The 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts is an inevitable outcome of modernization. Zygmunt Bauman shows that the problem of coping with 'human waste' provides a key for understanding some otherwise baffling features of our shared life.
The production of 'human waste' - or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is character…
The 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts is an inevitable outcome of modernization. Zygmunt Bauman shows that the problem of coping with 'human waste' provides a key for understanding some otherwise baffling features of our shared life.
An unprecedented number of emigrants left Britain to settle in America, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the Victorian period. Utilizing new digital resources and methodologies alongside more traditional modes of scholarship, 'British eettler emigration in print, 1832-1…
An unprecedented number of emigrants left Britain to settle in America, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the Victorian period. Utilizing new digital resources and methodologies alongside more traditional modes of scholarship, 'British eettler emigration in print, 1832-1…
Historical study of the grammar and vocabulary of Spanish private letters from the 16th century, written by Spaniards who emigrated to the Latin American colonies, based on texts found in the collections of the Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla.
Historical study of the grammar and vocabulary of Spanish private letters from the 16th century, written by Spaniards who emigrated to the Latin American colonies, based on texts found in the collections of the Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla.
Photography and migration
Written in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photography's long and complex relationship to human migration. While contemporary media images largely frame migration in terms of trauma, victimhood, and pity, so…