www.migrantscontribute.com In early September, IOM Director General William Lacy Swing and Deputy Director General Laura Thompson brought together all Chiefs of Missions around the world for the Global Chief of Mission Meeting. During three days of presentations, meetings and exchange including a reception with keynote speaker Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations the Director General laid out the achievements already made and declared his intention to pursue three additional strategic objectives for the future: continuity, coherence and change. These guideposts are reflected in many of our new policy and management initiatives. Among others, a migration governance framework will be developed, which sets out clear objectives for migration governance; a migration data analysis unit will be established with the aim to foster better analysis, use and presentation of IOM data; and the role of IOM with regards to the rights of migrants and protecting these should be further looked at in the near future. In this context, it is important to mention that a widespread external perception exists that IOM is not mandated or able to contribute to protection through its work. To review the IOM policy on protection and update the last institutional document from 2007 towards meeting international standards and circumstances, we have established a Protection Policy Working Group. We think that protecting and assisting migrants is the most fundamental responsibility entrusted to IOM, especially with regards to the humanitarian work IOM implements worldwide. To highlight and strengthen IOM ́s humanitarian role, including through policy developments and implementing procedures, is therefore a high priority. In the Austrian context, we are looking forward to putting into practice as many of the new initiatives as possible and to properly updating you on new developments on our new website to be released in October.

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This paper examines how a nameless narrator in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” has been repressed by the reign of phallocentric culture and attempts to pursue her own independence and freedom by writing about herself. This paper will employ Helene Cixous’s theory on feminine writing, in order to analyze the importance of feminine writing in this novel. Cixous insists that women free themselves of the repression in patriarchal setting through the act of writing, writing from their bodies. Women's writing, for Cixous, is hysterical, but she is celebratory about the “validity” of hysteria as a response to social pressure, seeing the hysterical body as a liberating self-expression. Writing as a subversive act, threatening the system of control constructed to contain women, is the subject of “The Yellow Wallpaper.” In this novel, the hysterical nameless narrator, like Gilman herself, attempts to free herself from the constraints of her husband’s patriarchal structure by writing her diary. The narrator suggests that women should be connected with each other in their writings: She tears the wallpaper to free the woman trapped behind the pattern. This novel asserts that women, as shown in Cixous’s paradigm, can achieve their own identities and freedoms by writing their own bodies.

길먼의 「누런 벽지」(“The Yellow Wallpaper”)

“By finding meaning through emotions and practical action…young people today are emphasizing the dimension of love. For them, salvation is attained by the creation of a loving situation. The attainment of community, with its concomitant release of power, self-discovery, and decision to love, is salvation. It is a contemporary way of trying to find God. John's First Epistle stresses that ‘God is love’ (I Jn. 4: 8), and today young adults are trying to turn the equation around to read ‘Love is God.’”

Searching for “IT”:

A Dictionary Of Biblical Tradition In English Literature By David Lyle Jeffrey

America’s Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945

COLSON WHITEHEAD ’S ZONE ONE () POPULARIZED A NEW KIND OF zombie: neither the slow, lumbering, hungry zombies made famous in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead () nor the more recently introduced fast zombies of  Days Later () and World War Z (), but the time-loop zombie compulsively repeating a habitual action. Whitehead’s “stragglers”—a succession of imponderable tableaux frequently consisting of bodies going through the motions of their everyday labor—shift the zombie’s instinctive drive from hunger to a blend of habit and nostalgia. At the same time, they introduce into the zombie narrative

Naturalist Compulsion, Racial Divides, and the Time-Loop Zombie

Author(s): Hsu, Hsuan L.; Yazell, Bryan | Abstract: Excerpt from Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies, edited by Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung, and Takayuki Tatsumi

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Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation

Abstract:This essay argues that William Gibson's speculative "Bridge" trilogy (1993-1999) novels, and their characterization of shantytown spaces in particular, offer crucial insight into the way late capitalism produces—and then hides from view—vulnerable life. The novels are particularly useful for clarifying recent debates about precarity as imagined by Isabell Lorey and Judith Butler. As these sources explain, precariousness denotes the essential vulnerability and inter-dependency that defines social life; precarity, in contrast, describes the socio-economic stratification that leaves certain segments of the population more exposed to this vulnerability than others. Gibson's Bridge novels contribute to this discussion by providing a space, in the form of the massive shantytown, for imagining how we might begin to disentangle vulnerability from the weaponized form of precarity associated with late capitalism. Ultimately, this account offers a new reading of Gibson's fiction by stressing how it imagines an inclusive social model in the context of neoliberal dystopia. For scholars interested in how literature accounts for precarity, the Bridge series reflects speculative fiction's capacity for illustrating precarity's past, present, and future.

The Politics of Precarity in William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy

Author(s): Yazell, Bryan | Abstract: Near the end of the nineteenth century, the “tramp” embodied the most extreme aspects of the boom-and-bust economy in the US. More than any other writer of his day, the ethnographer Josiah Flynt assisted both the public and government officials in visualizing the lives of tramps with the intent of rehabilitating this population. The key text in this effort, Flynt’s Tramping with Tramps (1899) hinges on a comparison between US and European vagrancy. For reform-minded authors like Flynt, tramping in Europe provides a point of comparison for evaluating key areas of concern in the US—namely, the problem of idleness among sectors of the American population. The depiction of tramping abroad in Flynt’s work—as well as in accounts by writers like Mark Twain—ultimately reflects the international nexus shaping both the discourse surrounding vagrancy as well as antitramp legislation.

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Governable Travelers: International Comparison in American Tramp Ethnography

Scholars in literature departments and the social sciences share a broadly similar interest in understanding human development, societal norms, and political institutions. However, although literature scholars are likely to reference sources or concepts from the social sciences in their published work, the line of influence is much less likely to appear the other way around. This unequal engagement provides the occasion for this paper, which seeks to clarify the ways social scientists might draw influence from literary fiction in the development of their own work as academics: selecting research topics, teaching, and drawing inspiration for projects. A qualitative survey sent to 13,784 social science researchers at 25 different universities asked participants to describe the influence, if any, reading works of literary fiction plays in their academic work or development. The 875 responses to this survey provide numerous insights into the nature of interdisciplinary engagement between these disciplines. First, the survey reveals a skepticism among early-career researchers regarding literature’s social insights compared to their more senior colleagues. Second, a significant number of respondents recognized literary fiction as playing some part in shaping their research interests and expanding their comprehension of subjects relevant to their academic scholarship. Finally, the survey generated a list of literary fiction authors and texts that respondents acknowledged as especially useful for understanding topics relevant to the study of the social sciences. Taken together, the results of the survey provide a fuller account of how researchers engage with literary fiction than can be found in the pages of academic journals, where strict disciplinary conventions might discourage out-of-the-field engagement.

Bryan Yazell

Papers

Naturalist Compulsion, Racial Divides, and the Time-Loop Zombie

Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation

The Politics of Precarity in William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy

Governable Travelers: International Comparison in American Tramp Ethnography

The role of literary fiction in facilitating social science research