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Experiences, processes and constellations of exile, flight, and persecution have deeply shaped global history and are still widespread aspects of human existence today. People are persecuted, incarcerated, tortured or deported on the basis of their political beliefs, gender, ethnic or ethno-national belonging, religious affiliation, and other socio-political categories. People flee or are displaced in the context of collective violence such as wars, rebellions, coups, environmental disasters or armed conflicts. After migrating, but not exclusively in this context, people find themselves suddenly isolated, cut off from their networks of belonging, their biographical projects and their collective histories. The articles in this volume are concerned with the challenges of navigating through multiple paradoxes and contradictions when it comes to grasping these phenomena sociologically, on the levels of self-reflection, theorizing, and especially doing empirical research.

Every day many people leave the place where they live and move to some other place, where they settle permanently or stay for many years. The contributions to this volume are based on the results of three empirical research projects which set out to investigate the situation of migrants in Jordan, Brazil, Germany and other European countries. The articles focus on migrants at their place of arrival and ask questions such as: How do they look back on their life histories and migration paths? What dynamics and processes led up to their migration projects and how do they explain their motives? The studies in this volume show that leaving and arriving are interrelated: leaving one’s home region is part of a long process, partly planned and partly unplanned, which is determined by complex collective, familial and individual constellations, and which has significant consequences for the action patterns and participation strategies of migrants in their arrival societies. This book also shows which constellations enable some migrants to realize their goals in their present situation, and which constraints or obstacles make it impossible for others to do so.

The case studies in this volume illustrate the global dimension of flight and migration movements with a special focus on South-South migration. Thirteen chapters shed light on transcontinental or regional migration processes, as well as on long-term processes of arrival and questions of belonging. Flight and migration are social phenomena. They are embedded in individual, familial and collective histories on the level of nation states, regions, cities or we-groups. They are also closely tied up with changing border regimes and migration policies. The explanatory power of case studies stems from analyzing these complex interrelations. Case studies allow us to look at both “common” and “rare” migration phenomena, and to make systematic comparisons. On the basis of in-depth fieldwork, the authors in this volume challenge dichotomous distinctions between flight and migration, look at changing perspectives during processes of migration, consider those who stay, and counter political and media discourses which assume that Europe, or the Global North in general, is the pivot of international migration.

Die arbeitsintensiven Bereiche der Landwirtschaft in der Bundesrepublik können ohne den Einsatz von Saisonarbeitern aus dem Ausland nicht funktionieren. Hier hat sich seit einigen Jahren ein ausdifferenziertes System temporärer Arbeitsmigration entwickelt. Die Studie untersucht die spezifischen politischen und ökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen, auf die die (vor allem polnischen) Saisonarbeiter treffen, und die im Migrationsprozess entstehenden Migrantennetzwerke. Anhand einer theorieoffenen Vorgehensweise werden die Leitparadigmen der gegenwärtigen Migrationsforschung - Integrationsansatz, Transnationalismus, Systemtheorie - daraufhin befragt, welche Erklärungen ihr jeweiliger Beobachtungsrahmen in Bezug auf das Phänomen der temporären Arbeitsmigration liefern kann.

The aim of the research is to demonstrate, using the example of the field of semantics, that the political lexicism of the Russian language of the twentieth century, despite its variability, forms a historical and supra-ideological unity, which continues to be closely linked to the lexicon of a general discourse. The following questions set the framework for the analysis: 1) How uniform and complex is the system of meanings in the political lexic of the Russian language in the twentieth century; 2) how continuous has the semantic development of this vocabulary area been; 3) what general regularities has the development process followed; 4) how does the political lexicon relate to the overall lexical-semantic system of the Russian language or to the overall system of international political lexicism?, Ziel der Forschungsarbeit ist es, am Beispiel des Bereiches der Semantik nachzuweisen, daß die politische Lexik der russischen Sprache des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts trotz ihrer Variabilität eine historische und überideologische Einheit bildet, die weiterhin eng verbunden ist mit der Lexik eines übereinzelsprachlichen Gesamtdiskurses. Folgende Fragen geben der Analyse den Rahmen vor: 1) Wie einheitlich und komplex ist das System der Bedeutungen in der politischen Lexik der russischen Sprache im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert; 2) wie kontinuierlich ist die semantische Entwicklung dieses Wortschatzbereiches verlaufen; 3) welchen allgemeinen Regularitäten ist der Entwicklungsprozeß gefolgt; 4) in welchem Verhältnis steht die politische Lexik zum lexikalisch-semantischen Gesamtsystem der russischen Sprache bzw. zum Gesamtsystem der internationalen politischen Lexik.

With sustainability having gained a lot of momentum over the last years and companies implementing strategies to create corporate sustainability, there are lots of opportunities for innovation. Thus, the two concepts of sustainability and innovation should not be considered separately – they are closely interlinked with one another. The main goal of sustainable innovation is to develop new products and technologies that have a positive impact on the company’s triple-bottom-line. To meet this aim, they have to be ecologically and economically beneficial as well as socially balanced. In order to help companies to improve their sustainable innovation process practically, this book is structured into five possible phases of a sustainable innovation process: Awareness of a sustainability problem Identification & Definition of the problem Ideation & Evaluation of the solutions Testing & Enrichment of the solutions Implementation of the solutions & Green Marketing

Volume 1 contains the biographies of Georg Kardinal Kopp (1837-1914), Julius Bachem (1845-1918), Georg Graf von Hertling (1843-1919), Franz Hitze (1851-1921), Peter Spahn (1846-1925), Karl Trimborn (1854-1921), Karl Muth (1867-1944), Matthias Erzberger (1875-1921), Felix Porsch (1853-1930), Hedwig Dransfeld (1871-1925), Konstantin Fehrenbach (1852-1926), Heinrich Brauns (1868-1939), Joseph Wirth (1879-1956), Wilhelm Marx (1863-1946), Adam Stegerwald (1874-1945), Heinrich Held (1868-1938), Joseph Joos (1878-1965), Heinrich Brüning (1885-1970), Ludwig Kaas (1881-1952), Adolf Kardinal Bertram (1859-1945), Romano Guardini (1885-1968).