Este articulo es, a dia de hoy, una de las piezas clasicas y fundamentales para la posibilidad de estudiar las relaciones globales de poder a partir de las herramientas conceptuales desarrolladas por Gramsci a lo largo de su obra. Cox, contribuye de esta forma a las corrientes criticas de las Relaciones Internacionales al discutir varios conceptos gramscianos y cuales serian las implicaciones para estudiar las relaciones internacionales en distintos periodos de hegemonia y contrahegemonia. De igual forma, el autor planteo la cuestion –en su momento novedosa– de la relevancia de tomar en cuenta los procesos internos de construccion de bloques historicos contrahegemonicos como aquellos que podrian tener un efecto revolucionario en las estructuras y organizaciones internacionales, asi como ruptura con la hegemonia plasmada como una clase perteneciente a un orden economico universal transnacional.  This article is a classic and fundamental for approaching global power relations with the conceptual tools developed by Gramsci. Cox contributes to critical thought in International Relations by discussing various gramscian concepts and what their implications are for the study of different historical forms of hegemony and counter-hegemony. Also, the author draws our attention –novel at the time of its publicaction– to the relevance of taking into account the construction of domestic counter-hegemonic historic blocs. He suggests that these could have a revolutionary effect on international structures and organizations, as well as rupture with the hegemony performed by the transnational economic order.

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Gramsci, hegemonía y relaciones internacionales: Un ensayo sobre el método | Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method

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corporeality of suffering migrant bodies in Spanish, Italian and Greek films, soliciting not only compassion but also sadomasochistic pleasure on the part of the viewer. Carrie Tarr argues that the dominant imagery of diasporic women as passive victims is counteracted by diasporic women film-makers portraying strong and active females. James Williams discusses the representation of queer migrants confronted with the double threat of racism and homophobia. Daniela Berghahn describes the diasporic youth film as a coming-of-age narrative dealing with the search for ethnic and cultural belonging. Deniz Göktürk argues that the celebration of musical hybridity challenges any nation-based understanding of music, film and culture in general. In the last chapter, Claudia Sternberg argues that films and scenes about cinema-going enable us to reflect on migrants not only as objects of stereotypical representation, but also as consumers, critics and producers of media. In an epilogue, film professional Gareth Jones reflects on migrant and diasporic cinema not as a ‘fait accompli’ but as a practice. He concludes that migrant and diasporic cinema is not a genre but a thematic wave of concern in contemporary Europe. In sum, this volume offers a unique contribution to migration debates as it highlights the artistic elaboration of a social debate. Despite some contradictory theoretical claims, the editors provide an excellent overview of welland lesserknown European films dealing with migration and multiculturalism.

The Politics of International Migration Management

At first glance, the concept of multilevel governance (MLG) seems to point to a quite obvious reality: all states are structured along multiple layers of government, and public policy, regardless o...

Theorising migration policy in multilevel states: the multilevel governance perspective

Policy, media, activist and academic discourses often portray migrants and refugees in the extreme, as victims or villains. This portrayal obscures the agency demonstrated by migrants and refugees and evidenced in their own accounts of their journeys. It also reifies the power of the state to ‘secure’ borders and control migration, and conceals the contested politics of mobility and security visible in negotiations between migrants, borders guards, smugglers, fishermen, and other actors. In this article, I take an ethnographic approach and conceptualize the border from the bottom up as a contested site of negotiation. The analysis reveals the ways in which migrants negotiate with their smugglers, amongst themselves, and with border guards in order to circumvent state controls when entering the state clandestinely. In doing so, it questions traditional conceptualizations of sovereignty, security and citizenship. The article then analyses how migrants continue to demonstrate agency after arrival within state territories and how this agency can have an impact not only on micro, everyday encounters, but also on the macro level: my research demonstrates how migrant agency can have causal and constitutive effects on state relations and power. The article draws on participant observation and over 130 interviews I conducted with migrants, refugees, fishermen, NGO representations, and policymakers between 2007 and 2015 in Malta and Cyprus.

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Migrant agency: Negotiating borders and migration controls

The link between development and migration has been termed the 'new development mantra'. Studies on the subject have so far mostly focused on economic remittances, and the potential consequences of return migration on democratisation have been rarely touched upon. This article attests the potential of the migration experience to affect migrants' attitudes towards democracy, thus playing an important role in the diffuse support needed for democracies in the stage of consolidation. Based on a survey among 1,000 Philippine return migrants from six destinations, the paper suggests that the migration experience may not only lead to a more critical stance towards the political system of the home country; there are also indicators of lesser support for the principles of democracy when compared to migrants about to leave the country for the first time. The political system of the destination as such seems to be a less decisive factor than the specific freedoms and restrictions experienced by migrants and a potential bias when selecting the destination. The article focuses on return migrants from Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and Japan, which showed the most distinctive numbers in support of democracy or changes therein when compared to first-time migrants heading for that destination.

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Changed in Migration? Philippine Return Migrants and (Un)Democratic Remittances

The focus of this article is a cluster of grassroots movements and networks of networks: the Association of Indonesian Migrant Workers (ATKI) based in Hong Kong. By using Kelly's [2007. Filipino Migration, Transnationalism and Class Identity (ARI Working Papers Series, 90). Singapore: Asia Research Institute.] typology of four dimensions of class (i.e. position, process, performance and politics) as a framework of analysis, the article shows that Indonesian migrant domestic workers can hold multiple class identities at various positions in transnational political space(s). Through organising in these particular spaces, Indonesian migrant domestic workers express agency, reformulate their gender roles and identify themselves as a transnational social class. This social class identification is based on their awareness of the transnational nature of the exploitation that migrants experience but is also framed within a wider global perspective of ‘root causes’ such as neoliberal policies and unjust tr...

Indonesian migrant domestic workers in transnational political spaces: agency, gender roles and social class formation

The article provides an introduction into this EJEAS issue on democratisation and international migration. Third Wave democratisation and the recent unprecedented increase in international labour migration may have the same structural origins, but so far few attempts have been made to link the two research agendas. One explanation might be that existing research on democratisation has neglected the exogenous dimension, and that migration research was preoccupied with destination countries. By drawing from the contributions to this Issue and the literature on norm diffusion, we argue that migrants have the potential to act as norm entrepreneurs and as agents of democratisation. The article maps out three avenues of norm diffusion: Migration can be the cause for changes of political attitudes at the individual level, it can be an enabling factor for collective action and it may lead to institutional change at the national and global level. To further assess how precisely these pathways might support or impede democratisation, more theory-guided empirical studies on the subject are urgently needed.

Democratisation Through International Migration? Explorative Thoughts on a Novel Research Agenda

Most literature on migration governance has addressed the global level, and it has done so primarily from a state-centric and top-down perspective, with little regard to the role of civil society organizations in shaping its direction Moreover, in an institutional sense, except for the EU, the regional level has only received scant attention, which is surprising given the significance of intra-regional migration flows elsewhere The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a case in point Although there are few direct channels of engagement for civil society, the vibrant migrant rights community in Asia has been capitalizing on, and creating, opportunities at multiple levels including the regional Our argument is that this creative use of channels of engagement in combined form at multiple levels can have democratizing potential

Alternative Regionalism from Below: Democratizing ASEAN's Migration Governance

This article focuses on the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) which has become one of the major global spaces for deliberations on migration but remains informal and non-binding. Dra...

Stefan Rother

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Changed in Migration? Philippine Return Migrants and (Un)Democratic Remittances

Indonesian migrant domestic workers in transnational political spaces: agency, gender roles and social class formation

Democratisation Through International Migration? Explorative Thoughts on a Novel Research Agenda

Alternative Regionalism from Below: Democratizing ASEAN's Migration Governance

The Global Forum on Migration and Development as a venue of state socialisation: a stepping stone for multi-level migration governance?