Triple exclusion: Life stories of Jewish migrant academics from the former Soviet Union at a contested university under siege

Three decades have passed since the commencement of the largest influx of immigration in the history of the State of Israel, during which approximately one million Russian-speaking Jews from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) immigrated to Israel. Thousands of these immigrants held academic positions in the FSU and sought to continue their work in Israeli academia, which at that time lacked the capacity to include them. Many of the immigrants were directed to work and sometimes live in the West Bank, a contested region acknowledged by the international community as occupied Palestinian land. This study examines the life stories of scholars who emigrated from the FSU and are currently employed at Ariel University, an institution located in the Israeli city of Ariel in the West Bank. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with sixteen academics, this study explores their experiences of immigration, its effects on their academic career in Israel, and their integration into Ariel University in light of the intractable Israeli-Arab conflict. The construct of triple exclusion is used to bring together three layers of participant experiences - as Jews in Soviet society, as Russian-speaking immigrants in Israel, and as academics working at a contested institution. The study provides a nuanced analysis of each of these three layers of exclusion, offering insights for further research in the field of academic mobilities. Moreover, it reveals that many of the interviewed academics de-politicise the conflict, as a survival strategy, and thus contribute to the normalisation of the Israeli presence in the occupied territories of the West Bank.     

Bordering Populism in Immigration Activism: Outlaw–Civic Discourse in a (Counter)Public

This study involved a rhetorical ethnography and textual analyses of an anti-immigration group over a six month period. I argue the collective engaged in a deleterious form of bordering populism, in which communicators continually attack and praise the same targets. This populism was generated by outlaw–civic shifts between marginalized, outsider stances, and more official, general cultural logics. The group demonstrated a fragile, fracturing approach to a public issue, and local, vernacular practices that are employed to bridge pressures for agitative and integrative movement communication in a pluralistic, globalizing environment. Overall, each of the group's stark rhetorical shifts for and against the government, businesses, and immigrants concurrently crafted and dismantled rhetorical borders, creating an unstable (counter)public forgoing the possibility of democratic communication and community.     

论汉晋时期哀牢区域汉族移民的特点

哀牢区域本无汉族。先秦时期,我国内地汉族先民开始移民到哀牢区域,于汉晋时期哀牢区域出现汉族移民的第一个高潮。这一时期汉族移民以政治落籍移民、战争落籍移民和工商业落籍移民为最多。     

Motivated prejudice: The effect of need for closure on anti-immigrant attitudes in the United States and Italy and the mediating role of binding moral foundations

Why do people have anti-immigrant attitudes? We proposed that individuals’ need for cognitive closure—an epistemic motivation associated with an aversion to change in established environments—is predictive of a dislike of immigrants through increased binding to powerful groups. In four studies, collected in both Italy (Study 1) and the United States (Studies 2–4), we found that there were effects of need for cognitive closure on anti-immigrant attitudes, as well as indirect effects through binding. These results were significant controlling for participants’ political orientation (Studies 2–4), when either dispositional measure (Studies 1–3) or an experimental induction (Study 4) of need for cognitive closure was used, and when both general attitudes toward immigrants (Studies 1, 2, 4) and attitudes toward immigrants’ economic impact (Studies 3 and 4) were assessed.     

试论明代移民及对永昌文化的影响

明代全国性的移民,对永昌府来说也是大规模的、多层次的移民。使永昌府的主体民族由“夷民族”逐步演变为汉民族,从而致使永昌文化产生了多方位、多层次的实质性变化,即永昌文化成为了真正的“以汉文化为主体的文化”。     

Second-generation Turkish youth in Europe: Explaining the academic disadvantage in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland

This investigation examines the role of students’ home and school variables in producing the achievement gap between second-generation Turkish students and their native peers in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Using the data from PISA 2006, this study supports past findings that both home and school resources affect the educational outcomes of immigrant students in their host society's school system. Specifically, the findings reveal that in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, second-generation Turkish students had significant disadvantages in terms of allocated resources at home and in school. More often than not, these disadvantages were found to have significantly negative effects in terms of second-generation Turkish students’ test outcomes relative to their native peers. In all three countries, however, the differences between the second-generation Turkish students and their native peers in terms of their family/home resources were found to explain more of the achievement gap than the differences in their schooling resources.     

ALA《图书馆项目与美国移民白皮书》解读与思考

为提升图书馆面向移民用户的服务质量,美国图书馆协会牵头发起“图书馆移民服务项目”,在梳理总结过去经验的基础上,针对移民服务提出九条优化建议,并通过《图书馆项目与美国移民白皮书》发布。我国日益成长为国际移民目的国,美国公共图书馆移民服务的经验值得国内公共图书馆学习和借鉴。     

移民与移民社会问题研究——关于建构移民社会学的思考

随着全球化的推进和社会流动的加快,移民和移民社会已经普遍存在.作为人类生活共同体的一种类型,移民社会特有的内涵及其多样的生活方式、价值观念对现存的社会结构、社会文化、社会政策和社会和谐提出了挑战.因此,研究移民、移民社会问题,构建移民社会学理论体系,开创社会学的新兴分支学科,是一种很有意义的探索和尝试.     

略论新疆俄罗斯族的形成

伴随着俄国对我国西北边疆侵略的步步深入,俄罗斯人迁入新疆,形成大漫布、小聚居的局面。十月革命后,又有大批俄罗斯人逃入新疆定居下来。这些俄罗斯人绝对数量不多,仅占新疆总人口的一小部分,但他们积极地融入近代新疆的社会生活,最终形成新疆的俄罗斯族。     

Cultural stress in the age of mass xenophobia: Perspectives from Latin/o adolescents

During the last four years, xenophobic rhetoric directed toward Latino immigrants in U.S. media outlets and political forums has greatly increased. Using a general inductive approach, this qualitative study examined the forms of cultural stress, with a focus on discrimination and xenophobia, experienced by Latino adolescents in urban U.S. settings in 2018 and 2019. Six focus groups were conducted in Miami and Los Angeles (three groups per city) with first- and second-generation tenth-grade Latino students (n = 34). The following four themes emerged from the data: perceived discrimination from other Latino subgroups (in-group discrimination), perceived discrimination from non-Latino groups (out-group discrimination), internalization of stressors and discrimination experienced by participants' parents, and the current U.S. political rhetoric surrounding immigration. Understanding cultural stress among Latino adolescents provides valuable insight for future interventions to offset negative health outcomes associated with cultural stress.