on the ways that authority is vested in certain types ofexpert speech and how that authority then migrates be tween faculties and disciplines. This kind ofhistory would not be internal to a given conceptionofinternational law or law ofnations; it would instead examine how...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 45–51.
Published: 01 April 2023
..., ideas.” These legacies, he argues, continue to inform contemporary Islamophobic restrictions on “Muslim travel, mobility, and migration that share an intellectual lineage forged in the age of steam” ( Low 13–14 ). Orientalist views of Muslims from the steamship era were thus (re)inscribed in modern...
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