Migratory Insights
Circumstantial Evidence in Support of a Trojan Colony in Italy: A Study in Ancient Migration
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Valentine J. Belfiglio
Ancient Trojan referees established a colony in Italy circa 1178 BCE. Historiography and conceptual analysis of the writings of ancient and modern historians, and current archaeological discoveries is used in this study. Troy existed in the 12th century CE. The Trojan War and the voyage of Aeneas, and his settlement in Italy, are supported by ancient historians, while unsupported by current archaeological discoveries. We conclude based on a preponderance of the evidence, especially the work of ancient historians, that it was more likely than not, that the voyage and settlement of Aeneas in Italy happened.
Political Ideologies and Migration Policies: Analysis of Political Parties in Turkey
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Muhammet Yusuf Ci̇nkara
Political ideology consists of a systematic approach and assumptions about certain political, economic and socio-cultural issues. Migration, on the other hand, is the process of movement of people, either individuals or groups, from one place to another. For states, migration policies consist of decisions and practices that determine the basic approaches to controlling and managing human movements. Recently, with the widespread movement of people between countries, it has become more important to reveal what influences the perspective on this situation. When we accept migration as a field of study, it is seen that studies on migration generally deal with the relations between societies and the state's policy-making processes regarding migration. Political parties are among the most important influential factors affecting the state's policy making. In addition to the formation of social structure and national security approach of political parties, their approach to migration policy is also very important. The subject of the research is the migration policies of political parties in the Turkish parliament and the ideological foundations of these policies. The research analyzes the migration policies of political parties in terms of their ideological approaches. In this way, it is aimed to reveal the relationship between political parties' attitudes towards migration and the ideological values and principles in which they position themselves. Whether the ideologies of the parties cause a differentiation in the formation of their migration policies is investigated through document analysis method.
Escaping Heat and Pollution: Jakarta - Indoor Migration and the Abandonment of the City View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Michal Jan Grzegorzewski
My paper explores how shopping malls are examples of climate urbanism; urban spaces being controlled by military and security techniques, and how these protected spaces become destination of upper class in Jakarta, Indonesia. Migration, in a sense, is the oldest human way of dealing with unfavorable living condition, and shopping malls reshape the migratory patterns into daily refuge seeking from the urban chaos. I argue that shopping malls create a fantasy city that isolates its visitors from the outside reality, especially from the environmental and social impacts of climate change. Shopping malls remove any dark space or backstage, where the costs and consequences of their existence are observable. They are utopian, pleasure spaces that produce standardized and hygienic bodies, which are sucked inside, while leaving the outside as a depleted wasteland. I use autobiographical ethnography to provide an analysis of shopping spaces seen as alternative universes for privileged forms of human life, that are protected by neoliberal narrative. As such, they utilize deteriorating quality of the city and its climate-induced harsh conditions to seduce the richer segment of the urban population. They enable the daily migration into these spaces instead of permanent migration somewhere else. I argue that shopping malls reflect the individualization, anxiety, and fragmentation of humans, and that they are a temporary bandage that gains popularity as the urban solution to a climate change.
