Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisCelebrations of the “transgender tipping point” in the second decade of the twenty-first century occurred at the same time of heightened debates and anxieties about immigration in the United States. On Transits and Transitions explores what the increased visibility of trans people in the public sphere means for trans migrants and provides a counter-narrative to the dominant discourse that the inclusion of transgender issues in law and policy represents the progression of legal equality for trans communities. Focusing on the intersection of immigration and trans rights, Josephson presents a careful and innovative examination of the processes by which the category of transgender is produced through and incorporated into the key areas of asylum law, marriage and immigration law, and immigration detention policies. Using mobility as a critical lens, On Transits and Transitions captures the insecurity and precarity created by U.S. immigration control and related processes of racialization to show how im/mobility conditions citizenship and national belonging for trans migrants in the United States.Trade Review"The first in depth study of U.S. transgender immigration policy, On Transits and Transitions deftly illuminates the U.S immigration policy in which transgender became a recognized asylum seeker category. By brilliantly exploding the myth that more visibility and recognition for marginalized transgender people means expanded justice and equity, Josephson teaches us that citizenship and national belonging are not 'equal opportunity,' but are instead subject to inequitable racial, national, and gender hierarchies that persist even as we might assume they are improving."— Aren Z. Aizura, author of Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment "Tristan Josephson critically examines how three very different policy regimes—asylum, immigration through marriage, and immigration detention—distill transgender migrants into the 'deserving' and everyone else. An indispensable contribution to the scholarship on trans migrants that exposes the limits of a politics of recognition."— Paisley Currah, author of Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender IdentityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Visibility and Immutability in Asylum Law and Procedure 2 Desiring the Nation: Transgender Trauma in Asylum Declarations 3 Trans Citizenship: Marriage, Immigration, and Neoliberal Recognition 4 Transfer Points: Trans Migrants and Immigration Detention Coda Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCelebrations of the “transgender tipping point” in the second decade of the twenty-first century occurred at the same time of heightened debates and anxieties about immigration in the United States. On Transits and Transitions explores what the increased visibility of trans people in the public sphere means for trans migrants and provides a counter-narrative to the dominant discourse that the inclusion of transgender issues in law and policy represents the progression of legal equality for trans communities. Focusing on the intersection of immigration and trans rights, Josephson presents a careful and innovative examination of the processes by which the category of transgender is produced through and incorporated into the key areas of asylum law, marriage and immigration law, and immigration detention policies. Using mobility as a critical lens, On Transits and Transitions captures the insecurity and precarity created by U.S. immigration control and related processes of racialization to show how im/mobility conditions citizenship and national belonging for trans migrants in the United States.Trade Review"The first in depth study of U.S. transgender immigration policy, On Transits and Transitions deftly illuminates the U.S immigration policy in which transgender became a recognized asylum seeker category. By brilliantly exploding the myth that more visibility and recognition for marginalized transgender people means expanded justice and equity, Josephson teaches us that citizenship and national belonging are not 'equal opportunity,' but are instead subject to inequitable racial, national, and gender hierarchies that persist even as we might assume they are improving." -- Aren Z. Aizura * author of Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment *"Tristan Josephson critically examines how three very different policy regimes—asylum, immigration through marriage, and immigration detention—distill transgender migrants into the 'deserving' and everyone else. An indispensable contribution to the scholarship on trans migrants that exposes the limits of a politics of recognition." -- Paisley Currah * author of Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Visibility and Immutability in Asylum Law and Procedure 2 Desiring the Nation: Transgender Trauma in Asylum Declarations 3 Trans Citizenship: Marriage, Immigration, and Neoliberal Recognition 4 Transfer Points: Trans Migrants and Immigration Detention Coda AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhen youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical and spiritual care when they need it. The care work that grandparents do for grandchildren allows labor migration and contributes to the overall well-being of the extended family. The book considers the efforts migrant workers make to build and buy houses and the ways those rooms and walls constrain social activities. It outlines the strategies elders employ to age in place, and the alternatives they face in local old folks’ homes. Based on ethnographic work done over a decade, Michele Gamburd shows how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.Trade Review"Linked Lives is an insightful and valuable book on the complex ties between migration, care, and aging. Michele Ruth Gamburd traces malleable lives and livelihoods that need to be recast in the context of shifting economies and social relations, confronting the risks and rewards associated with them. Her work will be an important resource for researchers, students, and readers in challenging times when care, migration, and social ties are being tested across the world."— Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, author of As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis "A deeply localized and richly depicted narrative of aging in Sri Lanka. Gamburd skillfully situates the processes of how families care for elder loved ones within the wide, global context of aging in the twenty-first century. As a result, Linked Lives’ novel insights about aging in Sri Lanka create a highly engaging and valuable case study, applicable to many similar places in the global south facing rapid population aging."— Benjamin Capistrant, associate professor, Smith CollegeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations 1 Introduction 2 Chaos Flower: The Meaning of Family 3 Weighing Financial Opportunities: Migration, Remittances, or Help from the Hand? 4 Exchanging Assets for Care: Pensions and the Transfer of Property 5 A Youngest Son Called “Hope”: Virilocal Ultimogeniture and the Ancestral Home 6 Health and Illness: Aging, Self, and Bodily Care 7 Shelter or Shame? Old Folks’ Homes 8 Rebirth: Buddhism, Almsgivings and the Transmigration of Souls 9 On Beginnings and Endings Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisWhen youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical and spiritual care when they need it. The care work that grandparents do for grandchildren allows labor migration and contributes to the overall well-being of the extended family. The book considers the efforts migrant workers make to build and buy houses and the ways those rooms and walls constrain social activities. It outlines the strategies elders employ to age in place, and the alternatives they face in local old folks’ homes. Based on ethnographic work done over a decade, Michele Gamburd shows how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.Trade Review"Linked Lives is an insightful and valuable book on the complex ties between migration, care, and aging. Michele Ruth Gamburd traces malleable lives and livelihoods that need to be recast in the context of shifting economies and social relations, confronting the risks and rewards associated with them. Her work will be an important resource for researchers, students, and readers in challenging times when care, migration, and social ties are being tested across the world." -- Kavita Sivaramakrishnan * author of As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis *"A deeply localized and richly depicted narrative of aging in Sri Lanka. Gamburd skillfully situates the processes of how families care for elder loved ones within the wide, global context of aging in the twenty-first century. As a result, Linked Lives’ novel insights about aging in Sri Lanka create a highly engaging and valuable case study, applicable to many similar places in the global south facing rapid population aging." -- Benjamin Capistrant * associate professor, Smith College *"Linked Lives is an insightful and valuable book on the complex ties between migration, care, and aging. Michele Ruth Gamburd traces malleable lives and livelihoods that need to be recast in the context of shifting economies and social relations, confronting the risks and rewards associated with them. Her work will be an important resource for researchers, students, and readers in challenging times when care, migration, and social ties are being tested across the world." -- Kavita Sivaramakrishnan * author of As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis *"A deeply localized and richly depicted narrative of aging in Sri Lanka. Gamburd skillfully situates the processes of how families care for elder loved ones within the wide, global context of aging in the twenty-first century. As a result, Linked Lives’ novel insights about aging in Sri Lanka create a highly engaging and valuable case study, applicable to many similar places in the global south facing rapid population aging." -- Benjamin Capistrant * associate professor, Smith College *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1 Introduction 2 Chaos Flower: The Meaning of Family 3 Weighing Financial Opportunities: Migration, Remittances, or Help from the Hand? 4 Exchanging Assets for Care: Pensions and the Transfer of Property 5 A Youngest Son Called “Hope”: Virilocal Ultimogeniture and the Ancestral Home 6 Health and Illness: Aging, Self, and Bodily Care 7 Shelter or Shame? Old Folks’ Homes 8 Rebirth: Buddhism, Almsgivings and the Transmigration of Souls 9 On Beginnings and Endings Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisPrecarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This collection brings mobility, precarity, and citizenship together in order to explore the points of contact and friction, and, thus, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens.The editors ask: What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens, such as undocumented migrants, guest workers, permanent residents, refugees, detainees, and stateless people? How is the concept of citizenship, based on assumptions of deservingness, legality, and productivity, challenged when people of various and competing statuses and differential citizenship practices interact with each other, revealing their co-constitutive connections? How is citizenship valued or revalued when labor and social precarity impact those who seemingly have formal rights and those who seemingly or effectively do not? This book interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, insider/outsider, entitled/unentitled, “legal”/“illegal,” and deserving/undeserving in order to explore the fluidity--that is, the dynamism and malleability--of the spectra of belonging. Trade Review"This judiciously selected compilation shines by threading the critical link of insecurity through spaces of belonging, labor, and migration across time and contexts. Through the lens of precarity, the insightful, accessible, brilliant essays in this collection expose the complexity and fragility of life at the heart of our troubled times. It breaks new ground and will be read widely." -- Cecilia Menjívar * co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises *"Precarity and Belonging is a marvelous and timely collection. The essays brilliantly explore how the increasing precarization of life impacts the social and physical mobility of both citizens and noncitizens, blurring the boundaries between them and thus making possible a politics of commonality." -- Jonathan Xavier Inda * author of Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward a Politics of Commonality: The Nexus of Mobility, Precarity, and (Non)citizenship CATHERINE S. RAMÍRE Z, JUAN POBLETE, SYLVANNA M. FALCÓN, STEVEN C. McKAY, AND FELICITY AMAYA SCHAEFFERPart I Mobility and Migration 1 More Equal Than Others: Managing the Boundaries of Citizenship BRIDGET ANDERSON 2 Refractions of the Nation: The Democratic Impacts of “Chain Migration” ADRIÁN FÉLIX 3 Racialization of Central Americans in the United States LEISY J. ABREGO AND ALEJANDRO VILLALPANDO 4 The Waste of Globalization’s Party ALEJANDRO GRIMSON 5 Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Mobilities on the Tohono O’odham Reservation FELICITY AMAYA SCHAEFFER 6 A State-to-Come: Tibetan Refugee-Citizenship and the Nation in Exile TSERING WANGMO DHOMPAPart II Labor and Precarity 7 Apartheid, Migrant Labor, and Precarity in Comparative Perspective MARCEL PARET 8 Labor Precarity, Immigration, and the Challenges of Accessing Worker Rights: Evidence from California SHANNON GLEESON 9 Negotiating Indenture: Migrant Domestic Work and Temporary Labor Migration in Singapore RHACEL SAL A ZAR PARREÑAS AND KRITTIYA KANTACHOTE 10 Pocketed Proletarianization: Why There Is No Labor Politics in the “World’s Factory” BIAO XIANG 11 The Urban Exclusion of Internally Displaced Farmers in Medellín, Colombia CLAUDIA MARIA LÓPEZPart III Belonging and (Non)citizenship 12 Exclusionary Inclusion: Applying for Legal Status in the United States SUSAN BIBLER COUTIN AND VÉRONIQUE FORTIN 13 Formal and Informal Citizenships: The Spectrum of Practices and Statuses in Latin America and the United States JUAN POBLTE 14 Denizenship 227 NICHOLAS DE GENOVA 15 Black No More: Black Denizenship and the Struggle for the Future CATHERINE S. RAMÍREZ 16 Imperial Citizenship: Marshall Islanders and the Compact of Free Association EMILY MITCHELL-EATON Afterword: The Politics of Precarity and Noncitizenship under Global Capitalism TANYA GOLASH-BOZA Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary collection investigates the ways in which marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny, and the site of sustained political interventions in several states around the world. Covering cases as varied as the United States, Canada, Japan, Iran, France, Belgium or the Netherlands, among others, contributors reveal how marriage and partner migration have become battlegrounds for political participation, control, and exclusion. Which forms of attachments (towards the family, the nation, or specific individuals) have become framed as risks to be managed? How do such preoccupations translate into policies? With what consequences for those affected by them, in terms of rights and access to citizenship? The book answers these questions by analyzing the interplay between issues of security, citizenship and rights from the perspectives of migrants and policymakers, but also from actors who negotiate encounters with the state, such as lawyers, non-governmental organizations, and translators. Trade Review"Seldom have I been so excited by an edited collection! This stimulating volume offers diverse disciplinary and geographical approaches to marriage and partner migration – increasingly recognized as a crucial aspect of international mobility. Troubling the binaries which often dog the subject - legal vs emotional, love vs interest, state vs intimacy and migrant vs citizen – Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration offers both an exciting and wide-ranging introduction for newcomers to this fascinating field, and fresh perspectives for those of us already hooked." -- Katharine Charsley * author of Transnational Pakistani Connections: Marrying 'Back Home' *"This multidisciplinary gem explores the emotional intimacies and legal intricacies of citizenship in today’s fraught context of ‘family’ migration politics. Doing so reveals the structural centrality of state-sanctioned marriage for reproducing – through eurocentric paradigms of love, citizenship and resource distribution – crises of sexual, racial and economic inequality. Not what most expect, and well worth a read." -- V. Spike Peterson * co-author of Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction: Thinking in Constellations: Marriage and Partner Migration in Relation to Security, Citizenship, and Rights ANNE-MARIE D’AOUST PART ONE Policing Rights and Belonging: Histories and Legacies of Marriage Migration Management 1 The Odd Couple: Gender, Securitization, Europeanization, and Marriages of Convenience in Dutch Family Migration Policies (1930–2020) BETTY DE HART 2 “A Necessary Evil”? The Problematization of Family Migration in French Parliamentary Debates on Family Migration, 1974–1993 SASKIA BONJOUR AND MASSILIA OURABAH 3 “All the Time, Hard Time”: Narrative, Agency, and History in the Sinse Taryeong of Korean Marriage Migrants JI-YEON YUH PART TWO Intersectional Effects of Contemporary Marriage and Partner Migration Management: Stratification of Rights 4 What Do States Regulate When They Regulate Spousal Migration? A Study of France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Denmark HELENA WRAY 5 “I’m Not a Bad Guy, I Swear”: Analyzing Emotion Work and Negotiations of Criminality and Masculinity in Vietnamese-Canadian Men’s Participation in “Fake Wedding” Arrangements GRACE K. TRAN 6 Moral Economies of Family Reunification in the Trump Era: Translating Natural Affiliation, Autonomy, and Stability Arguments into Constitutional Rights KERRY ABRAMS AND DANIEL PHAM PART THREE Navigating the Security State: Couples and State Bureaucracies 7 Negotiating Trust and Suspicion: Lawyers as Actors in the Moral Political Economy of Marriage Migration Management in Canada ANNE-MARIE D’AOUST 8 Intimacy Brokers: The Fragile Boundaries of Activism for Heterosexual and Same-Sex Binational Couples in France 171 LAURA ODASSO AND MANUELA SALCEDO ROBLEDO 9 He Said, She Said: The Complexity of Oral Relationship Narratives as Written Factual Evidence in Belgian Marriage Fraud Investigations MIEKE VANDENBROUCKE PART FOUR Challenging Neoliberal Affective Regimes: Care, Work, and Economy 10 “I Don’t Even Know Where My Heart Is Anymore”: Migrant Bachelors and Immigrant Wives Lost in Time, Space, and Im/mobility PARDIS MAHDAVI 11 Intimate Citizens: Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Japan RHACEL SALAZAR PARREÑAS 12 Same-Sex Marriage against the Deportation State EITHNE LUIBHÉID 13 Epilogue: Love Triangle: Nation, Spouse, Citizen AUDREY MACKLIN Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders, Norma Fuentes-Mayorga compares the immigration and integration experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in New York City, a traditional destination for Dominicans but a relatively new one for Mexicans. Her book documents the significance of women-led migration within an increasingly racialized context and underscores the contributions women make to their communities of origin and of settlement. Fuentes-Mayorga’s research is timely, especially against the backdrop of policy debates about the future of family reunification laws and the unprecedented immigration of women and minors from Latin America, many of whom seek human rights protection or to reunite with families in the US. From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders provides a compelling look at the suffering of migrant mothers and the mourning of family separation, but also at the agency and contributions that women make with their imported human capital and remittances to the receiving and sending community. Ultimately the book contributes further understanding to the heterogeneity of Latin American immigration and highlights the social mobility of Afro-Caribbean and indigenous migrant women in New York. Trade Review“Like the best ethnographies, this is a wonderful read, but also deeply informative. The scholarship is outstanding.” -- Miguel Centeno * Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University *"This book is a powerful analysis of immigrant women's experience of oppression and resistance. The author interrogates how color, class, and gender matter when investigating the contours and margins of Latinidad against the backdrop of structural changes in the labor market." -- Nancy López * co-editor of Mapping Race (Rutgers University Press) *Table of Contents Prologue 1 Introduction 2 The Migration of Women and Race: A Typology 3 The New Spaces and Faces of Immigrant Neighborhoods in New York City 4 “Unos Duermen de Noche y Otros de Día”: The Living Arrangements of Undocumented Families 5 An Intersectional View at Social Mobility, Race, and Migration 6 “¡Y Ellos Pensaban que Yo Era Blanca!” Racial Capital and Ambiguous Identities Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThrough a sociological analysis of Hmong former refugees’ grassroots movements in the United States between the 1990s and 2000s, Immigrant Agency shows how Hmong, despite being one of America’s most economically impoverished ethnic groups, were able to make sustained claims on and have their interests represented in public policies. The author, Yang Sao Xiong argues that the key to understanding how immigrants incorporate themselves politically is to understand how they mobilize collective action and make choices in circumstances far from racially neutral. Immigrant groups, in response to political threats or opportunities or both, mobilize collective action and make strategic choices about how to position themselves vis-à-vis other minority groups, how to construct group identities, and how to deploy various tactics in order to engage with the U.S. political system and influence policy. In response to immigrants’ collective claims, the racial state engages in racialization which undermines immigrants’ political standing and perpetuates their marginalization.Trade Review"Immigrant Agency provides new insights about the Hmong American experience and puts race at the center of its analysis to understand the complex ways in which the state constrains political incorporation and how refugees themselves have engaged in political action to shape public policy. Xiong's well-crafted and informative book changes the way in which we understand refugee populations and their political incorporation in the U.S." -- Dina Okamoto * author of Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries *"In Immigrant Agency, Xiong offers a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of immigrant collective action and political incorporation through the case of Hmong Americans. He sheds light on how a vulnerable group of refugees from Laos, in response to political threats or opportunities, strategically interacts with the state and other minority groups to effectively influence public policies. This is an important contribution to the fields of migration studies, ethnic politics and Asian American studies." -- Min Zhou * Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA *"Immigrant Agency provides new insights about the Hmong American experience and puts race at the center of its analysis to understand the complex ways in which the state constrains political incorporation and how refugees themselves have engaged in political action to shape public policy. Xiong's well-crafted and informative book changes the way in which we understand refugee populations and their political incorporation in the U.S." -- Dina Okamoto * author of Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries *"In Immigrant Agency, Xiong offers a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of immigrant collective action and political incorporation through the case of Hmong Americans. He sheds light on how a vulnerable group of refugees from Laos, in response to political threats or opportunities, strategically interacts with the state and other minority groups to effectively influence public policies. This is an important contribution to the fields of migration studies, ethnic politics and Asian American studies." -- Min Zhou * Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA *Table of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresList of MapsList of Abbreviations1 Immigrant Agency2 History and Contexts of Exit3 Campaign for Justice4 Battle for Naturalization5 Movement for Inclusion6 Racialized Political Incorporation and Immigrant RightsAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen the first wave of post-1965 Korean immigrants arrived in the New York-New Jersey area in the early 1970s, they were reliant on retail and service businesses in the minority neighborhoods where they were. This caused ongoing conflicts with customers in black neighborhoods of New York City, with white suppliers at Hunts Point Produce Market, and with city government agencies that regulated small business activities. In addition, because of the times, Korean immigrants had very little contact with their homeland. Korean immigrants in the area were highly segregated from both the mainstream New York society and South Korea. However, after the 1990 Immigration Act, Korean immigrants with professional and managerial backgrounds have found occupations in the mainstream economy. Korean community leaders also engaged in active political campaigns to get Korean candidates elected as city council members and higher levels of legislative positions in the area. The Korean community's integration into mainstream society also increasingly developed stronger transnational ties to their homeland and spurred the inclusion of "everyday Korean life" in the NY-NJ area.Transnational Cultural Flow from Home examines New York Korean immigrants’ collective efforts to preserve their cultural traditions and cultural practices and their efforts to transmit and promote them to New Yorkers by focusing on the Korean cultural elements such as language, foods, cultural festivals, and traditional and contemporary performing arts. This publication was supported by the 2022 Korean Studies Grant Program of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2022-P-009). Trade Review"Full of rich and fascinating material on the Korean community in the New York area, this valuable book shows that, at the same time as Korean immigrants have become increasingly incorporated into American society, they also seek to preserve and promote a wide range of homeland cultural practices and traditions." -- Nancy Foner * author of One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America *"In this innovative and rigorous investigation of Koreans’ engagement with transnational cultural linkages to their homeland, Pyong Gap Min finds that migrants’ participation in activities that promote Korean ethnic culture facilitates both their assimilation to host country activities and their involvement in transnational cultural linkages embedded in the country of origin. This analysis significantly advances our understanding of Korean immigrants’ adaptation to the US while providing a compelling challenge to classical theories of immigrant assimilation more generally." -- Steven J. Gold * author of The Israeli Diaspora *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 The Korean Community in Greater New York 3 Transnational Cultural Events Held in the Korean Community in 2001 and 2014 4 Korean-Language Schools 5 The Movement to Promote Korean to American Schools 6 Korean Food 7 Korean Cultural Festivals and Parades 8 Korean Traditional Performing Arts 9 Korean Contemporary Music and Dance Performances 10 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisRadical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration re-imagines the ethical relationship of host societies towards newcomers by applying the concept of hospitality to two specific realms that impact the lives of immigrants in the United States: policy and media. The book calls attention to the moral responsibility of the host in welcoming a stranger. It sets the stage for the analysis with a historical background of the first host-guest diads of American hospitality, arguing that the early history of American hospitality was marked by the degeneration of the host-guest relationship into one of host-hostage, normalizing a racial discrimination that continues to plague immigration hospitality to this day. Author Nour Halabi presents a historical policy and media discourse analysis of immigration regulation and media coverage during three periods of US history: the 1880s and the Chinese Exclusion Act, the 1920s and the National Origins Act and the 2000s and the Muslim travel ban. In so doing, it demonstrates how U.S. immigration hospitality, from its peaks in the post-Independence period to its nadir in the Muslim travel ban, has fallen short of true hospitality in spite of the nation’s oft-touted identity as a “nation of immigrants.” At the same time, the book calls attention to how a discourse of hospitality, although fraught, may allow a radical reimagining of belonging and authority that unsettles settler-colonial assumptions of belonging and welcome a restorative outlook to immigration policy and its media coverage in society.Trade Review"An important book that focuses on a fundamental contradiction between the legal protection offered to immigrants to the USA through the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution on the one hand, and the anti-immigrant sentiment, which inflects public discourse and ever more restrictive immigration policies on the other. Writing from her first-hand experience of having to negotiate the immigration process for herself and her family, the author advocates her unique vantage point. She takes an historico-political perspective to explore shifting policies around immigration, both legislative (regulatory hospitality) and media-oriented (media hospitality), the extent to which immigrants are or are not ‘welcomed’ to the USA, and how different orientations contribute to how immigrants can ‘build’ a home in their adopted country. The methodology for data collection during the three sample periods is well-described and the rationale for the choice of periods is persuasive as is the volume of material analysed; the archival research is impressive. It is a significant and scholarly book which provides some important insights through its use of the ‘hospitality’ concept and its historical orientation." * Judges for the 2023 Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association Outstanding Book Award *"Nour Halabi masterfully tracks the representation of immigrants in American media and how it shapes popular perceptions about immigrants and policies on immigration. She brings attention to the silenced histories of immigration in the US context and invites us to make the connections between these silences and the current reality of these marginalized groups." -- Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed * Department of Entertainment & Media Studies, University of Georgia *"The media plays a key role in shaping immigration discourse in the United States. Nour Halabi’s excellent book, Radical Hospitality, sheds light on how contradictory ideas of hospitality and xenophobia can both exist through her analysis of immigration regulation and media coverage during key historical periods of U.S. history from the Chinese Exclusion Act to the Muslim travel ban." -- Nancy Yuen * author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism *Table of Contents1 The Case for Hospitality 2 Poisoned Beginnings: The Birth of the (Immigrant) Nation 3 The Move to Exclude: Chinese Exclusion Act (1880s) 4 The Rise of Nativism: National Origins Act (1920s) 5 The Shift to National Security: Patriot Act (2000s) 6 Conclusion: The Future of American Hospitality Appendix A: Note on Reflexivity and Methods Appendix B: Regulatory Documents Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisBetween Care and Criminality examines social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, Australia. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of the effort to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law that criminalized the practice. Disproportionately targeted toward Muslim migrant communities, prevention efforts were tasked with making the family relations and marital practices of migrants objects of policy knowledge in the name of care and community empowerment. Through tracing the everyday ways that direct service providers, police, and advocates learned to identify imminent marriages and at-risk individuals, this book reveals how the domain of social welfare becomes the new frontier where the settler colonial state judges good citizenship. In doing so, it invites social welfare to reflect on how migrant conceptions of familial care, personhood, and mutual obligation become structured by the violence of displacement, borders, and conditional citizenship.Trade Review"This exquisitely nuanced ethnography takes anti-carceral feminism to new heights! In tracing how 'coercive violence' amongst migrant families in Australia comes to be defined and policed, Zeweri demonstrates how Muslim women are still being used to justify anti-immigrant policies, whether they are framed as victim or threat. Most importantly, she shows that intimate forms of violence cannot be understood outside the violence of war, displacement and detention." -- Miriam Ticktin * author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France *"Between Care and Criminality offers unique insights into how social policies are lived on the ground by frontline workers, community leaders, and the young people who they target. The book resists the static portrayals of forced marriage in providing empirical examples of families who negotiate tensions surrounding marriage decisions within the context of family dynamics." -- Reva Jaffe-Walter * author of Coercive Concern: Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth *"Between Care and Community, a well-documented, well researched analysis of forced marriage prevention policy, both informs and unsettles. Helena Zeweri makes a real contribution to studies on the anthropology of marriage and biopolitics of intimacy, and poses important questions concerning first generation migrant women and notions of family, culture, and the domestic." -- Frances Julia Riemer * author of Working at the Margins: Moving Off Welfare in America *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction: An Emergent Regime of Truth Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Forced Marriage Prevention Chapter 2: The Threat of Suffering: Configuring Victimhood in Forced Marriage Scenario Planning Chapter 3: Reluctant Disclosure: Epistemic Doubt and Ethical Dilemmas in Prevention Work Chapter 4: Phantom Figures: The Erasures of Biopolitical Narratives Chapter 5: Beyond Criminality: Narratives of Familial Duress in Times of Displacement Conclusion: Reflections on the Coercive State Acknowledgements Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWays of Belonging examines the experiences of undocumented young people who are excluded from K–12 schools in Canada and are rendered invisible to the education system. Canadian law doesn’t mention the existence of undocumented children, and thus their access to education rests on discretionary practices and is often denied altogether. This book brings the stories of undocumented young people vividly alive, putting them into conversation with the perspectives of the different actors in schools and courts who fail to include these young people. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Francesca Meloni shows how ambivalence shapes the lives of young people who are caught between the desire to belong and the impossibility of fully belonging. Meloni pays close attention to these young people’s struggles and hopes, showing us what it means to belong and to endure in contexts of social exclusion. Ways of Belonging reveals the opacities and failures of a system that excludes children from education and puts their lives in invisibility mode. An interview with the author (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-views/book-interviews/items/interview-with-francesca-meloni-about-her-book-ways-of-belonging-undocumented-youth-in-the-shadow-of-illegality.html)Trade Review"Meloni's book usefully contributes to a growing literature that probes the nuances involved in processes of migrant 'illegalization.' By avoiding simplistic accounts of state oppression and victimization, she proposes a multidimensional framework for understanding how people who are 'vanished' may, nevertheless, generate affective strategies that enable layered ways of surviving and even flourishing."— Jacqueline Bhabha, author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age "Ways of Belonging examines what it means when young people reside in a place while not being of that place and how they carve out spaces of their own in the face of uncertainty and invisibility. Based on an impressive study, this remarkable book shines an important light on the nuances of contemporary migration and the policies that have produced ambiguous belonging. Theoretically insightful, rigorously researched, and compellingly argued, this is a must-read for scholars and policymakers alike." — Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America "Ways of Belonging provides sophisticated and empathic insights into how young people whose lives are shaped by legal liminality and an ambivalent national reception navigate these vulnerabilities while concurrently exerting agency. A must-read for developmentalists, educators, policymakers, human rights advocates, or, frankly, anyone with a social conscience."— Carola Suárez-Orozco, coeditor of Transitions: The Development of Children of ImmigrantsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Removable Children 2 Hidden Traces 3 Failing to Be Called 4 Getting Used to Here 5 Double Binds 6 Hopes and Departures Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWays of Belonging examines the experiences of undocumented young people who are excluded from K–12 schools in Canada and are rendered invisible to the education system. Canadian law doesn’t mention the existence of undocumented children, and thus their access to education rests on discretionary practices and is often denied altogether. This book brings the stories of undocumented young people vividly alive, putting them into conversation with the perspectives of the different actors in schools and courts who fail to include these young people. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Francesca Meloni shows how ambivalence shapes the lives of young people who are caught between the desire to belong and the impossibility of fully belonging. Meloni pays close attention to these young people’s struggles and hopes, showing us what it means to belong and to endure in contexts of social exclusion. Ways of Belonging reveals the opacities and failures of a system that excludes children from education and puts their lives in invisibility mode.An interview with the author (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-views/book-interviews/items/interview-with-francesca-meloni-about-her-book-ways-of-belonging-undocumented-youth-in-the-shadow-of-illegality.html)Trade Review"Ways of Belonging provides sophisticated and empathic insights into how young people whose lives are shaped by legal liminality and an ambivalent national reception navigate these vulnerabilities while concurrently exerting agency. A must-read for developmentalists, educators, policymakers, human rights advocates, or, frankly, anyone with a social conscience." -- Carola Suárez-Orozco * coeditor of Transitions: The Development of Children of Immigrants *"Meloni's book usefully contributes to a growing literature that probes the nuances involved in processes of migrant 'illegalization.' By avoiding simplistic accounts of state oppression and victimization, she proposes a multidimensional framework for understanding how people who are 'vanished' may, nevertheless, generate affective strategies that enable layered ways of surviving and even flourishing." -- Jacqueline Bhabha * author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age *"Ways of Belonging examines what it means when young people reside in a place while not being of that place and how they carve out spaces of their own in the face of uncertainty and invisibility. Based on an impressive study, this remarkable book shines an important light on the nuances of contemporary migration and the policies that have produced ambiguous belonging. Theoretically insightful, rigorously researched, and compellingly argued, this is a must-read for scholars and policymakers alike." -- Roberto G. Gonzales * author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America *Table of Contents Introduction 1 Removable Children 2 Hidden Traces 3 Failing to Be Called 4 Getting Used to Here 5 Double Binds 6 Hopes and Departures ConclusionAcknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the connections between migration and terrorism and extrapolates, with the help of current research and case studies, what the future may hold for both issues. Migration and Radicalization: Global Futures looks at how migrants and terrorists have both been treated as Others outside the body politic, how growing migrant flows borne of a rickety state system cause both natives and migrants to turn violent, and how terrorist radicalization and tensions between natives and migrants can be reduced. As he contemplates potential global futures in the light of migration and radicalization, Gabriel Rubin charts a course between contemporary migration and terrorism scholarship, exploring their interactions in a methodologically rigorous but theoretically bold investigation. Table of ContentsChapter One: The Great Migration and Possible Futures Chapter Two: Migration and Terrorism Chapter Three: Causes of Migration: The Trouble with Boxes Chapter Four: Possible Futures Chapter Five: Solutions to Migration, Solutions to Terrorism?

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an analysis of theoretical and empirical researches on the effects of remittances and brain drain on the development of less developed countries (LDCs). It analyzes the most recent global, regional and national data as well as the arguments for and against the emigration of highly skilled personnel and remittances, thereby highlighting policies aimed at optimizing the link between migration and development. The book examines in depth the arguments against "brain drain", namely the loss of skilled labor, wasted public investment in higher education, and reduced tax revenues. It also presents the arguments in favor, emphasizing on the transfer of scientific knowledge, the incentive effect of increased education spending, and participation in international networks. It addresses the central issue of emigration of medical personnel from developing countries and its consequences on the population.The book focuses on the effects of remittances on poverty and inequalities. They improve health conditions, raise education levels and empower women. Positive effects include the stabilizing function of remittances and the improvement of external accounts. Other effects are subject to conflicting assessments such as the reduction of labor supply and the "Dutch disease". The focus is on institutions who integrate economic, social and political incentives in order to establish remittances at the heart of development policies.The book provides a reference for students and research centers devoted to development economics, centers for international migration studies, and research units focusing on population, migration, and development.Table of ContentsChapter 1 MAJOR TRENDS IN INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION OVER THE LAST 25 YEARS PART I EMIGRATION OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED LABOR FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CHAPTER 2 INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION TRENDS OF HIGHLY SKILLED WORKERS CHAPTER 3 EMIGRATION OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL FROM THE PVD, OR THE "BRAIN   DRAIN". GOOD OR BAD FOR DEVELOPMENT? CHAPTER 4 EMIGRATION OF HEALTH PERSONNEL FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES PART II REMITTANCES TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CHAPTER 5 VOLUME OF REMITTANCE FLOWS AND PREVAILING TRENDS CHAPTER 6 THE DECISION TO REMIT: DETERMINANTS AND ACTORS CHAPTER 7 REMITTANCES AND HOUSEHOLD WELFARE CHAPTER 8 THE IMPACT OF REMITTANCES ON THE ECONOMY OF THE COUNTRIES OF EMIGRATION CHAPTER 9 REMITTANCES, AN INSTRUMENT OF DEVELOPMENT POLICY CONCLUSION

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Book SynopsisThis collected volume is based on the proceedings of a symposium held in 2018 at York University, Canada, which was held to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Israel. This symposium highlighted contemporary Jewish identity, Israel-Diaspora relations, and how Jewish life has been transformed in light of various types of antisemitism. The book considers the diasporic Jewish experiences through examining the intersections between various Jewish communities sociologically, historically, and geographically.The text covers world Jewry in general, and each of the diaspora and Israeli Jewries more specifically in the context of mutual responsibility, but also focuses on areas of tension concerning values and political matters. The challenges of antisemitism, racism, and nationalism are explored in terms of the relationship of the Jewish diasporas to their host countries. This text also covers antisemitism, which may take the form of traditional antisemitism or of the new antisemitism in the era of anti-Israel activity related to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. The latter movement is especially prevalent on university campuses and has an impact on students, faculty, and staff. This volume is unique in its international perspective in examining issues of Jewish identity, Israel-diaspora relations, and antisemitism and will appeal to students and researchers working in the field.Table of ContentsIsrael at 70 and World Jewry: One People or Two?.- Israel-Diaspora Relations in the 21st Century: Continuities and Discontinuities.- The Evolution of North American Jews’ Relations with Israel from Adolescence to Adulthood: The Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class of 1994-95 (5755).- The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Potential Impact on Jewish Young Adults’ Relationship to Israel and Jewish Identity.- Segmented and Transnational Identity Formation in the Israeli Diaspora.- Keeping the Flame Alive: The Formation of Transnational Identities among Jewish Emigrants from Israel.- Holocaust, Memory, Migration: The Burden of Catastrophe among Israelis in Germany.- The Faculty Assault on Academic Freedom (USA).- Antisemitism, Anti-Israelism, and Canada in Context.- Jewish Students’ Experiences in the Era of BDS: Exploring Jewish Lived Experience and the New Antisemitism on Canadian Campuses.- Is Anti-Israelism Antisemitism? Evidence from Great Britain.- The BDS Movement in Australia.- Epilogue: Summary, Discussion, and Looking Beyond.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe and Asia. The book addresses several categories of migrants including medical staff, farm labourers, construction workers, care and domestic workers and international students. It looks at border closures for non-citizens, disruption for temporary migrants as well as at special arrangements made for essential (migrant) workers such as doctors or nurses as well as farmworkers, ‘shipped’ to destination with special flights to make sure emergency wards are staffed, and harvests are picked up and the food processing chain continues to function. The book illustrates how the pandemic forces us to rethink notions like membership, citizenship, belonging, but also solidarity, human rights, community, essential services or ‘essential’ workers alongside an intersectional perspective including ethnicity, gender and race.Table of Contents​Part I. Pandemic Borders, Belonging, and Exclusion1 Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception: Migration and Membership During Pandemic Times Anna Triandafyllidou2 (In)Essential Bordering: Canada, COVID, and Mobility Audrey Macklin3 Territorial and Digital Borders and Migrant Vulnerability Under a Pandemic Crisis Petra Molnar4 Vulnerability and Resilience in the Covid-19 Crisis: Race, Gender, and Belonging Eileen Boris5 Sanctuary Cities and Covid-19: The Case of Canada Mireille Paquet, Noémie Benoit, Idil Atak, Meghan Joy, Graham Hudson, and John ShieldsPart II Pandemics and ‘Essential’ Migrants6 Migrant Care Labour, Covid-19, and the Long-Term Care Crisis: Achieving Solidarity for Care Providers and Recipients Lena Gahwi and Margaret Walton-Roberts7 Pandemic Shock Absorbers: Domestic Workers’ Activism at the Intersection of Immigrants’ and Workers’ Rights Anna Rosińska and Elizabeth Pellerito8 Essential Farmworkers and the Pandemic Crisis: Migrant Labour Conditions, and Legal and Political Responses in Italy and Spain Alessandra Corrado and Letizia Palumbo9 The Entangled Infrastructures of International Student Migration: Lessons from Covid-19 Parvati Raghuram and Gunjan Sondhi10 Voluntary and Forced Return Migration Under a Pandemic Crisis Zeynep Sahin Mencutek11 Return Migration from the Gulf Region to India Amidst COVID-19 S Irudaya Rajan and H. Arokkiaraj12 Internal Migration and the Covid-19 Pandemic in India S Irudaya Rajan and R. B. Bhagat

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Book SynopsisThis open access textbook provides an introduction to theories, concepts and methodological approaches concerning various facets of migration and migration-related diversities. It starts with an introduction to migration studies and continues with an introductory reading of migration drivers, migration infrastructures, migration flows, and several transversal topics such as gender and migration. It also covers politics, policies and governance as well as specific research methods. As an interactive guide, this book develops an innovative format that brings a connection with various online sources. This means that whereas the chapters bring together literature in a coherent way, they are also connected to IMISCOE's online interactive Migration Research Hub for further reading and for more empirical material on migration and diversity. As such, this textbook provides a very useful introductory reading for undergraduate and graduate students as well as for policymakers, policy advisors, and all those interested in studies on migration and migration-related diversities.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThe book provides a holistic review, presenting a multi-stakeholder, multi-disciplinary, international, and evidence-based approach to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in migration. The book brings together different views and multifaceted responses to ICT-based migration management, examining their overlap, conflict, and synergies. The book is a major addition to the field, tackling important debates concerning humanitarianism and securitization in the reception of migrants, as well as exploring the role of digital technology in aiding migrant integration. The authors explore contentious areas such as the use of new technologies deployed on borders for migration management and border security under the umbrella of smart border solutions including drones, AI algorithms, and face recognition, which are widely criticized for ignoring the fundamental human rights of migrants. The research presented will depart from the euphoric appraisals that technology has made things easier for migrants and those who assist them, to critically examine the bane and boon, benefits and afflictions, highlighting the barriers, as well as the solutions, including several under-researched aspects of digital surveillance and the digital divide.This edited volume has been developed by the MIICT project, funded under the EU Horizon 2020 Action and Innovation programme, under grant agreement No 822380. Provides a positive approach to the integration of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees using Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions Offers a strategic approach to providing digital services for migrants at an EU, national and local level Bridges the gap between academia and front-line practitioners’ work by providing theoretical, policy, ethical, and methodological recommendations Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part 1 – The relevance of ICTs in migration.- Minority rights.- Migration knowledge production and the shaping of perceptions of Europe.- Integrate services to integrate migrants.- Part 2 – Reviewing perspectives and experiences.- The Challenges and opportunities of ICT along the Road to Europe.- From a digital breach to a usage and positioning gap.- Developing migration focused ICT tools with marginalised groups.- ICTs and Migration.- The Challenges of co-design and co-creation for migrant integration.- Easing migrants’ access to public services.- Part 3 – Developing migration-related ICTs.- Micado Architecture.- The challenges of co-creation processes on developing ICT solutions for migrant inclusion.- Experiences from the development of ICT tools for and with migrants through NADINE platform.- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in designing AI-based solutions for migrants integration: REBUILD project.- Skill matching for migrant guidance based on AI tools.- Personalised interaction or how we can improve migrants’ experience when using a digital companion through a mobile app.- Immerse Architecture.- Authoring tools for young migrants.- Part 4 – Legal, ethical and societal considerations.- Assessing the socio-economic, technological and political impact of ICT tools for migrant integration.- Protecting Migrants’ Data.- Shaping ICT policies for integrative and inclusive digital services.- Legal and Ethical Frameworks Applicable to Social Media Analytics in the Context of Migration.- The Legal Framework Applicable to the Design and Use of ICTs in Migrants’ Integration.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. Although references to social networks are common in discussions of migration, simplified ideas of co-ethnic networks often obscure the reality, for example confounding ties with co-ethnics and ‘strong ties’. This open access book addresses key questions about the role of networks in migration contexts, particularly in relation to how migrants and their descendants, access the labour market and develop their employment trajectories over time. Rather than adopting a narrow essentializing ethnic lens, the research presented in this book explores intersectional identities of class, generation and gender. By focusing on the kinds of capital circulating between ties, including the dark side of social capital, the book offers insights into power dynamics and the potentially exclusionary dimension of networks. Taking a long term view, across generations, the research in this book shows how migrants and their descendants mobilize resources to tackle discrimination and enhance their position within particular labour markets. Drawing on robust quantitative and rich qualitative data, this book provides a primary source to students, scholars and policy-makers focusing on issues of migration, social networks, social mobility as well as labour market inequalities.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Revisiting Networks: setting the conceptual and methodological scene.- Chapter 2. The direct and indirect role of migrants’ networks in accessing diverse labour market sectors: an analysis of the weak/ strong ties continuum.- Chapter 3. Are “weak ties” really weak? Social capital reliance among second generation Turkish lawyers in Paris.- Chapter 4. Context matters: the varying roles of social ties for professional careers of immigrants’ descendants.- Chapter 5. Access to employment of the second generations in France: unequal role of family and personal networks by Origins and Gender.- Chapter 6. Social capital, immigrants and their descendants - the case of Sweden.- Chapter 7.Activating Social Capital: Steep mobility of descendants of immigrants at the top of the corporate business sector.- Chapter 8. Reciprocity within Migrant Networks: The Role of Social Support for Employment.- Chapter 9. Networks in Migration Processes.- Chapter 10. Early-career academics’ transnational moves: The gendered role of vertical social ties in obtaining academic positions abroad.- Chapter 11: Epilogue. Where Did Weak and Strong Ties Go Wrong?.

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Book SynopsisThis book critically examines the association between the notions of crisis and migration in the context of Latin America, and from three different perspectives: first, it analyzes the discourses based on the concept of crisis employed by the media, academic researchers, civil society organizations and the state to frame human mobility issues; second, it investigates migrants’ agency under conditions of crisis; and third, it discusses whether “migration crisis” is a conjunctural or structural phenomenon in the region. Chapters in this contributed volume investigate the crisis-migration nexus in seven Latin American countries – Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua and Uruguay – by discussing different human mobility phenomena, such as the migrant caravans that departed from Central America bound to Mexico and the United States; the Nicaraguan exodus caused by the political crisis in the country; the perception of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia’s media; the presence of Caribbean migrants in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Crisis and Migration: Critical Perspectives from Latin America will be of interest to a wide range of social scientists interested in migration studies, as well as to policy makers and civil society organizations. This book offers a fresh look at the way we conceive, represent, and think about the relationship between crisis and human mobility. As the volume’s contributions show, a critical examination of the notion of crisis is a first step towards a more comprehensive understanding of the plight of present-day migrants worldwide.Table of ContentsAt the Crisis-Migration Crossroads: Scope and Limits Part I Venezuelan Migration and Crime in Colombia: Migrant Stigmatization in the Media and its Connection to a Crisis of (Failed) Integration of Said Migrants “Migration Crisis” and Migrant Caravans (October 2018-January 2019) in Mexico: An Analysis from Contemporary Academic Publications Emerging from Crisis: Transformations in Uruguayan Migration Management of Venezuelan Migration Part II The COVID 19 Pandemic as Crisis: Immobility of Workers in Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina Parting and Keep on Existing. Crisis and Reproduction of the Existence of Migrants and their Collectives in the City of Rosario Mobility and Crisis in Nicaragua. Narratives and Subjectivities of Forced Migration Part III Migration Crisis in Brazil and Treatment of Venezuelan Migrants Nicaraguans in Costa Rica: Continued Crisis as Context in Nicaragua and as Breakdown of Normality in Costa Rica Violent Contexts and “Crisis” in Mexico-Central America and Colombia-Venezuela Cross-border Dynamics, 2010-2020

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from a diverse array of international scholars, this edited volume offers a renewed understanding of gender-based violence (GBV) by examining its social and political dimensions in migration contexts. This book engages micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis by foregrounding a conceptualization of GBV that addresses both its interpersonal and structural causes. Chapters explore how GBV frameworks and migration management intersect, bringing to the forefront the specific inequalities these intersections produce for migrant women. Drawing upon several disciplines, the authors engage in co-writing a critical engagement which proposes an original understanding of how the concepts of intersectionality, vulnerability and precarity speak to each other from a feminist perspective. This volume will be of interest to scholars/researchers and policymakers in Gender Studies, Migration and Refugee Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Trauma Studies, Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies.Table of ContentsPart I Against Essentialism and Beyond Abstract Universalism: Theorising Gender-Based Violence in Migration Contexts 1 Thinking about Gender and Violence in Migration: An Introduction 2 Vulnerability, Precarity and Intersectionality: A Critical Review of Three Key Concepts for Understanding Gender-Based Violence in Migration Contexts Part II Policy Intersections: Combating Gender-Based Violence and Managing Migration3 Countering ‘Their’ Violence: Framing Gendered Violence Against Women Migrants in Austria4 The Gender of Canadian Legal and Policy Gender-Based Violence and Immigration Frameworks 5 Gender-based Violence as a ‘Consequence of Migration’: How Culturalist Framings of GBV Ignore Structural Violence Against Migrant Women in France 6 Crimmigration and Gender-Based Violence Against Women Asylum Seekers in Israel Part III Understanding Policy Implications, Foregrounding Women’s Voices 7 Vulnerability and Resiliency: Immigrant Women, Social Networks and Family Violence 8 Between the Law and a Hard Place—A Victim of Trafficking Meets the Norwegian Migration Regime 9 Gender-Based Violence as a Continuum in the Lives of Women Seeking Asylum: From Resistance to Patriarchy to Patterns of Institutional Violence in France10 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis open access regional reader examines emerging issues around new migration patterns in South America and their relationship with changing migration policies over the last twenty years. The first part of the book looks at conceptual discussions on mixed and survival migration, the link between migration and extractivism, and the specific character of transit migration. A second part examines how these debates have led to transformations in state policies, and the shift in government policies from a human rights-based approach towards more restrictive ones. Finally, the third section revisits the relationship between racism, xenophobia and colonialism in contemporary migrations. As such this book makes an interesting read to students, academics, policy makers and all those working in the field.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Emergent Issues of South American Migrations Gioconda Herrera and Carmen Gomez Part I Emerging Mobilities and Old Exclusions2 Extractive Economy and Mobilities? The Case of Large Copper Mining in the Antofagasta Region Carolina Stefoni, Fernanda Stang, and Pablo Rojas3 Between Hostility and Solidarity: The Production of the Andean Region–Southern Cone Transit Migratory Corridor Soledad Álvarez Velasco4 State and “Mixed Migrations”. Migration Policies towards Haitians, Colombians and Venezuelans in Ecuador Carmen Gómez and Gioconda HerreraPart II Law and Migration Policies: From Human Rights to Border Closures 5 A Decade of Growth in Migration in Brazil (2010–2020) and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Tânia Tonhati, Leonardo Cavalcanti, and Antônio Tadeu de Oliveira6 Contradictions and Shifts in Discourse and Application of the Refugee System in a Mixed-Migration Context: The Ecuadorian Case 164Jennifer Moya, Consuelo Sánchez Bautista, and Jeffrey D. Pugh7 The Legality of (Im)mobilityMigration, Coyoterismo, and Indigenous Justice in Southern Ecuador. Ulla D. Berg and Lucía Pérez MartínezPart III Racism and Xenophobia and Struggles over Migrant’s Rights8 Institutional and social xenophobia towards Venezuelan migrants in the context of a racialized country: the case of Peru Cécile Blouin and Cristina María Zamora Gómez9 When Migrant Pain Does Not Deserve Attention: Institutional Racism in Chile’s Public Health System María Emilia Tijoux Merino and Constanza Ambiado Cortés10 Inequalities and The Social Process of Categorizing: Migrant Work in Argentina’s Garment Industry Sergio Caggiano

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the ways in which the Venezuelan immigrant community is making an impact on the social and economic dynamic of small economies. This publication addresses some of the main economic development conversations on trade, labor, and fiscal implications of immigration. This book attempts to collate and unpack some of the relevant theoretical frameworks which provide a basis for policymakers and other key decision-makers. In this regard, the links between immigration and economic development is discussed with a focus on Trinidad and Tobago as a representative case within the Caribbean community.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Venezuelan Migration Crisis: Evolution and Prospects.- Chapter 2: Venezuelan Migrants: A Comparative Look at T&T and Other Latin American and Caribbean Countries.- Chapter 3: Labour Market Impact of Immigration.- Chapter 4: Trade Impact of Immigration.- Chapter 5: Fiscal impact of immigration.- Chapter 6: A Regional, Hemispheric or Global Approach to the Venezuelan Immigrant Crisis?.- Chapter 7: Establish a Zone of Peace, Prosperity and Sustainable Development in the Americas.

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Book SynopsisThrough an inter-subjective lens, this open access book investigates the initial labour market integration experiences of these migrants, refugees or asylum seekers, who are characterised by different biographies and migration/asylum trajectories. The book gives voice to the migrants and seeks to highlight their own experiences and understandings of the labour market integration process, in the first years of immigration. It adopts a critical, qualitative perspective but does not remain ethnographic. The book rather refers the migrants’ own voice and experience to their own expert knowledge of the policy and socio-economic context that is navigated. Each chapter brings into dialogue the migrant’s intersubjective experiences with the relevant policies and practices, as well as with the relevant stakeholders, whether local government, national services, civil society or migrant organisations. The book concludes with relevant critical insights as to how labour market integration is lived on the ground and on what migrants ‘do’ with labour market policies rather than on what labour market policies ‘do’ to or for migrants.Trade Review“Immigrant and Asylum Seekers Labour Market Integration upon Arrival: NowHereLand is a must read book that allows a prismatic point of view onto the lives of migrants, their bodies, trajectories, and personal journeys … .” (Angela Cacciarru, EuropeNow, europenowjournal.org, February, 2023)Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on how the public engage with, make sense of, and discursively evaluate news media constructions of people from asylum seeking backgrounds. As a case study, the author discusses her recent research combining Critical Discourse Analysis with a cultural studies Audience Reception framework to examine the perspectives of 24 Western Australians who took part in semi-structured interviews. During their interviews, participants were asked open-ended questions about: their general views on people seeking asylum, including Australia’s policy responses, their media engagement habits and preferences, and their views concerning how the Australian media represents people seeking asylum. The author compares and contrasts this research with broader interdisciplinary discussion, and the book will therefore appeal to students and scholars of migration, political communication, sociology, audience reception, critical media studies and sociolinguistics.Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Asylum seekers in the Australian news media: What do we know so far?Chapter 3: Concepts, methods, and ethical considerationsChapter 4: 'Open the floodgates': Metaphor as a tool for legitimising Australia's 'invasion' panicChapter 5: 'Nation prepares for war': The discursive securitisation of asylum seekersChapter 6: 'Fight against illegals': Constructing asylum seekers through frames of criminality and illegitimacyChapter 7: 'Taxpayers foot the bill': Scapegoating asylum seekers through 'economic migrants' and 'burden' narratives.Chapter 8: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book is the first monograph that brings together insights from comparative politics, political sociology, and migration studies to introduce the current state of knowledge on external voting and transnational politics. Drawing on new data gathered within the DIASPOlitic project, which created a comparative dataset of external voting results for 6 countries of origin and 17 countries of residence as well as an extensive qualitative dataset of 80 in-depth interviews with four groups of migrants, this book not only illustrates theoretical problems with empirical material, but also provides answers to previously unaddressed questions. The empirical material focuses on the European context. The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (2004-2007) triggered a westward wave of migration from Central and Eastern European countries which faced the expansion of existing émigré communities and the emergence of new ones. As this process coincided with the expansion of migrant voting rights, the result is a large set of populous diaspora communities which can potentially have a significant impact on country electoral politics, making the study of external voting highly relevant. This book’s introduction takes stock of current research on transnational politics and external voting, presenting core puzzles. The following chapter introduces the context of intra-European migration and the political situation in Central-Eastern European sending countries. The next two sections address the empirical puzzles, drawing on new quantitative and qualitative. The conclusion takes stock of the evidence gathered, discusses the normative problem of non-resident voters enfranchisement, connects external voting to the broader debate on political remittances and finally, maps the terrain ahead for future research. This concise, empirically grounded introduction to external voting is critical reading in structuring the debate around migration and shaping research agendas for the future.Table of Contents1 Introduction.Defining External Voting. Expansion of Emigrant Franchise. External Voting Landscape: Countries, Elections, Criteria, and Modalities. What Do We Know About External Voting? Migration Studies Meet Political Science. References. 2 Emigration and Transnational Political Practices in Central and Eastern Europe After EU Enlargement.-04–2007. East-West Migration in Europe: Political Context and Consequences. The DIASPOlitic Project, Data Gathering, and Methods. Data Gathering and Method: Quantitative Analysis of External Voting Results. Data Gathering and Method: Qualitative Study of Migrant Voting. References. 3 External Voting Patterns: CEE Migrants in Western Europe. The Political Contexts of the Countries of Origin. Bulgaria. Czechia. Latvia. Lithuania. Poland. Romania. Data and Methods. Results of the Analysis. Turnout Patterns and Change Over Time. Overall Disparity. Ideological Disparity. References. 4 Migrant Perspectives on External Voting. Making Sense of the Reasons Why Migrants Vote “Back Home”. Motivations for Voting in Country-of-Origin Elections. The Practical Possibility of Casting the Vote in Elections. Interacting Scales of Motivation for External Voting. Emigration, External Voting, and Political Engagement. Transnational Lifeworlds and Politics. How Does the Experience of Migration Influence Political Views?. Concluding Discussion. References. 5 Conclusions. What Have We Learned About External Voting? Discussion of Findings. Differences Between Diaspora Voting and “Homeland” Results. Ideological Differences. What Do We Know About Turnout?. Why Do Migrants Vote, or Not?. Legitimacy and Normative Considerations Surrounding External Voting. Do Migrants Desire to Be “Agents of Change”?. Research Frontiers and Future Knowledge Needs. Three Areas for Further Research: Empirical Knowledge Needs. Three Areas for Further Research: Normative Dimension. References.

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Book SynopsisThe Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Migration provides a wide survey of theatre and performance practices related to the experience of global movements, both in historical and contemporary contexts. Given the largest number of people ever (over one hundred million) suffering from forced displacement today, much of the book centres around the topic of refuge and exile and the role of theatre in addressing these issues. The book is structured in six sections, the first of which is dedicated to the major theoretical concepts related to the field of theatre and migration including exile, refuge, displacement, asylum seeking, colonialism, human rights, globalization, and nomadism. The subsequent sections are devoted to several dozen case studies across various geographies and time periods that highlight, describe and analyse different theatre practices related to migration. The volume serves as a prestigious reference work to help theatre practitioners, students, scholars, and educators navigate the complex field of theatre and migration. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Theatre and Migration: Defining the Field.- Section One: Theatre and Migration: Themes and Concepts. Chapter 2: The Eternal Immigrant and the Aesthetics of Solidarity.Chapter 3: ‘A Real State of Exception’: Walter Benjamin and the Paradox of Theatrical Representation.Chapter 4: Theatre as Refrain: Representations of Departure from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto.Chapter 5: Refugees and the Right to Have Rights.Chapter 6: Postmigrant Theatre and its Impact on Contemporary German Theatre.Chapter 7: Interculturalism and Migration in Performance: From Distant Otherness to the Precarity of Proximity. Chapter 8: Cosmopolitanism: The Troublesome Offset of Global Migration.-Chapter 9: Indigenous Migrations: Performance, Urbanization and Survivance in Native North America.Chapter 10: Migratory Blackness in Leave Taking and Elmina’s Kitchen.Chapter 11: ‘What needs to happen so we may remain at home?’: Climate Migration and Performance.Chapter 12: Theatre’s Digital Migration, by Matthew Causey.- Section Two: Early Representations of Migration.Chapter 13: Theatre and Migration in Gilgamesh.Chapter 14: Migration and Ancient Indian Theatre.Chapter 15: Fated Arrivals: Greek Tragedy and Migration.Chapter 16: Migration in Greek and Roman Comedy.Chapter 17: Migrating Souls and Witnessing Travellers in the Dramaturgy of Nō Theatre.Chapter 18: The Things She Carried: The Vertical Migrations of Lady Rokujō in Japanese Theatre.Chapter 19: The Stranger’s Case: Exile in Shakespeare.Chapter 20: The ‘English Comedy’ in Early Modern Europe: Migration, Emigration, Integration.Chapter 21: Migrations and Cultural Navigations on Early-Modern Italian Stages.- Section Three: Migration and Nationalism.Chapter 22: Immigration and Family Life on the Early Twentieth-Century Argentine Stage.Chapter 23: Sonless Mothers and Motherless Sons, or How Has Polishness Haunted Polish Theatre Artists in Exile?.Chapter 24: All Our Migrants: Place and Displacement on the Israeli Stage.Chapter 25: Shylock is Me: Aryeh Elias as an Immigrant Jewish-Iraqi Actor in the Israeli Theatre.Chapter 26: Emerging, Staying or Leaving: ‘Immigrant’ Theatre in Canada.Chapter 27: Migrant Artists and Precarious Labour in Contemporary Russian Theatre.Chapter 28: Chicano Theatre and (Im)migration: La víctima.Chapter 29: Staging War at the Home Depot: Yoshua Okón’s Octopus and the Shadow Economy of Migrant Labour.Chapter 30: From Emigrant to Migrant Nation: Reckoning with Irish Historical Duty.Chapter 31: Dwelling in Multiple Languages: The Impossible Journeys Home in the Work of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan.- Section Four: Migration, Colonialism and Forced Displacement.Chapter 32: The Theatre of Displacement and Migration in Southern Africa: Zimbabwe and South Africa in Focus.Chapter 33: From the Yoruba Travelling Theatre to the Nobel Prize in Literature: Nigerian Theatre in Motion.Chapter 34: Migratory Subjectivities and African Diasporic Theatre: Race, Gender and Nation.Chapter 35: Immobile Relegations and Exiles: Creation and Migration in French Theatre Between 1980 and 2020.Chapter 36: Storying Home: Retracing the Trail of Tears to Restore Ekvnvcakv.Chapter 37: Diasporic Trauma, Nativized Innovation, and Techno-Intercultural Predicament: The Story of Jingju in Taiwan.Chapter 38: Our Life Together: War, Migration, and Family Drama in Korean American Theatre.Chapter 39: Chronicles of Refugees Foretold, by Hala Khamis Nassar.Chapter 40: Ukrainian Theatre in Migration: Military Anthropology Perspective.- Section Five: Refugees.Chapter 41: Spaces and Memories of Migration in Twenty-First Century Greek Theatre: Station Athens’ I Left (E_Φυγα).Chapter 42: Troubled Waters: The Representation of Refugees in Maltese Theatre.Chapter 43: Staging Borders: Immigration Drama in Spain, from the 1990s to the Present.Chapter 44: Performance and Asylum Seekers in Australia (2000-2020).Chapter 45: Ramadram: Refugee Struggles, Empowerment and Institutional Openings in German Theatre.Chapter 46: To Come Between: Refugees at Sea, from Representation to Direct Action.Chapter 47: Theatre, Migration, and Activism: The Work of Good Chance Theatre.Chapter 48: Theatre and Migration in the Balkans: The Death of Asylum in Žiga Divjak’s The Game.Chapter 49: Theatre of the Syrian Diaspora.Chapter 50: The Finnish National Theatre, Refugees, and Equality.- Section Six: Itinerancy, Traveling and Transnationalism.Chapter 51: Transnationality: Intercultural Dialogues, Encounters, and the Theatres of Curiosity.Chapter 52: German Theatre and August von Kotzebue’s Theatrical Success and Pitfalls in Russia.- Chapter 53: The Itinerant Puppet.Chapter 54: Fin-de-siècle Black Minstrelsy, Itinerancy, and the Anglophone Imperial Circuit.Chapter 55: Actor Migration to and from Britain in the Nineteenth Century.Chapter 56: Migration and Marathi Theatre in Colonial India, 1850-1900.Chapter 57: The Dybbuk: Wandering Souls of the Vilna Troupe and Habimah Theatre.Chapter 58: Indian Circus: A Melting Pot of Migrant Artists, Performativity, and Race.Chapter 59: Contemporary (Post-)Migrant Theatre in Belgium and the Migratory Aesthetics of Milo Rau’s Theatre of the Real.Chapter 60: Belarus Free Theatre: Political Theatre in Exile.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system. It presents comprehensive case studies on various historical periods of hegemony recognized by world-system theory: the Dutch hegemony (1625-1675), British hegemony (1815-1873), and US hegemony (1945-1970). Moreover, the book identifies an earlier period of economic dominance in Western Europe when merchant-bankers from Florence dominated the regional wool trade in the early thirteenth century. In these four intervals of dominance, i.e., from the medieval period to the late twentieth century, capital and labor migration formed the basis of capitalist development in the hegemonic core states as well as in peripheral regions under their economic and political influence. In turn, the book analyzes the migration patterns associated with the rise of hegemony from the perspectives of class relations between employers and workers, technological advances at the workplace, economic cycles, and state policies on labor migration. It concludes with a projection that heightened migration will continue to characterize the capitalist world system, especially as many poor and displaced populations in peripheral regions resort to migration for survival. Accordingly, it appeals to scholars in the fields of politics, sociology, history, anthropology, and economics who are interested in globalization and world-system analysis.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Migration and Hegemony in the World-System.- Chapter 2. Capital Migration and Florentine Dominance in the European Medieval Wool Industry.- Chapter 3. Migration and Dutch Capitalist Development.- Chapter 4. British Hegemony and Migration.- Chapter 5. Monopoly Capital, US Hegemony, and Migration.- Chapter 6. Migration and World-System Development

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Book SynopsisThis open access IMISCOE Regional Reader explores the issues faced by migrant groups in Southeast Asia and the challenges of getting of their human rights recognized. It analyses the different responses, or lack thereof, of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to these highly complex situations which are shaped by contemporary debates around borders and concepts of states, migrants’ rights as well as access to citizenship and how these concepts and paradigms are intertwined with issues such as agency and resilience of migrants. Crucial attention is given to the region’s lesser known populations and issues such as the Vietnamese in Thailand, people of Indonesian descent (PIDs) in Southern Philippines, independent child migrants across the region, and the vulnerabilities of migrant workers facing the COVID-19 pandemic. With its unique regional focus, this book provides a valuable resource to those studying human rights and migration issues, policy makers and researchers and students.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Preface.- Chapter 2. Present-day Migration in Southeast Asia: Evolution, Flows and Migration Dynamics.- Part I: Citizenship and the Exclusive State.- Chapter 3. Borders, Citizenship, ‘Imagined Community’ and ‘Exclusive State’ and Migration in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 4. Birth Registration, Legal Identity and Impacts on Migration in ASEAN.- Chapter 5. Forgotten Stateless Vietnamese in Thailand.- Chapter 6. Gender, Race, Culture and Identity at the Internal Border of Marriage Migration of Vietnamese Women in South Korea.- Chapter 7. Rethinking Local Citizenship and Integration of Persons of Indonesian Descent in the Southern Philippines.- Part II: Borders, Migration and Access to Membership Goods.- Chapter 8. Citizenship and Legal Status in Healthcare: Access of Non-citizens in the ASEAN: A Comparative Case Study of Thailand and Malaysia.- Chapter 9. Labour Migration and Exclusive State amidst the Global Pandemic of COVID-19.- Chapter 10. Accounting for Children’s Agency and Resilience in Independent Child Migration in Southeast Asia.- Part III: Forced Migration in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 11. The Refugees Vanish: Rohingya Movement, Emergency’s Temporality and Violence of the Indonesian Humanitarian Border.- Chapter 12. The Nexus between Corruption, Migrant Smuggling, and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia.- Chapter 13. The Politics of Forced Migration in Southeast Asia.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of Turkey’s response to Syrian mass migration from 2011 to 2020. It examines internal and external dimensions of the refugee issue in relation to Middle Eastern geopolitics as well as the salience of controlling irregular migration to the European Union. The book focuses on policies and discourses developed in the fields of border management, reception, asylum and protection, and integration of refugees with an emphasis on continuities, ruptures and changes. One of its main goals is to compare differences in policy practices across provinces in order to better capture ways in which Syrian refugees claim agency, develop belonging and experience integration in the context of cultural intimacy, precarity and temporariness. By providing rich empirical evidence, this book provides a valuable resource for students and scholars in migration studies, political science, anthropology, sociology and public administration disciplines as well as policy makers, stakeholders and the general public.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Legislative, Institutional and Political Context.- Chapter 3. Reception.- Chapter 4. Protection.- Chapter 5. Integration.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the Gitano community of Mexico City. The ethnographic study showcases the interplay between cultural reproduction, economic reproduction, and the Gitano / non-Gitano opposition. The first part of the book discusses how the cultural identity of this community is reproduced based on migratory processes, social relations and the dynamics of kinship and gender roles to understand the contradiction between value systems and practices in a patriarchal society. In the second part, emphasis is placed on the economic dynamism of this group in its interactions with the majority society in the context of informal economy and the group’s articulation with space and mobility in the territory. The analysis problematizes territorial mobility and circulation regimes based on fieldwork carried out in the process of active participation with Gitano families selling textile clothes and accessories through the country.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. The American Utopia: Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism.- 3. The Social Rhythms of Life.- 4. A Family Culture: Kinship, Gender and Morality.- 5. The Enigma of Circulation.- 6. The Magic of Words.- 7. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis open access Regional Reader provides a contemporary look at the emerging challenges and issues facing South Asian migration amidst covid-19 and discusses a framework for a sustainable and cooperative migration from and within the region, which will impact both the economic and regional development of South Asia. The book draws a focus on this area through an interdisciplinary and holistic lens and follows the three broad areas of migration studies in South Asia: Governance and mobility, Family, health and demography, and Forced migration. It thereby covers a number of issues from South Asian countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and the Maldives. This book is a valuable resource for those who want to understand the dynamics of migration from the largest migrant-sending region in the world and one which will determine the shape of global migration patterns in the future.Table of ContentsPart 1. Governance and Mobility: Retrospect and Prospect 1. Migration in South Asia: Old and New Mobilities (S Irudaya Rajan) 2. Internal and Forced Migration and Economic Development in South Asia (Mehdi Chowdhury and Syed Naimul Wadood) 3. Non-traditional migration in South Asia (AKM Ahsan Ullah, Mallik Akram Hossain and Ahmed Shafiqul Huque) 4. International Migration in Bangladesh: A political economic overview (Hasan Mahmud) 5. Labour Migration from Nepal: Trends and Explanations (Jagannath Adhikari, Mahendra Kumar Rai, Chiranjivi Baral and Mahendra Subedi) 6. Navigating between Nation and Civilization: Regimes of Citizenship and Migration under Bharatiya Janata Party (Samir Kumar Das) 7. Understanding Temporary Labour Migration through the lens of caste: India case study (S IrudayaRajan, Kunal Keshri and Priya Deshingkar) 8. Attraction and Detraction: Migration Drivers in Bhutan (Mayur A Gosai and Leanne Sulewski) Part II: Family, Health and Demographics 9. An Analysis of the Impact of International Remittances on Child Education: Evidence from Pakistan (Hisaya Oda) 10. Female Migration and Stay-Behind Children in Bangladesh (Sabnam Sarmin Luna) Part III: Forced Migration 11. A threat or an opportunity? Internal migration in the context of climate extremes in Pakistan (Kashif Majeed Salik, Maryum Shabbir, Khansa Naeem and Junaid Zahid) 12. Local Expert Perceptions of Creeping Environmental Changes and Responses in Maldives (Robert Stojanov and Ilan Kelman) 13. From Muhājir to āwāra: Figures of Migration and Exile among Afghans (Khadija Abbasi and Alessandro Monsutti) 14. Health beyond borders: Migration and precarity in South Asia (Anuj Kapilashrami and Ekatha Ann John) 15. Migration, Development within the SAARC Framework: Towards a Migration Governance Model of the Future (S. Irudaya Rajan and Ashwin Kumar)

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Book SynopsisThis open access book brings together storytelling and self-narrative, creative writing and narrative enquiry to explore a variety of topics in migration from an experiential lens. The volume is hybrid and multi-genre as it contains both scholarly chapters grounded in academic perspectives, as well as personal essays and creative non-fiction. In addition to critical reflections on key migration topics and concepts – like, identity and diversity, integration and agency, transnationalism and return – the scholarly chapters also propose a particular methodology for ‘workshopping’ migration narratives, and writing about (personal) lived experiences through iterations of scientific reflection, narrative enquiry, and creative imagination. The book explores the potential of a new conceptual paradigm and methodological process to learn more, and also `differently,’ about the migration experience. Finally, this volume asks a bigger question too – how do we define the boundaries of research; is it possible to entirely separate the spatial, temporal and methodological parameters in which projects are developed and pursued; and how can the specifics of these multiple contexts contribute to shaping the knowledge being produced?Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis open access Regional Reader describes population movement circulating within the Mediterranean area, for any reason or from any region, be them European, African, Asian or originating from any of the Mediterranean shores. It showcases a plurality of approaches to and applications of Mediterranean migration, contributing to a regional approach to migration studies, thereby defending this regional approach by scaling Mediterranean migration issues. This book covers a large set of questions related Mediterranean migrations to the migration research agenda, such as: market and economy, politics and policies, super-diversity and intersectionality, media, society, welfare and the environment through five main parts: Geo-political Mediterranean Relations, Governance, Policies and Politics, Mobility drivers and Agency, Cities, History and Social Transformations, and Economy and Labour Markets. This Regional Reader provides an interesting read to scholars, researchers, but also policy makers and civil society organizations’ high representatives, international foundations and institutions interested in linking the Mediterranean and migration.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book engages with current debates around refugeedom by examining cultural production that represents and interrogates the construction of refugees and the refugee experience on the borders of contemporary Europe. The refugee subject is produced by discursive regimes and border practices inherited from colonial projects that construct the diametrically opposed concepts of citizen and refugee, and their attendant administrative sub-categories. In the early twenty-first century these categories have been strengthened by the politicisation of forced migration and the hardening of ‘Fortress Europe’. While the predominant response to the increasing numbers of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has been to harden the borders (regime), on the one hand, or to stress the common humanity of those displaced (refuge), on the other, this volume argues that both approaches result in refugees becoming objectified, othered, and abstracted as vectors of exile. It explores what recent cultural production can achieve in engaging with and representing issues of dispossession, detention and resettlement, and probes the limits of artistic potential to mediate the refugee experience. It examines transnational approaches to cultural production that both occupy and exceed the borders of Europe, with a focus on borderscapes, spaces of detention, and (neo-)colonialism. Bringing together original contributions from an international range of scholars, it analyses contemporary textual and visual representations of forced migration to argue that other forms of solidarity and hospitality towards refugees in Europe and beyond must be possible.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Fiona Barclay (University of Stirling) and Beatrice Ivey (University of Sheffield), European Border Regimes and RefugeSection 1: Representing Refugees: Theory and Concept2. Claire Launchbury (University of Leeds), "How am I supposed to talk to you, or with you, or about you?" Transcultural memory border concepts and the refugee3. Hella Wiedmer-Newman (Hauser & Wirth gallery, Zurich), Unsettled: Narrativity and Documentation in George Drivas’s Laboratory of Dilemmas4. Asha Varadharajan (Queen’s University, Canada), “Gimme Shelter”: Identity, Habitation and Affect in Narratives of MigrationSection 2: Representing Detention5. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Kaya Davies Hayon (University of Lincoln), A Green Hell: Representations of Detention from Manus to Morton Hall6. Helen Brewer (Goldsmiths, University of London), Carceral Witnessing and the Spatial ImaginationSection 3 : Public Discourses of Refugeedom7. Béatrice Blanchet (Lyon Catholic University) Remapping the borderlands of Britain: the Calais “Jungle” and the enduring legacy of imperial frontier policing8. Terri Tomsky (University of Alberta) Dispossession in children’s storybooks: Visualizing experiences of migration9. Peter Arnds (Trinity College Dublin) Making Monsters out of Myths: Animal Metaphors in Populist Discourse on Forced Migration10. Siobhan Brownlie (University of Manchester) Discourses of Memory and Refugees/Asylum Seekers

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Book SynopsisThis book describes the journey concept relating to cultural and social history of Western and non-Western worlds.

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Book SynopsisThis volume discusses the intersections of multiple human journeys and the importance of places and place settings, such as battlefield re-enactments, heritage fairs, pilgrimage sites and faith journeys.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book critically examines how discourses and policies target and exclude migrants and their families in Europe and North America along racial, gender and sexuality lines, and how these exclusions are experienced and resisted.

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Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Conceptualizing the Plurality of Urban Diversities.- 3. Mapping the Diversity of Urban Diversities.- 4. Cities Cluster I: High Diversity and Low Segregation.- 5. Cities Cluster II: High Diversity And High Segregation.- 6. Cities Cluster III: Low Diversity and High Segregation.- 7. Cities Cluster IV: Low Diversity and Low Segregation.- 8. Towards a Typology of Urban Diversities.- 9. Conclusions.- References.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIdentität und Identifikation.- 1. Was ist Identität?.- 2. Dimensionen ethnischer Identität.- Probleme und Prozesse bei der zweiten Generation.- 3. Nur eine Frage der Zeit? Zur Eingliederung von Migranten im Generationen-Zyklus und zu einer Möglichkeit, Unterschiede hierin zu erklären.- 4. Kulturelle Inkonsistenz und Streß bei der zweiten Generation.- 5. Familienmigration und Schulkarriere ausländischer Kinder und Jugendlicher.- Soziale Umgebung und interethnische Kontakte.- 6. Erschwert die ethnische Konzentration die Eingliederung?.- 7. Interethnische Freundschaften.- Familie und kulturelle Orientierungen.- 8. Die Rückkehrorientierung im Eingliederungsprozeß der Migrantenfamilien.- 9. Geschlechtsrollenorientierungen im Vergleich der Nationalitäten, Generationen und Geschlechter.- Folgerungen für Soziologie und Politik.- 10. Ethnische Differenzierung und moderne Gesellschaft.- 11. Interethnische Beziehungen und städtische Strukturen.

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Book SynopsisGemäß dem meritokratischen Prinzip sollte alleine die Leistung eines Schülers, gemessen u.a. durch Schulnoten, dessen Bildungschancen bestimmen. Jedoch weist die umfangreiche empirische Bildungsforschung darauf hin, dass das deutsche Bildungssystem diesem Anspruch bei weitem und bis heute nicht gerecht wird. So belegen zahlreiche Studien ausgeprägte Ungleichheiten der Bildungschancenzwischen verschiedenen Sozialschichten und im Hinblick auf die ethnische Herkunft sowie das Geschlecht. Dabei gehen die angesprochenen empirischen Analysen (und die jeweils zugrunde liegenden theoretischen Konzepte) jedoch implizit häufig davon aus, dass alleine individuelle Determinanten für die festgestellten Bildungsungleichheiten ursächlich sind und es somit für die Bildungschancen vernachlässigbar ist, in welchem Klassen- und Schulkontext bzw. regionalem Umfeld oder sozialem Netzwerk sich eine Schülerin bzw. ein Schüler befindet. Neuere Untersuchungen auf Basis von Mehrebenenanalysen zeigen allerdings, dass auch die Bedingungen in den Klassen, Schulen und Regionen sowie die Lehrkräfte und die Zusammensetzung des Freundeskreises der Schüler einen erheblichen Einfluss auf den individuellen Bildungserfolg haben.Table of ContentsMit Beiträgen von Michael Windzio, Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Wilfried Bos, C. Katharina Spieß, Hartmut Ditton, Isabell van Ackeren, Dominik Becker, Volker Stocké, Petra Stanat, Michaela Sixt, Günter Faber, Cornelia Kristen, David Reimer, Martin Neugebauer, Horst Weishaupt, Rolf Becker und Jürgen Schiener.

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Book SynopsisAnfang des Jahres 2008 demonstrierten vor allem junge Kalkerinnen und Kalker mit Migrationshintergrund über mehrere Tage gegen ihre Benachteiligung in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft. Dazu fanden Demonstrationen, spontane Treffen, Sitzblockaden, Mahnwachen, Diskussionsrunden und weitere Aktionen statt. Die Ereignisse wurden in den Medien auf städtischer, regionaler und nationaler Ebene diskutiert. In dem Forschungsprojekt ging es unter anderem darum, die Perspektiven und Reaktionen der Beteiligten der Demonstrationen und der verschiedenen Akteurinnen und Akteuren im Stadtteil zu untersuchen. Ziel des Projektes war, an dem konkreten Beispiel der Kalker Ereignisse das Potenzial zivilgesellschaftlicher Aktionen von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund aufzuzeigen.Table of ContentsDie Frage nach zivilgesellschaftlicher Partizipation in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft.- Jugendproteste als Form politischer Artikulation.- Verpasste Chancen? Diskussion zu den ‚Kalker Ereignissen‘.

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Book SynopsisThe articles in this volume investigate the topic of ethnic, national, and transnational identities. Using a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, they discuss the impact of cross-national migration, changes in political borders, collective memories, the formation of transnational political entities, and the process of cultural, economic, and institutional globalization. Through these different theories and empirical analyses, this volume offers a multifaceted discussion and new insights concerning the challenging social and political issues of changing collective identities.

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Book SynopsisPISA-Studien haben unübersehbar verdeutlicht, wie selektiv das deutsche Bildungssystem ist und wie stark es soziale Ungleichheit reproduziert. Kinder mit schlechten Startbedingungen, insbesondere Migrantenkinder, werden nicht ausreichend gefördert, wie der Leistungsstand von 15-Jährigen zeigt. Die 'Schieflagen im Bildungssystem', Interpretationen der PISA-Studien und bildungspolitische Schlussfolgerungen, werden in dieser Textsammlung diskutiert. Vor allem die Bildungssituation von Migrantenkindern wird ergänzend beleuchtet und verschiedene Erklärungsansätze geboten, um bildungspolitische und pädagogische Handlungsalternativen aufzuzeigen.Table of ContentsDie PISA-Studien: Herausforderung und Chance.- Strukturelle Aspekte der Bildungssituation von Migrantenkindern.- Über Schul- und Unterrichtsqualität, Sprach- und Lesekompetenz.- Bildungsbeteiligung und Förderung von jungen Migranten in Fallstudien.Mit Beiträgen von Georg Auernheimer, Dorothea Bender-Szymanski, Ingrid Gogolin, Mechtild Gomolla, Mona Granato, Uwe Hunger, Bettina Hurrelmann, Reimer Kornmann, Astrid Neumann, Rainer Peek, Anne Ratzki, Erika Schulze, Gesa Siebert-Ott, Eva-Maria Soja, Dietrich Thränhardt und Karin Weiß.

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Book SynopsisDer Band umfasst Beiträge, die einen orientierenden Überblick über klassische Schlüsselwerke der Migrationsforschung geben. Die Beiträge erläutern die ideengeschichtliche und theoretische Verortung der Schlüsseltexte, ihre Forschungsperspektive, zentrale empirische Befunde sowie ihre interdisziplinäre Rezeption und aktuellen Bezugsfelder. Der Band ist in zwei Abschnitte unterteilt. Im ersten stehen Pionierstudien der kultur- wie sozialwissenschaftlichen Migrationsforschung in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts im Vordergrund; der zweite Abschnitt behandelt Referenztheorien und -konzepte einer kritischen Migrationsforschung. Der Band ist im Wesentlichen als Einstiegslektüre für Studierende und als Lehrbuch für Dozent_innen konzipiert, die sich mit dem Thema Migration aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive befassen.Table of ContentsPionierstudien der Migrationsforschung.- Referenztheorien der Migrationsforschung.

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