Archiv für November 2015

Multi-sited accumulation of capital: Cape Verdean returnees and small-scale business

In recent years, policymakers have portrayed return migration as positive for development. In both migrant sending and migrant receiving countries, policymakers expect the transfer of economic, cultural and social capital by returnees to stimulate economic growth. Inherent in these assumptions is the idea of a unidirectional flow of capital from northern countries of immigration to the countries of return. The objective of this article is to contest this idea of a one-way transfer of capital through a case study of Cape Verdean returnee business owners. To what extent have they accumulated their various forms of capital before emigration, during their sojourn abroad or after return? In this article, I examine the returnees’ multi-sited accumulation of capital and how it corresponds to the resources they need to run a sustainable business. In addition, I analyse how they adapt capital accumulated abroad to the conditions in Cape Verde.

Poeteka | 36 (2015)

Now and again we dream of Europe

Issue 8 | Portrait of Italian Jewish Life (1800s-1930s)

Six Authors in Search of a Narrativeby Cristiana Facchini(Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna; Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt) 
 
“Few Italian political men are so well known, at least outside the…

Issue 8 | Focus – From Odessa to Florence: Elena Comparetti Raffalovich. …

Abstract
In the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, Italy held a strong appeal for Russian travelers. Several of these Russian émigrés were women of Jewish lineage, who had come with their families or were sent abroad…

Issue 8 | Focus – Giacobbe and Tullo Massarani

 Abstract
The essay outlines the biographies of Jacob and his son Tullo in the context of the history of the Mantuan Jews in the age of emancipation. Giacobbe came from a family of the Jewish élite and was brought up to the Enlightenment i…

Issue 8 | Focus – David Levi. A Child of the Nineteenth Century

 Abstract
The present paper examines the main biographical traits of the Italian author, politician and Risorgimento activist David Levi (1816-1898). Early in life, Levi abandoned the traditional religious spheres of Judaism but always remained a…

Gordon Chang: Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China

Journal Name: New Global StudiesVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 105-107

Charles S. Maier: Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood

Journal Name: New Global StudiesIssue: Ahead of print

Gaia Vince: Adventures in the Anthropocene

Journal Name: New Global StudiesIssue: Ahead of print

Gordon Chan: Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China

Journal Name: New Global StudiesIssue: Ahead of print