Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

In contemporary Europe and beyond, the concept of "migration" has acquired multiple distinct meanings. The range of reactions to migrants depends on the country of origin, their "symbolic capital" (education, professional background, language skills) as well as on aspects of gender, religion, cultural tradition, and social class. Various legal regulations on citizenship and employment are currently being debated and implemented across Europe, fuelled by a "politics of fear" propagated by mainstream and populist parties alike. Counter-discourses are rare and limited.

I Interdisciplinary Approaches: Theories and Methodologies.- Rainer Bauböck: Constellations and Transitions. Combining Macro and Micro Perspectives on Migration and Citizenship.- Teun van Dijk: The Role of the Press in the Reproduction of Racism.- Anne-Marie Fortier: The Migration Imaginary and the Politics of Personhood.- Hans-Jürgen Krumm: Multilingualism, Heterogeneity and the Monolingual Policies of the Linguistic Integration of Migrants.- II Peer Relations among Immigrant Adolescents: Methodological Challenges and Key Findings.- Dagmar Strohmeier, Christiane Spiel: Peer Relations among Immigrant Adolescents: Methodological Challenges and Key Findings.- Hildegunn Fandrem: Methodological Challenges in an Immigrant Study in Norway.- Elisabeth Stefanek et al: Bullying and Victimization in Ethnically Diverse Schools.- Rens van de Schoot et al: Aggressive Behaviour in Native, First and Second Generation Immigrant Youth: Testing Inequality Constrained Hypotheses.- Dagmar Strohmeier: Friendship Homophily among Children and Youth in Multicultural Classes.- III Migration, Identity and Belonging.- Jelena ToSic: Migration, Identity and Belonging. Anthropological Perspectives on a Multidisciplinary Field of Research.- Janine Dahinden: Transnational Belonging, Non-Ethnic Forms of Identification and Diverse Mobilities: Rethinking Migrant Integration?.- Heike Drotbohm: "It's like belonging to a place that has never been yours." Deportees Negotiating Involuntary Immobility and Return Conditions in Cape Verde.- Mark Maguire: Violence, Memory and Vietnamese-Irish Identity.- IV Ego Documents Entered Migration History.- Edith Saurer (+), Annemarie Steidl: Ego Documents Entered Migration History.- Edith Saurer (+), Li Gerhalter: Wrapped-Up Memory. Things and Their Order in the Estate of Martha Teichmann (Saxony/New York, 1888-1977).- Sonia Cancian: "My dearest love..." Love, Longing and Desire in International Migration.- Wladimir Fischer: A Worker Writes His Live: Narrative Strategies of an Austro-Hungarian Migrant to the United States.- V Debating Migrations.- Walter Pohl, Ruth Wodak: The discursive construction of 'migrants and migration'.- Bettina Bader: Migration in Archaeology: An Overview with a Focus on Ancient Egypt.- Stefan Donecker: The Ambivalence of Migration in Early Modern Thought. Comments on an Intellectual History of Human Mobility.- Roland Steinacher: Migrations and Conquest. Easy Pictures for Complicated Backgrounds in Ancient and Medieval Structures.- Andreas Musolff: Immigrants and Parasites: The History of a Bio-Social Metaphor.- VI Diffusion and Spread in the Natural Sciences and Beyond.- Gero Vogl: Fundamentals of Diffusion and Spread in the Natural Sciences and Beyond.- Michael Leitner, Stefan Dullinger, Franz Essl, Gero Vogl: The Spread of Ragweed as a Diffusion Process.- VII Media Representations of Migrants and Migration.- Brigitta Busch, Michal Krzyzanowski: Media and Migration: Exploring the Field.- Majid KhosraviNik, Michal Krzyzanowski, Ruth Wodak: Dynamics of Representation in Discourse: Immigrants in the British Press.- Karina Horsti:  Humanitarian Discourse Legitimating Migration Control: FRONTEX Public Communication.- VIII Migration and the Genes.- Renée Schroeder: Migrations and the Genes.- Floyd A. Reed: Modern Human Migrations: The First 200,000 Years.- Claus Rüffler: Migration and the Origin of Species.