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  • 1
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 9780226471426 , 9780226130866 , 9780226471396
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 p.)
    DDC: 388.40967625
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    Keywords: History ; African history ; Anthropology ; Buses, trams and commercial vehicles: general interest ; Urban communities ; east african history ; mass transit ; kenya ; africa ; public transportation ; ethnic studies ; nairobi ; matatu ; matatus ; colorful minibus ; ramshackle ; vehicles ; aftermarket detailing ; taxis ; kanye west ; barack obama ; interdisciplinary research ; 1960s ; 20th century ; socioeconomic ; political conditions ; diversity ; idiosyncratic designs ; kenyan life ; rapid urbanization ; organized crime ; entrepreneurship ; social insecurity ; transition to democracy ; society ; popular culture
    Abstract: Drive the streets of Nairobi, and you are sure to see many matatus—colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out with aftermarket detailing. They can be stately black or extravagantly colored, sporting names, slogans, or entire tableaus, with airbrushed portraits of everyone from Kanye West to Barack Obama. In this richly interdisciplinary book, Kenda Mutongi explores the history of the matatu from the 1960s to the present. As Mutongi shows, matatus offer a window onto the socioeconomic and political conditions of late-twentieth-century Africa. In their diversity of idiosyncratic designs, they reflect multiple and divergent aspects of Kenyan life—including, for example, rapid urbanization, organized crime, entrepreneurship, social insecurity, the transition to democracy, and popular culture—at once embodying Kenya’s staggering social problems as well as the bright promises of its future. Offering a shining model of interdisciplinary analysis, Mutongi mixes historical, ethnographic, literary, linguistic, and economic approaches to tell the story of the matatu and explore the entrepreneurial aesthetics of the postcolonial world
    Note: English
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781846822674
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 320 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Edition: 1. paperback ed.
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    Keywords: Ireland ; History ; 16th century ; Ireland ; History ; 1603-1625 ; Ireland ; History ; 1625-1649 ; Irland ; Gewalt ; Massaker ; Politik ; Geschichte 1500-1700
    Note: Originally published: 2007. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
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    Book
    Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Univ. Press
    ISBN: 9780804758253 , 0804758255 , 9780804758260
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: XV, 310 S. , Ill., Kt. , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
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    Keywords: Saisonarbeiter ; Einwanderung ; Einwanderer ; Auswanderer ; Auswanderung ; Zuwanderer ; Arbeitsbedingungen ; Syrien ; Libanon ; Lebanon ; Emigration and immigration ; History
    Note: Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-301) and index. - By God, my brother, come back to us -- We were like ghosts, unseen -- In the name of the martyrs -- Pax Syriana -- Instability and exile
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  • 4
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    Online Resource
    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
    ISBN: 9789053568835
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 343 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. [The Hague] OAPEN Online-Ressource [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 305.8009409034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-2004 ; Migration ; Integration ; Einwanderer ; Westeuropa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Why do some migrants integrate quickly, while others become long-term minorities? What is the role of the state in the settlement process? To what extent are experiences in the past different from the present? Are the recent migrants really integrating in another way than those in the past? Is Islam indeed an obstacle to integration? These are some of the burning questions, which dominate the current politicized debate on immigration in Western Europe. In this book, leading historians and social scientists analyze and compare a variety of settlement processes in past and present migration to Western Europe. Identifying general factors in the process of adaptation of new immigrants, the contributors trace social changes effected by recent European immigration, and the parallels with the great American migration of the 1880s-1920s. The history of migration to Western Europe and the way these migrants found their place in the receiving societies, is not only essential to understand the way nations deal with newcomers in the present, but also constitutes a highly interesting laboratory for different paths of integration now and then. By analyzing and comparing a wealth of settlement processes both in the past and in the present this book is both a bold interdisciplinary endeavor, and at the same time the first attempt to identify general factors underlying the way migrants adapt to their new surroundings, as well as how societies change under the influence of immigration. The chapters in the book both look at specific groups in various periods, but also analyses the structure of the state, churches unions and other important organized actors in Western European nation states. Moreover, the results are embedded in the more theoretical American literature on the comparison of ...
    Abstract: De laatste jaren worden vragen gesteld bij het integratieproces van migranten. Nieuwkomers zouden tegenwoordig 'slechter' en 'langzamer' integreren dan in het verleden. Het besef dat West-Europa altijd al immigratie heeft gekend is nauwelijks doorgedrongen tot politici en sociale wetenschappers. Bijgevolg ontbreekt - anders dan in de VS - een discussie over verschillen en overeenkomsten tussen vroegere en hedendaagse integratieprocessen. In Paths of Integration vergelijken gerenommeerde onderzoekers integratieprocessen in het heden en het verleden en sluiten daarmee aan bij het recente Amerikaanse debat tussen historici, sociologen, antropologen en politieke wetenschappers. Verder identificeren de auteurs de factoren die ten grondslag liggen aan het integratieproces van migranten en de maatschappelijke veranderingen ten gevolge van migratie. De verschillende hoofdstukken richten zich op specifieke migrantengroepen in verschillende perioden (zoals Italianen en Algerijnen in Frankrijk, Polen in Duitsland, moslims in Nederland en Caraïbische migranten in Frankrijk en het Verenigd Koninkrijk) en bieden een analyse van de staatsstructuur, kerkgenootschappen en andere belangrijke organisaties en instituties in de westerse natiestaten. Ondanks de huidige opvatting dat migranten tegenwoordig minder snel zouden integreren, laten de auteurs overtuigend zien dat er meer overeenkomsten dan verschillen zijn tussen vroeger en nu dan doorgaans wordt gedacht. Tegelijkertijd identificeren zij in de conclusie van het boek een aantal belangrijke ontwikkelingen in de moderne tijd, die het integratieproces compliceren.
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  • 5
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    Book
    London : Batsford
    ISBN: 071347663X
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 64 S., [8] Bl. , Ill. (z.T. farb.)
    Series Statement: Costume in context 12
    Series Statement: Costume in context
    DDC: 391.420941
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    Keywords: Underwear Great Britain ; History ; Juvenile literature ; Underwear History ; Great Britain
    Note: Includes index
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