The focus of this special issue of Theoria is the Politics of Migration. Our aim in designing and attracting contributions to this issue was to contribute to the current debates on various aspects of global migration practices that are challenging the ways in which many nation-states, sending and receiving migrants, conceive of their place in this ever-changing globalised and globalising world in which we all live. International Relations theorists have, for several years, been writing about the contesting phenomena of integration and disintegration in global politics. As the world becomes more globalised, more linked and interdependent, the reality of a kind of global citizenship for the privileged elite with access to the markets and their spoils become more apparent. Those on the other end of the spectrum, often immigrant, minority and working class groupings who do not have access to resources beyond those promised to them by the state they rely on, react against these globalising forces. The result is a contest between a global integration and pulling together of individuals all over the world with similar political and economic situations, and a disintegration within and between nation-states, where those without these networks retreat into ethnic and cultural enclaves that offer them protection and defence against globalising impulses.
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Policing the French Empire
Colonial Law Enforcement and the Search for Racial-Territorial Hegemony
Samuel Kalman
-africaine (1926–1937) ](Paris, 2003); Tyler Stovall, “The Colour Line behind the Lines: Racial Violence in France during the Great War,” American Historical Review 103 (1998): 737–769; Neil MacMaster, Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France, 1900
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–8
Mediating the Rural Ideal
The Australian Town in Twentieth-Century Travel
Louise Prowse
and media promoting travel was responding to, rather than driving, these shifts. The belief that the “migrant followed the tourist” ( Greenwood 2014 ) and concerns of rural decline across Australian towns compounded the desire to present country towns
“Space without People”
Austro-German Filmmaker, Bestselling Author, and Journalist Colin Ross Discovers Australia
Siegfried Mattl
mass of labor migrants recruited from the Mediterranean area and, in his view, suited to colonize the tropical climates of Australia. The dimension of sixty million people instead of the six million Australians that were to inhabit the continent in the
Travel Writers and Traveling Writers in Australasia
Responses to Travel Literatures and the Problem of Authenticity
Helen Bones
problems about their authenticity” ( 2002: 6 ). Putting aside problems of distinguishing fact from fiction, the travel writing definition relies on settled life being the normal state of affairs in order to distinguish travelers from migrants or longer