By Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh. Over the past two decades, Middle Eastern and European politics have been impacted by three critical developments that call into question dominant understandings of nationalism, citizenship, and decolonization. The aggressive and ongoing colonization of Palestine created irreversible realities that cast serious doubts on the feasibility of partition and the “two-state solution.”
In this talk entitled “Portable Labour Rights for Migrant Workers in North America”, Xóchitl Bada looks at “glocalized” campaigns for international migrant workers and their portability in linking local worker...
By Yasmeen Hanoosh. When articulating their identity in the United States, Iraqi Catholic immigrants and refugees often reference an association between their monumental history, the progress of modernity, and the...
Xóchitl Bada is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She studied sociology and political sciences in Mexico City, Notre Dame and Chicago. Her...
Annette Weinke ist Privatdozentin am Jena Center Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Nach ihrer Habilitation an der Philosophischen Fakultät Universität Jena war sie 2015/16 Visiting Fellow am History Department...
Donna Gabaccia is professor of history at the University of Toronto Scarborough (Canada). She is the past director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota (USA)...
Jay L. Garfield (Professor of Humanities, Yale-NUS College in Singapore) and Bryan W. Van Norden (Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College) claim on the Opinion Pages of the New York...
Concept: Jens Boysen / Steffi Marung / Gesche Schifferdecker At first glance, our time appears to be fundamentally different from the period preceding it. During the Cold War, the bipolar...
Saima Akhtar is an architect and designer whose research focuses on the relationship between the built environment, corporate enterprise, and labor migrations. She received a PhD in Urban Studies from...
The attempt to internationalize American scholarship started in 1958 with the National Defense Education Act. At first view, the task seems to be accomplished: a wide range of international programs,...
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