Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2012

This volume covers the most important contributions to and discussions at the international symposium Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1-3, July, University of Vienna), organised by Renée Schroeder and Ruth Wodak which  was  dedicated to the multiple interdisciplinary dimensions of ?migrations?, both from the viewpoints of the Social Sciences and Humanities as well as from the manifold perspectives of the Natural Sciences. The book is organized along the following dimensions:

Urban Development and Migration

Peer Relations in Immigrant Adolescents: Methodological Challenges and Key Findings  

Migration, Identity, and Belonging

Migration in/and Ego Documents

Debating Migration

Fundamentals of Diffusion and Spread in the Natural Sciences and beyond

Media Representations of Migrants and Migration

Migration and the Genes

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 Tošić: 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, Michał Krzyżanowski: Media and Migration: Exploring the Field.- Majid KhosraviNik, Michał Krzyżanowski, 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.-

Michi Messer studied Psychology and Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna. Currently s/he is working on a thesis about the discursive construction of sex- and gender differences in science by analysing biology textbooks within the framework of critical discourse analysis.  Besides CDA and social studies of science, s/he is especially interested in feminist and queer theories and politics, focusing on non-conforming bodies, transgressing genders and deviant desires. Since 2009, Michi works for IDee, the Forum for Interdisciplinary Dialogue, at the University of Vienna. Together with Ruth Wodak and Renée Schroeder s/he  organized the symposium “Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” in 2010,  at the University of Vienna.

Renée Schroeder is the Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cellbiology at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna in Austria. She was born in Joao Monlevade, Brazil in 1953 and migrated to Austria in 1967. After studying biochemistry at the University of Vienna, she received a PhD in 1981 and spent several years as a post-doc at the Munich University in Germany, at the CNRS in Gif sur Yvette in France and at the New York State Department of Heath at Albany, New York. Since 1989, Renée Schroeder is a group leader and her research is centered around the function and structure of non-coding RNAs. She was a member of the Austrian Bioethics commission (2001 – 2005), the Austrian Delegate at EMBO (1998 – 2004) and Vice President of the Austrian Science Fund FWF (2005 – 2010). Currently, Renée Schroeder is the Editor in chief of RNA Biology. She received the Wittgenstein award in 2003 and the Eduard Buchner award in 2011. She is an elected member of EMBO and of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University since 2004 and has remained affiliated to the University of Vienna where she became full

First interdisciplinary title on migrations

Written by selected experts in the specific fields

Integrates classic material and new concepts

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras