insufficient for the positive self-identity that he craved—what the sociologist Anthony Giddens (1991) terms “ontological security.” For that, Zacharia needed to erase the affliction of his ethnic past. For over 40 years, refugees who fled Burundi in 1972
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Undoing Traceable Beginnings
Citizenship and Belonging among Former Burundian Refugees in Tanzania
Patricia Daley, Ng’wanza Kamata, and Leiyo Singo
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 22–35 (14 total)
Introduction
Jelena Tošić and Annika Lems
Chakrabarty's (2000) critique of historicism. Chakrabarty's postcolonial approach focuses on hegemonic images of history, both in terms of a specific ontological mode of seeing and interpreting the world from an ethnocentric historicist position and as an
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–11 (11 total)
Media Representations of Separated Child Migrants
From Dubs to Doubt
Rachel Rosen and Sarah Crafter
“humanitarian frame” references narratives of saving/rescuing and a moral language of duty and responsibility. The fourth, an “ontological frame,” captures preoccupations with questions of social categories. Our analysis highlights a set of polarized indicators
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 66–81 (16 total)
Editorial
Mobility Studies, a Transdisciplinary Field
Dagmar Schäfer
on the move. As a historian of science and technology, I would like to add that the epistemic implications of movement and mobility—its local and global impact on practices and theories of knowledge—and the ontological consequences require attention
Vistas of Future New Mobility Studies
Transfers and Transformations
Georgine Clarsen, Peter Merriman, and Mimi Sheller
importance of continuing to think through some deeply philosophical questions, particularly the need to adequately theorize the ontological foundations and the realist worldviews of much mobility research. He suggested that key questions remain about what
State of Uncertainty
Educating the First Railroaders in Central Sakha (Yakutiya)
Sigrid Irene Wentzel
ontologies. 11 They produce “novel configurations of the world,” 12 such as—in this case study—learning how to professionally and socially perform railroading. Brian Larkin introduced the notion of “poetics” to refer to infrastructure's ability to reach out
Introduction to the Issue
Encountering Hospitality and Hostility
Mette Louise Berg and Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
’s article, which traces the sense of “ontological (in)security” experienced by former Burundian refugees in Tanzania, even following acquisition of legal citizenship in that country. The article traces the strategies for securing belonging adopted by former
Introduction
Autonomous Driving and the Transformation of Car Cultures
Jutta Weber and Fabian Kröger
reproductive task, the gender script of this vision fits into the image of hegemonic masculinity. Manderscheid reflects further on the ontological status of both visions, identifying them as imagined futures of corporate interests that neglect the shaping
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Refugee and Migration Studies
Lessons from Collaborative Research on Sanctuary in the Changing Times of Trump
Sara Vannini, Ricardo Gomez, Megan Carney, and Katharyne Mitchell
us as well as in our students. Our ontological framings suddenly toppled as everything we knew or thought we knew about the US crashed around us. When we started, we didn’t really have this expectation. Then the expectation became reality, but
Refugia Roundtable
Imagining Refugia: Thinking Outside the Current Refugee Regime
Nicholas Van Hear, Veronique Barbelet, Christina Bennett, and Helma Lutz
: Autonomy of Migration, Organisational Ontology and Mobile Commons .” Citizenship Studies 17 ( 2 ): 178 – 196 . 10.1080/13621025.2013.780736 Siegfried , K. 2017 . “ New Refugee Framework ‘Dead in the Water’ without More International Support