Torture against migrants: A structural and global phenomenon, and its social roots

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-64
Author(s):  
Fabio Perocco
Keyword(s):  
Social Processes ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Close Link ◽  
The World ◽  
Migratory Path ◽  
Politics Of Fear ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migratory Experience ◽  
The Relationship

The article examines the relationship between torture and migration, highlighting how torture has become a structural element of the migratory experience in the majority of the world; sometimes torture is the cause for departure, it is a frequent experience along the migratory path, it is a reality that migrants are sometimes forced to confront in receiving countries. This is specifically the result of the convergence between the amplification of torture (the "torture crisis") and the worsening of the conditions of migration (the "war on migrants"). The article analyzes the different factors underlying these processes, highlighting that torture against migrants is a global phenomenon that has a close link with the tightening of migration policies, the three-fold process of precarization, illegalization and criminalization of migration, the escalation of racism, all elements that, together with some social processes of contemporary society - the securitization policies, the politics of fear, hyper-detention, the theories on the criminal law of the enemy - promote the production of contexts, environments, and situations permeable to torture.

Interpreting the Inter-Christian Relationship and Dialogue with Monotheistic Religions in the Document For the Life of the World

2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 408-417
Author(s):  
Nicu Dumitraşcu
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

In this article I briefly examine chapter 6 of the document For the Life of the World issued by the Ecumenical Patriarchate concerning “ecumenical relations and relations with the other faiths.” In the first part, I discuss the relationship between the Orthodox Church and other Christian denominations, and in the second, the dialogue with Judaism and Islam. The document has an optimistic, inspiring, and hopeful tone, but it will simply remain an idealistic statement without a major echo inside of the Christian world and contemporary society.

scholarly journals ‘Smiley, you’re on candid camera’: Emoticons & Pre-Digital Networks

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sydney J. Shep
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Chat Rooms ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

Emoticons are usually associated with the digital age, but they have numerous precursors in both manuscript and print. This article examines the circulation of emotional icons in nineteenth-century typographical journals as a springboard to understanding the relationship between emotion, materiality, and anthropomorphism as well the pre-digital networks of the “typographical press system.” It draws on literature from textual and typographical analysis, including the history of punctuation. It also demonstrates the ubiquity of emoticons in contemporary society and culture outside the world of computers, text messaging, and chat rooms.

scholarly journals Information Sharing and Decision-Making: Attempts by Ghanaian Return Migrants to Enter through Libya

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 226-234
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Koomson-Yalley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Return Migrants ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between irregular migration, access to information and migration decisions. Using semi-structured interviews of thirty irregular return migrants who failed to reach their European destinations through Libya, I show that irregular return migrants from Ghana rely predominantly on interpersonal sources, including colleagues, neighbors, friends and relatives, for information on migration. Return migrants seek information from those who have relevant experience with that kind of migration. Existing research focuses on information from ‘formal’ sources such as traditional print media, social media, library or workshops. Here I argue that this focus on access to information conceals the activities and practices of irregular return migrants who perceive European destinations as ‘greener pastures’ and seek information to travel through dangerous routes. Most irregular return migrants interviewed in this study indicated they had access to information from ‘informal’ sources often shared as ‘jokes.’ Although irregular return migrants perceive the information they gather through their everyday activities as reliable, their interactions involve complex and unstructured social processes.

scholarly journals LITTLE BIT OF MUFFIN KARYA AIU AHRA: YUMMY LIT PADA PERSIMPANGAN TEEN LIT DAN SASTRA KULINER

JURNAL PESONA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Tania Intan
Keyword(s):  
Structural Approach ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The World ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Culinary Literature

AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi novel Little Bit of Muffin karya Aiu Ahra yang tergolong Yummy lit yang merupakan perpaduan antara sastra Teen lit dan kuliner. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan struktural, kajian genre sastra, dan gastrokritik. Data berupa kata, frasa, dan kalimat dikumpulkan dari novel dengan teknik mencatat. Data tersebut kemudian diklasifikasikan, diinterpretasikan, dan dianalisis dengan teori-teori yang relevan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa setiap elemen struktural mendukung konstruksi narasi cinta yang menjadi fokus Yummy lit selain dunia kuliner. Yummy lit merangkul Teen lit dalam hal pembaca, tema, dan bahasa. Yummy lit juga bisa dikaitkan dengan literatur kuliner karena penulis mengeksplorasi wacana tentang dunia makanan secara masif dan konsisten. Dari tinjauan gastrokritis, terungkap konsep makanan dan kesenangan, makanan dan bricolage, makanan dan nama, serta makanan dan sejarah. Hubungan antara karakter dan makanan ditunjukkan melalui pola produksi dan konsumsi makanan muffin dan kue kering lainnya.Kata kunci: Yummy lit, Teen lit, sastra kuliner, gastrokritik AbstractThis study aims to explore the novel Little Bit of Muffin by Aiu Ahra which is classified as Yummy lit, which is a combination of Teen lit and culinary literature. The method used in this research is a qualitative descriptive with a structural approach, a study of the literary genre, and gastrocriticism. Data in the form of words, phrases, and sentences were collected from the novel using the note-taking technique. The data are then classified, interpreted, and analyzed with relevant theories. The results showed that every structural element supports the construction of the love narrative which is the focus of Yummy lit apart from the culinary world. Yummy lit embraces Teen lit in terms of readers, themes, and language. Yummy lit can also be attributed to culinary literature because the author explores discourse about the world of food massively and consistently. From the gastrocritical review, it is revealed the concept of food and pleasure, food and bricolage, food and names, as well as food and history. The relationship between the characters and food is shown through the production and consumption patterns of food of muffins and other pastries. Keywords: Yummy lit, Teen lit, culinary literature, gastrocriticism 

scholarly journals SENSIBILITY AND SEMIO-CAPITALISM – A BODILY EXPERIENCE OF CRISIS IN URSULA ANDKJÆR OLSEN’S THE CRISIS NOTEBOOKS

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (60) ◽  
pp. 140-157
Author(s):  
Emma Sofie Brogaard Jespersen
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Diagnosis ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Social Autonomy ◽  
The Relationship

In The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance (2012), Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi unfolds a political and clinical diagnosis of contemporary society, stating that the crisis we experience today is a permanent state of absent social autonomy and political agency. This crisis is not solely economic but is caused by semio-capitalism impacting all spheres of human life, affecting sensibility in particular—the linguistic and physical-sensuous link between the individual and the world. Taking up the term sensibility as a bodily basis of experience and as an aesthetic notion, in this article I will explore the relation between individual and collective bodies, the crisis as a suspension of change, and literature, focusing on the Danish poet Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s 2017 lunatic and fragmented novel of love and economy The Crisis Notebooks, but also with reference to some of her other work(s). I argue that the bodily experience of crisis, as expressed in this novel, leads to an inhibited social sensibility but also, paradoxically, to a radical openness towards the world. With reference to the Danish literary scholar Anne Fastrup’s interpretation of French vitalism’s idea of sensibility in The Movement of Sensibility (2007), I suggest that a more ambiguous, material notion of both a constructive and a destructive sensibility is crucial for its understanding, and hence—for an understanding of the relationship between body and crisis as expressed in The Crisis Notebooks. Finally, I suggest that an aesthetic notion of sensibility can provide a prism through which relations between today’s financial mechanisms and a sociocultural experience of crisis are rendered visible—if not sensuous—and it is from here that alternatives to the crisis can be found, felt, formulated or fabulated.

scholarly journals The Migration Policy of Iran And Turkey from Past to Present and Migration Governance in the Context of Migrants

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Kerim KARADAL ◽  
Mortaza CHAYCHI SEMSARI ◽  
Oğuz KESKİN
Keyword(s):  
Migration Policy ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
The World ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Development Regulation ◽  
Migration And Development ◽  
Immigration Management

The phenomenon of migration has been one of the important factors affecting and shaping the lives of countries and societies throughout history. In this respect, the evolution of immigration in its historical process has become a policy that is more carefully followed by countries today. So much so that the phenomenon of immigration has ceased to be based simply on economy around the world and has become a threat to the security of countries with the change of migration trends.   In every period of its history, Iran and Turkey have been a country of immigration for various reasons. Migration management and humanitarian fields are discussed in the article. In recent years, the issue of migration has been increasingly on the international agenda and is now seen as a very important issue for all governments; In terms of Iran, immigration management has become an issue that needs to be dealt with comprehensively and systematically in recent years for immigrants from countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and for Turkey, those coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. As a result of the intensification of migration movements in the world, the two countries have become more sensitive to the issue of migration in order to improve their migration management and make the necessary arrangements. In this study, migration management, migration governance, migration and development, regulation of migration, social integration approaches and models of immigrants are examined under two separate headings. The relationship between the mother country Iran and Turkey, immigration and identity policies in this area will be read and the consequences of this process on the immigration policies of these countries and its impact on countries will be examined and analyzed.

scholarly journals ДОМИНАНТНЕ ВРЕДНОСНЕ ОРИЈЕНТАЦИЈЕ И ФАКТОРИ ВРЕДНОСНОГ УСМЕРАВАЊА МЛАДИХ

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Бисера С. С. Јевтић ◽  
Александра С. Јовановић
Keyword(s):  
Value Orientation ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Value Pluralism ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Value Preferences

The aim of this paper is to point to the descriptors of value systems that exist in society, in Serbia as well as in other countries. Outlooks on morals and values sought to be brought closer, with the analysis of the results of research and pedagogical implications of authors across the world, primarily in students. It is aspired to discover which values dominate, that is, what are lifestyles of contemporary society. With the discussion on morals, values, a summed review of value preferences is given. It can be concluded that the same universal values prevail. Value pluralism is represented. Family is the most important value in people’s lives. The school is an institution of moral and value orientation in which the relationship of mutual respect should be emphasized. The pursuit of altruism and volunteerism is a reflection of positive attitudes and a desire to help others. Media have a significant role in forming values and it is necessary to use their educational function. Free time is also a significant segment in which one can influence forming values, and it is necessary to organize it with the aim of own development

Women and Migration

2018 ◽  
pp. 730-748
Author(s):  
Francisca M. Antman
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Regional Migration ◽  
Migrant Networks ◽  
Female Migration ◽  
Female Migrants ◽  
The World ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Selection Factors ◽  
The Relationship

While scholars have long studied the economics of migration, increasing waves of international and regional migration around the world have placed greater focus on the varied impacts of migration in recent years. Critical to this line of research is an examination of the important role that women play in both sending and destination areas. This chapter addresses various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which nonmigrant women are affected by migration, as well as how female migrants affect families and labor markets in both source and destination communities. Selection factors and determinants of female migration, as well as the gendered impacts of migrant networks, are also discussed.

scholarly journals Undivided object: language, ethnography and sources

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 510-535
Author(s):  
Heloisa Pontes
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Object Language ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Basic Argument ◽  
The Relationship

This article argues that anthropology should not avoid studying the world of art and the specialized fields of cultural production. To do this it is necessary to examine the relationship between ethnography, language and social processes, as well as the way in which we make use o four sources (written, oral and visual) in our research. While this is the basic argument of the text, it also moves into a discussion of the sources that are available for the social history of the theater and Brazilian intellectual life from 1940 to 1960: photographs, interviews, reminiscences, biographies, autobiographies as well as books and theater repertories.

10. Population policies and future challenges

2018 ◽  
pp. 100-114
Author(s):  
Sarah Harper
Keyword(s):  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Population Policies ◽  
Key Population ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Parts

Population policies aim to modify the growth rate, composition, or distribution of a population. In practice, they can be explicit or implicit. The two main areas in which governments attempt to control or influence through population polices are fertility and migration. ‘Population policies and future challenges’ also considers some key population challenges of the 21st century. Will fertility rates fall to replacement in sub-Saharan Africa? What is the relationship between environment, population, and consumption in different parts of the world? How will we feed and provide water for the projected 9 or 10 billion of us by 2050? What will be the impact of the ageing of the world’s population and of technological change?

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