Journal of International Affairs articles from March 2004

Journal of International Affairs archives from March 2004

Editors' foreword.(Emigration and immigration)(Editorial)
March 22, 2004... Land and migration might seem peripheral topics in the current international climate, ere war, security, terrorism, and U.S. military and political power drive debate in every corner of the world. Yet as the articles in this volume of the...

The challenge of worldwide migration.
March 22, 2004... In 2000, an estimated 175 million people lived outside their place of birth, more than ever before. Of these, about 158 million were deemed international migrants; approximately 16 million were recognized refugees fleeing a well-founded fear of...

Divided lands, phantom limbs: partition in the Indian subcontinent, Palestine, China, and Korea.
March 22, 2004... A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. It will listen to no reformer, to no philosopher, to no...

Mexican hometown associations and development opportunities.
March 22, 2004... International migration significantly influences the politics and economics of many countries today. Migration and worker remittances, in particular, support economic growth in sending countries all over the world. Through remittances,...

Crossings: Mexico and New York.
March 22, 2004... These photographs were taken in Mexico and the U.S. by journalist Michael Kamber, who followed 18-year-old Roberto as he left his small village of Zapotitlan de Salinas, in the southern state of Puebla, to move to the Bronx in New York City....

The imagination of land and the reality of seizure: Zimbabwe's complex reinventions.
March 22, 2004... In the months before the December 2003 Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, Robert Mugabe sustained an intense diplomatic program. Anxious to avoid an extension of his country's suspension from the Commonwealth he...

The language divide: identity and literary choices in modern Tibet.
March 22, 2004... A unique conjunction of factors during the 1980s made Lhasa an ideal place for the development of a new literature. The revival of Tibetan culture and beliefs at the end of the Cultural Revolution (1966 to 1976), the eagerness of a generation...

Migration of the Russian diaspora after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
March 22, 2004... When the Soviet Union broke up at the end of 1991, 25.2 million Russians became part of a large diaspora population "without moving an inch or leaving their homes." (1) They went from being members of a privileged majority who arguably saw...

An interview with Manthia Diawara.(Interview)
March 22, 2004... Manthia Diawara is a professor of comparative literature and director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs at New York University as well as a prominent filmmaker and author. He has studied and written extensively on the issues of African...

Remembering the country of their birth: indigenous peoples and territoriality.
March 22, 2004... The successive forces of mercantilism and colonialism that first surged out of Europe in the 15th century unleashed, over the next 500 years, a seismic shake-up of the native societies of the New World, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. In the...

Palestinians: the land and the law, an inverse relationship.
March 22, 2004... THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF THE LAND, BEFORE AND AFTER THE NAKBA Prior to 1947, the Palestinians, who hoped one day to be part of a sovereign Arab Palestine, whether within Syria or as an independent state, were able to live in and move...

The Pamir paradox: water insecurity and hunger at the source of Central Asia's rivers.(Andrew Wellington Cordier Essay)
March 22, 2004... The Pamir Mountains rise seven kilometers above sea level. On the summits which separate Tajikistan from China--Communism Peak (7495m) and the Peak of Revolution (6974m)--as well as the highest points in Afghanistan--Nowshak (7485m) and...

Refugees and Forced Displacement: International Security, Human Vulnerability, and the State.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Refugees and Forced Displacement: International Security, Human Vulnerability, and the State Edited by Edward Newman and Joanne van Selm (United Nations University Press, 2003) In 2000, as part of his ground-breaking work on the pathologies...

Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict By Michael Fischbach (Columbia University Press, 2003) By 1950, frustrated by its inability to achieve a resolution of the Palestinian refugee property...

We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship By Etienne Balibar Translated by James Swenson (Princeton University Press, 2004) In We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship, Etienne Balibar...

International Migration and Sending Countries: Perceptions, Policies and Transnational Relations.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... International Migration and Sending Countries: Perceptions, Policies and Transnational Relations Edited by Eva Ostergaard-Nielsen (Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2003) International Migration and Sending Countries examines global migration from...