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HIST-UA 9452.001/ IDSEM-UG 9101.001/

SOC-UA 9452.001

Immigration

NYU London: Fall 2018

Instructor Information

● Dr Nicky Busch

● mobile 07950188982

● nb86@nyu.edu

Course Information

● Mondays 9.00-12.00.

○ [Class room number and building]

Course Overview and Goals

This course aims to provide an understanding of immigration and its social and political

consequences in Britain, France and Germany from the mid-nineteenth century to the present

day. It also examines problems surrounding immigration in contemporary Europe. In particular

the course looks at issues concerning racism and multiculturalism in Europe. Finally, the course

examines the ways in which immigration is represented in literature and contemporary culture.

Class discussions based on prepared readings, lectures, guest speakers, field trips and three films. Upon Completion of this Course, students will be able to:

provide an understanding of the main immigration trends in Britain, France and Germany since

1850

provide an understanding of the problems attending the social and political integration of

immigrants in contemporary Western Europe

examine the concepts of integration, race and multiculturalism

examine the ways in which the memory of immigration is represented in literature and

contemporary culture

Grading of Assignments

The grade for this course will be determined according to these assessment components:

Assignments/Activ

ities Description of Assignment

% of

Final

Grade

Due

Essay 1 (1,500 words) Essay chosen from list of questions

that will be provided in class 20% 8 October

Film Review (1,500 words) Students are asked to select one of

the three films viewed in class and provide a 20% 12 Nov

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Assignments/Activ

ities Description of Assignment

% of

Final

Grade

Due

critical account of the way in which themes of the

course are addressed in the film

Presentation

Ten-minute presentation to be given in class.

Suggested presentation topics will be posted on

NYU Classes

20% 3 and 10

Dec

Essay 2 (2,000 words) Essay topics will be provided in

class and posted on NYU classes 30% 10 Dec

Class Participation 10%

Failure to submit or fulfill any required course component results in failure of the class

Grades

Letter grades for the entire course will be assigned as follows:

Letter Grade Percent Description

A Example: 93.5% and higher Exceptional level of accurate,

clear and analytical writing

B Example: 82.5% - 87.49%

Very good level of written

work but falling short of the

highest level

C Example: 72.5% - 77.49% Satisfactory and sufficiently

accurate written work

D Example: 62.5% - 67.49 Adequate level of written work

but weakly analytical

F Example: 59.99% and lower Muddled, poorly presented

written work

Course Materials

Required Textbooks & Materials

L. Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat. The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe

since 1850, University of Illinois Press, 2005 0-252-07294-4

Castles, S, De Hein, H, & Miller, M, The Age of Migration: International Population Movements

in the Modern World Palgrave Macmillan; 5th edition (13 Dec 2013)

Optional Textbooks & Materials I Anderson, B. Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls, Oxford: Oxford University

Press (2013)

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A Bramwell (ed.), Refugees in the Age of Total War (1988

Carens, ‘Aliens and citizens: the case for open borders’, Review of Politics, Spring 1987, pp.251-

273

A. Cohen and C. Wellman ed, Contemporary debates in applied ethics (2005) 1405115483

Cohen, R The Cambridge Survey of World Migration Cambridge University Press (13 May

2010)

De Haas, H Migration Theory: Understanding Human Mobility. London: Palgrave Macmillan,

forthcoming

A.Dummett and A.Nichol, Subjects, Citizens, Aliens and Others (1990)

David Feldman, Englishmen and Jews (1994)

Ehrenreich, B and Arlie Russel Hochschild (eds) Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the

New Economy. London: Granta Books.

Geddes, A (2000) Immigration and European Integration: Towards Fortress Europe?, Manchester:

Manchester University Press

Jordan, Bill and Franck Duvell Irregular Migration: The Dilemmas of Transnational Mobility Cheltenham:

Edward Elgar, 2002

M. Phillips and T. Phillips, Windrush: the irresistible rise of multicultural Britain (1998)

0002559099

Z. Layton-Henry, The politics of immigration (1992) 0-631-16744-7

Matthew Gibney, The Ethics and Politics of Asylum (2004)

Robin Gwynne, Huguenot Heritage (1985)

Tony Kushner, Remembering Refugees: Then and Now (2006)

K. Malik, The meaning of race, (1996) 0-333-62857-6

Michael Marrus, The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century (1985/2003) B. Parekh,

Rethinking multiculturalism (2006) 1-4039-4453-9

B. Barry, Culture and equality (2001) 0-7456-2228-3

J. Scott, The politics of the veil (2007) 978-0-691-1243-5

A. Hargreaves, Multi-ethnic France (2007) 978-0-415-39783-4

G. Dench, K. Gavron, M. Young, The new East End (2006) 978-1-86197-928-5

H. Chapman and L.Frader eds, Race in France (2004) 1-57181-857-X

C.Joppke, Immigration and the nation state (1999) 0-19-829540-5

D. Mason, Race and ethnicity in modern Britain (2000) 978-0-19-874285-2

G. Gerstle and J. Mollenkopf, E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary and historical perspectives in

immigrant political incorporation (2001) 0871543079

R. Chin, G. Eley et al, After the Nazi Racial State (2009) 978-0-472-03344-1

N. Green ‘A French Ellis Island? Museums, memory and history in the United States and

France’, History Workshop Journal, 63, 2007

Ruhs, M. The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration, Princeton: Princeton

University Press

Van Hear, N. (2014) ‘Reconsidering Migration and Class’, International Migration Review, 48:

S100–S121

Vertovec, S and Cohen, R, Migration, Diasporas and Transnationalism (25 June 1999

There are many internet sites dealing with immigration, above all with contemporary immigration.

The BBC website is useful. Among the more specialized websites are the following: Electronic

Immigration Network, Immigration Index, Migration News, Ercomer, Immigration History

Research Center, Open Democracy

For immigration in British history see The National Archives

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Course Schedule

Session/Dat

e Topic Reading

Assignmen

t Due

Session 1:

7 September

a) Introduction to the course: in this session we will discuss expectations regarding class participation, readings, assessment, site visits and guest speakers. b) Migration in

the

contemporary

world.

Screening of

documentary

‘Exodus’ and

excerpts from

Fire at Sea,

followed by class

discussion.

Key questions:

Why do people

migrate? What is

meant by terms

such as

‘economic

immigrant’,

‘asylum seeker’

and refugee? Are

some migrants

more welcome in

Western Europe

than others? Why

is this so? This

session

Essential reading:

Trilling, D (2018) Lights in the Distance:

Exile and Refuge at the Borders of

Europe, Picador

Castles, S, De Hein, H, & Miller, M, The

Age of Migration: International Population

Movements in the Modern World Palgrave

Macmillan; 5th edition (13 Dec 2013)

Introduction and chapters 1-4

Supplementary reading:

Castles S. 2004. Why migration policies

fail. Ethnic and Racial Studies 27:205-27

de Haas, H. (2008). "The Myth of Invasion

-The inconvenient realities of African

Migration to Europe." Third World

Quarterly(7): 1305-1322

de Haas, H. (2007). "Turning the tide?

Why development will not stop migration."

Development and Change 38(5): 819-841.

Manning, Alan and Roy, Sanchari (2009)

Culture Clash or Culture Club? National

Identity in Britain. The Economic Journal

Vol. 120, No. 542, pp. F72 F100, February

2009

Hatton, T. and Williamson, J. (1998) The

Age of Mass Migration, Causes and

Economic Impact, Oxford University Press,

Oxford

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Session/Dat

e Topic Reading

Assignmen

t Due

introduces a

number of issues

and debates

relevant to this

course.

Session 2:

10 September a) Defining key

terms and

concepts:

assimilation,

integration and

multiculturalism

Key questions:

What is meant by

the term

‘assimilation’ and

how does it differ

from ‘integration’?

What does

‘multiculturalism’

mean as it is

used across

different national

contexts? This

session

introduces key

terms and

concepts that are

used in the

discussion of

immigration

across Western

European states.

b) The politics of

immigration in

contemporary

Britain: political

parties and the EU

question Screening of

excerpts from news

programmes on

immigration and

the EU followed by

class discussion.

Essential reading:

Malik, K (2015) The Failure of

Multiculturalism: Community Versus Society

in Europe, Foreign Affairs. Available

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/wester

n-europe/failure-multiculturalism

L. Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat, 1-26.

Parekh, Rethinking Multiculturalism (2006)

ch.7

F. Fukuyama, ‘Identity and migration’,

Prospect, February 2007, 26-31

Supplementary reading:

B. Barry, Culture and equality (2001) 0-7456-

2228-3

G. Gerstle and J. Mollenkopf, E Pluribus

Unum? Contemporary and historical

perspectives in immigrant political

incorporation (2001) 08715430

Essential reading:

Evans, G and Menon, A (2017) Brexit and British Politics, Polity. Preface and Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5. Bridget Anderson, Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control, Oxford University Press, Introduction.

Supplementary reading: M. Phillips and T. Phillips, Windrush: the irresistible rise of multicultural Britain (1998) 0002559099 Z. Layton-Henry, The politics of immigration (1992) 0-631-16744-7 D. Mason, Race and ethnicity in modern Britain (2000) 978-0-19-874285-2 Geddes, A (2000) Immigration and European Integration: Towards Fortress Europe?, Manchester: Manchester University Press IPPR (2007) Britain’s immigrants: an economic profile. London: Institute for Public Policy Research. D Goodhart (2013) The British Dream:

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Session/Dat

e Topic Reading

Assignmen

t Due

Successes and Failures of Post-War Immigration

Session 3:

17 September

Trip to Museum

of London in the

Docklands

Learning

outcomes: In

order to

understand

contemporary

migration we

need to

understand the

legacy of British

involvement in

Empire and the

slave trade.

Essential reading:

Legacies of British Slave Ownership Data

Base. UCL. Available:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/

Session 4:

24 September The ethics of

immigration

control: the case

for open borders

and the case for

closed borders

Key questions:

Are open borders

feasible and/or

desirable? Is

migration a

human right? In

this session we

discuss

immigration in

terms of rights

and ethics.

b) The

Economics of

immigration

Screening of

‘British Workers

Wanted’

Key questions:

what is the ‘lump

of labour

Essential reading:

J. Carens, ‘Aliens and citizens: the case

for open borders’, Review of Politics,

Spring 1987, pp.251-273

D. Miller, ‘Immigration: the case for limits’,

in A. Cohen and C. Wellman ed,

Contemporary debates in applied ethics

Supplementary reading:

Ruhs, M. And Martin, P. (2008) ̳Numbers

vs rights: Trade-offs and guest worker

programs‘, International Migration Review,

42(1): 249-265

A.Dummett and A.Nichol, Subjects, Citizens,

Aliens and Others (1990

The ethics of immigration control: the

case for open borders and the case

for closed borders

Key questions: Are open borders

feasible and/or desirable? Is migration a

human right? In this session we discuss

immigration in terms of rights and ethics.

Essential reading:

J. Carens, ‘Aliens and citizens: the case

for open borders’, Review of Politics,

Spring 1987, pp.251-273

D. Miller, ‘Immigration: the case for

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Session/Dat

e Topic Reading

Assignmen

t Due

fallacy’? How do

economists

measure the

effects of

immigration?

What are the

economic

outcomes of

immigration in

Western

Europe? This

session looks at

migration and its

effects on

Western

European

economies.

limits’, in A. Cohen and C. Wellman ed,

Contemporary debates in applied ethics

Supplementary reading:

Ruhs, M. And Martin, P. (2008) N̳umbers

vs rights: Trade-offs and guest worker

programs‘, International Migration

Review, 42(1): 249-265

A.Dummett and A.Nichol, Subjects, Citizens,

Aliens and Others (1990

b) The Economics of immigration

Screening of ‘British Workers Wanted’

Key questions: what is the ‘lump of

labour fallacy’? How do economists

measure the effects of immigration?

What are the economic outcomes of

immigration in Western Europe? This

session looks at migration and its effects

on Western European economies.

Essential reading : Economic of Brexit. The Economics of Brexit: What is at

Stake? Oxford Review of Economic

Policy, Volume 33, Number S1, 2017,

pp. S1–S3

Ruhs, M and Vargas-Silva, C (2014) Briefing: the Labour Market Effects of Immigration, University of Oxford. Available to download from The Migration Observatory Class and Red Pepper (2014) Why Immigration is good for all of us Supplementary reading: Legrain, P (2009) Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them, Abacus

Session

5: 1 October a) Race, nation

and

multicultural

politics in the

UK – GUEST

SPEAKER

b) Race and racism in

Essential reading:

Readings will be posted on NYU classes

Essential reading:

Eddo-Lodge, R (2017) Why I’m No

Longer Talking to White People About

Race, Bloomsbury.

Fanon, F The Fact of Blackness in Back,

L and Solomos, J (2000) Theories of

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Session/Dat

e Topic Reading

Assignmen

t Due

contemporary Europe Key questions: What is meant by race? Is race a question of biology or culture? How has race been discussed and utilized throughout history? What is meant be eugenics? Why is it necessary to think about ‘race’ when discussing immigration past and present?

Race and Racism: a Reader.

Fanon, F (1952) Black Skin, White

Masks. Pluto Press.

K. Malik, The Meaning of Race, ch.6

Castles, S. And Miller, M. (2009) The

Age of Migration: International

Population Movements in the Modern

World. Palgrave, MacMillan, chapter 11

Supplementary reading: Abbas, T. (2005) Muslim Britain:

Communities Under Pressure. London:

Zed Books Limited.

Bagguley, P. and Hussain, Y. (2008)

Riotous Citizens: Ethnic Conflict in

Multicultural Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Bell, M. (2008) Racism and Equality in

the European Union. Oxford: Oxford

University Press.

Bloch, A. and Solomos, J. (2010) Race

and Ethnicity in the 21st Century.

London: Palgrave Macmillan

Castles, S. And Miller, M. (2009) The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. Palgrave, MacMillan, chapter 10 Clark, K. and Drinkwater, S. (2007)

Ethnic Minorities in the Labour Market:

Dynamics and Diversity, Bristol: The

Policy Press.

A.Dummett and A.Nichol, Subjects, Citizens,

Aliens and Others (1990) Fenton, S. (2010) Ethnicity. 2nd edition.

Cambridge: Polity Press.

Finney, N. and Simpson, L. (2009).

'Sleepwalking to Segregation'?

Challenging Myths about Race and

Migration. Bristol: The Policy Press.

D. Mason, Race and ethnicity in modern

Britain (2000) 978-0-19-874285-2

Session 6: 5

October

Trip to Black

Cultural Archive

and Brixton – map

will be provided

Note this trip is on a Friday make-up class day.

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Session/Dat

e Topic Reading

Assignmen

t Due

Session 7:

8 October

a) Immigration

and Film

Dirty Pretty

Things, director

Stephen Frears,

2001

b) Class

discussion:

Brixton – from

the Windrush,

to riots to

gentrification

Essential reading: M. Phillips and T. Phillips, Windrush: the irresistible rise of multicultural Britain (1998) 0002559099 Chapters 12 and 18 Supplementary reading: C.Joppke, Immigration and the nation

state (1999) 0-19-829540-5

D. Mason, Race and ethnicity in modern

Britain (2000) 978-0-19-874285-2

Session 8: 15

October

a) Immigration and Film Fear Eats the Soul, director Rainer Fassbinder (1974) b) Race, Nation and Multicultural Politics in Germany since 1945 Key questions: How does Germany’s history impact on contemporary attitudes to immigration and ethnic minorities?

Essential reading:

R. Chin, G. Eley et al, After the Nazi

Racial State (2009)

Supplementary reading: C.Joppke, Immigration and the nation state (1999) 0-19-829540-5 D. Orlow, 'The GDR's failed search for a national identity, 1945-1989', German Studies Review (2006) J. H. Brinks, 'Political Anti-Fascism in the German Democratic Republic', Journal of Contemporary History (1997). Online via JSTOR D. Diner and C. Gundermann, 'On the ideology of Antifascism', New German Critique, (1996). T. Ahbe, Der DDR-Antifaschismus. Diskurse und Generationen, Kontexte und Identitäten. Ein Rückblick über 60 Jahre (Leipzig, 2007) J Herf, Divided Memory. The Nazi Past in the Two Germanies (Cambridge, Mass. 1997), ch. 1-6, 9-10 B. Niven, Facing the Nazi Past. United

Germany and the Third Reich (London,

2002)

K. Jarausch (ed.), After Unity.

Reconfiguring German Identity

(Cambridge, 1997), ch.1

S. Berger, Inventing the Nation:

Germany (London, 2004), ch. 8

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Session/Dat

e Topic Reading

Assignmen

t Due

Session 9: 22

October

a) Immigration

and Film

La Haine,

director Mathieu

Kassovitz, 1995

b) Race, Nation

and

Multicultural

Politics in

France

Key questions:

what are the key

issues

surrounding

immigration in

contemporary

France? What

was the

‘headscarf

affair’? What can

discussion of

France’s

attitudes to

immigrants and

ethnic minorities

tell us about

broader

questions about

the state and

society in

France?

Essential reading:

Fredette, J (2014) Constructing Muslims

in France: Discourse, Public Identity and

the Politics of Citizenship. Introduction

and chapters 5 and 6.

Hargreaves, G (2007) Multi-ethnic

France: Immigration, Politics, Culture

and Society. ch.4

Supplementary reading: J. Scott, The politics of the veil (2007) 978-0-691-1243-5 H. Chapman and L.Frader eds, Race in France (2004) 1-57181-857-X Schneider, C. Police Power and Race Riots in Paris, 36 POL.& SOC’Y 133, 141 (2008)Kimberly Hamilton, Patrick Simon & Clara Veniard, The Challenge of French Diversity (Nov. 1, 2004) Quentin Duroy, North African Identity and Racial Discrimination in France: A Social Economic Analysis of Capability Deprivation, 69 REV.SOC. ECON. 307, 315 (2011). Ellen Wiles, Headscarves, Human Rights, and Harmonious Multicultural Society: Implications of the French Ban for Interpretations of Equality, 41 LAW &SOC’Y REV. 699, 704 (2007).

Session 10:

29 October

a)

Representation

s of

immigration in

the arts

Key questions:

how is the

immigrant

experience

represented in

the arts? What

value is there in

looking beyond

Essential reading: S Selvon The Lonely

Londoners

Essential reading:

L. Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat chs

1-7

Supplementary reading: Feldman, D Englishmen and Jews (1994) Gwynne, R Huguenot Heritage (1985) Phillips, M and Phillips, T Windrush: the irresistible rise of multicultural Britain (1998) 0002559099 B. Anderson, Us and Them?, Chapter 4

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Session/Dat

e Topic Reading

Assignmen

t Due

policy, politics,

economics

discourses?

b) Immigration

in history:

examining

successive

waves of

immigration

across Western

Europe

Old and new

immigrants in

France,

Germany and

the UK

Session 11:

12 November

]

a) Gender and migration

Key questions: What

insights can a

gendered account of

contemporary and

historical migration

movements provide?

Why does gender

matter when

discussing labour

migration?

b) Diasporas

and

transnational

mobility in a

global era

Key questions:

What is meant

by ‘diaspora’?

Are diasporas

historical or

contemporary

phenomena?

How does

diaspora differ

from

Essential reading:

Anderson, B (2006) A Very Private

Business: Migration and Domestic Work,

Oxford: COMPAS Working Paper 28

Anderson, B (2000) Doing the Dirty

Work? The Global Politics of Domestic

Labour, London/New York: Zed Books

Busch, N (2012) The employment of

migrant nannies in the UK: negotiating

social class in an open market for

commoditised in-home care, Social and

Cultural Geography.

Helma Lutz (ed.) Migration and Domestic

Work: A European Perspective on a

Global Theme. Aldershot: Ashgate

Supplementary reading:

Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russel

Hochschild (eds) Global Woman:

Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the

New Economy. London: Granta Books.

Busch, N (2014) Au pairs within a global

political economy of care: outcomes of a

deregulated childcare market and au pair

policy vacuum in the UK, Papers in

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Session/Dat

e Topic Reading

Assignmen

t Due

transnationalism

?

In class activity:

the world in a

classroom -

mapping the

class by

diaspora and

transnational

movements.

Political Economy/ La revue Interventions

économiques.

Chang, G (2000) Disposable Domestics:

Immigrant Women Workers in the Global

Economy. Cambridge: South End Press

J.H. Momsen (ed.) Gender, Migration

and Domestic Service. London:

Routledge.

Parreñas, RS (2001) Servants of

Globalization, Stanford University Press.

Essential reading:

Cohen, R (2008) Global Diasporas: an

Introduction. Chapter 1 and Chapter 8

Vertovec, S. (2007) 'New Complexities of

Cohension in Britatin: Super-diversity,

Transnationalism and Civil-Integration', report

written for the Commission on Integration and

Cohesion (CIC).

Supplementary reading:

Benedictus, Leo, London: the world in one city

(A special celebration of the most cosmopolitan

city in the world), Guardian, 21 January 2005;

electronically accessed at:

The Guardian - London,

The Guardian - Every race, colour, nation and

religion on earth

Hannerz, U. Flows, boundaries and Hybrids:

Flows Keywords in Transnational

Anthropology’, Working Paper, Department of

Social Anthropology. Stockholm University,

Research Program on Transnational

Communities. available at FLOWS,

BOUNDARIES AND HYBRIDS

Mavrommatis, G. (2009) ‘A Racial Archaeology

of Space: A Journey through the Political

Imaginings of Brixton and Brick Lane, London’

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 35, pp.

1-19

Session 12:

19 November

a) London and Immigration – Trip to Bishopsgate Archive and Brick Lane

Essential reading: G. Dench, K.

Gavron, M. Young, The New East End,

ch.9

Session 13:

26 November

a) Refugees: 1930s-2017 GUEST SPEAKER

Essential reading: Bloch, A (2002) The Migration and Settlement of Refugees in Britain,

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Session/Dat

e Topic Reading

Assignmen

t Due

Palgrave. Introduction and chapters 3 and 4 Fargues, P (2015) 2015: The Year we Mistook Refugees for Invaders, Migration Policy Centre Humphris, R and Sigona, N (2016)Becoming Adult: Mapping Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children in England Long, K When Refugees Stopped Being Migrants: Movement, Labour and Humanitarian Protection. Migration Studies, 2013, Volume I, Number 1 Additional readings will be posted on NYU Classes. Supplementary reading: A Bramwell (ed.), Refugees in the Age of Total

War (1988) Matthew Gibney, The Ethics and Politics of

Asylum (2004) Tony Kushner, Remembering Refugees: Then

and Now (2006)

Session 14: 3

December

Presentations

and class

discussion

Session 15:

10 December

Presentations

and class

discussion

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Instructor Bio

Dr Nicky Busch is a lecturer at Birkbeck, the University of London. Her research focus is on

migration and low-paid and informal labour in the UK. She has published a number of journal

articles and book chapters on these subjects. She is currently working on a monograph

based on the findings from this project to be published by Zed Books in 2018.