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The war in Donbas has created large-scale displacement within Ukraine, an issue the impoverished state has struggled to manage. Internally displaced people (IDPs) have suffered from prejudice at the hands of host communities and from legal ambiguities caused by the state's incoherent attempts at limiting the threat of mass displacement. This paper examines how the Ukrainian government-owned newspaper Uriadovyi Kurier represents the IDPs from Donbas and analyses what the publication's attitudes towards internal displacement mean. Over time, a distinction appears in the newspaper's reporting between real IDPs in need of help, and people posing as IDPs, guilty of siphoning Ukrainian tax payers' money to the rebel-held areas. Also, the paper eagerly discusses how the European Union (EU) and foreign states can be engaged in providing support for the IDPs, relieving pressure from regional budgets and simultaneously binding Ukraine to the West. These tropes serve to construct Ukrainian national unity by excluding politically suspicious migrants from Donbas. They also excuse the state from making any structural adjustments or battling corruption as inadequate social protection can be replaced with foreign aid.

Media and Nation Building: How the Iban Became Malaysian. John Postill. New York: Berghahn, 2006. 231 pp.

"Integration Nation takes readers on a spirited and compelling cross-country journey, introducing us to the people challenging America's xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their new communities. In Utah, we meet educators who connect newly arrived Spanish-speaking students and U.S.-born English-speaking students, who share classrooms and learn in two languages. In North Carolina, we visit the nation's fastest-growing community-development credit union, serving immigrants and U.S.- born depositors and helping to lower borrowing thresholds and crime rates alike. In recent years, politicians in a handful of local communities and states have passed laws and regulations designed to make it easier to deport unauthorized immigrants or to make their lives so unpleasant that they'd just leave. The media's unrelenting focus on these ultimately self-defeating measures created the false impression that these politicians speak for most of America. They don't. Integration Nation movingly reminds us that we each have choices to make about how to think and act in the face of the rapid cultural transformation that has reshaped the United States. Giving voice to people who choose integration over exclusion, who opt for open-heartedness instead of fear, Integration Nation is a desperately needed road map for a nation still finding its way beyond anti-immigrant hysteria to higher ground"--

Intro -- ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS (ASEAN) AND U.S. INTERESTS -- ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS (ASEAN) AND U.S. INTERESTS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 UNITED STATES RELATIONS WITH THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS (ASEAN) -- SUMMARY -- OVERVIEW: U.S. INTERESTS TOWARDS ASEAN -- U.S. POLICY DEVELOPMENTS TOWARD THE REGION -- ASEAN: FORMATION AND INSTITUTIONS -- ASEAN Charter -- ASEAN'S REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE -- POLICY ISSUES -- Security -- Geopolitical Importance -- South China Sea Disputes -- Historical Context -- External Security Ties -- The Emerging Security Agenda in Southeast Asia -- Trade and Trade Relations -- ASEAN's Role in Global Trade -- ASEAN's Trade Relationships -- U.S. Burma Policy and ASEAN -- U.S. Assistance to ASEAN -- REGIONAL POWERS AND THEIR RELATIONS WITH ASEAN -- The United States -- China -- Japan -- ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 U.S. ACCESSION TO THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS' TREATY OF AMITY AND COOPERATION (TAC) -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF U.S. INTERESTS IN THE TAC, ASEAN, AND SOUTHEAST ASIA -- Motivations for and Reservations against Acceding to the TAC -- U.S. Interests in Southeast Asia -- U.S.-ASEAN Economic Relations -- ASEAN's History and Evolution -- OVERVIEW OF TAC PROVISIONS -- NEGOTIATION OF ACCESSION TO THE TAC -- FORM OF U.S. ACCESSION TO THE TAC -- POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS OF TAC ACCESSION FOR U.S. LAW -- Right to Individual and Collective Self-Defense -- Relationship between the TAC and Other Agreements Concerning Human Rights, Trade, Terrorism, Transnational Crime, and Other Matters -- Application of the TAC to U.S. Relations with Other TAC Parties outside Southeast Asia -- Participation in the High Council

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and sexuality. Tracing the conditions of possibility of Anglophone Filipino literature to U.S. colonialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century, the book examines how a host of writers from across the century both imagine and address the Philippines and the United States, inventing a variety of artistic lineages and social formations in the process. Beyond the Nation considers a broad array of issues, from early Philippine nationalism, queer modernism, and transnational radicalism, to music-influenced and cross-cultural poetics, gay male engagements with martial law and popular culture, second-generational dynamics, and the relation between reading and revolution. Ponce elucidates not only the internal differences that mark this literary tradition but also the wealth of expressive practices that exceed the terms of colonial complicity, defiant nationalism, or conciliatory assimilation. Moving beyond the nation as both the primary analytical framework and locus of belonging, Ponce proposes that diasporic Filipino literature has much to teach us about alternative ways of imagining erotic relationships and political communities.

The political legitimation of nation states traditionally tended to claim
homogeneity requirements that often exclude large sections of population.
Taking this account of the traditional correspondence between nationality
and state as a backdrop, I will attempt to sketch a new conception of
peoplehood not based on class, race or religious membership, but on the
acceptance of manifold social differences and on the construction of new
belonging models. Basically I will suggest the exploration of new avenues of
political research about the future of the nation with the following main
goals: a) to argue for the persistence of differences among the members of a
society at a global scale as a positive feature able to remove deep
prejudices and biased views about the others, b) to highlight the prejudices
that the neoliberal frame of the EU has supposed in the West Balkans area
and c) to criticize the ideological resistance stemming from the idea of a
nation state that usually turns down the birth of new nations in history as
the result of wrongly solved conflicts. My claim for a politics of
peoplehood as a regular source of conflicts and demands, which shouldn?t be
viewed as a civil failure or breakdown, will be especially inspired by some
texts from Seyla Benhabib, Slavoj Zizek and Lea Ypi focusing on the
necessary updates that the conditions of membership and political
participation ought to include in our current times.

Although the nation changed substantially between the presidential terms of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, these two leaders shared common interests and held remarkably similar opinions on many important issues. In Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Unfinished Work of the Nation, Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler describes the views of two of our nation's greatest presidents and explains how these views provide valuable insight into modern debates. In this groundbreaking new study-the first extended examination of the ideas of Lincoln and Jefferson-Hatzenbuehler provides readers with a succinct guide to.

The process of nation- and state-building in Israel could be viewed as unique because of its pace and intensive character. This is evident in much that is related to immigration, forging cultural coherence, the establishment of institutions, and the like. However, the extreme characteristics of its development also make Israel a valuable case study for a theoretical or comparative discussion because those conditions allow for a clear view of various social, cultural, and political aspects of nation-building. Therefore, using Israel as a case study can corroborate, refute, or challenge assumptions, patterns of analysis, or conceptions and terminologies in theories and models used in the humanities or the social sciences for understanding processes of nation-building.

Excavating Nations traces the history of archaeology and museums in the contested German-Danish borderlands from the emergence of antiquarianism in the early nineteenth-century to German-Danish reconciliation after the Second World War. J. Laurence Hare reveals how the border regions of Schleswig-Holstein and Sønderjylland were critical both to the emergence of professional prehistoric archaeology and to conceptions of German and Scandinavian origins. At the center of this process, Hare argues, was a cohort of amateur antiquarians and archaeologists who collaborated across the border to investigate the ancient past but were also complicit in its appropriation for nationalist ends. Excavating Nations follows the development of this cross-border network over four generations, through the unification of Germany and two world wars. Using correspondence and site reports from museum, university, and state archives across Germany and Denmark, Hare shows how these scholars negotiated their simultaneous involvement in nation-building projects and in a transnational academic community. --Provided by publisher