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Migration Studies in International Relations: a review of PhD dissertations in Turkey (2000-2021)

Uluslararası İlişkiler Disiplininde Göç Araştırmaları: Türkiye’deki Doktora Tezleri Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme (2000-2021)

Author(s): Pınar Çağlayan / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Migration studies; Dissertations; International relations; Turkish universities;

The main objective of this study is to draw an overall picture of the importance of migration studies in the field of international relations in Turkish academia, based on the IR dissertations. In doing so, it attempts to determine how the increased academic interest in the migration studies affects the content of these dissertations. Second, it examines which topics has domanited the IR dissertations. Starting from this point of view, this study looks at dissertations written between 2000 and 2021 and submitted to the National Theses Center in IR. Dissertations dealing with migration, diaspora, asylum seekers, refugees, foreign workers, and migrants are selected as the sample for this research. First, the dissertations are statistically evaluated by topic and year, using bibliometric analysis method; second, they are analyzed thematically by using the content analysis method.

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The Tangled Roots of Family, Forest, and Farm

Author(s): Eva-Lynn Jagoe / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Family; farming; roots; forestry; agriculture; mothering;

When my family started stewarding eight acres in British Columbia, Canada, we encountered a pervasive pioneer species or “weed”—quackgrass—that grows long roots and chokes out other plants. This paper counterposes the behaviour of these competitive and embinding roots with the cooperative mutual interrelation of forest root systems. Using these two roots as metaphors for the pleasures and pitfalls of family, I make an argument for family farming that both honours and resists the tangle of rootedness that is embodied in the symbiotic relationship of mother and sons. I paint a picture of a political project of regeneration and flourishing that is founded on deep love and affinity for the land and for each other. While I critique the constraints of family, the mother-son relationship emerges in this essay as a historically embedded and potentially generative form of community.

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Lateness, Asymmetricity, and Ecological Uncertainty in W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn

Author(s): Daniel G. Spencer / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Anthropocene; Aesthetics; Romanticism; Asymmetricity;

This paper analyzes W.G. Sebald’s novel The Rings of Saturn as a literary exploration of ecology and post-historicity. By examining Sebald’s narrative through Timothy Morton’s revision of Hegelian art history as “Asymmetricity,” a prolonged period of post-human Romanticism, Sebald’s vision of history is positioned after the end of a sense of historical progress, a period of ruin and decline where nature begins to reclaim the landscape and history itself. This condition, I argue, is one instance in an ever-repeating cycle of historical and ecological “ends,” whose foil is the concept of ecological melancholy. Ultimately this analysis is a case study in how literature of the Anthropocene so preoccupied with the notion of the “end” encourages narrative estrangement from the world, an estrangement I seek to suture – though not entirely heal – through the recognition of a new historical teleology of engagement with the ecological melancholy’s potential for rebuilding.

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Biomimetic Leadership: Core Beliefs for Sustainable Organizations

Author(s): Andrea Somoza-Norton,Claudia I. Rivera Cárdenas,Lisa Pabigian,Megan Drap / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Biomimetic; Biomimicry; Leadership; Beliefs; Sustainability;

Biomimetics is the science of applying nature-inspired designs and processes to human engineering and social innovation in order to solve complex problems. Emulating life’s blueprints and patterns, chemical processes, and ecosystem strategies leads to sustainable and regenerative solutions for a biosphere able to support all life on our planet. In a similar vein, Biomimetic Leadership encourages western 21st century leaders to rediscover the value of nature, apply life’s design principles, and utilize biomimetic thinking for the sake of improving organizations. Four core beliefs—Respect, Relate, Reflect, and Replicate—provide the foundation for Biomimetic Leadership as a new type of leadership. Each belief is a source of inspiration and offers insights into a hands-on approach to leading in an era of unprecedented environmental and economic concerns. Educating leaders for Biomimetic Leadership is a challenge that must be addressed by organizations with the objective of reaching equality, and by doing so, focusing on incorporating the four core beliefs described in this paper.

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Empathy with Nature and an Autistic Spirituality

Author(s): Anna Nygren / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Neurodivergence; empathy; autistic spirituality;

Anna Stenning does in the anthology Neurodiversity. A New Critical Paradigm (2020) introduce an autistic ethics using the autobiographies of Greta Thunberg (No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (2019)) and Temple Grandin (Animals in Translation (2005)). Stenning points to how this autistic ethics do expand its acts of care to the more-than-human. Grandin describes her being in the world as more attuned to animals than humans. Thunberg argues that her Asperger’s is the reason why she can care so totally for the climate. This article further investigates the intersection of autism and the more-than-human, or the post humanist. Using the works of openly autistic authors Madeleine Ryan (A Room Called Earth (2020)) and Hannah Emerson (You Are Helping This Great Universe Explode (2020)) as well as Emily Dickinson, posthumously diagnosed with autism. I investigate the autistic theme of nature and the autistic relationship to other species. This relation often seems to be stronger and more genuine than the relation to other humans. I propose that the autistic sense of the more-than-human is at once a response to the oppressive view of the autistic as less-than-human – a way of finding one’s allies outside the realms of human civilization – and a special kind of autistic worldly spiritualness that includes an ethics that do not segregate one life form from another.

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Ryan, J.C., Gagliano, M., & Vieira, P. (Eds.). (2021). The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence

Author(s): Wendy Wuyts / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Plant intelligence; narratives; human-plant entanglements; plant encounters; vegetal intelligence;

Review of: Ryan, J.C., Gagliano, M., & Vieira, P. (Eds.). (2021). The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence. Synergetic Press

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Horn, Eva, Bergthaller, Hannes, (2020). The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities

Author(s): Susanne Fuchs / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Anthropocene; Environmental Humanities;

Review of: Horn, Eva, Bergthaller, Hannes, (2020). The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities, Routledge, 2020, 192 pages, 14 B/W illustrations. US$44,95 ISBN: 9781138342477

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Depopulating Villages and Mobility of People in the Garhwal Himalaya

Author(s): Saurav Kumar,Vishwambhar Prasad Sati / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Sustainable Mountain Development; Garhwal Himalaya; Migration; Livelihood; Ghost villages;

Rural out-migration is a worldwide phenomenon that is also visible in many mountainous regions, creating the impression of an abandoned landscape. In order to achieve sustainable mountain development, it is crucial to understand the various drivers and implications of out-migration in the mountains. Using both secondary and primary data on migration, this study examines different aspects of migration in the Garhwal Himalaya. Secondary data on migration were derived from a report published by the Rural Development and Migration Commission of Uttarakhand in 2018 that included migration statistics for the Garhwal region from 2011 to 2018. Primary data were collected through field surveys. Several types of migration were observed in the region, including semi-permanent migration, permanent migration, and in-migration. The study reveals that out-migration is a serious problem in the Garhwal Himalaya, as it has caused many socio-economic problems in the region. If these problems are not addressed immediately, the number of uninhabited/ghost villages in the region will increase rapidly, and the population of many villages will decline significantly. Finally, various policy measures were proposed to minimize the high rate of out-migration from the Garhwal Himalaya.

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A qualitative study exploring sexual and reproductive health needs among a sample of foreign migrants living in six locations in Southern Africa

Author(s): Latifat Ibisomi,Alexandra Spyrelis,Mulekya F. Bwambale / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Migrants; sexual reproductive health; SADC region; healthcare access;

Migrants in Southern Africa often lack access to adequate sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH), which deepens their vulnerability to poor health outcomes. This paper highlights results from a rapid assessment undertaken in six countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region to inform the implementation of the “SRHR-HIV Knows No Borders” project. In-depth interviews were conducted with 16 adult foreign migrants residing in 10 high migration communities where the project was implemented. Data were analysed thematically using an inductive approach. Respondents were found to have good knowledge about HIV, STIs, and male condoms, although they lacked awareness about other contraceptive methods. Many respondents reported barriers to accessing SRH services, mostly as a result of a lack of legal documentation and due to discrimination from healthcare workers. SRH interventions among foreign migrant populations in the Southern African region should focus on developing awareness about contraceptives and ensuring inclusivity within the healthcare system.

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The Golden Visa: Anatomy of making a long-term home in the UAE

Author(s): Emina Osmandzikovic / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Lifestyle migration; golden visa; international migration;

While traditionally governed by the ‘kafala’ system of sponsorship for non-nationals, the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have diversified their visa portfolios in the past few years, in line with rising global trends. The launch of the Golden Visa in the UAE has marked a historic shift in the way the country approaches its non-national community. Building this research on the novel aspirations-capabilities nexus within the often-overlooked lifestyle migration theoretical corpus, I unpack the short-term impact of changing residency policies on the UAE’s Golden Visa recipients – medium- and high-skilled non-nationals from various backgrounds and industries. I employ semi-structured interviews with twenty-five recipients. My research inquiry finds that, while it does not provide a structural break in the whole-of-life approach to UAE’s non-residents, the Golden Visa does, indeed, act as an enabler of its recipients’ capabilities to fulfil their long-term aspirations and (re)construct their desired life(style) in the country. Hereby, this research dampens the paucity of inquiry on the backend processes before and after obtaining the Golden Visa through the lens of lifestyle migration, making a new mark on the GCC-focused literature as well.

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The Impact of International Remittances on Poverty: Evidence From The Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries

Author(s): Boutaina Ismaili Idrissi / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Growth; Mediterranean; Migration; Poverty; Remittances; Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries;

Workers Remittances represent an important source of financing for recipient countries to the extent that it exceeds sometimes foreign direct investment (FDI) flows (Sirkeci, Ratha, Cohen, 2012). International remittances flowing into developing economies has gained an increasing importance regarding the volume of these flows, their importance for the financial sector as well as their overall impact at the economic and social levels. Based upon a review of theoretical and empirical literature, this paper uses an econometric model based on the basic growth poverty model suggested by (Ravallion, 1997) and (Ravallion & Chen, 1997) accompanied by the frameworks postulated by (Adams & Page, 2005) to assess the impact of remittances in terms of reducing the level of poverty. It is based on panel data of eight Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries (SEMEC) (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey and West bank and Gaza) over the period 2000-2018. In most of these countries, remittances represent the largest foreign exchange earnings and represent an average of 8% of GDP. The results suggest that remittances have a positive impact on growth and therefore contribute through income to poverty reduction. This impact becomes significant as the level of remittances relative to GDP increases.

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Rendering the Forms of Displacement

Author(s): Roma Madan Soni / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Displacement; migration; dislocation; otherness; exile; tourist;

Kuwaiti sculptor Sami Mohammed in his reflective show ‘Displacement’ moves from creating monochrome bronze sculptures that display specific regional catastrophes, toward offering thirty multi-hued contemporary paintings based on the notion of displacement in a global setting. He images the effects of globalization. Sami transitions his work to this “polyglot” culture in which his consciousness links the dissimilarities to synthesize the immigrant, the exile, the tourist, and the urban wanderer - the dominant figures of contemporary culture. He reflects on aspects such as “altermodernity,” constituting a “translation-oriented” modernity. His intervention, in kaleidoscopic styles and techniques, defines fragments of “medium-space-time.” He maps these as he wanders through continents and locations while he positions himself in translatable moving and affected environments. The global stage turns into a platform for an interchange of multitude portrayals of the world, in which Sami’s translation of ideas and imageries play a crucial role in dialogue that will give rise to a new shared intelligibility.

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Immigration and Innovation: Review on the Effects on Innovation Outputs and Education

Author(s): Luigi Capoani,Valentina Chabert,Alicia Brull Valle,Francesca Rinaldi / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2023

Keywords: Immigration; innovation; patenting; education; high-skilled workers;

Notwithstanding its importance in light of current migration patterns, the link between immigration and innovation is of recent interest and mainly confined to research, focusing on the United States and the European Union, with emerging studies also from Oceania. Thus, the present work will focus on this relation by considering the factors which influence immigrants’ contribution to destination countries’ overall level of innovation, cultural diversity, demographic agglomeration forces and newcomers’ educational background emerge as drivers of innovation which influence patenting activity. Our thematic review not only summarizes the overall positive influence of migration on innovation spillovers, but also its effectiveness in isolating the channels related to education history and labour supply through which this positive influence is exerted.

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Storytelling and the Healing Power of Photography: Rita Leistner’s My Space Project

Author(s): Kalina Kukiełko,Krzysztof Tomanek / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: Rita Leistner;photography;storytelling;visual story;community building

The aim of the article is to analyze the artistic, social project titled My Space. Stories from Inside the Downtown Eastside Vancouver, created by Canadian photographer Rita Leistner. Through her photographs and interviews, the artist presents the everyday life of a group of drug and alcohol addicted residents of Astoria and Balmoral hotels. The article is based on photographs taken by Leistner and the statements of project participants – both acquired from the artist’s Webpage. Bearing in mind Leistner’s intentions, we tend to present her story in the storytelling narrative. We treat that approach as a useful tool for qualitative data analysis as well as insightful framework to represent a story. This approach has worked well so far in the study of culture and art. Thus, we focus on the content and a form of a story while uncovering its threads looking at it from different dimensions interpreted through the prism of individuals to whom the story relates. We look at the way in which the space occupied by the heroes of the story is being photographed by Leistner, who creates a medium allowing the narrative to connect the present with the past and the future. That medium plays an important role in building a community.

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“It Works by Activating Very Basic Instincts […]”: Medical Students’ Opinions about the Benefits and Risks of the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Marketing Efforts Aimed at Medical Doctors

Author(s): Marta Makowska / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: sociology of medicine;social psychology;medical education;pharmaceutical industry

Cooperation between the pharmaceutical industry and medical doctors is both necessary and inevitable. As part of the medical community, medical students are likely to have developed specific views as to its benefits and risks. The article is part of a series of articles presenting selected results of nine focus group interviews from three cities (Warsaw, Kraków, and Gdańsk). The study used social constructivism as a theoretical framework, and thematic analysis was performed. In their group discussions, the students drew links between cooperation’s perceived benefits and risks. Despite the associated risks, most medical students perceive benefits obtained from the pharmaceutical industry as attractive. Better education about social, psychological issues (manipulation techniques) and the conflict of interest is needed in medical schools.

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Towards the maintenance nature of the legitim? Some comments on the new Polish regulation

Author(s): Mariusz Załucki / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: succession; inheritance; legitim; reserved portion; people close to the deceased; “veto right”

The system of protection of persons close to the deceased in contemporary succession law is one of the major dilemmas. This is because the rights of those close to the deceased interfere with one of the most valuable values developed in succession law over the years: the freedom to dispose of property upon death. Any new solution from a particular country that addresses this issue may prove interesting for the ongoing development of substantive law in individual countries. For this reason, the author presents the new Polish solutions, which have been in force since 22 May 2023 and which change the Polish legitim system fundamentally. The aim of the article is to first assess the changes introduced and to present them to the foreign reader.

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European Right to Information and Consultation Employees and Employers

Author(s): Andrzej Marian Świątkowski / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Council of Europe; employees; employers; Social Charter; social rights

The right of employees and, at the same time, the obligation of employers in employment matters was regulated by the European Social Charter modified on 3 May 1996. Employees employed in Member States of the Council of Europe were granted, among others, the right to information and consultation in the establishments where they were employed. With a view to ensuring the effective use of the above rights in enterprises by employees, the modified Social Charter obliges entrepreneurs to inform and consult employees and their representatives – trade union organizations – about all financial and economic matters of the workplace employing them and about draft decisions taken by employers, that may affect the interests of employees. The author, a member and vice-president of the European Committee of Social Rights, analyzes and discusses in this scientific study the implementation and effects of actions taken by member states of the Council of Europe necessary – in the understanding of employees – to achieve the above goal.

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The Impact of Abandoning Fossil Fuels and the Development of Renewable Energy on the Global Labor Market

Author(s): Kinga Piwowarska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: employee; fossil fuels; employment; renewable energy; labor market

The impact of abandoning fossil fuels and the development of renewable energy on the global labor market is aimed at presenting the issue that affects now or in the near future most of the world’s economies (plants extracting fossil deposits and cooperating with them large enterprises and international corporations) in the field of correlation with environmental protection. The above is being realized, among others by departing in the next 20 years from the policy of extracting fossil fuels, especially coal, and is related to the use and development of renewable energy. This has a significant impact on the legal status of employees and employer. The departure from the extraction of fossil fuels will result in a sudden wave of mass layoffs around the world, including in Poland, and economic migrations, so now it is necessary to prepare an action plan for the next decades in terms of retraining employees and other possible forms of their professional activation, in the new realities of the labor market. In addition, there is a need to regulate possible ways of using renewable energy in people’s work, also in the context of the development of new technologies and their use in the work process. The development of the above should already result in the training of employees in new industries and create conditions for companies promoting the fight against global warming. It is important to deepen the study of the relationship between labor law and environmental protection law, which at the moment is unjustifiably downplayed, while in a dozen / several dozen years it will have a huge impact on human life, because climate change (and “currently” the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic) are already causing a lockdown in the world labor market. There is an absolute need to identify potential problems, adopt appropriate policies and action plans, and then successively implement them, e.g. for the transition to a low-carbon economy, but without much prejudice to the employment market and global unemployment. In this context, a coherent policy of the EU and international organizations will be important, including ILO, in order to ensure environmental and social order in employment relations, in the new reality of the 1950s, the 21st century. Conclusion de lege ferenda drawn after the above-mentioned research will be aimed at presenting potential opportunities for Poland and the world in terms of the new and employment policy.

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Challenges and necessity of further research on adult professional education in polish-ukrainian cooperation

Author(s): Łukianowa Larysa / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: professional education of adults; cooperation; scientific researches;

Currently, lifelong learning is one of the main components of the European social model of successful human existence. An important component of the education system throughout life is professional education of adults, which directly contributes to the formation of the professional basis of the personnel potential of the modern high-tech economy. The author of the article proves that the challenges faced by professional education of adults are due to the results of socio-economic transformations. In particular, it is about deep institutional changes, against the background of increased global competition, serious changes in the demographic situation, integration of the educational space, rapid development of the field of information technologies. Ukraine and Poland have long-standing common scientific interests. The expediency of their development has significantly increased recently. First of all, this concerns professional education of adults due to the requirements of the labor market, which itself changes rapidly, and therefore requires rapid adaptation to these changes from its subjects, due to changes in the demographic structure of both countries, migration processes etc.

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Research on cross-generational collaboration. An abridged analysis in the limelight of a global change

Author(s): Alina Gil,Rafał Głębocki,Urszula Nowacka / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: cross-generational collaboration; global change; social inclusion; social competences; social responsibility; young adults;

The article is an attempt to outline the frames of the need for an educational switch evoked by global technological and social changes in the post-pandemic reality. A compact cross-section review of experts' opinions has been presented to formulate a solid social and scientific basis for practical educational implementations. Cross-generational collaboration that embraces young adults' social competences improvement has been indicated as support for the older generation's socially responsible and inclusive work. It has been demonstrated through an abridged research outcomes analysis.

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