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Editorial 5 Editorial DOI: 10.1515/abcsj-2016-0015 Many of us in the `west', academics in particular, have the luxury of living in relative peace and security, shielded geographically from the turbulence, violence and poverty of many nations to the east. Few of us can ignore the inhospitable political status of Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea and other countries whose wars, leadership and laws have led to the greatest movement of peoples since World War Two. Millions of people have made and continue to make the perilous journey west, in the hope of finding peace and prosperity, a place to raise families and form new communities. Community, what Zygmunt Bauman terms "the last relic of the old-time utopias of the good society" (Liquid Modernity 92), is in this sense an imagined new home in the west; a shelter in a foreign place. The responses to this phenomenon are varied and complex; ongoing changes in the international political order make this an unstable terrain upon which to theorise. Yet, this mass migration impacts nations, communities, economies, and policies with wide-ranging consequences. Therefore we must attempt to make sense of the current wave of migration in an interdisciplinary and analytical mind-set. American studies and British studies http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American, British and Canadian Studies Journal de Gruyter

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5 Editorial DOI: 10.1515/abcsj-2016-0015 Many of us in the `west', academics in particular, have the luxury of living in relative peace and security, shielded geographically from the turbulence, violence and poverty of many nations to the east. Few of us can ignore the inhospitable political status of Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea and other countries whose wars, leadership and laws have led to the greatest movement of peoples since World War Two. Millions of people have made and continue to make the perilous journey west, in the hope of finding peace and prosperity, a place to raise families and form new communities. Community, what Zygmunt Bauman terms "the last relic of the old-time utopias of the good society" (Liquid Modernity 92), is in this sense an imagined new home in the west; a shelter in a foreign place. The responses to this phenomenon are varied and complex; ongoing changes in the international political order make this an unstable terrain upon which to theorise. Yet, this mass migration impacts nations, communities, economies, and policies with wide-ranging consequences. Therefore we must attempt to make sense of the current wave of migration in an interdisciplinary and analytical mind-set. American studies and British studies

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American, British and Canadian Studies Journal – de Gruyter

Published: Dec 1, 2016

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