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  • 标题:Geography, Islands and Migration in an Era of Global Mobility
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  • 作者:Russell King
  • 期刊名称:Island Studies Journal
  • 印刷版ISSN:1715-2593
  • 出版年度:2009
  • 卷号:4
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:53-84
  • 出版社:Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island
  • 摘要:This paper examines the changing role of islands in the age of globalization and in an era of enhanced and diversified mobility. There are many types of islands, many metaphors of insularity, and many types of migration, so the interactions are far from simple. The ‘mobilities turn’ in migration studies recognizes the diversification in motivations and time-space regimes of human migration. After brief reviews of island studies and of migration studies, and the power of geography to capture and distil the interdisciplinarity and relationality of these two study domains, the paper explores various facets of the generally intense engagement that islands have with migration. Two particular scenarios are identified for islands and migration in the global era: the heuristic role of islands as ‘spatial laboratories’ for the study of diverse migration processes in microcosm; and the way in which, especially in the Mediterranean and near-Atlantic regions, islands have become critical locations in the geopolitics of irregular migration routes. The case of Malta is taken to illustrate some of these new insular migration dynamics.
  • 关键词:geography ; globalization ; interdisciplinarity ; island studies ; islands ; Malta ; migration ; mobility
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