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Paul-Heinz Pauseback´s article Dreams, Returning Emigrants and Millions of Dollars
– What We Get Back from Oversea focus on the consequences of return migration
and the stream of material and immaterial goods that was brought back from foreign
countries – mainly the US - to his North Frisia and Husum where almost every
native family were affected: personal wealth, investments, innovations but above
all: the idea of personal freedom – and the absence of autocratic authorities and
oppressing bureaucracy.
In ‘Migration and the Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) since 1450: the Impact of
In-migration in Sustaining the European Economy and Generating Cultural Heritage
in Both Regions’, Nonja Peters demonstrates the role European expansion during the
age of discovery played in interconnecting the Earth´ s peoples, cultures, economies
and polities, how the world become ‘global’ and the vital role states and nations
from Antiquity, the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East and Indian Ocean Rim and
Americas played in this history.
She also makes a point of the fact that the Council of Europe has recognised
cultural heritage - tangible, intangible or digital - as a unique and non-renewable
resource and a major asset for Europe and for the entire European project. She
therefore stresses the fact that most of this cultural heritage – at least the artifacts
displayed in the British Museum in London and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam -
are not from Europe, but were ‘acquired’ by maritime explorers during the ‘Age of
Exploration’ from nations and states the British and Dutch had conquered, and that
they in fact commemorate colonialism and imperialism.
In the article Baby Migration, Sarah Marijnen and Jeroen Doomernik introduces the
reader to what they describe as a ‘peculiar and often unnoted form of international
migration’, starting immediately after the Second World War when orphans from
war-torn European countries were adopted by American families. This Intercountry
Adoption (ICA) has since the mid-1970s until the present been shaped by an increasing
gap between rich and poor countries, and created an growing demand for
children in developed countries. This has resulted in a billion-dollar unregulated industry,
raising the questions on the role of the adoption organisations and agencies,
and ultimately paved way to international normative frameworks e.g.: the United
Nations Declaration on Social and Legal Principles relating to the Protection and
Welfare of Children (1986), and the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2000).
In Expulsion of Economically Inactive European Union Citizens, Solange Maslowski
argues that a growing number of inactive Union citizens, e.g. persons who are
self-sufficient and in possession of sickness insurance coverage, pensioners, firsttime
job seekers and job-seekers who no longer retain the status of workers, have
been expelled from their host Member state and that this phenomenon seems to
continue. She describes the process of expulsion of economically inactive Union cit-
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