Publications

Focussing on the inclusion of those primarily affected as stakeholders (refugees and other migrants), this article addresses a key ambition of the compacts themselves. We employ an ‘inside-outside’ perspective and firstly ask: which groups participated in the consultative pro- cesses, what agenda did they set ‘inside’ the meetings, what alliances did they establish and how did they influence the outcomes? Secondly, we investigate what kind of advocacy took place ‘outside’ of these formalized spaces and what impact it had?

Die Arbeitshilfe „Solidarität mit verfolgten und bedrängten Christen in unserer Zeit – Sahel-Region“ gibt einen Überblick über die Situation der Christen in der Sahel-Region, insbesondere im Tschad. Sie erläutert aktuelle Konfliktlinien in den Gesellschaften, analysiert die Hintergründe und lässt Mitglieder der Ortskirche zu Wort kommen.

While existing resource extraction debates have contributed to a better understanding of national economic and political dilemmas and institutional responses, there are flaws in understanding the specific relevance of the various types of mining schemes for rural households to deal with the various problems they are confronted with. Our paper examines the perceptions of gold mining effects on households in Northern Burkina Faso.

Weltweit schreiten der autoritäre Umbau liberal-demokratischer Staaten und der Angriff auf emanzipatorische Erfolge der Vergangenheit voran. Unter Rückgriff auf das theoretische Konzept des autoritären Populismus zeigt der Band Ursachen, Hintergründe und Folgen dieser Entwicklung auf. Der Fokus der empirischen Fallstudien zu den Ländern Türkei, Polen, Ungarn, Brasilien und Deutschland liegt auf den Konfliktfeldern Demokratie, Geschlechterverhältnisse und Klasse.

In Guerrero, Mexiko, sehen wir einen Mann mit Vollautomatikgewehr im Schatten einer Zeltplane am Tisch sitzen. In einem Artikel der britischen Zeitung The Guardian bezeichnet sich der Mann als Teil der Stratege einer bewaffneten „Selbstverteidigungsgruppe“, die behauptet, sie verfüge über 9.000 Mann. Hundert davon seien zum Töten ausgebildet: “[A] team thatcomes to destroy”. Was nach einem billigen Actionfilm klingt, zeigt einerseits die zersplitterte und schwer durchschaubare Sicherheitslage in Mexi-ko.

This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences. Forty-six chapters cover a range of Inter-American key concepts and dynamics.

Buenaventura, Colombia's rapidly expanding Pacific port, is simultaneously a city of violence. Focusing the linkages between local violence and the port economy, this contribution explores the role the port's global interconnections play for Buenaventura as a site of violence. In which ways does everyday violence shape urban spatial practices, particularly movement? How do every day coping strategies, reacting to a violent context, produce urban space?

In Mexico, protests against large scale infrastructure and resource projects have increased over the last decade (Andrews et al. 2017).

At times, seemingly obvious and simple actions expose fundamental contradictions. This is true of the postcolonial situation that exists between Namibia and Germany. In the course of the first restitution by a German state entity of objects looted from its former colony, unexpected conflicts, pitfalls, controversies and in particular, postcolonial entanglements became apparent.

Chad belongs to the few countries of the Sahel with a substantial Christian minority in a predominantly Muslim society. It is situated next to states affected by Islamist violence or terrorism and is also touched by terrorist attacks. However, despite a devastating civil war after independence between Muslim and respectively Christian dominated ethnic groups, thus far Chadians have demonstrated a positive attitude toward religious cohabitation.

The articles in this IQAS focus on different aspects of mobility within and between different regions of Asia. Each develops its own approach to the question of the thematic focus, which examines the interplay of violence, mobility and work. For example, Anja Karlsson Franck and Joseph Trawicki Anderson investigate the working conditions of Burmese workers in Malaysia and explain the effects of employment sponsorship.

Nine of ten of the world's largest megacities are located in Asia. Reason enough for the team of guest editors Patrick Heinrich, Francesca Tarocco and Daniele Brombal to look at urbanisation in Asia from different perspectives. The result is a wealth of exciting articles from a wide range of disciplines, from theoretical and methodological questions to ethnological case studies and literary contributions. Together they form a multi-layered picture of Asia's major cities. The special edition is published in two volumes under the title "Urban Poetics and Politics in Asia".

Improving cooperation on the return and readmission of West African migrants has been central for the EU in recent years, yet return numbers remain low. In West Africa, the issue of return, and in particular forced return, remains highly sensitive. Cooperating with EU member states on forced return may hurt the domestic legitimacy of governments in countries like the Gambia, Nigeria, Niger, and Senegal. While cooperation on return may help to attract development funds, governments and citizens fear a loss of remittances in the case of large-scale returns.

The decline in the smuggling of people from Indonesia to Australia since late 2013 is primarily attributable to unilateral deterrence policies under Australia’s Operation Sovereign Borders, rather than to bilateral or multilateral cooperation in enforcing anti-people smuggling laws in the region. Yet, more than 30 asylum-seeker boats have departed from Indonesia since that time. Australia’s handling of one boat in particular stands out, not least because of the intense media attention it attracted.

Worldwide, children and teenagers are recruited for activities related to people smuggling. The reasons for their recruitment range from the lower cost of their labour and their readiness to obey orders to their perception within smuggling operations: since children have a low chance of being prosecuted, it is often believed that laws are more lenient when they are tried for their involvement in smuggling.

The multi-directional nature of labour migration flows has resulted in an increasing number of countries having become both senders and receivers of regular and irregular migrants. However, some countries continue to see themselves primarily as senders and so ignore their role as a receiving country, which can have negative implications for the rights of migrants in their territory.

Asylum seekers and refugees currently living in Indonesia tend to see Indonesia as a transit rather than a destination country, despite the fact that their stays are increasing in length. Based on contact with Muhamad (not his real name), a young refugee from Iran currently residing in Indonesia whose adjustment and development I observed over four years, I illustrate the changing priorities in his decision-making, the constant flux of circumstances and context, and the extreme complexity of primary and secondary factors that come into play in planning for the future.

Indonesia remains a country in transition even now, some two decades after its extraordinary shift from authoritarianism to democracy and from economic crisis to a rapidly growing economy. What explains the trajectory of that shift? What challenges does this island nation of 270 million people—with the world's largest Muslim population—face now, as the quality of democratic life erodes and it grapples with profound social and economic inequalities?

Roughly 38,500 Gambians left the country through ‘irregular’ means between 2013 and 2017. Today, almost every family has ties abroad. The influx of immigrants to Europe and elsewhere was caused by political oppression under the long-serving former president Yahya Jammeh. His oppressive politics also severely affected the economic prospects of The Gambia’s young population.

To understand events in Bolivia, we need to unpack its many contradictions over the past decade. But make no mistake, this is a coup.