Cultural Effects of Migration
The cultural effects of migration refer to the impact that the movement of people from one place to another has on the customs, traditions, language, and social norms of both the migrants and the host community. This can lead to the exchange and blending of cultural practices, as well as the emergence of new cultural identities and expressions within the receiving society.
8 Key excerpts on "Cultural Effects of Migration"
eBook - ePubMigration Theory
Talking across Disciplines
- Caroline B. Brettell, James F. Hollifield, Caroline B. Brettell, James F. Hollifield(Authors)
- 2022(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...Human mobility is often a response to and a catalyst for these layers, and thus the social and environmental contexts of areas of departure and reception invite geographical theorization. This chapter will consider some of the foundational theories that shape geographical understandings of migration and human mobility. It argues that, as a discipline, geography has a long-standing thematic interest in human migration, because the movement of people “continually disrupts and remakes geography, as spatial linkages and interconnections both form and dissolve when people move” (Skop 2019: 108). As international migration has intensified since the 1990s, geographic scholarship that empirically demonstrates these flows and theorizes their impact has steadily increased (Price and Benton-Short 2008; King 2012; Czaika and de Haas 2014; Winders 2014; Yeoh and Ramdas 2014; Ehrkamp 2017, 2019, 2020; Collins 2020). Theoretically, geographers have worked across disciplines, and have modified existing theories, as well as inserted innovative theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. At the core of much of this work is a profound interest in explaining spatial patterns and human networks, as well as a sensitivity to scalar shifts and bordering practices. Human geographers offer theoretical insights about the migrant experience, limits to human mobility, practices of placemaking, development, and integration, as well as the intersectionality of gender, race, and class in understanding migration (Silvey and Lawson 1999; Carling 2002; van Riemsdijk 2014; Yeoh and Lam 2016). Because of geography’s inclination to examine the relationship between society and environment, there is also a growing research interest in the environmental drivers of migration, especially connected to climate change (Hugo 1996; Piguet 2010; Piguet, Kaenzig, and Guélat 2018; Jockish et al. 2019). Within the sub-disciplines of geography, population geographers have an obvious interest in migration...
eBook - ePub- Christine Inglis, Wei Li, Binod Khadria(Authors)
- 2019(Publication Date)
- SAGE Publications Ltd(Publisher)
...8 Geography and Migration Emily Skop Introduction This chapter considers how geographers take account of the inherently spatial phenomenon of migration. First, the chapter discusses the unique spatial perspective that broadly makes geography an ideal discipline for studies of migration, including utilizing core spatial concepts like space, place, networks, movement, scale, and territory, as well as the discipline's methodological diversity, and its tendency towards interdisciplinary engagement. Second, the chapter focuses on the way the discipline of geography has conceptualized and examined migration through a discussion of key theoretical framings within the field, including neoclassical spatial analysis, the socio-spatial lens, and the geopolitical turn. Third, the chapter reflects on the major developing trends and debates in the discipline of geography with regards to migration studies, with an eye towards future research and interdisciplinary perspectives, with special attention given to ‘crisis’ migration as well as the mobilities paradigm. The Discipline of Geography Migration – a process that evolves over space and time – involves the continual reshaping of space as persons move. Migration has risen dramatically in the past two centuries, and the result is constant transformation and dislocation, which in turn has prompted significant attention to the phenomenon by geographers. Indeed, geographers are especially interested in migration because it continually disrupts and remakes geography, as spatial linkages and interconnections both form and dissolve when people move. The socio-spatial patterns, causes, and consequences of migration are innumerable and include complicated, multi-scalar phenomena, all of which are studied by geographers. The geographical lens encourages a unique spatial perspective when it comes to the study of migration...
eBook - ePub- Luke Martell(Author)
- 2016(Publication Date)
- Polity(Publisher)
...It takes that moment as real and true, in a false way, as there will have been many such moments through history, all different but this one picked out. Anything that departs from it becomes other or alien. The moment that is fixed on is often also a caricature rather than reality; in some European countries implicitly or even explicitly a white Christian society. Not only does this choose national identity at one point without justifying this, it also detracts from reality by creating a false and imagined picture of an authentic society. Alongside culture that globalized media bring from around the world, migration is a contributor to dynamic and diverse cultures. Culture in rich receiving countries has been enhanced as a result of migration – through food, music, religion, values, film, media and fashion, and in other areas. The economic, cultural, social and political contributions of immigrants in exciting global cities like New York and London are very significant and, as we saw in chapter 4, globalization through the media and migration has contributed to new hybrid identities and heterogeneity with diverse forms of consumption, style and culture. It is argued that migration and diversity undermine community and trust in localities. Immigration is said to increase diversity, which erodes cohesion and reciprocity (Putnam 2007). But the evidence is not clear-cut on this. In one study of London, a highly mixed city of migration, the ‘decline of community’ argument did not hold when economic deprivation was accounted for and in communities that are diverse and interactive rather than mixed but segregated. The latter had lower levels of cohesion. The young, who are more used to diversity, seem to see social cohesion more strongly than the old, who are less so and have been more integrated into segregation. Experience of diversity seemed in this study to be positively related to cohesion (Sturgis et al. 2014)...
eBook - ePubAn Introduction to Population Geographies
Lives Across Space
- Holly R. Barcus, Keith Halfacree(Authors)
- 2017(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...Second, and convenient because Population Geographers will probably wish to retain a focus on migration, they must also become more fully aware of just how important various forms of migration may be becoming for shaping humanity’s overall twenty-first-century existence beyond acknowledged importance for the individual. How Population Geographers have sought to understand and investigate migration thus acquires added significance and is now introduced. 5.2.3 Understanding and investigating migration in an era of mobilities Having noted migration’s and mobility’s increased recognition as vital components of everyday life, it is perhaps unsurprising that “there is no shortage of theories to explain why and where people migrate” (Samers 2010: 52). Table 5.3 reproduces a simplified version of Samers’s overview of theoretical perspectives on international migration alone, whilst to demonstrate the multidisciplinary investment shown in migration (Brettell and Hollifield 2008a), Table 5.4 summarizes how different academic disciplines have approached the topic. Such richness and diversity within theory clearly helps to explain migration’s leading status within Population Geography (Boyle 2003, 2004). As suggested by the tables, to get a grip on this abundance, authors utilized different classificatory meta-frameworks. For example, Boyle et al. (1998; also Bakewell 2010; Samers 2010) distinguished “determinist,” “humanist” and “integrated” approaches. Determinist accounts lay principal stress on factors within the potential migrant’s “environment,” understood more or less broadly, encouraging relocation (structure; Box 1.1). Humanist accounts, in contrast, focus on the individual as a more controlling, active migration decision maker (agency; Box 1.1). Integrated accounts attempt to bring these two perspectives together and transcend what can be regarded as an unhelpful divide. The above framework is not adopted exactly in the rest of this chapter...
eBook - ePubGoverning Climate Induced Migration and Displacement
IGO Expansion and Global Policy Implications
- Andrea C. Simonelli, Kenneth A. Loparo(Authors)
- 2016(Publication Date)
- Palgrave Macmillan(Publisher)
...Over the years, this field has amassed a quantity of knowledge which has yet to be connected by a general explanatory system. Because migration is such a broad issue of inquiry, developing a framework that can interpret its diversity has been lagging. Migration theory tends to be time-bound, culture-bound, and discipline-bound. As a social phenomenon, it cannot be understood in meaningful terms without a comprehensive grasp of the interplay of demographic, economic, psychological, and other dimensions that converge in the process of migration (Mangalam and Schwartzweller, 1968). Human migration has been around much longer than any economic or sociological analysis. Scientists date large-scale human migrations out of the African continent as far back as 130,000 years ago (Balter, 2011). This assumes that early human ancestors migrated great distances to follow big game and eventually occupied all the continents. No dominant species had ever spread so far, so fast. Early civilizations also migrated with the rotation of crops as well as across open water with the advent of capable sailing vessels around 4000 B.C., became pastoralists, and began to expand by direct conquest (McNeill, 1984). Human history is almost entirely based on migrations. The English today are not indigenous to England, neither are the Malays to Malaysia, nor the Turks to Turkey (Sowell, 1996). What is interesting is that considering it has been a natural activity of all times and places (Pronk, 1993), migration has become a topic of international debate. The advent of the national border, the international search for jobs during the Industrial Revolution, and the post-World War I (WWI) refugee flows changed the way in which migration was seen. Until this time, migration had been conceived of as an exercise of individual decision and choice. Before WWI, passports and official regulation of migration were thought of as improper infringements on personal freedom...
eBook - ePubInfluences of Geographic Environment
On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
- Ellen Churchill Semple(Author)
- 2005(Publication Date)
- Perlego(Publisher)
...animal and plant life as factors. Land per capita under various cultural and geographic conditions. Density of population and government. Territorial expansion of the state. Checks to population. Extra-territorial relations. Geography in the philosophy of history. Theory of progress from the standpoint of geography. Man's increasing dependence upon nature. Increase in kind and amount. Chapter IV—The Movements Of Peoples In Their Geographical Significance Universality of these movements. Stratification of races The name Historical Movement. Evolution of the Historical Movement. Nature of primitive movements. Number and range. Importance of such movements in history. Geographical interpretation of historical movement. Mobility of primitive peoples. Natural barriers to movement. Effect of geographical horizon. Civilization and mobility. Diffusion of culture. Ethnic intermixture. Complex currents of migration. Cultural modification during migration. Effect of early maritime migration. The transit land. War as a form of the historical movement. Primitive war. Slavery as form of historical movement. Fusion by deported and military colonies. Withdrawal and flight. Dispersal...
eBook - ePub- Nicholas Van Hear(Author)
- 2005(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...In the second part I proposed a simple framework for considering the diverse forms of migration that have emerged in the latter part of this century, and the varying degrees of choice and compulsion such movement has involved. Individual migrants, migrant households and migrant communities experience these dynamics in complex ways, and the notions of migration biography and the accumulation of “migratory cultural capital” were introduced to account for this experience. Diaspora populations tend to have among the most complex migration histories, and to have accumulated the most substantial “migratory cultural capital”. Part of that experience may be their very unmaking as previously scattered populations regroup, sometimes by choice and sometimes by force. The following chapters show how migration crises may result in the making, consolidation, or unmaking of transnational communities by investigating episodes in which people of migrant origin have been forcibly uprooted from the places they have made home....
eBook - ePub- Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Dirk Jacobs, Riva Kastoryano, Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Dirk Jacobs, Riva Kastoryano(Authors)
- 2021(Publication Date)
- Routledge(Publisher)
...It proposes that migration can be understood as a specific type of movement that is defined by the crossing of territorial borders and explores three conundrums concerning the relation between borders and migration. When migration is perceived in relation to territorial borders, the size of territory and the shifting of borders have paradoxical implications for the measurement of migration. These puzzles lead to a more general lesson that macro-level studies of migration need to assume a stable background of bounded territories and sedentary societies, whereas micro-level studies may adopt a mobility perspective by taking migrants’ life courses as the basic unit of analysis. The fourth section considers mobility as freedom of movement across and within borders and suggests three pathways to enhanced free movement under conditions where states retain immigration control powers. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of the new mobilities paradigm, the emergence of which is closely associated with economic globalization, technological, and cultural changes around the turn of the millennium. These have greatly increased the volume, distances, and paces of geographical movements and have led mobilities scholars to question statist perspectives that dominate in migration studies. We should, however, not assume that this is an irreversible trend. A possible decline in geographic mobility in the next decades is likely to affect also the distinct conceptual perspectives of migration and mobilities studies. 2 Human movement in time and space Unlike most plants and fungi, humans are animals that need to move around in order to find food and partners for procreation. Moreover, humans belong to a group of animals that have evolved to adapt to very different climates. However, unlike for some fish, birds, or whales, it was until very recently impossible for individual humans to move over very long distances...
