Towards a Better System for Immigration Control

We study different methods of immigration control using a simple model of a congested world. Our main comparison involves quotas, the predominant instrument of immigration control, and a proposed system of immigration tolls and emigration subsidies. We show that the equilibrium of the proposed system is Pareto superior to the quota system. This is consistent with the tolls and subsidies creating a market for international migrants. When countries are price-takers the market becomes perfect and the exploitation of gains from trade complete. From a normative perspective, an open- borders policy is preferred to both control methods but will meet political opposition because it hurts the residents of the rich country.     

Qenja: child fostering and relocation practices in the Amhara region,Ethiopia

In this article we discuss temporary relocation and informal labour of children in rural Ethiopia. We respond to the call ‘to understand the wider logic underlying child relocation and non-parental residence among populations experiencing poverty’ (Boyden, J. 2013. “We're Not Going to Suffer Like this in the Mud: Educational Aspirations, Social Mobility and Independent Child Migration among Populations Living in Poverty.” Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 43 (5): 580–600. 582). Drawing on the perspectives of children and families involved in the practice of qenja (meaning ‘teaming’ or ‘forming a coalition’) we examine how – in contexts of uneven distribution of rural labour – children's involvement in transient agricultural labour outside the home is a fundamental feature of social reproduction. We argue that qenja is a social coping strategy that co-exists alongside gendered and generational relations of household production and reproduction. An understanding of the practice as merely transactional and exploitative ignores long-standing community strategies of labour acquisition and redistribution. We stress that child protection campaigns by non-governmental organizations and national legislations that intend to criminalize the practice are not in the interest of children, families, and communities.     

Billy Beg,Tom Beg,and the Fairies

ARTISTS IN STRING. String Figures : Their Regional Distribution and Social Significance. By KATHLEEN HADDON, (Mrs. O. H. T. RISHBETH). Foreword by Prof. J. L. Myres. Methucn and Co., 1930. 7?″ x 4¾″. Pp. x + 174. With 82 diagrams. 6s. Reviewed by R. M. Dawkins.

HANDWÖRTERBUCH DES DEUTSCHEK ABERGLAUBENS. Herausgegeben unter besonderer Mitwirkung von E. HOFFMANN-KRAYER und Mitarbcit zahlreicher Fachgenossen von HANS BÄCHTOLD-STAUBLI. Band III. Berlin and Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter &; Co., 1930–1. 10?″ x 7″. 1920 columns. 61 Mks. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

RECOLLECTIONS. By ION CREANG?. Trans, by LUCY BYNG. With a pref. by MARCU BEZA. J. M. Dent and Sons, 1930. Pp. 255. 7s. 6d. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

CONTES POPULAIRES D E ROUMANIE. By ION CREANG?. Paris : Maisonneuve frères, 1931. Vol. i. 9½″ x 5½″. Pp. 245. Reviewed by M. Gaster.

KIOWA TALES. By ELSIE CLEWS PARSONS. (Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, vol. xxii). New York: G. E. Stechert &; Co., 1929. 9½″ x 6¼″. Pp. xxii + 152. (V. geneal. charts), n.p. Reviewed by Barbara Aitken.

FOLK ARTS. Reviewed by A. R. Wright.     

A feminist perspective on digital geographies: activism,affect and emotion,and gendered human-technology relations in Australia

Feminist digital geographies are an important part of the digital turn currently underway in geographic scholarship. At the same time, feminist movements are taking advantage of, and emerging from, digital spaces. This article considers how the digital intersects with gender and what opportunities the digital affords feminist movements. We do so by drawing on a case study of feminist activism within Destroy the Joint (DTJ), an online social media activist group, and build a qualitative analysis of a dynamic, reflexive digital space. Qualitative studies of emotion, affect and the power of digital geographies, including social media spaces populated by groups like DTJ, demonstrate how cultural and social practices are changing along with technologies. This research does not draw on a techno-deterministic approach to digital geographies but forwards a feminist perspective that critically engages with the constraints and possibilities of the complex, paradoxical and contingent within the digital.     

Testing the provenance of Patayan pottery at Las Colinas: chemical and petrographic analyses of phyllite-temper fragments

Mobile Patayan foragers of the interior desert of southwestern Arizona were makers of Lower Colorado Buff Ware ceramics. These containers were sometimes traded to Hohokam irrigation agriculturalists at the western margin of the Hohokam territory. By A.D. 1100, the distribution of Patayan Buff Wares shifted to the east, penetrating the Hohokam heartland. Some theorists have suggested the ceramic distribution implies a migration of Patayan people, who joined agricultural communities in the Hohokam core area. One way to assess this idea is to identify the production of Patayan material culture within the Hohokam territory. We test for the local manufacture of Lower Colorado Buff Ware at the Hohokam village of Las Colinas, where Patayan pottery was found in abundance, and a Patayan enclave has been inferred. Using petrographic analysis and SEM-EDS assays of the phyllite temper fragments in the Patayan wares, we conclude that the Patayan pottery was made elsewhere and was not fabricated with local materials at Las Colinas.