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  • Entertaining German Culture

    Contemporary Transnational Television and Film

    Series Book 27 - Film Europa
    Audiences for contemporary German film and television are becoming increasingly transnational, and depictions of German cultural history are moving beyond the typical post-war focus on Germany’s problematic past. Entertaining German Culture explores this radical shift, building on recent research into transnational culture to argue that a new process of internal and external cultural reabsorption ... Read more

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  • Cosmopolitan Norms and European Values

    Ethical Perspectives on Europe's Refugee Policy

    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This volume offers a systematic philosophical analysis of the normative challenges facing European refugee policy, focusing on whether the response to it can be based on European values. By considering the refugee policy through the lens of European values, cosmopolitan norms and universal human rights, the contributions expose the weaknesses and limitations of existing regulations and make ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After

    Series series Framing Film Festivals
    This is an open access book. This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals can’t happen; while films have found new (temporary) channels of distribution (most often in the forms of digital releases), the festival format ... Read more

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  • Mobilities in Life and Death

    Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European Cemeteries

    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book focuses on migrant and minority cemetery needs through the conceptual lens of the mobilities of the living and the dead. In doing so, the book brings migration and mobility studies into much-needed dialogue with death studies to explore the symbolically and politically important issue of culturally inclusive spaces of cemeteries and crematoria for migrants and established ... Read more

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  • Citizen Humanitarianism at European Borders

    Series series Routledge Humanitarian Studies
    At a time of escalating conflict between states and NGOs engaged in migrant search and rescue operations across the Mediterranean, this book explores the emerging trend of citizen-led forms of helping others at the borders of Europe.In recent years, Europe’s borders have become new sites of intervention for traditional humanitarian actors and governmental agencies, but also, increasingly, for ... Read more

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  • Quotable Quotes: Actresses From The Past

    The current generation of actresses may be great and talented, but there will always be a place in everyone's hearts for the actresses of the past. These are the people that, during the 1900's, redefined the movies that we see today. From what was once a small silent movie attraction, they helped turn it into a thriving business that now generates billions of dollars every year. Compiled and ... Read more

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  • Irregular Migration

    IMISCOE Short Reader

    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access short reader provides an introduction to the theoretical debates regarding irregular migration and aims to bridge these theoretical debates to current empirical developments. It defines irregular migrants and irregular migration by discussing the wide variety of definitions and highlights the reasons for the presence of irregular immigrants in developed countries. The book ... Read more

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  • Migration Research in a Digitized World

    Using Innovative Technology to Tackle Methodological Challenges

    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of migration research by originating previously non-viable solutions to a myriad of methodological challenges in this field of study. Combining cutting-edge migration scholarship and ... Read more

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  • Forced Migration and Separated Families

    Everyday Insecurities and Transnational Strategies

    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book examines the impacts and experiences of family separation on forced migrants and their transnational families. On the one hand, it investigates how people with a forced migration background in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America experience separation from their families, and on the other, how family and kin in the countries of origin or transit are impacted by the ... Read more

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  • What You Really Need to Know About Apple TV

    by Paul Stevens ...
    Curious about Apple TV? What exactly is it and what will it bring you compared to your present TV set up? Look no further than this simple free guide which will put you on a path to a vastly improved entertainment experience! ... Read more

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  • The Italian Diaspora in South Africa

    Nostalgia, Identity, and Belonging in the Second and Third Generations

    Series series Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration
    This book investigates the experiences of second- and third-generation Italians living in South Africa, exploring how nostalgia for Italy influences their sense of identity and belonging.The Italian community in South Africa is a unique diaspora, with a complex history, including roots in Italian colonial activities in Africa, and in World War II. This book looks at how the descendants of these ... Read more

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  • Turkish Drama Serials

    The Importance and Influence of a Globally Popular Television Phenomenon

    by Miriam Berg ...
    The extraordinary global success of Turkish drama serials is a significant development in contemporary popular culture. This book presents comparative audience data from three different regions to explore its ramifications across the Global South. We learn how this phenomenon has transformed Turkey—a Muslim-majority country—into the world’s second-largest producer of scripted television serials, ... Read more

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  • Visión Estratégica: Transformando la Televisión Regional en Colombia - Un Enfoque Integral para Políticos, Directores de Canales, Universidades e Inversores

    by Juan Álvarez ...
    Este libro se presenta como una guía exhaustiva que aborda la transformación necesaria para los canales de televisión regional en Colombia, dirigida a un público diverso que incluye políticos, directores de canales, universidades e inversores. Se inicia con una introducción que contextualiza el panorama actual de la televisión regional en Colombia, destacando la importancia de factores ... Read more

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  • Identifying Security Logics in the EU Policy Discourse

    The "Migration Crisis" and the EU

    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book investigates the complexity and the modalities of securitization of migration and border control at the EU level. It discusses and compares how different EU institutions and agencies have been deploying different logics of security, e.g. humanitarianism or management of risk, while framing increased migratory flows and so called migration crisis as a security problem. The ... Read more

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  • Digital Peripheries

    The Online Circulation of Audiovisual Content from the Small Market Perspective

    Series series Springer Series in Media Industries
    This is an open access book. Media industry research and EU policymaking are predominantly tailored to large (and, in the latter case, Western) European markets. This open access book addresses the specific qualities of smaller media markets, highlighting their vulnerability to global digital competition and outlining survival strategies for them. New online distribution models and new trends in ... Read more

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  • The Sanctuary City

    Immigrant, Refugee, and Receiving Communities in Postindustrial Philadelphia

    In The Sanctuary City**, Domenic Vitiello argues that sanctuary means much more than the limited protections offered by city governments or churches sheltering immigrants from deportation.** It is a wider set of protections and humanitarian support for vulnerable newcomers. Sanctuary cities are the places where immigrants and their allies create safe spaces to rebuild lives and communities, often ... Read more

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  • Liz Tells Frank What Happened In...

    Series Book 1 - Liz Tells Frank What Happened In...
    For the last two years, to spare her friend Frank from some of pop culture's weirdest atrocities, writer Liz Shannon Miller (G4's "Attack of the Show") has been catching him up on the movies, television and books he's missed: Stuff every person ought to know about, but maybe not actually experience for themselves.This edition, with a foreword by the eponymous Frank Smith, contains 20 of "Liz Tells ... Read more

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  • Mothers on Mothers

    Maternal Readings of Popular Television

    From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book sheds new light on the varied and diverse ways in which expectant, new and existing mothers make sense of popular representations of motherhood on television. The volume ... Read more

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  • Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences

    by Dirk-Jan Koch ...
    Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences, both negative and positive. This book delves into these consequences, providing a fresh and comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing them.The book starts by laying out a theoretical framework based on complexity thinking, before going on to explore the ten most prevalent kinds of ... Read more

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  • Gilmore Girls

    Due amiche come loro

    Ricordo benissimo, proprio come se fosse ieri, il primo episodio di Una mamma per amica.Avevo ventidue anni, seguivo diverse serie tv nel tempo libero, quando non lavoravo e non uscivo con le amiche, eppure già dalla prima puntata avevo intuito che la mia storia con Lorelai e Rory Gilmore, madre e figlia, sarebbe stata lunga e duratura.E, in effetti, è ancora così; nessuna serie è riuscita a ... Read more

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  • Genresignaturen

    Diskurshistorische Perspektiven auf das Psycho-Universum von 1960 bis 2017

    Series series Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik
    Karina Kirsten diskutiert in diesem Open-Access-Buch die diskursive und historische Verfasstheit von Genres. Mit ‚Genresignaturen‘ entwickelt sie einen neuen analytischen Zugang, um die vielfältigen inter- und transmedialen Dynamiken und soziohistorischen Veränderungen von Genres beschreibbar zu machen. Am Beispiel des Psycho-Franchise veranschaulicht die Autorin, dass die wirkungsvolle und ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes

    Central Asian Migrant Workers in Russia and Turkey

    Series series International Political Economy Series
    This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western, non-democratic migration regimes. The book is conceived as a critical reflection on the contemporary migration regime scholarship, and, more generally, on comparative migration studies, which primarily focus on migrants’ experiences and immigration policies ... Read more

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  • Migration and Pandemics

    Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception

    Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe and Asia.The book addresses several ... Read more

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  • Migration and Domestic Space

    Ethnographies of Home in the Making

    Edited by Paolo Boccagni, Sara Bonfanti ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book provides insight into the domestic space of people with an immigrant or refugee background. It selects and compares a whole spectrum of dwelling conditions with ethnographic material covering a variety of national backgrounds – Latin America, North and West Africa, Eastern Europe, South Asia – and an equally broad range of housing, household and legal arrangements. It ... Read more

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