Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisThis open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the hidden world of France’s migrant worker hostels, it explores why older North and West African men continue to live past retirement age in this sub-standard housing. Conventional wisdom holds that at retirement labour migrants ought to instead return to their families in home countries, where their French pensions would have far greater purchasing power. This paradox is the point of departure for a book which transports readers from the banlieues of Paris to the banks of the Senegal River and the villages of the Anti-Atlas. In intimate ethnographic detail, the author brings to life the experiences of these older labour migrants by sharing in the life of the hostels as a resident, by observing at close quarters the men's family life on the other side of the Mediterranean as a guest in their homes, and even by accompanying them in their travels by bus, sea, and air. The monograph evaluates several theories of migration against rich qualitative data gathered from multiple methods: biographical narrative and semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and archival research. In the process, it offers a thoughtful contribution to broader debates on what it means for migrants to belong and achieve inclusion in society. This book has been awarded an ‘honourable mention’ in the Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies, courtesy of the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University. For more information please see: https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/awards/scholarly/2018.php. This book has been nominated for the 2019 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial PrizeTrade Review Table of Contents1. Journey’s End? Old Age in France’s Migrant Worker Hostels.- 2. Points of Departure: Geographical, Historical and Theoretical Contexts.- 3. Your Papers, Please: the Temporal and Territorial Demands of Welfare State Inclusion.- 4. Home / Sick: the Health–Migration Order.- 5. Return to Sender: Remittances, Communication and Family Conflict.- 6. Getting One’s Bearings: Re-integration in the Home Community.- 7. Loss of Autonomy, Dying and the Penultimate Voyage.- 8. Conclusion: the Returns from Theory and a New Approach to Home.- Appendix: notes on method.

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Book SynopsisBringing together a range of illustrative case studies coupled with fresh theoretical insights, this volume is one of the first to address the complexities and contradictions in the relationship between migration, time, and capitalism. While temporal reckoning has long fascinated anthropologists, few studies have sought to confront how capitalism fetishizes time in the production of global inequalities—historically and in the contemporary world. As it explores how the agendas of capitalism condition migration in Europe, North America, and Oceania, this collection also examines temporality as a feature of migrants’ experiences to ultimately provide a theoretically robust and ethnographically informed investigation of migration and temporality within a framework defined by the political economy of capitalism. Table of Contents1. Temporalities and Migration: Introduction2. Chronotopes of Migration Scholarship: The Challenges of Radical Contemporaneity3. The Timescape of Post-WWII Caribbean Migration to Britain: Non contemporaneity as Challenge and Opportunity4. Time at Sea: Temporal Horizons of Rescue and Its Avoidance in the Central Mediterranean5. Flexible Kinship and Discrepant Temporalities in Chinese Transpacific Migration 6. ’Lost Time’ – The Experience of Waiting for a Future among Young Somali Migrants en route7. Labour and Population: Migration Pathways to Rural Manitoba Past and Present8. Badocari Temporalities: Perspectives on Time, Bottles, and Economies for Romanian Roma Bottle Collectors in Copenhagen9. Migration and Temporal Dissonance in Canada Philippine Migration10. Temporality, Migration, Reproduction: Cycles, Alignments, and Misalignments in Late Capitalism

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Book Synopsis Written by the 2018 Mindel C. Sheps Award winner, this textbook offers a unique method for teaching how to model spatial (multiregional) population dynamics through models of increasing complexity. Each chapter in this programmed workbook starts with a descriptive text, followed by a sequence of exercises focused on particular multiregional models, of increasing complexity, and then ends with the solutions.It extends the current developments in the spatial analysis of social data towards improving our understanding of dynamics and interacting change across multiple populations in space. Frameworks for analyzing such dynamics were first proposed in multiregional demography, over 40 years ago. This book revisits these methods and then illustrates how they may be used to analyze spatial data and study spatial population dynamics.Topics covered include spatial population dynamics, population projections and estimations, spatial and age structure of migration flows and much more. As such this innovative textbook is a great teaching and learning tool for teachers, students as well as individuals who want to study demographic processes across space.Table of Contents1 Uniregional Models With No Age Dependence.- 2 Spatial Population Dynamics: Location Without Age.- 3 Uniregional Population Dynamics: Age Without Location.- 4 Multiregional Population Dynamics: Age With Location.- 5 Multiregional Projection and Stable Growth.- 6 Birthplace-Specific Life Tables and Projections.- 7 The Spatial Patterns and Structures Of Migration.- A: Sample Datasets and Figures.- B: An Introduction To Matrix Algebra.

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Book SynopsisThe Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe explores contemporary models of national and European Union (EU) citizenship in the context of intra-EU mobility. Scholars have often addressed these models from separate disciplinary standpoints. National citizenship has been studied through the prism of citizenship studies and EU citizenship from an EU studies viewpoint. To contribute to their ongoing discussion and offer a politically embedded perspective, Siklodi applies the citizenship studies lens to the analysis of EU-wide survey data and original focus group evidence of young and highly educated EU mobiles and stayers in Sweden and Britain. Specifically, she investigates political community building processes, including processes of differentiation and exclusion, and the dimensions of citizenship – identity, rights and participation – at the national and EU levels. Siklodi proposes a redefinition of the active/passive citizen dichotomy in terms of mobiles/stayers to provide a more accurate description of contemporary citizen attitudes and behaviours across the European community. Table of ContentsIntroduction: what’s going on? Chapter 1: Citizenship studies, free movement and the EU Chapter 2: European and national citizenship – taking in the actual pictureChapter 3: Community building processes in the context of EU free movementChapter 4: National citizenship and free movement – it is changing!Chapter 5: Young movers: Not (yet) quite ideal European citizensChapter 6: Conclusion: How citizenship might ‘move’ on?

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Book SynopsisThis book gives voice to the diverse diasporic Latin American communities living in the UK by exploring first and onward migration of Latin Americans to Europe, with a specific reference to London. The authors discuss how networks of solidarity and local struggles are played out, enacted, negotiated and experienced in different spatial spheres, whether this be migration routes into London, work spaces, diasporic media and urban places. Each of these spaces are explored in separate chapters to argue that transnational networks of solidarity and local struggles are facilitating renewed sense of belongingness and claims to the city. In this context we witness manifestations of British Latinidad that invoke new forms of belongingness beyond and against old colonial powers.Table of ContentsCh 1: Setting the scene: Latin America migration to EuropeCh 2: Transnationalism, migration and diasporic identitiesCh 3: Narratives of migration and relocationCh 4: Narratives of migration around workCh 5: Latin Americans in London and their media spacesCh 6: Latin Urbanisms in London: Reshaping, Reclaiming and Resisting Urban SpacesCh 7: Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis open access book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies in a global context. It provides a unique, encompassing and situated view on the various relations between cosmopolitanism and urbanity in the contemporary world. Drawing on a variety of cities in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, it overcomes the Eurocentric bias that has marked debate on cosmopolitanism from its inception. The contributions highlight the crucial role of migrants as actors of urban change and targets of urban policies, thus reconciling empirical and normative approaches to cosmopolitanism. By addressing issues such as cosmopolitanism and urban geographies of power, locations and temporalities of subaltern cosmopolites, political meanings and effects of cosmopolitan practices and discourses in urban contexts, it revisits contemporary debates on superdiversity, urban stratification and local incorporation, and assess the role of migration and mobility in globalization and social change.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World: An Introduction.- Part I: Making Cosmopolitan Places in a Globalized World.- Chapter 2. Generic Places: The Construction of Home and the Lived Experience of Cosmopolitanization.- Chapter 3. Making Cosmopolitan Spaces: Urban Design, Ideology and Power.- Chapter 4. Dakar by Night: Engaging with Cosmopolitanism by Contrast.- Chapter 5. Urban Cosmopolitanism in the Arab World: Contributing to Theoretical Debates from the Middle East.- Part II: Urbanity and Everyday Cosmopolitanism in Ordinary Places.- Chapter 6. Cosmopolitan Dubai: Consumption and Segregation in a Global City.- Chapter 7. Everyday Cosmopolitanism in African Cities: Places of Leisure and Consumption in Antananarivo and Maputo.- Chapter 8. What’s in a Street? Exploring Suspended Cosmopolitanism in Trikoupi, Nicosia.- Chapter 9. Branding Cosmopolitanism and Place Making in Saint Laurent Boulevard, Montreal.- Part III: Migrant Cosmopolitanism: Fragile Belongings and Contested Citizenships.- Chapter 10. Sweeping the Streets, Cleaning Morals in Paris: Chinese Sex Workers Claiming Their Belonging to the Cosmopolitan City.- Chapter 11. Cosmopolitanism in US Sanctuary Cities: Dreamers Claiming Urban Citizenship.- Chapter 12. Migrant Cosmopolitanism in Emirati and Saudi Cities: Practices and Belonging in Exclusionary Contexts.- Chapter 13. Figures of the Cosmopolitan Condition: The Wanderer, the Outcast, and the Foreigner.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical studies. The first section looks at how various visual methods, including photography, film, and mental maps, may be used to analyse the spatial presence of migrants. The second section addresses the processual building of narratives around migration, thereby using formats such as film and visual essay, and reflecting upon the ways they become carriers and mediators of both story and theory within the subject of migration. Section three focuses on vulnerable communities and discusses how visual methods can empower these communities, thereby also focusing on the theoretical and ethical implications of migration. The fourth section addresses the issue of migrant representation in visual discourses. Based on these contributions, a concluding methodological chapter systematizes the use of visual methods in migration studies across disciplines, with regard to their empirical, theoretical, and ethical implications. Multidisciplinary in character, this book is an interesting read for students and migration scholars who engage with visual methodologies, as well as practitioners, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, curators of exhibitions who address the topic of migration visually.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Amandine Desille and Karolina Nikielska-Sekula.- Chapter 2. “Have you just taken a picture of me?”: Theoretical and ethical implications of the use of researcher-produced photography in studying migrant minorities.- Chapter 3. Migrants’ mental maps: unpacking inhabitants’ practical knowledges in Lisbon.- Chapter 4. On the Use of Visual Methods to Understand Local Immigration Politics.- Chapter 5. Conclusions Touching and being touched – experience and ethical relations.- Chapter 6. Ethnocinematographic theory. How to develop migration theory through ethnographic filmmaking.- Chapter 7. Migrant Cine-Eye: Storytelling in Documentary and Participatory Filmmaking.- Chapter 8. Story-making and Photography: The Visual Essay and Migration.- Chapter 9. Conclusions Migrants through images.- Chapter 10. Combining participatory and audiovisual methods with young Roma “affected by mobility”.- Chapter 11. Photovoice as a research tool of the ‘game’ along the ‘Balkan Route’.- Chapter 12. Crafting an event, an event on craft Working together to represent migration experiences.- Chapter 13. Conclusions Participating as power? The possibilities and politics of participation Céline Cantat.- Chapter 14. Chant Down the Walls: Exploring the Potential of Video Methods in the Study of Immigrant Politics and Social Movements.- Chapter 15. In the eye of the beholder? Minority representation and the politics of culture.- Chapter 16. The Researcher’s Nightworkshop: A Methodology of Bodily and Cyber-ethnographic Representations in Migration Studies.- Chapter 17. Conclusions “Ways of representation”: Is a reflexive representation possible?.- Chapter 18. Afterword Visual Research in Migration. (In)Visibilities, participation, discourses.

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Book Synopsis This book introduces the reader to the past and present of Jewish life in Turkey and to Turkish Jewish diaspora communities in Israel, Europe, Latin America and the United States. It surveys the history of Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, examining the survival of Jewish communities during the dissolution of the empire and their emigration to America, Europe, and Israel. In the cases discussed, members of these communities often sought and seek close connections with Turkey, even if those ‘ties that bind’ are rarely reciprocated by Turkish governments. Contributors also explore Turkish Jewishness today, as it is lived in Israel and Turkey, and as found in ‘places of memory’ in many cities in Turkey, where Jews no longer exist today. Table of Contents1. Prologue: The Long Twilight.- 2. Introduction: Turkish-Jewish Entanglements from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic.- Part I: Jewish-Turkish Lives in the Late Ottoman Empire, the Turkish Republic, and Israel.- 3 Solidarity and Survival in an Ottoman Borderland: The Jews of Edirne, 1912–1918.- 4. On the Outside Looking In: Jewish Émigrés and Turkish Citizenship in the Early Republican Period.- 5. “The Ties that Bind Us to Turkey”: The Turkish Jewish Diaspora in Europe and Its Relations with the “Home Country”.- 6. The Founding of the State of Israel and the Turkish Jews: A View from Israel, 1948–1955.- Part II: Jewish-Turkish Entanglements in Contemporary Turkey and Israel.- 7. Entangled Sovereignties: Turkish Jewish Spaces in Israel.- 8. Creating [Jewish] Sites of Memory in Turkey Where Jews No Longer Exist: From Physical Sites to Virtual Ones.- 9. Whitewashing the Armenian Genocide with Holocaust Heroism.- 10. Turkish Jews in an Unwelcoming Public Space.- 11. Epilogue: “Aprontaremos Las Validjas” Shall We Start Packing the Suitcases?

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Slavery, Forced Labour, and Trafficking.- Chapter 2.- Labour Exploitation as a Continuum, Human Dignity, and Vulnerability.- Chapter 3.- EU Legal and Policy Frameworks Regarding Labour Market Access for EU and Non-EU Migrants: Preventing, Protecting, or Creating Situational Vulnerabilities?.- Chapter 4.- EU Instruments on Labour Exploitation and Trafficking: Preventing, Protecting, or Amplifying Situational Vulnerabilities?.- Chapter 5.- Situational Vulnerabilities and Labour Exploitation in Italy: The Case of Agriculture and Domestic Migrant Workers.- Chapter 6.- The Italian Approach to Addressing Exploitation and (Not) Protecting Exploited Migrant Workers.- Chapter 7.- Situational Vulnerabilities and Labour Exploitation in the UK: The Case of the Agriculture and Domestic Work Sectors.- Chapter 8. The UK Approach to Addressing Exploitation and (Not) Protecting Exploited Migrant Workers.- Chapter 9. Taking Vulnerabilities to Exploitation Seriously: Concluding Remarks.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. What is migrant transnationalism?.- Chapter 2  Approaching migrant transnationalism.- Chapter 3 Economic, sociocultural and political transnationalism.- Chapter 4 Migrant transnationalism meets integration.- Chapter 5 Methodological approaches to the study of migrant transnationalism.- Chapter 6 Conclusion: Beyond ‘migrant’ transnationalism?.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Foreword. Researching on Storied Lands: Reflexivity, Sovereignty, and the Ethics of Migration Research.- Chapter 2. Introduction. Recognising Indigenous Sovereignty in Migration Research: Australian Reflections.- Chapter 3. Standing at Intersections: Justifying a Migrant Culture Complicit in Eliminating my Aboriginal Heritage.- Chapter 4. A multicultural nomad and diasporic intellectual: in honour of Sneja Gunew.- Chapter 5. On Theory and Praxis in Migration Studies and Settler Colonial Critique.- Chapter 6. Language Rights on Unceded Lands: Cultural Struggles and Policy Negotiation in Australia.- Chapter 7. Indigenous Sovereignty and Multilingual Multiculturalism: Challenging the Monolingual Hegemony of Settler Colonialism.- Chapter 8. From Italy to So-Called Australia: On Doing Research Across Migrant and Indigenous Cinema.- Chapter 9. The Dark Side of Migration: Settler Colonial Belonging and the Myths of Italians’ Innocence.- Chapter 10. Naming ‘Little Greece’ on Gadigal Country: Rethinking Australian Multiculturalism via Indigenous Sovereignty.- Chapter 11. Untangling ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage’: Representations of Indigenous Politics in Greek Diaspora Press.- Chapter 12. The New Second Generation and Solidarity: Australian Art and Activism Advocating for Indigenous, Refugee and Migrant Allyship.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1.Introduction and Motivations.- Chapter 2.Armed conflicts in the Great Lakes Region attempts to explain them based on different theories, including the role of incentives.- Chapter 3.Conflict exposure and Food Consumption Pathways during and after conflict: Evidence from Uganda.- Chapter 4.Prosocial attitudes between Refugees and Host communities exposed to armed conflict: Experimental evidence from Northern Uganda.- Chapter 5.Informal land arrangements between refugees and host communities in Northern Uganda: Do social preferences matter?.- Chapter 6. General Conclusions and Policy implications.

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Book SynopsisNationalism was declared to be dead too early. A postnational age was announced, and liberalism claimed to have been victorious by the end of the Cold War. At the same time postnational order was proclaimed in which transnational alliances like the European Union were supposed to become more important in international relations. But we witnessed the rise a strong nationalism during the early 21st century instead, and right wing parties are able to gain more and more votes in elections that are often characterized by nationalist agendas. This volume shows how nationalist dreams and fears alike determine politics in an age that was supposed to witness a rather peaceful coexistence by those who consider transnational ideas more valuable than national demands. It will deal with different case studies to show why and how nationalism made its way back to the common consciousness and which elements stimulated the re-establishment of the aggressive nation state. The volume will therefore look at the continuities of empire, actual and imagined, the role of "foreign-" and "otherness" for nationalist narratives, and try to explain how globalization stimulated the rise of 21st century nationalisms as well.

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