Author Archives: Plamen Miltenoff

killing fields of the Khmer Rouge

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Hear survival stories of women who lived in the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge.

An expert on the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-79 will give a lecture and facilitate a student workshop April 11-12 at St. Cloud State.

Theresa de Langis is the creator of the Cambodian Women’s Oral History Project, which collects testimony about sexual- and gender-based crimes from that period.

Her visit is made possible through a partnership with the Khmer Legacy Museum in St. Paul. Her talks are sponsored by these St. Cloud State entities: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education, Women’s Center, Department of Ethnic & Women’s Studies, and Department of History.

Immigration History Research Center

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https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/immigrant-stories

Immigrant Stories helps recent immigrants and refugees create digital stories: brief videos with images, text, and audio about a personal experience. The IHRC shares and preserves these digital stories for future generations through the IHRC Archives, the Minnesota Digital Library, and the Digital Public Library of America.

Over 215 stories representing more than 45 different communities are now part of the Immigrant Stories Collection. A National Endowment for the Humanities grant is now helping us collect stories with our story-making website.

before blame immigrants

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“the common thread in terrorism is often misogyny”

What do many lone attackers have in common? Domestic violence

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/lone-attackers-domestic-violence-khalid-masood-westminster-attacks-terrorism
The simplistic explanation here is that these men were all just bad ’uns and, given they had no trouble with killing countless strangers, it is not surprising they terrorised the women in their lives. But this is to look at the correlation the wrong way around. Domestic violence is frequently a way for male abusers to try to impose so-called traditional gender roles on their female partner.
The problem isn’t Islam, or a perverted interpretation of Islam, but rather a perversion of frustrated masculinity. After all, 98% of mass killings are perpetrated by men, and many of the attackers discuss women in proprietorial terms.

myth of migration

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Much of What We Think We Know Is Wrong

The debate over migration is plagued by a variety of inaccuracies and misunderstandings — on both the right and the left. Here is what the research really shows.

By Hein de Haas  http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/eight-myths-about-migration-and-refugees-explained-a-1138053.html

Hein de Haas is a professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He was a founding member and former co-director of the International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford.

1. No, closed borders do not automatically lead to less migration.

2. No, migration policies have not failed.

3. No, migration policies have not become more restrictive.

4. No, development aid in origin countries does not prevent migration.

5. No, migration doesn’t lead to “brain drain.”

6. No, migrants don’t steal jobs, nor do they undermine the welfare state.

7. No, migration cannot solve the problems associated with an aging society.

8. No, we aren’t living in an era of unprecedented migration.

Immigration modernization

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Immigration modernization a work in progress

By Mark Rockwell  Mar 16, 2017

https://fcw.com/articles/2017/03/16/uscis-systems-rockwell.aspx

Bringing paper-based systems at CIS into the digital world “remains a substantial work in progress,” said Lori Scialabba, CIS acting director at a House Homeland Security Oversight.

Using agile processes, Roth said, requires some technical expertise on the part of the agency. That technical expertise at CIS, he said, was thin. Also communications to top agency officials about potential problems weren’t efficient, which left those officials in the dark.

“If you put it out and it breaks, then pull it back, that’s not agile,” Roth said.

if the roles reverse

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What if the roles reverse?…

Erica, one of the students in HONS 221 https://www.facebook.com/groups/hons221/ posted this video, as our ongoing discussion about migration and refugees in the contemporary world.

Alicia Keys made this short film to illustrate what life might be like if Americans had to face the struggles of refugees. (via We Are Here Movement)

Posted by Upworthy on Saturday, July 9, 2016

It comes on the same day, when a Bulgarian Court found NOT guilty a thug with a long rap sheet, who pride himself as a “migrant hunter”
http://www.novinite.com/articles/175563/Bulgarian+Court+Releases+Migrant+Hunter+on+Bail

Immigration and Crime

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New Study Found No Link Between Immigration and Increased Crime in Forty Years of Data

February 15, 2017 http://sciencenewsjournal.com/new-study-found-no-link-immigration-increased-crime-forty-years-data/
In a study done at the University at Buffalo however, no links were found between the two. According to the findings, immigration instead appears to be linked to reductions in some types of crimes instead.
The full peer reviewed study was published in the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice.