New Eastern Europe | 1/2014
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0079 Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, Szathmári, a great documentary artist
Carol Pop de Szathmari was born in Cluj, Transylvania, in 1812. Being a passionate traveller, Szathmari journeyed through Europe and often crossed the Carpathian Mountains to […]
The stability of voluntarism: financing social care in early modern Dutch towns compared with the English Poor Law, c. 1600-1800
This article aims to compare the financing of two apparently entirely different systems of pre-industrial welfare: urban institutional welfare in the federal Dutch Republic and the national Elizabethan Poor Law in Britain. By analysing a new dataset o…
Escaping the macroeconomic trilemma: the Belgian two-tier foreign exchange system under Bretton Woods
In introducing a two-tier foreign exchange market under the Bretton Woods system, the Belgian monetary authorities aimed to insulate the domestic currency from (speculative) capital flows. By thus escaping the macroeconomic trilemma, they should have …
Governance and institutional change in marine insurance, 1350-1850
This article explores the development and diffusion of market governance institutions in the marine insurance industry as the practice of insurance spread from its early origins in medieval Italy throughout the Atlantic world. Informal governance mech…
Loans to salaried employees: the case of the Dutch East India Company, 1602-1794
Payday loans allow salaried workers to solve cash flow problems resulting from unexpected expenses or income drops. Lenders limit moral hazard risks by rationing loan sizes and terms, but with fixed costs this results in high APRs. How can wages provi…
Respiratory tuberculosis and standards of living in postwar Europe
This research surveys the fight against tuberculosis in postwar Europe and presents new empirical evidence (resulting from the creation of a new data set) with regards to the victory against this disease. We contribute to the literature first by expla…
Privileged Japanese transnational families in Hawaii as lifestyle migrants
This study of privileged Japanese families in Hawaii revisits the claim that East Asian transnational families relocate overseas either to improve their well-being or to enhance their status through their children’s international education. Existing scholarship has focused mainly on the second pattern of status-seeking migration, conceptualized as ‘education migration’. By employing Benson and O’Reilly’s concept of ‘lifestyle migration’, I consider the less widely studied case of migration strategies designed to increase well-being. The central difference between the two types of migrants lies in the way that migrant women construct their gendered identity through their transnational split-household arrangement – a freer self (lifestyle migrants) or a sacrificial self (education migrants). In conclusion, I call for further research on this neglected topic and propose an important dimension to facilitate lifestyle migration, gender.
Private money, public scrutiny? Contrasting perspectives on remittances
Migrant remittances have received unprecedented attention over the past decade and scholars have interpreted remittance flows from a range of vantage points. In this article, we explore the meaning of remittances from three perspectives – (1) as an ingredient of terrorism and crime; (2) as a contribution to development; and (3) as an obstacle to integration. We explore these perspectives through an analysis of eight years of public debate in Norway and a review of the academic literature. Our analysis shows that remittances are open to public scrutiny, often within a strongly normative framework. Such public scrutiny is at odds with the private nature of remittances and affects migrants‘ everyday lives both structurally and emotionally. This scrutiny of remittances also suggests underlying assumptions about migrants‘ legitimate loyalties and belonging that fail to take adequate account of their multiple attachments.