Myth Of Migration Research Articles

Na zieloną Ukrainę i do tych łąk zielonych... Kresy Wschodnie II RP jako przedmiot zainteresowania turystyczno-krajoznawczego Polaków – próba pewnego podsumowania

This article is an attempt to look at selected factors accounting for the popularity among Polish tourists a few years ago of the area known as the Eastern borderlands of the Second Polish Republic (Pol.: Kresy). Methodologically, the autoethnographic study involves an analysis of desk research (the 2019 CBOS survey and the observations made by other researchers). Starting from the CBOS quantitative data recording the scale of Poles’ trips in this direction, the author looks at selected qualitative circumstances which may, to some extent, be behind the preferences diagnosed in the survey, but also behind the broader interest in these sites. The considerations include the (geo)political reality, specific (Eastern borderland-like) experiences, Polish traces, literature, film and Galician and migration myths – assigned to three main thematic areas (Europeanization versus a good national self-sense, Polish traces, and literature, films and myths). Although the essence of the considerations seems to favour Ukraine, the “question of priority” was left – as it is the case in quantitative research – open, focusing on broadening the context of the whole issue.

Do the Kerala nurses in Germany break the myth of migration as a male-space?

In this paper, we are interested in the curious case of the Kerala nurses in Germany in the 1960s and '70s and their location in the context of gender-migration interface. These migrants challenge the myth of migration that migration is quintessentially a male-dominated space where women are largely represented as dependents. The moot point of this paper is to explore their cases within the larger context of gender-migration nexus and break this myth. As a women-driven immigrant community, the nurses from Kerala offer a perspectival shift in terms of understanding heteronormative structures within migrant households and outside, including adjustments in gender-roles and gender-based performances. Through this paper we argue that heteronormativity is often replaced by transnational patriarchy, because diaspora formation, similar to nation-building, is a patriarchal process.

Zum Vergleich der alttürkischen und „germanischen“ Schrift und Kultur

After 1453, the battle terms "Europe" and "Germanic" advanced to fateful political and scientific paradigms. The claim of foreignness between Turks and "Germans" displaced the medieval idea of the primal kinship of the peoples as well as the thesis of the Turkish origin of the runic script, which results indirectly from the old migration myths. Although the discovery of rune-like inscriptions in Siberia reminded the scholars of the old legends and many well-known scientists considered the comparison of the scripts and cultures necessary, such research impulses could not prevail so far – with disastrous consequences. For the seperation of the scripts and cultures paved the way for the Nazi-Ideology. In any case, the comparison of the writings and cultures has been neglected so far only mistakenly and prejudiced. Now the need for the comparison of the Old Turkish and „Germanic“ scripts and cultures stands again before us. Challenging the science world.

AKM Ahsan Ullah and Md. Shahidul Haque (2020). The Migration Myth in Policy and Practice: Dreams, Development and Despair

AKM Ahsan Ullah and Md. Shahidul Haque (2020). The Migration Myth in Policy and Practice: Dreams, Development and Despair, Springer Nature: Singapore. (v + 221 pp. ISBN 978-981-15-1754-9)

A Goddess and a Pañcāyat President: Narrative, Sanctity, and Authority in Rural Tamil Nadu

In an examination of the interdependent relationship between narrative and ritual, this article discusses a ritual dilemma solved through narrative to explore how narrative sustains authority usually enacted, validated, and supported by ritual practice. In the Tamil village of Nagamalai Pudukkottai, Jeyakumar, the pancāyat president, must perform as a cāmiyāti (“god dancer”) possessed by the village’s most powerful form of divinity, Taṭātakai Ammaṉ, to substantiate his family’s long lineage of traditional authority. For seventeen years, however, Jeyakumar was unable to substantiate his authoritative claim through ritual; instead, he and his constituents relied on narratives, including a migration myth. Narrative did not replace the importance of ritual in Nagamalai Pudukkottai, but rather, the usually obligatory tie to the goddess was deferred and his legitimacy was maintained through narrative. Village claims to authority depend upon negotiating the connections among the village migration myth, the local goddess temple myth, personal experience narratives, and everyday conversational narratives and stories. Each of these narrative genres claims authority differently but works as part of an interdependent folklore system to confirm the village’s sacrality and leadership. Jeyakumar’s authority is further strengthened by local folk mythologies that integrate nearby Madurai’s more formalized Mīnākṣī tradition into local religiosity surrounding Taṭātakai Ammaṉ.

Climate migration myths

Misleading claims about mass migration induced by climate change continue to surface in both academia and policy. This requires a new research agenda on ‘climate mobilities’ that moves beyond simplistic assumptions and more accurately advances knowledge of the nexus between human mobility and climate change.

КОНКРЕТНО-ІСТОРИЧНІ ОБСТАВИНИ ФОРМУВАННЯ БЕОТІЙСЬКОГО ЕТНОСУ

The article devoted to the study of the formation of ethnic identity in Greek antiquity. The author focuses on the migration myth of the Boeotian ethnic group. This storytelling by Thucydides became a basis of the historiographical tradition. A lot of historians trusted to the migration myth like a real fact of past time. The author makes an attempt to reveal a real fact, which become a ground to the formation of migration myth of the Boeotian ethnic group.

Migration as redemption: the myth and memory of Jewish migration from Eastern Europe to the New World

ABSTRACTThis article argues that Jewish migration from Eastern Europe to the New World has long been viewed through the lens of a specific historical narrative that revolves around and reinforces key themes such as anti-Jewish prejudice and violence in Eastern Europe, Jewish flight to Western countries, and the successful integration of Jewish immigrants into new societies. While this interpretation of Jewish migration as a story of crisis and redemption was central to key works on Jewish migration to the United States, Israel and other countries, recent academic studies have critiqued such renditions of Jewish migration as a historical drama of persecution, flight and rescue. Despite these interventions, central scholarly works and dominant communal accounts continue to frame and explain Jewish migration through the traditional historiographical paradigm. The continued salience of this particular interpretation of Jewish migration history raises several fascinating questions regarding the connection between academic scholarship and communal interests as well as larger issues related to the tension between history and memory, past and present, Jewish history and general history. The article concludes with a discussion surrounding the possible origins of these tensions as well as potential strategies for resolving these and related questions regarding the study of Jewish migration, in particular, and modern Jewish society, in general.

Rural-urban migrants, translocal communities and the myth of return migration in Vanuatu: the case of Paama

Urbanization in Vanuatu has increased rapidly in recent decades. Circular mobility has gradually given way to urban permanence as second and third generations grow up in urban centres. Migrants from the small outer island of Paama are numerically significant in the capital Port Vila with more Paamese living there than in their ‘home’ island. Few have returned to Paama, despite a substantial proportion of all generations professing intentions to do so, ‘one day’, after other goals had been realised, while maintaining economic and social ties with island residents. Constraints to return included secure urban employment and housing, access to education and health services, the location of kin, fear of sorcery and intermarriage with people from other islands, while few welcomed the challenges of returning to more subsistence–oriented livelihoods and lifestyles. Those who had returned to Paama were mainly individuals with particular social status in island life, rather than people seeking to develop economic opportunities, on an island where employment and other economic activities are scarce, and carrying capacity limited.

Reflecting on Brexit: migration myths and what comes next for EU migrants in the UK?

This article considers the potential impact of Brexit on the family and welfare entitlement of EU migrants living in the UK and of UK migrants living in other EU Member States. Whilst the vast majority of those campaigning for the UK to leave the EU (publicly at least) argued in favour of those already present in the UK at the time of the referendum having their status protected, the government has been considerably less vocal in its support for this outcome. As such, EU migrants living in the UK presently face considerable uncertainty as to their own and their families’ future legal status and entitlement to welfare rights. The article will expose some of the evidential and legal gaps in the assertions made about EU migrants’ socio economic entitlement with a view to providing a more informed, legally accurate appraisal of how the Brexit negotiations could unfold.

William Bradford and His Anglo-Saxon Influences

This paper examines how William Bradford’s On Plymouth Plantation attempts to link the Anglo-Saxon myth of migration and the notion of Christendom in a temporally identical socio-historical memory to promote a primarily national cause. Ultimately, Bradford’s text emerges as an historical document that sought provide the foundation for an Anglo-Saxon-based Christendom linked historically, not simply geographically.

The migration myth in the absence of immigrants: How does the conservative right in Hungary and Turkey grapple with immigration?

This article shows that the issue of immigration remains very central to understanding notions such as national identity and threats to homogeneity in Turkey and Hungary. Even in the absence of large-scale immigration, conservative socio-political leanings commonly prevail against immigration due to a general aversion of foreignness in societies. In presenting how two conservative right parties grapple with the self-inflicted problem of immigration, this article advocates that political parties usurp prevalent fears among their voters.

The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora. Text and Analysis of the 16th Century Qeṣṣe-ye Sanjān ‘The Story of Sanjān’. By Alan Williams. (Numen Book Series, Studies in the History of Religions, Text and Sources in the History of Religions. Vol 124) pp. xii, 250. Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2009.

The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora. Text and Analysis of the 16^th Century Qeṣṣe-ye Sanjān ‘The Story of Sanjān’. By Alan Williams. (Numen Book Series, Studies in the History of Religions, Text and Sources in the History of Religions. Vol 124) pp. xii, 250. Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2009.

Williams, Alan, The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora. Text, Translation and Analysis of the 16th Century Qess-ye Sanjān 'The Story of Sanjān'

Williams, Alan, The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora. Text, Translation and Analysis of the 16th Century Qess-ye Sanjān 'The Story of Sanjān'

The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora: Text, Translation and Analysis of the 16th Century Qesse‐Ye Sanjān, “The Story of Sanjan”– By Alan Williams

The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration from Iran and Settlement in the Indian Diaspora: Text, Translation and Analysis of the 16th Century Qesse‐Ye Sanjān, “The Story of Sanjan”– By Alan Williams

Beowulf off the map

AbstractThis essay uses maps that have illustrated Beowulf since Klaeber's edition as a starting point for an exploration of spatial representation in the poem. It is argued that modern maps do not offer particularly useful tools for understanding the poem, and that ‘chorography’, that is, the description of regional space, may be a more accurate term for analysis of Beowulf than ‘geography’. The poem presents a topography intimately connected to the interrelations of different peoples, and the frequent movement between past, present and future times. The final section of the article considers the postmedieval reception of spatial reference in Beowulf, disputes the presence of an Anglo-Saxon ‘migration myth’ in the poem, and raises some implications for genre that result from spatial analysis.

Report disperses migration myth

New research highlights the need for climate refugees to be considered in ongoing policy negotiations. Anna Barnett reports.

Migration and Mythmaking in Anglo-Saxon England

A revisionist interpretation of Anglo-Saxon England. Nicholas Howe proposes that the Anglo-Saxons fashioned a myth out of the 5th-century migration of their Germanic ancestors to Britain. Through the retelling of this story, the Anglo-Saxons ordered their complex history and identified their destiny as a people. Howe traces the migration myth throughout the literature of the Anglo-Saxon period, in poems, sermons, letters and histories from the sixth to the eleventh centuries.

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Second-Rate Stories? Changing Approaches to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Second-Rate Stories? Changing Approaches to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Problem Animals, Indigeneity and Land: The Chacma Baboon in South African Writing

The apparently opposing images found throughout colonial writing of the baboon as trespasser and as original inhabitant – exemplified in the works of Percy Fitzpatrick, WC Scully, C R Prance, Stuart Cloete, Perceval Gibbon, and F W Fitzsimons – are revealed to be mutually implicated in the territorial anxieties of the coloniser. The territorial myth of the late mass Bantu migration is shown to dovetail with a presentation of the chacma as a colonised creature, an image which further supports a view of all men, including the indigenous peoples, as colonisers of nature who preceded European colonisation and set the precedent for it. Against this colonial paradigm is posed the problematic revivification of the image of the baboon as original inhabitant in the “postcolonial” novels of Daphne Rooke, Nadine Gordimer and Justin Cartwright, which uphold historic black claims to land rather than undercut them. The historiographical shifts of the late 1970s – which saw many scholars debunking the late Bantu migration myth – have further inflected a view of the chacma and all South Africa's indigenes as original inhabitants. Often resuscitating certain colonial paradigms, these writers use the chacma to refract their own historiographical revisionism.