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This book explores the role of religion in the lives of Brazilian migrants in London and on their return 'back home'. Working with the notion of religion as lived experience, it moves beyond rigid denominational boundaries and examines how and where religion is practiced in migrants' everyday lives, This book explores the role of religion in the everyday, transnational lives of Brazilian migrants in London and on their return to Brazil. It contributes to an emerging body of work that recognizes the importance of religion within transnational processes and foregrounds the experiences of Brazilians in London, a growing yet still largely invisible new migrant group in London. It works with the notion of religion as lived experience to give due weight to the perspectives of migrants themselves and examines the ways in which migrants negotiate their religious beliefs and practices in different places and create new connections between them. While focusing on the experience of Brazilian migrants - both in London and on their return - as a case study, it provides significant empirical and conceptual contributions to existing research through its innovative exploration of the interconnections between migration and religion, and moreover, through its inclusion of the return setting into its field of enquiry. Both these areas - religion and return - have been hitherto largely neglected within existing migration research

Immigration enforcement has ambiguous implications for the crime rate of undocumented immigrants. On the one hand, expulsions reduce the pool of immigrants at risk of committing crimes, on the other they lower the opportunity cost of crime for those who are not expelled. We estimate the effect of expulsions on the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in Italy exploiting variation in enforcement toward immigrants of different nationality, due to the existence of bilateral agreements for the control of illegal migration. We find that stricter enforcement of migration policy reduces the crime rate of undocumented immigrants.

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how the Chaozhou-speaking communities in northeast Guangdong Province dealt with new barriers of border control during the 1950s, and how they circumvented these institutional obstacles to leave China for Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. The emigration process was reshaped by new social and political forces in Maoist China. How did the Chaoshan people apply for the travel permit to leave China? How did they enter the hosting countries? How did the emigration experience influence the identity formation of Chaoshan Chinese in the 1950s?


Design/methodology/approach
This paper draws on archival sources, memoirs and interviews to demonstrate the ways in which Chaoshan people pursued new strategies of emigration during the 1950s.


Findings
In Maoist China, the application for an entry-exit permit was a rather complicated bureaucratic process for ordinary people. One needs to consider the class status, geographical origins and overseas connections of the applicants as well as the changing official policies toward overseas Chinese.


Research limitations/implications
This paper emphasizes on the impacts of emigration experience on the identity formation of Chaoshan people and the incremental transformation of these emigrant communities in Guangdong Province.


Practical implications
This scholarly finding throws light on the transformation of Chaoshan from a fluid, mobile maritime environment to an increasingly state-centric agrarian society during the 1950s.


Originality/value
This paper is an original scholarly study of the history of Chaoshan communities in South China and their emigration to Southeast Asia.

Klappentext: Eine Intellektuellengeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts muss die geistigen Einflüsse deutscher Wissenschaftsemigranten zwischen 1933 und 1945 berücksichtigen. Zu einschneidend prägte sie das literarische, kulturelle und politische Denken diesseits und jenseits des Atlantiks. Aus einem breiten Verständnis von Ideengeschichte heraus werden nicht nur prominente Emigranten wie Hannah Arendt, Arnold Bergstraesser und Franz L. Neumann, sondern zugleich dem drohenden Vergessen anheim fallende Flüchtlinge wie Sigmund Neumann, Ferdinand Hermens und Otto Neurath oder bisher kaum beachtete Biographien von André Gorz und Romain Rolland vorgestellt. Einerseits rekonstruieren die Beiträge die dramatischen Lebenslinien sowie die oft unter beklemmenden Bedingungen angefertigten politischen, gesellschafts-, kultur- und wissenschaftstheoretischen Arbeiten. Andererseits wagen sie auch einen Blick auf die Perspektiven der Emigrationsforschung heute.​

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acronyms and abbreviations; Introduction; Creating an immigrant society, 1788-1972; 2 From assimilation to a multicultural society, 1972-2002; 3 The Fraser, Hawke and Keating governments, 1975-1996; 4 Policy instruments and institutions; 5 Multicultural policy; 6 The attack on multiculturalism; 7 The impact of One Nation; 8 Economic rationalism; 9 Sustainability and population policy; 10 Refugees and asylum seekers; 11 A past, present and future success?; Appendix I Chronology: 1972-2002