Migration as Crisis

Russia's Population Crisis: The Migration Dimension

• Increasing mortality. The overall death rate grew steadily from 1991 until peaking in 1994, then gradually abating. This reflects the well-publicized increase in male (and, less markedly, female) mortality during the first half of the 1990s. The male death rate jumped from 11.6 per thousand in 1990 to 17.8 per thousand in 1994, then declined somewhat to 15.0 per thousand in 1997. The mortalit...

Narrating Europe’s migration and refugee ‘crisis'

It is very clear – as many journalists covering the unfolding migration and refugee crisis have pointed out – that geography lies at the heart of the events taking place in Europe and the Mediterranean. It is a story of borders and routes, of distance and proximity, and of location and accessibility. The role of (re-)bordering has been fundamental in states’ attempts to ‘manage’ and ‘control’ t...

Husserlâ€TMs Crisis as a crisis of psychology

This paper places Husserl’s mature work, The Crisis of the European Sciences, in the context of his engagement with—and critique of—experimental psychology at the time. I begin by showing (a) that Husserl accorded psychology a crucial role in his philosophy, i.e., that of providing a scientific analysis of subjectivity, and (b) that he viewed contemporary psychology—due to its naturalism—as hav...

Human Migration and Commercial Bank Risk During the Financial Crisis

Migration, the financial crisis, and child growth in rural Guatemala

Migration has been demonstrated by various studies to be closely linked to improvements in individualand household-level outcomes. It is difficult to identify with confidence the causal effects of migration, however, and likely that some of the observed differences are related to selection. In this paper, rather than examining the “positive” effects of migration, we put the spotlight on how the...