Population and migration geography Books

Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Highlighting the power of multi-dimensional demography, this Advanced Introduction addresses the most consequential changes in our societies and economies using quantitative approaches. It defines three demographic theories with predictive power - demographic metabolism, transition and dividend - and repositions the discipline at the heart of social science.Key features include: Discussion of alternative demographic scenarios in the context of sustainable development Introduction of national human resource management as the population policy for the 21st century An outline of how the significant demographic theories discussed form the building blocks of a Unified Demographic Theory An argument for cognitive changes as the primary driver of demographic transition rather than changing economic conditions, demonstrated by the impact of changing educational attainment structures. This Advanced Introduction is a must-read for demographers around the globe for its concise summary of the concepts, theories and power of multi-dimensional demography, as well as students of demography at all levels. It will also be useful to academics in other social sciences, including human geography, development studies and sociology scholars interested in what state-of-the-art demography has to offer their fields.Trade Review‘Wolfgang Lutz secured his place among the handful of the world's most influential demographers by decades of pioneering empirical research, theoretical exploration, and institutional leadership. This succinct book is a capstone to his contributions. Lutz envisions multi-dimensional demography (including age, sex and other attributes like education) as the foundation for a theory that integrates demographic metabolism (cohort replacement), the demographic transition, and the demographic dividend. Demographers, social scientists, and policy makers need to read this important book.’ -- Joel E. Cohen, The Rockefeller University and Columbia University, US‘Wolfgang Lutz has put together his encyclopaedic demographic knowledge in this excellent Advanced Introduction. Far from being a conventional introduction, his central theme is that demography must have scientific rigour to offer “predictive power” for social change and human welfare. Three theories are key: intergenerational change, demographic transition and the demographic dividend, central to economic change. Thereby demography can become an “intervention science” to enhance welfare. Education, particularly of girls, takes centre stage. These ideas underpin a stimulating look at population change and the central issues of sustainable development and the global future.’ -- David Coleman, University of Oxford, UK‘Wolfgang Lutz is one of the most accomplished demographers in the world, and this book is a major accomplishment. Building on prior demographic research, including his and that of his research team, he creates a unified demographic theory importantly incorporating education into our demographic view of the world. This book should be required reading for everyone–not just demographers. I guarantee that you will better understand how the world works once you have absorbed what Professor Lutz is telling us.’ -- John R. Weeks, San Diego State University, US'A masterful survey, analysis, and exposition. Studying this text will yield a broad and deep understanding of demographic theories and perspectives, along with the uses of demography, that is simply not attainable in any other two or three sources combined. Alongside, Lutz consolidates considerations of human capital--education and health--into the very core of demographic science, projections, and policy. Students equipped with this knowledge will understand the foundations of what they are doing as demographers AND what they are observing in the world as citizens. A remarkable achievement.' -- William Butz, former President, Population Reference Bureau, Washington DC, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Demographic concepts and data 2. Demographic theories 3. Education and cognition as drivers of mortality and fertility decline 4. Demographic futures and sustainable development Index

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Book SynopsisDiscover how the migration of peoples has shaped the modern world. This beautifully-illustrated book details the movement of people and cultures around the world - from the early migrations of Homo erectus out of Africa 50,000 years ago to modern refugee movements and migrations. Through striking photographs, evocative illustrations, and intimate first hand accounts, Migrations explores famous (and infamous) movements in history, from the Middle Passage and Trail of Tears to the California Gold Rush and the Windrush generation. While many traditional world histories focus on (mainly European) exploration and discovery, Migrations explores the story of each continent and focuses on cultures rather than conquest. Migrations highlights the human story and the positives: what has survived, not just what was destroyed. With a foreword by award-winning historian, broadcaster, and filmmaker, David Olusoga OBE, Migrations is

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Book SynopsisThis is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global dilemma.In 2004, an enigmatic charter captain named Al Anderson caught and marked one Atlantic bluefin tuna off New England's coast with a plastic fish tag. Fourteen years later that fish dubbed Amelia for her ocean-spanning journeys died in a Mediterranean fish trap, sparking Karen Pinchin's riveting investigation into the marvels, struggles, and prehistoric legacy of this remarkable species.Over his fishing career Al marked more than sixty thousand fish with plastic tags, an obsession that made him nearly as many enemies as it did friends. His quest landed him in the crossfire of an ongoing fight between a booming bluefin tuna industry and desperate conservation efforts, a conflict that is once again heating up as overfishing and clTrade Review‘Karen Pinchin has written a moving, vivid, often heart-pounding narrative of the love, greed and dramas surrounding the lives and deaths of a fish upon whom human fortunes rise and fall–each an individual animal who surely loves his or her life as much as we love ours. Kings of Their Own Ocean is a moving and ultimately hopeful story, reminding us that if we are honest and we are wise, we still may save the denizens of our imperiled seas.’ Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus ‘Pinchin has written pathos, poetry and adrenaline into a story about one of the most famed and endangered sea creatures on the planet: the bluefin tuna. Not easy to get the science right while making the reporting riveting. But she did … Well worth the read.’ Ian Urbina, nationally bestselling author of The Outlaw Ocean ‘Awash in lyricism and anchored in science and history, Kings of Their Own Ocean submerges readers in the enthralling lives of Al Anderson and Amelia to explore the depths of the Atlantic bluefin tuna industry. Eloquent and sobering, Pinchin uncovers the tenuous fate of the bluefin, and deftly explains why the choices we make about the ocean matter.’ Gloria Dickie, author of Eight Bears and a National Geographic Explorer ‘In Kings of Their Own Ocean, Karen Pinchin has brought vigor and pathos to the human relationship with the inhabitants of our oceans—and what this complex relationship means for the future of the planet.’ Alicia Kennedy, author of No Meat Required ‘Strap in to your deck chairs and prepare to land the story of several lifetimes. In Kings of Their Own Ocean, a church launches a global seafood empire, researchers feud, the tuna leap, and most of all, fishermen and citizen scientists manage to save a vital species, armed only with their wits and a few plastic tags. Pinchin’s deep reporting and stunning prose ensure tuna will never taste the same.’ Lizzie Stark, author of Egg: A Dozen Ovatures

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the relationship between Vikings, Rus' and nomadic (mostly Turkic) steppe dwellers during the course of the Viking Age (c. 7501050) in a geographical area stretching from Eastern Scandinavia through the Kievan Rus', Byzantium, the Islamic world to the Western Eurasian steppes.The primary focus is the steppe influence on the development of Scandinavian-Rus' culture. It illustrates the effects of Turkic (nomadic) cultures on the evolving Scandinavian-Rus' communities in their military technology and tactics, as well as in everyday customs, ritual traditions and religious perceptions, whilst paying attention to the politico-commercial necessities and possible communication channels tying these two cultures, normally considered to be distinct, together. The arguments are supported by a multi-disciplinary analysis of diverse historical and archaeological materials occasionally supplemented with linguistic evidence. The result is a comprehensive evaluation of theTable of Contents1: Introduction; 2: The steppe and the Viking world; 3: Armed conflicts; 4: Trade; 5: Retinues; 6: Customs and religion(s); 7: Communication; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an important new analytical framework for making sense of return, remigration and circular mobility, conceptualising them as different phases of a wider migration process. Using an in-depth case study of Albania and its two main destination countries, Italy and Greece, the book demonstrates that instead of being viewed as a linear path between origin and destination, migration should be seen as a segmented, or cyclical pattern that may involve several localities and more than two countries. Characterised by important previous historical, social, economic and political linkages, geographical proximity but also high migration volatility and sustained flows in either directions, Albanian migration to Italy and Greece offers an optimal case study for analysing complex return, reintegration and mobility processes. While interesting as a unique regional migration system, the lessons learned cast light on important migration and mobility dynamics that are relevantTable of Contents1. Rethinking return, reintegration, and mobility in south-eastern Europe. 2. Setting the analytical framework: reconceptualising return, reintegration, and mobility. 3. Return mobilities of first-generation Albanians: reconciling the rupture of disintegration and negotiating the future. 4. Return mobilities of the second generation: between disintegration and hybrid identities. 5. A typology of return, reintegration, and onwards mobility.

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Book SynopsisDemography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives. ' Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before.Trade Review"Demographers threaten us with a world population explosion, an unsupportable burden of pensioners, migration run wild, even a eugenic threat! But Dorling and Gietel-Basten give us heart. Some threats turned into blessings while other proved as hopelessly inaccurate as economic forecast."Richard Wilkinson, co-author of The Spirit Level "Dorling and Gietel-Basten demonstrate how much we don't know when it comes to demographics. With encyclopedic incision, the authors enjoin readers to consider the meaning, measurement, and manipulation of demographics, eschewing hyperbole for common sense. Rejecting demographic fear mongering and cloudy statistical thinking, Why Demography Matters provides a critical assessment of who counts and why, and the meaning of one of the world's most important drivers of change."Amy Glasmeier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"As authors Danny Dorling and Stuart Gietel-Basten remind us in their excellent text, [the] misinterpretation of demographic work is not uncommon. They remind us that the work of demographers is inherently political. […] Ultimately, Dorling and Gietel-Basten ask, can demography be optimistic and personal? And their convincing response is yes. This is why I think this book should be a required supplemental text to any demography class as well as an essential read for anyone involved in demographic work."Canadian Studies in PopulationTable of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Measuring Populations 3. Destiny and Determination 4. Population ‘Explosion’ 5. Why No Children? 6. Population Ageing 7. Population and the Global Economy 8. Population and Politics 9. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWomen migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe.Trade Review" [...] this volume's incisive and wide-ranging analysis suggests that the implications for skilled migrants are far from positive, with widespread deskilling, especially among women. Isaakyan and Triandafyllidou have, for the first time, brought together a brilliant set of case studies from across Europe in a range of sectors to argue that the the gendered outcomes of the crisis for highly skilled migrants has been far from gender-neutral. This is a wonderful contribution to both the literature on the crisis and on skilled migration." - Parvati Raghuram, The Open University, UK "There is a lot of noise but not much research on high skill migration in Europe. Triandafyllidou and Isaakyan's edited book fills the void, providing first-hand data and adding an original interpretative angle to the general picture. With an admirable variety of sources and methods, the authors outline how the looming Euro-crisis further exacerbates gender-based differences in migration trajectories. As public debate on the effects of intra-EU mobility abounds, this volume is a healthy antidote to the all-too common, over-simplified contrast between low-skill and high-skill migrants." - Ettore Recchi, Sciences Po, France "Ever wondered who are these 'best and brightest' that countries try to attract with their policies on high skill migration? Ever wondered what the crisis did to these policies? This book shows the gender bias involved, and the indirect but powerful impact of the crisis on high skill female migrants, leaving female migrants mostly underpaid and overqualified. A brilliant contribution to migration, recession and gender scholarship!" - Mieke Verloo, Radboud University Nijmegen, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsPART I: FEMALE HIGH SKILL MIGRATION: CONCEPTS AND DYNAMICS 1. Introduction. Female High Skill Migration in the 21st Century: The Challenge of the Recession; Irina Isaakyan; Anna Triandafyllidou 2. European Policies to Attract Talent: The Crisis and Highly Skilled Migration Policy Changes; Lucie Cerna; Mathias Czaika 3. Female High Skilled Emigration from Southern Europe and Ireland After the Crisis; Anna Triandafyllidou; Carmen Gonzalez-Enriquez 4. Crisis and Beyond: Intra-EU Mobility of Polish and Spanish Migrants in a Comparative Perspective; Pawel Kaczmarczyk; Mikolaj Stanek PART II: FEMALE HIGH SKILL MIGRATION: A SECTOR-SPECIFIC APPROACH 5. Migration of Nurses and Doctors in the European Union and the European Free Trade Association; Gilles Dussault; James Buchan; Isabel Craveiro 6. Migration of Engineers and the Gender Dimension; Matthew Dixon 7. Southern European Highly Skilled Female Migrants in Male-Dominated Sectors in Times of Crisis: A Look into the IT and Engineering Sectors; Ruby Gropa; Laura Bartolini 8. International Students Mobility, Gender Dimension and Crisis; Marta Moskal 9. Exploring the Intersecting Impact of Gender and Citizenship on Spatial and Academic Career Mobility; Kyoko Shinozaki PART III: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS: TOWARDS A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF THE FEMALE HIGH-SKILL MIGRANT IN EUROPE 10. The Problem Of Skill Waste Among Highly Skilled Migrant Women In The UK Care Sector; Sondra Cuban 11. American Women in Southern Europe: A New Source of High Skill Workforce for the Eurocrisis Zone; Irina Isaakyan 12. Re-Thinking the Gender Dimension of High Skill Migration; Anna Triandafyllidou; Irina Isaakyan

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Book SynopsisThis book employs men's football as a lens through which to investigate questions relating to immigration, racism, integration and national identity in present-day Sweden. Specifically, this study explores if professional football serves as a successful model of multiracialism/multiculturalism for the rest of Swedish society to emulate.Trade Review“African Footballers in Sweden is a highly original, exceedingly well-researched, and profoundly empathetic book. It should be required reading for scholars, students, journalists, and thoughtful fans concerned about racism, the causes and effects of immigration, and the role of sport in an increasingly global Europe.” (Peter Alegi, Idrotts Forum, idrottsforum.org, February, 2016)Table of Contents1. Introduction: Racism and Integration in Contemporary Swedish Football and Society 2. The African Diaspora in the Global Football Market: The Arrival of African Footballers in Sweden 3. Racism in Swedish Football and Society 4. Anti-Racism and its Limitations in Swedish Football 5. African Footballers in Sweden: Identity, Background and Performance 6. African Football Imports in the Eyes of Swedish Clubs 7. The African Football Experience in Sweden 8. Racism, Racialization and Xenophobia: African Footballers in the Eyes of Fans and Media 9. Conclusion: Football, Integration, and National Identity

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Book SynopsisKatie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it ''travels'' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertaken with Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid and their Peru-based relatives and close friends to explore how human wellbeing is constructed and how it ''travels'' transnationally.Trade Review'This innovative book by Katie Wright provides a much needed new perspective on the interrelations between international migration, development and wellbeing. It manages to skillfully combine fascinating empirical insights from the lives of migrants with a new conceptual approach to international migration that focuses on human wellbeing. This book will appeal to a very wide audience of migration and development scholars and serves as a major contribution to contemporary understandings of the experiences of international migrants.' - Professor Cathy McIlwaine, Queen Mary, University of London, UK. 'This rich comparative and multi-sited investigation of international migration goes beyond the narrow focus of traditional economic perspectives, providing a holistic and perceptive approach that foregrounds migrants' understandings of and quest for wellbeing and happiness.' - Professor Manuel A. Vásquez, University of Florida, USA.Table of ContentsIntroduction Migrating for a Better Life? Contextualizing Human Wellbeing in London and Madrid International Migration and Human Wellbeing in London and Madrid How do Constructions of Human Wellbeing Travel? Investigating the Global Interconnectedness of Human Wellbeing Outcomes between London, Madrid and Peru Conclusions and Implications for Theory and Policy

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Disaporic Memories and Identities: A.P.Davidson& K.E.Kuah-Pearce The Play of Identity, Memory and Belonging: Chinese Migrants in Sydney: A.P.Davidson Memories and Identity Anxieties of Chinese Transmigrants in Australia: D.Ip Chinese Collective Memories in Sydney: W.Lalich Generational Identities Through Time: Identities and Homelands of the ABCs: L.Ngan Moving Through Memory: Chinese Migration to New Zealand in the 1990s: A.P.Davidson& R.Dei Collectives Memories as Cultural Capital: From Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns: K.E.Kuah-Pearce Politics, Commerce, and Construction of Chinese "Otherness" in Korea: Open Port Period (1876-1910): S.Choi Imagination, Memory and Misunderstanding: The Chinese in Japan and Japanese Perceptions of China: J.Clammer Memories, Belonging and Home-making: Chinese Migrants in Germany: M.W.H. Leung A Century of Not Belonging - The Chinese in South Africa: D.Accone& K.L.Harris Look Who's Talking: Migration Narratives and Identity Construction: A.L.Wai-sum In Love with Music: Memory, Identity, and Music in Hong Kong's Diasporic Films: E.M.K.Cheung Conclusion: Through the Diasporic Looking-glass: A.P.Davidson Index

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Book SynopsisIn the post-Cold war period new security threats have arisen in Western Europe. Amongst these, organized crime and illegal immigration are acknowledged to represent significant security challenges. The European Union and Internal Security analyses the nature of these challenges and investigates how the EU has been evolving to counter them. Written by experts in the fields of political science and law, this book addresses a hitherto neglected area of study.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Development of the EU as an Internal Security Actor The Securitization of Organized Crime and Illegal Immigration The Problems of Organized Crime and Illegal Immigration in Western Europe The Development of Policies on Organized Crime and Illegal Immigration post-Amsterdam The Challenge of the Eastern Enlargement Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDiversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Migration, Cities, Diversities 'Old' and 'New'; Steven Vertovec PART I: EXAMINING DIVERSITIES OLD AND NEW 2. Astoria, New York City; Sofya Aptekar and Anna Cieslik 3. Jurong West, Singapore; Laavanya Kathiravelu and Junjia Ye 4. Hillbrow, Johannesburg; Rajohane Matshedisho and Alex Wafer PART II: DIVERSITIES AND SPACES: COMING TOGETHER AND REMAINING APART 5. Religion in Public Spaces of Astoria; Anna Cieslik 6. Boundaries and Surveillance in Astoria; Sofya Aptekar 7. Encounter, Transport and Transitory Spaces in Jurong West; Laavanya Kathiravelu 8. Flea Markets and Familiar Strangers in Jurong West; Junjia Ye 9. Homelessness in Berea Park, Hillbrow; Rajohane Matshedisho 10. Precarity and Intimacy in Super-Diverse Hillbrow; Alex Wafer PART III: SOCIAL-SPATIAL PATTERNS OF ENCOUNTERING DIVERSITY 11. Route-ines 12. Rooms without Walls 13. Corridors of Dissociation 14. Conclusion; Steven Vertovec

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Book SynopsisDiscover the origins and consequences of human movement over time, from the 16th-century Age of Discovery to 21st-century immigration politics.This book examines the complex forces behind international migration and the enormous impact it is having on our globalized world. Chapters cover both the challenges and opportunities associated with migration in a broad selection of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania. Readers will find in-depth analysis of such recent events as the Ukrainian refugee crisis, violence against immigrants in South Africa, support for right-wing political parties in Germany, Australia''s use of offshore detention centers, and the Trump administration''s efforts to curb immigration. Readers will also uncover the historical antecedents to the modern landscape of human migration, including the push for colonization and the exploitation and horrors of the slave trade. The book also investigates the profound impact thatTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Living on a Broken Planet 2. Origins and Causes of Human Migration 3. Migration’s Global Impact 4. Responses to Global Migration 5. Future Implications of Global Migration Recommended Readings Index

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Book SynopsisMore than 35 million Chinese people live outside China, but this population is far from homogenous, and its multifaceted national affiliations require careful theorization. This book unravels the multiple, shifting paths of global migration in Chinese society today, challenging a unilinear view of migration by presenting emigration, immigration, and re-migration trajectories that are occurring continually and simultaneously. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations conducted in China, Canada, Singapore, and the China–Myanmar border, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho takes the geographical space of China as the starting point from which to consider complex patterns of migration that shape nation-building and citizenship, both in origin and destination countries. She uniquely brings together various migration experiences and national contexts under the same analytical framework to create a rich portrait of the diversity of contemporary Chinese migration processes. By examining the convergence of multiple migration pathways across one geographical region over time, Ho offers alternative approaches to studying migration, migrant experience, and citizenship, thus setting the stage for future scholarship. Trade Review"Migration practices in the globalized world are changing the ways we understand resettlement, citizenship, identity, and the sense of home. Elaine Ho's multi-sited ethnographic study offers a sophisticated analysis of the challenges and opportunities for belonging and states' management of cultural diversity in China, Canada, and Singapore today." -- Min Zhou * University of California, Los Angeles, and editor, Contemporary Chinese Diasporas *"Citizens in Motion is a pathbreaking study on contemporary migrations to and from China. It provides an instructive model on capturing the multiplicity of contemporaneous migrations that link nation-states while expanding our breadth of knowledge on questions of citizenship for transnational subjects and troubling assumptions of co-ethnic allegiance. This book is a must-read for specialists of China, migration, and racial ethnic studies across disciplines." -- Rhacel Salazar Parreñas * author of Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work *"Citizens in Motion is an invaluable contribution to literature on Chinese migration and diaspora, and wider migration studies more broadly, for several reasons: its expansive, multi-sited methodology; the varied Chinese diasporic histories woven into the present; and the conceptual frameworks she deploys, like those of 'citizenship constellations' and 'Tianxia', which complicate our understandings of mobility, belonging, difference and the state."––Caroline Faria & Devon Hsiao, Space and Polity"Citizens in Motion makes several significant interventions in a dynamic field, offering a much-welcomed update. Students and scholars of Chinese migration and society will find Ho's new book highly enlightening regarding our transnational present and the new visions we need."––Shelley Chan, The China Quarterly"[This] book is a timely production enriching the expanding scholarship on new Chinese migration. It offers an understanding of the diverse trends and directions of contemporary migrations from China and raises important questions regarding cultural and economic citizenship." -- Yuk Wah Chan * China Information *"This richly documented and theoretically provocative study is a timely and important contribution to the literature on migration journeys, showing how these transform transnational subjects and states alike. It will appeal to a broad interdisciplinary readership concerned with the questions of migration, citizenship, and ethnicity far beyond Chinese studies." -- Elena Barabsentva * The China Journal *"In Citizens in Motion, Elaine Ho...[argues] for an approach that transcends place-time snapshots in theorisations of migration and citizenship....[This] book offers a rich and complex narrative, and much food for thought for theorisations of migration and citizenship." -- Sin Yee Koh * Asian Journal of Social Science *"The conceptual framework and future directions identified by this book are aspects that scholars of overseas Chinese studies and history can learn from, especially in terms of how the book emphasises local contexts and their uniqueness, as well as the expansive analytical framework it adopts." -- Guo Mei Fen * The International Journal of Diaspora Chinese Studies *"Ho emphasizes both temporality and spatiality by drawing out the implications of multidirectional Chinese migrations and the multiple national configurations through which migrants might claim inclusion and, in turn, be claimed by various diasporas. Such multiply relocated migrants illustrate the strengths of Ho's approach." -- Madeine Y. Hsu * Cross-Currents *"Citizens in Motion should be commended for pushing the boundaries of transnationalism scholarship, and for its stimulating and insightful engagements with interdisciplinary debates on deterritorialized citizenship, multiculturalism, and, of course, Chinese diaspora....I think it is fair to say that Ho has produced a book ofexceptional quality and scholarly contribution." -- Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang * Journal of Asian Studies *"[This book] adds new and hitherto unexplored dimensions to ideas of 'multiculturalism' and 'belonging', highlighting the complexity of ethnic identity, migration and temporality....It is thought-provoking and richly informative and essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the contemporary Chinese diaspora." -- Johanna Waters * Social and Cultural Geography *"Citizens in Motion is a welcome reorientation of migration studies' conventional cartographies....[It] illuminates how migrant mobilities are animated through the entanglements of national integration and extraterritorial citizenship that differentiate the kinds of attachments and identities held by migrants." -- Ishan Ashutosh * Dialogues in Human Geography *"Ho is a skilful qualitative researcher who draws out rich data from her exhaustive fieldwork research, including interviews, participant observation, media analysis and analysis of other textual and visual sources." -- Liu Liangni Sally * Dialogues in Human Geography *"Works on international migration emphasize the mobility and flexibility brought about by transnationality, but they seldom discuss the conceptual and methodological challenges of understanding the (in)variability and multiplicity of identity and membership. Citizens in Motion promotes an approach that stresses the accretion of identities rather than the displacement of one identity for another." -- Pu Hao * Dialogues in Human Geography *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Migration and Citizenship chapter abstractThis chapter considers the way that multidirectional migration flows are transforming national citizenship and its territorial premises. Eschewing the tendency to study emigration and immigration as discrete fields, it proposes an approach that brings together seemingly distinct emigration, immigration, and re-migration trends under an analytical framework known as contemporaneous migration. This approach illuminates how citizenship formations in different national contexts are increasingly drawn into a constellation of relations, situating the migration and citizenship politics of national societies in a trans-territorial context. The chapter contextualizes developments in Chinese emigration and immigration to China in wider theoretical debates on emigration and diaspora, citizenship and territory, immigrant integration and re-migration, and ethnicity and co-ethnicity. It signals the multifaceted aspects of migration that interconnect China with migration sites globally, changing citizenship norms and practices. 2Chinese Re-migration chapter abstractCounter-diasporic migration, or the return of diasporic descendants to an ancestral land, has become a global trend. This chapter troubles linear narratives of emigration and immigration by examining the re-migration of diasporic descendants, focusing on Chinese diasporic descendants in Malaya, Indonesia, and Vietnam who were compelled to leave due to persecution between 1949 and 1979, a period of the inauguration of communist rule in China. The Chinese state resettled the refugees in state-owned farms and labeled them as "returnees," legitimizing its reach toward the diaspora. But the social realities they experienced expose contestations over presumed kinship and co-ethnicity. After 1978 China's diaspora strategizing shifted from privileging co-ethnicity to encouraging foreign investment and skills transfer to benefit national development. This discussion foregrounds how citizenship formations in China were intimately connected to the experiences of the Chinese abroad and those who re-migrated to the ancestral land. 3Citizenship Across the Life Course chapter abstractAnalyzing emigration, immigration, and re-migration concurrently, under the framework of contemporaneous migration, directs us toward evaluating what it means to stake claims to different components of citizenship in more than one political community across a migrant's life course. This chapter examines the way the Mainland Chinese migrants negotiate social reproduction concerns that extend across international borders, their multiple national affiliations, and aspirations for recognition and rights as they journey between China and Canada across the life course. Patterns of re-migration are transforming the social relations of citizenship, re-spatializing rights, obligations, and belonging. Source and destination countries are also reversed during repeated re-migration or transnational sojourning. Transnational sojourning forges citizenship constellations that interlink how migrants understand and experience citizenship across different migration sites. 4Multiple Diasporas chapter abstractThis chapter examines how fraternity and alterity operate in contradictory ways under conditions of contemporaneous migration. While fraternity connotes membership in a national community, alterity refers to the state of being different or the process of "Othering." The chapter focuses on Singapore as a hub, where concurrent immigration and emigration flows are creating new postcolonial nation-building challenges. Contemporary immigration from China is juxtaposed against past migration from the same ancestral land, generating both co-ethnic and inter-ethnic tensions in a multicultural society. With growing numbers of Singaporeans now moving abroad, Singapore has also become a country that seeks to assert an extraterritorial reach over its emigrants. The multidirectional migration flows evinced in Singapore exemplify how states and national societies invoke temporal framings to prioritize natal ties that are based on selected versions of territorial belonging, memory, and culture. 5China at Home and Abroad chapter abstractStudying the interface of distinct yet interrelated migration trends through the framework of contemporaneous migration allows us to conceptualize both inter-ethnic and co-ethnic relations in culturally diverse societies. The Chinese worldview of tianxia informs understanding of the multidirectional migration patterns that reflect and impact China's domestic management of ethnic diversity and its external relations. This chapter argues that contemporaneous migration further illuminates three dimensions of alterity, namely alterity as phenotypical difference, as the diversification of co-ethnicity, and as spatial recalibration. It interfaces African immigration to China with the re-migration of Chinese diasporic descendants to the ancestral land, and the emigration of ethnic minorities in China. Such an analytical approach reveals how fraternity and alterity operate within and across ethnic categories in transnational contexts. 6Contemporaneous Migration chapter abstractThis chapter shows how the analytical framework of contemporaneous migration allows an examination of citizenship constellations that are forged across migration sites. It draws together key themes that emerge from this approach, namely on citizenship and territory, fraternity and alterity, and the co-constitution of time and space. The chapter further signals the new research directions that contemporaneous migration brings to overseas Chinese studies or research on the "Chinese diaspora," and to the Chinese worldview of tianxia in relation to notions of cosmopolitanism. It also sets out the methods through which contemporaneous migration can be studied.

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Book SynopsisFifty years ago Enoch Powell made national headlines with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of an immigrant invasion in the once respectable streets of Wolverhampton. This local fixation brought the Black Country town into the national spotlight, yet Powell's unstable relationship with Wolverhampton has since been overlooked. Drawing from interviews and archival material, this book offers a rich local history through which to investigate the speech, bringing to life the racialised dynamics of space during a critical moment in British history. What was going on beneath the surface in Wolverhampton and how did Powell's constituents respond to this dramatic moment? The research traces the ways in which Powell's words reinvented the town and uncovers highly contested local responses. While Powell left Wolverhampton in 1974, the book returns to the city to explore the collective memories of the speech which continue to reverberate. In a contemporary period of new crisis and national divisions, revisiting the shadow of Powell allows us to reflect on racism and resistance from 1968 to today.Trade Review‘Enoch Powell made his notorious Rivers of Blood speech in the Midland Hotel in Birmingham on 20 April, 1968. At the time he was the Conservative MP for the constituency of Wolverhampton South West. In her book In the Shadow of Enoch Powell Shirin Hirsch examines the impact of Powell’s speech in the Wolverhampton of 1968 and analyses its significance 50 years later. Hirsch draws on archival material as well as her own contemporary interviews.’Vivek Lehal, Socialist Review, Vol. 444 (March 2019)As the extensive list of secondary sources in the book’s bibliography suggests, Enoch Powellhas been the subject of considerable research. Shirin Hirsch’s short but powerful bookstands out by offering insight into the experience of those both facing and fighting theramifications of Powell’s speech and the attitudes it represented. Hirsch’s masterful commandof contemporary newspapers and oral accounts presents the reader with an excellentperception of the prevailing societal ideas.Midland History -- .Table of ContentsForeword by Patrick VernonIntroduction1 ‘The Commonwealth is much too common for me’: another 19682 The world in Wolverhampton3 Reverberations from ‘Rivers of Blood’4 Resistance in the schools and on the buses5 ‘A monstrous reputation’: remembering Enoch PowellConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFifty years ago Enoch Powell made national headlines with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of an immigrant invasion in the once respectable streets of Wolverhampton. This local fixation brought the Black Country town into the national spotlight, yet Powell's unstable relationship with Wolverhampton has since been overlooked. Drawing from interviews and archival material, this book offers a rich local history through which to investigate the speech, bringing to life the racialised dynamics of space during a critical moment in British history. What was going on beneath the surface in Wolverhampton and how did Powell's constituents respond to this dramatic moment? The research traces the ways in which Powell's words reinvented the town and uncovers highly contested local responses. While Powell left Wolverhampton in 1974, the book returns to the city to explore the collective memories of the speech which continue to reverberate. In a contemporary period of new crisis and national divisions, revisiting the shadow of Powell allows us to reflect on racism and resistance from 1968 to today.Trade Review‘Enoch Powell made his notorious Rivers of Blood speech in the Midland Hotel in Birmingham on 20 April, 1968. At the time he was the Conservative MP for the constituency of Wolverhampton South West. In her book In the Shadow of Enoch Powell Shirin Hirsch examines the impact of Powell’s speech in the Wolverhampton of 1968 and analyses its significance 50 years later. Hirsch draws on archival material as well as her own contemporary interviews.’Vivek Lehal, Socialist Review, Vol. 444 (March 2019)As the extensive list of secondary sources in the book’s bibliography suggests, Enoch Powellhas been the subject of considerable research. Shirin Hirsch’s short but powerful bookstands out by offering insight into the experience of those both facing and fighting theramifications of Powell’s speech and the attitudes it represented. Hirsch’s masterful commandof contemporary newspapers and oral accounts presents the reader with an excellentperception of the prevailing societal ideas.Midland History -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 ‘The Commonwealth is much too common for me’: another 19682 The world in Wolverhampton3 Reverberations from ‘Rivers of Blood’4 Resistance in the schools and on the buses5 ‘A monstrous reputation’: remembering Enoch PowellConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book intervenes in the immigration debate, showing how moving away from a racialized local/ migrant dichotomy can help to unite people on the basis of their common humanity. Drawing on over one hundred stories and eight years of research in a provincial English city, Rogaly asks what that city (and indeed England as a whole) stands for in the Brexit era. Stories from the city’s homes and streets, and from its warehouse and food factory workplaces, challenge middle-class condescension towards working-class cultures. They also reveal a non-elite cosmopolitanism, which contrasts with the more familiar association of cosmopolitanism with elites. The book combines critique with resources for hope. It is aimed at general readers as well as students and lecturers in geography, sociology, migration studies and oral history.Trade Review'Stories from a migrant city is a beautifully written book mapping the consolidation of a complex culture of multi-ethnic working class cosmopolitanism amid the rise of reactionary populisms.Drawing on a decade of painstaking research on local workplaces and neighbourhoods, Rogaly uncovers the shared histories of mobility and fixity as well as how they continue to be disrupted by class inequalities and racisms. He should be applauded for not only producing an analytically sophisticated book but one which provides us with some of the resources of hope that might one day help to plot a path towards a more open and democratic future for all.'Professor Satnam Virdee, University of Glasgow 'A powerful, thoughtful and much needed contribution'Fatima Manji, Correspondent, Channel 4 News 'In the face of the most ugly uses of ‘place’ as a code for racialised exclusivity, this poignant and necessary book encourages us to think more expansively - of varieties of inclusion and exclusion, of unexpected conviviality and cosmopolitanism from below, of tactics of racial capitalism that set us against each other and spaces of imagination that can bring us together. All in the form of a kind of love-song to... Peterborough.'Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of East London'In this extraordinary book Ben Rogaly shows us that we need to rethink who is considered a ‘migrant’ and who is a ‘local.’ The urgent lesson contained in these pages is that any step towards challenging the racism that distorts and confines the immigration debate needs to listen out for what is emerging in the ordinary life of cosmopolitanism from the bottom-up.'Professor Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London'Ben Rogaly succeeds in dissolving the distinction between ‘local’ and ‘migrant’ to illuminate everyday forms of working-class multicultural interaction and conviviality. A ‘must-read’ book in an age of Brexit uncertainty, changing global macro-economic processes and the rise of nationalist nostalgia.'Professor Anoop Nayak, Newcastle University'This book is for anyone interested in British identity. You don’t need to have spent your Saturdays as a teenager hanging around the Queensgate shopping centre to find it informative and compelling. But Rogaly also resists using the city merely as a way to explain something bigger, as a stand-in for other provincial places.In Stories From a Migrant City, Peterborough exists, in and of itself, as a distinct place. We need more books that do the same for other cities and towns in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world.'Charlotte L. Riley, New Humanist'Rogaly’s Stories from a Migrant City challenges contemporary understandings of immigrant inclusion and exclusion and xenophobic antipathy in the aftermath of Brexit. Rogaly (Univ. of Sussex, UK) criticizes common analyses of Brexit as a clash between open-minded, cosmopolitan elites and racist, native-born, working-class whites. Instead, using a politics of place in Peterborough (a small, provincial city outside of London), coupled with illuminating oral history data drawn from "locals," "newcomers," "immigrants," and "elites," he reveals that the politics that put Brexit into play are more complicated than the superficial images presented in the media and in much academic discourse. Rogaly demonstrates that cosmopolitanism is regularly practiced in the everyday lives of Peterborough’s working- and middle-class inhabitants. Late-stage capitalism and neoliberalism have put everything in flux so that the terms "native" and "migrant" do not adequately reflect who lives in Britain and whose "authentic" British lifestyle is at stake from the promises and threats of Brexit. Disruption of continuity of place magnifies changes, making them seem more threatening to the national and local projects. Rogaly provides glimmers of hope highlighting historical moments of opportunities for unity.--R. A. Harper, York CollegeSumming Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association. -- .Table of Contents1 Introduction: Non-elite cosmopolitanism in the Brexit era2 ‘India’s my heart, and I know I’m an Indian’: histories of mobility and fixity3 ‘If not you, they can get ten different workers in your place’: racial capitalism and workplace resistance 4 ‘We’re not just guardians of the area but of the whole city’: urban citizenship struggles and the racialised outsider5 ‘And then we just let our creativity take over’: cultural production in a provincial city6 Conclusion: the immigration debate and common anger in dangerous timesAcknowledgements Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced scholars in the field, Border images, border narratives provides fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural representations of borders and related processes. Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques Rancière, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social anthropology, media studies, and political geography.Trade Review'The collection succeeds in its intended purpose to contribute towards new approaches to the relevance and workings of borders. The book is of equal interest to students of cultural and literary English studies who wish to become acquainted with border studies, as much as for well-versed researchers looking for inspiration beyond the established forms of inquiry.'Sophie U. Kriegel, Leipzig University, Journal for the Study of British Cultures Vol. 29 Issue 1 (2022) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: images and narratives on the border – Jopi Nyman and Johan SchimanskiPart I: The Border (Forms)1 Phenomenology of the liminal – Wolfgang Müller-Funk2 Horizontal vertigo and psychasthenia: border figures of the fantastic – Patricia GarcíaPart II: Living with the Border (Zones)3 Capturing clouds: imagin(in)g the materiality of digital networks – Holger Pötzsch4 In/visibilities beyond the spectacularisation: young people, subjectivity, and revolutionary border Imaginations in the Mediterranean borderscape – Chiara Brambilla5 From heroism to grotesque: the invisibility of border-related trauma narratives in the Finnish–Russian borderlands – Tuulikki Kurki6 Expanded border imaginaries and aligned border narratives: ethnic minorities and localities in China’s border encounters with Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam – Victor Konrad and Zhiding HuPart III: Crossing the Border (Migrations)7 Borders: tshe topos of/for a post-politics of images? – Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary8 Some cunning passages in border-crossing narratives: seen and unseen migrants – Stephen F. Wolfe9 Borderscapes of Calais: images of ‘The Jungle’ in Breach by Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes – Jopi Nyman10 Seasons of migration to the North: borders and images in migration narratives published in Norwegian – Johan Schimanski11 Performance of memory: testimonies of survival and rescue at Europe’s border – Karina Horsti and Ilaria TucciEpilogue: border images and narratives: paradoxes, spheres, aesthetics – Johan Schimanski and Jopi NymanIndex

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Book SynopsisAlso known as the Great Northward Migration and the Black Migration, this movement of more than six million African Americans from American's rural southern regions to its urban northern regions occurred over more than 50 years, from 1916 to 1970. Some historians separate this great move into two periods — the first from 1916 to 1940, during which 1.6 million people moved from the rural south to the industrial north, and the second following the Great Depression, from 1940 to 1970, which saw more than 5 million people, many with urban skills, move north and west.Two main causes for this massive migration were poor economic conditions and racial segregation and discrimination in Southern states when Jim Crow laws were upheld. The Great Migration was historic for its sheer number, called ""the largest and most rapid internal movements in history."" It also brought historic change to the cities the migrants moved to, where African Americans established influential communities of their own at a time when these cities were already exerting cultural, social, political, and economic influence in the country.

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Book SynopsisResponding to the deteriorating situation of migrants today and the complex geographies they navigate, Coercive Geographies examines historical and contemporary forms of coercion and constraint exercised by a wide range of actors in diverse settings. It links the question of spatial confines to that of labor. Coercive Geographies represents an important attempt to bring together space, precarity, labor coercion and mobility in an analytical lens. Precarity emerges in particular geographical and historical contexts, which are decisive for how it is shaped. This volume analyzes coercive geographies as localized and spatialized intersections between labor regulations and migration policies, which become detrimental to existing mobility frameworks. Contributors include: Irina Aguiari, Abdulkadir Osman Farah, Leandros Fischer, Konstantinos Floros, Johan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Martin Ottovay Jørgensen, Apostolos Kapsalis, Karin Krifors, Sven Van Melkebeke, Susi Meret, and Vasileios Spyridon Vlassis.

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Book SynopsisAward-winning author and teacher Andrew J. Milson takes readers on anenthralling tour with four travelers as they faced treacherous rivers,drunken scoundrels, and repulsive food on the Arkansas frontier. But Milson also cautions thatthe dramatic imagery, provocative epithets, and frightful anecdotescommon in travel narratives too often result in distorted geographicalunderstandings of a place. Milson explains how the language in each ofthese travelers' published narratives reveals perceptions of places andlandscapes that can be mapped. When mapped, travelers' perceptionsreveal not just what the traveler said, but where he said it. Theresulting maps of these travelers' perceptions of Arkansasillustrate the places experienced and perceived rather than simply thespaces they traversed.Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834, is the first book to capture the fascinating stories of William Dunbar, Thomas Nuttall, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and George William Featherstonhaugh. A deeper understanding of the Arkansas past and the early nineteenth century American frontier is unveiled through maps of their stories and perceptions.Trade Review[A] truly eye-opening volume, which lays aside the traditional travels of so long ago, and neatly places each excursion within two major themes—that of place and landscape. … Milson has given us a new way to examine these travels and the Arkansas Travelers themselves." —Maylon Rice, Fort Smith Historical Society Journal, September 2019

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Book SynopsisThe domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport as well as a versatile weapon of war. Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse through a combination of equine iconography, literary representations, fieldwork and archaeological theory. She explores the ways in which horses were used in the ancient world, whether in regular cavalry formations, harnessed to chariots, as a means of reconnaissance, in swift and deadly skirmishing (such as by Scythian archers) or as the key mode of mobility. Establishing a regional typology of ancient horses - Mediterranean, Central Asian and Near Eastern - the author discerns within these categories several distinct sub-types. Explaining how the physical characteristics of each type influenced its use on the battlefield - through grand strategy, singular tactics and general deployment - she focuses on Egypt, Persia and the Hittites, as well as Greece and Rome. This is the most comprehensive treatment yet written of the horse in antiquity.Trade Review'The Horse in the Ancient World is aimed at a broad audience. Its unusual strength lies in Carolyn Willekes' attractive combination of academic expertise with considerable practical experience. This has produced a work of sound scholarship which is also accessible to the general reader. It should be an invaluable companion to classical specialists and equine enthusiasts alike; it is of good quality, and fills a gap in the current literature.' - Iain G Spence, former Associate Professor of Ancient History, Australian National University, author of The Cavalry of Classical Greece: A Social and Military History; 'Carolyn Willekes' book is a most welcome addition to a growing list of publications devoted to ancient equestrian and cavalry studies. It is a richly informative work, giving ample evidence of the author's long personal experience with horses and equestrian activity. That she journeyed to Mongolia in search of the famous Steppe Pony gives her study a real life grounding and certainly attests her personal pluck. Throughout her book, Willekes stresses the close relationship between humans and horses since the domestication of the latter in the fourth millennium BC. Her chapters on the evolution of the horse and horse riding, and her clear categorization of horse types, are clear, concise and persuasive. Willekes' book should appeal to an audience far broader than just horse enthusiasts: she covers the use of the horse in war; in art (for example, offering a provocative interpretation of the Parthenon frieze); and in sports. She also includes lengthy translated excerpts of ancient Greek and Roman writers on what we would call "equine conformation". All in all, this is an enjoyable, well researched and nicely balanced introduction to the subject.' - Glenn R Bugh, Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Byzantine History, Virginia Tech, author of The Horsemen of Athens and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World

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Book SynopsisBorder walls, shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, separated families at the border, island detention camps: migration is at the centre of contemporary political and academic debates. This ground-breaking Handbook offers an exciting and original analysis of critical research on themes such as these, drawing on cutting-edge theories from an interdisciplinary and international group of leading scholars. With a focus on spatial analysis and geographical context, this volume highlights a range of theoretical, methodological and regional approaches to migration research, while remaining attuned to the underlying politics that bring critical scholars together. Divided into six thematic sections, including new areas in critical migration research, the book covers the key questions galvanizing migration scholars today, such as issues surrounding refugees and border militarization. Each chapter explores new themes, expanding on core theories to convey fresh insight to contemporary research. A key resource for migration, refugee and border studies this Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the topic, covering a vast array of research ideas with a specific focus on the geographical aspects of migration. Scholars working on migration, refugees, asylum, transnationalism, humanitarianism and borders will find this an invaluable read. Contributors: J. Allsopp, I. Ataç, N. Bagheri, A. Blunt, J. Bonnerjee, A. Burridge, M. Casas-Cortes, A. Chikanda, S. Cobarrubias, K. Coddington, M. Collyer, D. Conlon, J. Crush, T. Davies, S. Dhesi, P. Ehrkamp, J.L. Fluri, G. Garelli, N. Gill, M. Gilmartin, C. Goh, M. Griffiths, E. Ho, J. Hyndman, A. Isakjee, R. Jones, B. Kasparek, P. Kelly, S. Kok, A.-K. Kuusisto-Arponen, R.B. Lacy, J. Loyd, K. MacFarlane, C. Maharaj, L. Martin, D.E. Martinez, E. Mavroudi, C. Menjívar, K. Mitchell, B. Muller, P. Pallister-Wilkins, N. Paszkiewicz, T. Raeymaekers, R. Rogers, R. Rotter, A. Sabhlok, R. Sampson, M. Schmidt-Sembdner, A. Secor, J. Slack, E. Steinhilper, S.D. Walsh, H. van Houtum, M. Walton-Roberts, K. Wee, Y. Weima, B. YeohTrade Review'This Handbook arrives at a significant time, when state and public responses to human mobility have taken a particularly hostile turn. A rich compendium, it examines numerous key spaces, scales, structures and dynamics of migration that characterize our turbulent era.' --Steven Vertovec, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany'By highlighting the intersection of two major themes - qualitative historical change within continuity and the significance of spatial analysis in the mapping of economic and political restructuring - this book advances migration studies and speaks to our precarious challenging times.' --Nina Glick Schiller, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany'This comprehensively framed and engaging collection of essays by leading international geographers provides an innovative global perspective and critical analytic insights for both scholars and advocates into the multiple cultural, social, and political dimensions of international migration - a major contribution to contemporary theoretical and public policy debates.' --Josh DeWind, Social Science Research Council, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Critical Geographies of Migration Katharyne Mitchell, Reece Jones, and Jennifer L. Fluri PART I New Issues in Critical Migration Research 1. Borders and bodies: Siting critical geographies of migration Mary Gilmartin and Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen 2. Managing displacement: Negotiating transnationalism, encampment, and return Yolanda Weima and Jennifer Hyndman 3. Gender, Violence and Migration Cecilia Menjívar and Shannon Drysdale Walsh 4. The laws of impermanence: Displacement, sovereignty, subjectivity Timothy Raeymaekers 5. Biometric borders Benjamin J Müller PART II Corporeal and Gendered Geographies of Migration 6. Embodied migration and the geographies of care: The worlds of unaccompanied refugee minors Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen and Mary Gilmartin 7. Corporeal geographies of labour migration in Asia Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Kellynn Wee, and Charmian Goh 8. Seasonal Migration and the working-class laboring body in India Anu Sabhlok 9. Embodiment and memory in the geopolitics of trauma Patrica Ehrkamp, Jenna M. Loyd, and Anna Secor 10. Gendered circular migrations of Afghans: Fleeing conflict and seeking opportunity Nazgol Bagheri and Jennifer L. Fluri PART III Borders, Violence, and the Externalization of Control 11. The geography of migrant death: Violence on the U.S.-Mexico border Jeremy Slack and Daniel E. Martinez 12. 'Ceci n'est pas la migration: The surrealist migration map of Frontex Henk van Houtum and Rodrigo Bueno-Lacy 13. From preventative to repressive: The changing use of development and humanitarianism to control migration Michael Collyer 14. Military-humanitarianism Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 15. Genealogies of contention in concentric circles: Remote migration control and its Eurocentric geographical imaginaries Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 16. Renationalization and spaces of migration: The European border regime after 2015 Bernd Kasparek and Matthais Schmidt-Sembdner PART IV Camps, Detention, and Prisons 17. Informal migrant camps Thom Davies, Arshad Isakjee, and Surindar Dhesi 18. Fractures in Australia’s Asia-Pacific border continuum: Deterrence, detention, and the production of illegality Kate Coddington 19. Carceral mobility and flexible territoriality in immigration enforcement Lauren Martin 20. The biopolitics of alternatives to immigration detention Robyn Sampson PART V Transnationalism and Diaspora 21. Home and diaspora Alison Blunt and Jayani Bonnerjee 22. Revisiting diaspora as process: timespace, performative diasporas? Elizabeth Mavroudi 23. Diasporas and development Margaret Walton-Roberts , Jonathan Crush and Abel Chikanda 24. Approximating citizenship: Affective practices of Chinese diasporic descendants in Myanmar Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho 25. Geographies of the next generation: Outcomes for the children of immigrants through a spatial lens Philip Kelly and Cindy Maharaj 26. Social media and migration: A moral epistemology of Rwandan return Saskia Kok and Richard Rogers Part VI Refugees, Asylum, Humanitarianism 27. Contentious subjects: Spatial and relational perspectives on refugee mobilizations in Europe Elias Steinhilper and Ilker Ataç 28. Law, presence and refugee claim determination Nick Gill, Jennifer Allsopp, Andrew Burridge, Melanie Griffiths, Natalia Paszkiewicz, and Rebecca Rotter 29. Im/mobility and humanitarian triage Polly Pallister-Wilkins 30. Contradictions and provocations of neoliberal governmentality in the U.S. asylum seeking system Deirdre Conlon 31. Counter-mapping, refugees and asylum borders Martina Tazzioli and Glenda Garelli 32. The sanctuary network: Transnational church activism and refugee protection in Europe Katharyne Mitchell and Key MacFarlane Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. International migration has emerged as one of the most pressing issues faced by national and regional governments in our modern world. This Research Agenda provides much-needed discussion on the health of migrants, and fundamental research directions for the future. The editors draw together key contributions that address people with a range of immigration statuses, including refugees. Written by leading experts in the field, chapters explore the evolving nature of health, from how this is experienced by migrants in their countries of origin, to the impact of the immigrant journey and experiences in their country of residence. Topical and timely, the Research Agenda offers key insights into previously underdeveloped areas of study, including an analysis of female migrants, a discussion of immigration relative to the Global South, and the relationship between climate change, migration and health. An important read for human geography scholars, this will be particularly useful for those looking into population and health geography and demography. It will also be beneficial to sociology and anthropology scholars interested in immigration and health. Contributors include: A.T. Banerjee, V. Chouinard, X. Deng, S. Gal, S. Gravel, J. Hanley, J. Hennebry, L. Hunter, A. Kobayashi, J.-H. Koo, L. Malhaire, K.B. Newbold, J.-A. Osei-Twum, S. Park, D.H. Simon, K. Stelfox, M. Walton-Roberts, L. Wang, K. WilsonTrade Review‘The various essays provide some innovative exploration of the migration-health nexus. As such, the book promises to be inspirational for scholars of geography, public health and related fields. Graduate students who seek to get oriented in this truly complex field and to identify salient research questions will undoubtedly benefit from perusing the essays of this volume.’ -- Brigitte Waldorf, Regional Science Policy and Practice‘A timely contribution to the field of migration and health, and a valuable resource for researchers seeking to explore newer questions. The nine chapters in this book offer diverse perspectives on themes such as inequity and discrimination in access to healthcare, gender, cultural safety, food security, disability and climate change as experienced by immigrants from countries in the Global South. The authors challenge and demystify pre-existing frameworks on migrant health, seek to broaden the theoretical and methodological scope of the field and provide a research agenda for future work.’ -- Divya Ravindranath, Progress in Development Studies‘It is a valuable resource for those seeking to refine their research questions and as a means to draw parallels across work on migration and health. While focused on international migration, the questions and approaches outlined are relevant to research on internal migration, and there is significant space to better articulate the connections between internal migration, international migration, and health.’ -- Frances Darlington-Pollock, Geographical Research'Bruce Newbold and Kathi Wilson are both health geographers with a strong legacy; this edited volume on which they have partnered is no exception. As they state in their opening chapter, the health of an immigrant is shaped by the immigration journey and the factors precipitating it (forced versus voluntary; economic, social, cultural, environmental push and pull factors…). What Newbold and Wilson have done with this edited volume is bring the immigrant health literature into the 21st Century by bringing heretofore invisible issues to the forefront: gender; climate change; inequalities in the global south. Their section on future research directions takes us even further through suggestions for alternative theoretical and epistemological approaches to the growing issues of immigration and immigrant health.' --Susan J Elliot, University of Waterloo, Canada'Tapping into the expertise from scholars in geography, international affairs, nursing, psychiatry, public health, social service and social work, A Research Agenda for Migration and Health fills a gap in migration studies by foregrounding climate change, gender/race and health, health status, health care, nutrition and their impacts.' --Wei Li, Arizona State University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Migration and Health K. Bruce Newbold and Kathi Wilson 2. Disability, Migration and Health in the Global South: An Agenda for Research and Action Vera Chouinard 3. Healthcare Access among Immigrants and Transnational Migrants Lu Wang 4. Climate Change, Migration and Health Lori M. Hunter and Daniel H. Simon 5. Migrant Worker Strategies in Access to Health: Recognizing agency in a context of constraints Jill Hanley, Sol Park, Sylvie Gravel, Jah-Hon Koo, Loic Malhaire and Sigalit Gal 6. Rebalancing Act: Promoting an international research agenda on women migrant careworkers’ health and rights Jenna Hennebry and Margaret Walton-Roberts 7. Securing Culturally Appropriate Food for Refugee Women in Canada: Opportunities for Research Katherine B. Stelfox and K. Bruce Newbold 8. An Agenda for Newcomer Health Care? Research in Canada Audrey Kobayashi and Xiaojun Deng 9. Exploring the Applicability of Indigenous Cultural Safety to Immigrant Health Research Jo-Ann Osei-Twum, Erika Pulfer and Ananya T. Banerjee Index

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Book Synopsis Belonging is a not a state that we achieve, but a struggle that we wage. The struggle for belonging is more difficult if one is returning to a homeland after many years abroad. In Pursuit of Belonging is an ethnography of Turkish migrants’ struggle for understanding, intimacy and appreciation when they return from Germany to their Turkish homeland. Drawing on an established tradition of life story writing in anthropology, Rottmann conveys the struggle to forge an ethical life by relating the experiences of a second-generation German-Turkish woman named Leyla.Trade Review “With its focus on migration as an ethical experience, the book makes an important contribution to studies of transnational mobility, return migration, and migrant lives.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI) “If the readers want to read a rich critical analysis of a wide range of social science topics like identity, belonging, discrimination, otherization, stigmatization, and multi-layered sense of belonging, In Pursuit of Belonging is the best title. The readers get two-in-one! They are presented with a remarkable literary plot embedded in scientific genre or the other way around: a nuanced diligent discussion of identity and identification by means of a life writing… Having read her memoir, going into rich ethnographic evidence and conceptual discussion would benefit the reader immensely.” • Anthropos “In Pursuit of Belonging, which is elegantly written and ethnographically rich, poses new questions about ethics in migration settings and should be on the shelves of scholars interested in migration studies, anthropology, ethics, human rights, gender, and narrative studies.” • Narrative Inquiry “…interestingly it makes a contribution to the literature by being an ethnography of one woman whose life story is situated in a transnational space… This is an impressive study”. • Kimberly Hart, SUNY Buffalo StateTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: At Home in European-Turkish Space Chapter 1. Making a Living in Illegal German-Turkish Call Centers Chapter 2. The Circumcision Celebration: Motherhood and Ethical Transformations Chapter 3. A "Man From a Village” and a "European Girl”: Love and a Life Together Chapter 4. Shaping a Community: A Dream Comes True Chapter 5. Being and Becoming Muslim Conclusion: In Pursuit of Belonging Appendix I: Leyla’s Memoir Study Guide Appendix II: Leyla’s Memoir References Index

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Book Synopsis Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanisation and internal migration in the Global South. Based on longitudinal research undertaken in rural ‘home’ places, urban suburbs and informal settlements over thirty years, this book reveals the deep ambivalence of the outcome of migration, and argues that continuity in the fundamental organising principles of cultural life – in this case centred on kinship and an ‘island home’ – is significantly more important for urban and rural lives than the transformative impacts of migration and urbanisation.Trade Review “Petrou provides a highly useful and informed work on the experiences of Paamese over three decades, looking at both continuities and changes. The specific attention she gives to gender differences in the way these experiences unfold, as well as to the careful transcription of Paamese’s ambivalent feelings and the detailed analysis of their economic opportunities and situations, makes If Everyone Returned, the Island Would Sink a great read not only for scholars working on urbanization and migration issues in what she calls the ‘Global South’, but also for everyone interested in Melanesian contemporary lives and ethnographies.” • Pacific History “This is an excellent study of rural/urban migration in the Western Pacific… well-written, free of jargon while scholarly in its approach. It is unique in presenting longitudinal, comparative data.” • Martha Macintyre, The University of MelbourneTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Urbanisation and Migration: Rapid Change but Enduring Patterns Chapter 2. Subsistence Realities, Material Dreams: Rural Lives and Livelihoods Chapter 3. It’s Like We Live in Town Already: Island Social Organisation Chapter 4. The Everyday Ordinariness of Mobility: Persistent Patterns of Rural Outmigration Chapter 5. I Just Came to Visit My Kin: The Evolution of Urban Permanence Chapter 6. Friends, Lovers and Stranger Danger: Urban Social Worlds Chapter 7. Living on Money: Urban Economic Life Conclusion. Fluidity and Flexibility: A Generation of Paamese Migration and Urban Experiences Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the major challenges facing the world today is the interaction between demographic changes and development. Rather than the usual view that the population itself is the main problem, Population and Development Issues argues that it is just one factor among many others, such as poverty, illiteracy, poor health, unemployment, the condition of women and climate change.This book analyzes the relationships between the key demographic variables (fertility, morbidity and mortality, migration, etc.) and major development issues, notably education, employment, health, gender, social and geographical inequalities and climate concerns. Bringing together contributions from specialists across every field, it presents empirical data simply and clearly alongside theoretical reflections.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Population in the Development Paradigm xiYves CHARBIT Chapter 1 The Precursors: The Mercantilists, Malthus, Marx 1Yves CHARBIT 1.1 Theories and doctrines 1 1.2 Mercantilism, the population doctrine and policy of royal power 2 1.2.1 Mercantilism and the modern state 2 1.2.2 A populationist doctrine 4 1.2.3 The inevitable historical decline of mercantilism 5 1.3 Malthus, the theorist of demo-economic growth 6 1.3.1 The consequences of demographic dynamics: poverty or increased agricultural production? 6 1.3.2 Demo-economic growth, industrialization and well-being 9 1.3.3 The political instrumentalization of demography in the past and in our days 11 1.4 Marx yesterday and today 12 1.4.1 Precarious labor in the agricultural sector 15 1.4.2 The relevance of Marx 16 1.5 Conclusion 18 1.6 References 19 Chapter 2 Education, Population and Development 23Nicole BELLA and Yves CHARBIT 2.1 Introduction 23 2.2 Education statistics and demography 24 2.2.1 Enrollment in primary education 25 2.2.2 Enrollment in secondary education 25 2.2.3 Higher education, still a luxury despite its expansion 29 2.2.4 Girls, the major beneficiaries of educational progress over the last decades 30 2.2.5 Education and demography in Asia 32 2.3 Education, population and development 43 2.3.1 Education and long-term economic growth 43 2.3.2 Education and social development 44 2.3.3 Education and politics 45 2.3.4 Education and conflict: a complex relationship 46 2.3.5 Education and urbanization 47 2.4 Conclusion: education and demography 48 2.5 References 48 Chapter 3 Employment and the Informal Economy 53Jacques CHARMES 3.1 Introduction 53 3.2 The concept of informal economy and its assessment methods 54 3.2.1 The evolution of concepts 55 3.2.2 The evolution of measurements 57 3.2.3 The extent of employment in the informal economy worldwide 58 3.3 Long-term employment trends in the informal economy in Northern Africa 60 3.3.1 A wide variety of approaches 60 3.3.2 The current situation 64 3.4 Conclusion: which transition policies from the informal to the formal economy? 72 3.5 References 74 Chapter 4 Gender Inequalities 77Serge RABIER 4.1 Current theories and debates 77 4.2 Health and reproductive rights at the heart of demography: economic investment and anthropological breakthroughs 78 4.2.1 Global data 78 4.2.2 Infant and maternal health 79 4.2.3 HIV-AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases 81 4.2.4 The emergence of new challenges related to the epidemiological transition 81 4.2.5 Gender stereotypes and patriarchy 82 4.2.6 Anthropological discrimination 83 4.2.7 Economic discrimination 84 4.2.8 Public health policies 84 4.3 Gender determinants at the heart of educational supply and demand in Africa 86 4.3.1 Primary education 87 4.3.2 Secondary education 89 4.3.3 University education 89 4.3.4 Anthropological obstacles 92 4.3.5 Institutional, economic and social obstacles 94 4.4 Conclusion 101 4.5 References 101 Chapter 5 Sex Selection: Public Policies to Balance the Scales? 105Christophe Z GUILMOTO and Laura RAHM 5.1 Introduction 105 5.2 Prevalence and evolution of SRB trends 107 5.2.1 Sex imbalances at birth across the world 107 5.2.2 Determinants of sex imbalances at birth 109 5.3 Public policies against gender-biased sex selection 111 5.3.1 Policy evolution: from denial to recognition, to global action 111 5.3.2 Policy typology 113 5.3.3 Policy impact: evidence and knowledge gaps 116 5.4 Case study: impact of policy on the SRB in Armenia and Vietnam 117 5.4.1 Armenia 117 5.4.2 Vietnam 122 5.5 Discussion and conclusion 127 5.6 References 128 Chapter 6 Poverty and Inequalities 133Yves CHARBIT, Mustapha OMRANE and Zakari OUMAROU 6.1 Measuring and analyzing poverty and inequalities 133 6.1.1 Defining poverty 134 6.1.2 Measuring poverty 135 6.2 The evolution of poverty 137 6.2.1 Means of subsistence around 2015 137 6.2.2 The evolution of extreme poverty in the world 138 6.2.3 Health and poverty 139 6.3 Poverty in Niger 144 6.3.1 The sociodemographic characteristics of households 146 6.3.2 Poverty and the labor market 148 6.3.3 Food insecurity in 2011 149 6.4 Conclusion: toward a new poverty indicator? 152 6.5 References 153 Chapter 7 Mental Health: An Underestimated Development Issue 155Véronique PETIT 7.1 Introduction 155 7.2 Inclusion of mental health in overall health 156 7.2.1 Genealogy of an international mobilization 156 7.2.2 The global morbidity burden 158 7.2.3 Lack of mobilization and investment in mental health 160 7.2.4 The costs of mental disorders 163 7.2.5 Mental health in the demographic and epidemiological transitions 165 7.3 Senegal, an emblematic case of the situation in African countries 167 7.3.1 Colonial heritage: the Fann school 167 7.3.2 The care supply: insufficient and unevenly distributed 171 7.3.3 Therapeutic pathways and adherence to treatment 174 7.4 Conclusion: a fight that still has to be waged 176 7.5 References 177 Chapter 8 Migration Remittances and Development 183Serge FELD 8.1 Introduction 183 8.2 Volume and trends in remittance movements 184 8.2.1 The global level 184 8.2.2 The regional level and the national level 187 8.3 The consequences for households: poverty, health, education 195 8.3.1 Poverty reduction 195 8.3.2 Poverty reduction 197 8.3.3 Consumption expenditure or investment? A false dilemma 198 8.3.4 Health and education 201 8.4 Conclusion: remittances, a development policy instrument 204 8.5 References 205 Chapter 9 Climate Change and Demography 213Sabine HENRY 9.1 Introduction 213 9.2 Climate change as analyzed by the IPCC 214 9.2.1 The IPCC approach 214 9.2.2 Summary of the main results of IPCC reports 216 9.2.3 The geography of climate change impact 217 9.2.4 Scenarios for the future 218 9.3 The impacts of climate change on demographic factors 220 9.3.1 Fertility and its inevitable inertia 221 9.3.2 Climate-related mortality and morbidity 223 9.3.3 Environmental migrations: a problem to be solved or a solution to be explored? 226 9.4 Trapped populations 229 9.5 Conclusion 232 9.6 References 233 Chapter 10 Population Policies 237John F MAY 10.1 Introduction 237 10.2 Population policies: processes and mechanisms 240 10.2.1 Goals and values 240 10.2.2 Demographic data and variables amenable to interventions 241 10.2.3 Policy levers and instruments 242 10.2.4 Population policy process 243 10.2.5 Policy actors and stakeholders 244 10.2.6 Policies, priorities and methods 246 10.2.7 Funding and monitoring and evaluation 247 10.3 Population policies: empirical evidence 248 10.3.1 Asia: China, Indonesia and Iran 249 10.3.2 Sub-Saharan Africa 252 10.3.3 More developed countries 253 10.4 Conclusion 255 10.5 References 257 Conclusion: Is Population Really the Problem? 261Yves CHARBIT List of Authors 279 Index 281

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Highlighting the power of multi-dimensional demography, this Advanced Introduction addresses the most consequential changes in our societies and economies using quantitative approaches. It defines three demographic theories with predictive power - demographic metabolism, transition and dividend - and repositions the discipline at the heart of social science.Key features include: Discussion of alternative demographic scenarios in the context of sustainable development Introduction of national human resource management as the population policy for the 21st century An outline of how the significant demographic theories discussed form the building blocks of a Unified Demographic Theory An argument for cognitive changes as the primary driver of demographic transition rather than changing economic conditions, demonstrated by the impact of changing educational attainment structures. This Advanced Introduction is a must-read for demographers around the globe for its concise summary of the concepts, theories and power of multi-dimensional demography, as well as students of demography at all levels. It will also be useful to academics in other social sciences, including human geography, development studies and sociology scholars interested in what state-of-the-art demography has to offer their fields.Trade Review‘Wolfgang Lutz secured his place among the handful of the world's most influential demographers by decades of pioneering empirical research, theoretical exploration, and institutional leadership. This succinct book is a capstone to his contributions. Lutz envisions multi-dimensional demography (including age, sex and other attributes like education) as the foundation for a theory that integrates demographic metabolism (cohort replacement), the demographic transition, and the demographic dividend. Demographers, social scientists, and policy makers need to read this important book.’ -- Joel E. Cohen, The Rockefeller University and Columbia University, US‘Wolfgang Lutz has put together his encyclopaedic demographic knowledge in this excellent Advanced Introduction. Far from being a conventional introduction, his central theme is that demography must have scientific rigour to offer “predictive power” for social change and human welfare. Three theories are key: intergenerational change, demographic transition and the demographic dividend, central to economic change. Thereby demography can become an “intervention science” to enhance welfare. Education, particularly of girls, takes centre stage. These ideas underpin a stimulating look at population change and the central issues of sustainable development and the global future.’ -- David Coleman, University of Oxford, UK‘Wolfgang Lutz is one of the most accomplished demographers in the world, and this book is a major accomplishment. Building on prior demographic research, including his and that of his research team, he creates a unified demographic theory importantly incorporating education into our demographic view of the world. This book should be required reading for everyone–not just demographers. I guarantee that you will better understand how the world works once you have absorbed what Professor Lutz is telling us.’ -- John R. Weeks, San Diego State University, US'A masterful survey, analysis, and exposition. Studying this text will yield a broad and deep understanding of demographic theories and perspectives, along with the uses of demography, that is simply not attainable in any other two or three sources combined. Alongside, Lutz consolidates considerations of human capital--education and health--into the very core of demographic science, projections, and policy. Students equipped with this knowledge will understand the foundations of what they are doing as demographers AND what they are observing in the world as citizens. A remarkable achievement.' -- William Butz, former President, Population Reference Bureau, Washington DC, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Demographic concepts and data 2. Demographic theories 3. Education and cognition as drivers of mortality and fertility decline 4. Demographic futures and sustainable development Index

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Book SynopsisProviding a critical overview of transnationalism as a concept, this Handbook looks at its growing influence in an era of high-speed, globalised interconnectivity. It offers crucial insights on how approaches to transnationalism have altered how we think about social life from the family to the nation-state, whilst also challenging the predominance of methodologically nationalist analyses. Encompassing research from around the world, leading international researchers examine transnational migration, culture, state practices, organisations and institutions. Chapters draw attention to conceptual concerns around the topic, including the spatiality and temporality of transnationalism, connections to the life course, and the articulation of affect and emotion across borders. The Handbook further explains the transnational dimensions of different forms of migration, including labour migrations and student mobilities, and emphasises why and how transnational networks and circulations matter. An engaging foundation for students and scholars seeking to enhance their understanding of transnationalism, this Handbook offers agenda-setting arguments that will be beneficial to researchers of migration and mobilities, human geography, sociology, anthropology, international relations and cultural studies. It will also be an interesting read for practitioners working in migration, migrant rights and transnational organising and activism.Trade Review‘In this rich compendium, Yeoh and Collins bring together leading scholars of transnationalism to look afresh at this important topic. Exploring both new empirical cases and new concepts, the authors provide novel insights into transnational relations and processes. This is a must-read book for those interested in cross-border interactions in the contemporary era.’ -- Katharyne Mitchell, University of California, Santa Cruz, US‘Since the turn of the millennium, transnationalism has gradually taken its place as a key concept in social science. This welcome new Handbook provides fresh overviews alongside critical advances concerning a range of ever-salient, if not increasingly significant, theoretical understandings of transformative cross-border phenomena.’ -- Steven Vertovec, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany‘An up-to-date, invaluable mapping of the causes and consequences of social life across borders. The contributions to this volume go far beyond mobility and migration. They use a transnational lens to understand a range of institutions, processes, and relationships that have not been brought together before, including youth, labor unions, urbanization, and emotions. By doing so, they challenge fundamental assumptions about how identity, community, governance, and rights actually work in this early part of the twenty-first century. Theoretically rich and carefully argued, this Handbook is a welcome synthesis of this ever-more-present, dynamic understanding of social relations.’ -- Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, US‘This is an invaluable collection of voices from the field of transnationalism research. The volume offers a rich new lexicon based on innovative case studies that will set the agenda for conceptualising transnationalism in years to come.’ -- Parvati Raghuram, The Open University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Handbook on Transnationalism 1 Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Francis L. Collins PART I CONCEPTUALISING TRANSNATIONALISM 2 Pre-national transnationalism and translocalism 30 David Featherstone 3 What, when and how transnationalism matters: a multi-scalar framework 45 Biao Xiang 4 Transnationalism and time: beyond the self, unity and relation 60 Sergei Shubin 5 Transnational ageing and the later life course 77 Vincent Horn 6 Transnationalism, affect and emotion 93 Raelene Wilding and Loretta Baldassar 7 Understanding variation and change in migrant transnationalism 110 Jørgen Carling PART II VARIETIES OF TRANSNATIONALISM 8 Transnational state practices and authoritarian politics 128 Gerasimos Tsourapas 9 Transnational migration and homemaking 141 Paolo Boccagni 10 Transnational organisations 155 Ludger Pries and Rafael Bohlen 11 The politics of transnational activism 169 Michele Ford 12 Transnational families in an age of migration 182 Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Theodora Lam and Shirlena Huang 13 Transnational young people: growing up and being active in a transnational social field 198 Valentina Mazzucato and Joan van Geel 14 Transnational urbanism in the South 211 Arnisson A.C. Ortega and Evangeline O. Katigbak 15 Transnational higher education 230 Johanna Waters and Maggi W.H. Leung 16 Transnational popular culture 246 Youna Kim 17 Transnational religion 262 Dominic Pasura PART III TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATIONS 18 Transnationalism and temporary labour migration 277 Matt Withers and Nicola Piper 19 International students as transnational migrants 294 Gracia Liu-Farrer 20 Transnational marriage migration in Asia and its friction 310 Juan Zhang 21 Transnational mobilities and return migration 325 Anastasia Christou and Brenda S.A. Yeoh 22 Connecting more than the origin and destination: multinational migrations and transnational ties 340 Anju M. Paul PART IV TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS AND CIRCULATIONS 23 Migrant transnationalism, remittances and development 356 Marta Bivand Erdal 24 Communications technologies and transnational networks 371 Jolynna Sinanan and Heather A. Horst 25 Transnationalism and care circulation: mobility, caregiving, and the technologies that shape them 388 Loretta Baldassar and Raelene Wilding 26 Ethnic entrepreneurship and its transnational linkages 404 Jacob R. Thomas and Min Zhou 27 Elite transnational networks, spaces and lifestyles 420 Sin Yee Koh Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Providing a timely overview of the main issues and scholarship in migration studies, Ronald Skeldon examines the principal methods of migration and offers in-depth guidance on trends and types of population movements in today’s world. Key areas such as forced movements and refugees are considered, alongside more voluntary migration and the relationship between migration and development. The main approaches to migration policy are also reviewed. Key features include: a broad interdisciplinary approach to migration studies consideration of both internal and international migration a fresh look at future migration challenges a substantial review of the literature. This insightful Advanced Introduction will be an excellent resource for both graduates and undergraduates studying migration. It will also be a useful guide for researchers in government departments, international agencies and think tanks who are actively engaged in work on migration.Trade Review‘This first comprehensive overview of migration studies summarizes research about international and internal, voluntary and forced migrations across the world’s more and less developed regions. The book explains concisely the field’s data, concepts, and theories, as refined since the 19th century, and its contributions to contemporary public policies that enhance benefits and minimize disruptions from population movements. Drawing on five decades as a migrant, researcher, teacher, and policy advisor, the author provides essential guidance to future research and policy making.’ -- Josh DeWind, Program Director, Social Science Research Council, 1994-2020, New York, US‘Drawing from different disciplines and guided by a geographical approach, Prof. Skeldon draws on a lifetime of work on internal and international migration to provide a clear and concise introduction to the field of migration without skirting the thorny issues. The book invites students to think critically and delve into different methodologies and scales of analysis to develop their own critical understanding of migration.’ -- Valentina Mazzucato, Maastricht University, the Netherlands‘This book synthesizes a lifetime of insights into international migration by one of its leading interpreters. Skeldon sketches the contours of why people move, how states attempt to control them, and the social consequences of mobility. Few other scholars dare to write at this global scale, link past and present, and cut across academic disciplines - all while maintaining the humility to point out what we don’t know and the challenges of knowing it.’ -- David Scott FitzGerald, University of California San Diego, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to migration studies 2. Migration measured 3. Migration described 4. Migration conceptualized: the socio-economic context 5. Migration constrained: the political context 6. Developmental migration 7. Migration managed 8. Migration futures 9. Migration studies: a way forward Afterword and acknowledgements References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Providing a timely overview of the main issues and scholarship in migration studies, Ronald Skeldon examines the principal methods of migration and offers in-depth guidance on trends and types of population movements in today’s world. Key areas such as forced movements and refugees are considered, alongside more voluntary migration and the relationship between migration and development. The main approaches to migration policy are also reviewed. Key features include: a broad interdisciplinary approach to migration studies consideration of both internal and international migration a fresh look at future migration challenges a substantial review of the literature. This insightful Advanced Introduction will be an excellent resource for both graduates and undergraduates studying migration. It will also be a useful guide for researchers in government departments, international agencies and think tanks who are actively engaged in work on migration.Trade Review‘This first comprehensive overview of migration studies summarizes research about international and internal, voluntary and forced migrations across the world’s more and less developed regions. The book explains concisely the field’s data, concepts, and theories, as refined since the 19th century, and its contributions to contemporary public policies that enhance benefits and minimize disruptions from population movements. Drawing on five decades as a migrant, researcher, teacher, and policy advisor, the author provides essential guidance to future research and policy making.’ -- Josh DeWind, Program Director, Social Science Research Council, 1994-2020, New York, US‘Drawing from different disciplines and guided by a geographical approach, Prof. Skeldon draws on a lifetime of work on internal and international migration to provide a clear and concise introduction to the field of migration without skirting the thorny issues. The book invites students to think critically and delve into different methodologies and scales of analysis to develop their own critical understanding of migration.’ -- Valentina Mazzucato, Maastricht University, the Netherlands‘This book synthesizes a lifetime of insights into international migration by one of its leading interpreters. Skeldon sketches the contours of why people move, how states attempt to control them, and the social consequences of mobility. Few other scholars dare to write at this global scale, link past and present, and cut across academic disciplines - all while maintaining the humility to point out what we don’t know and the challenges of knowing it.’ -- David Scott FitzGerald, University of California San Diego, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to migration studies 2. Migration measured 3. Migration described 4. Migration conceptualized: the socio-economic context 5. Migration constrained: the political context 6. Developmental migration 7. Migration managed 8. Migration futures 9. Migration studies: a way forward Afterword and acknowledgements References Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook is a timely and critical intervention into debates on changing family dynamics in the face of globalization, population migration and uneven mobilities. By capturing the diversity of family ‘types’, ‘arrangements’ and ‘strategies’ across a global setting, the volume highlights how migration is inextricably linked to complex familial relationships, often in supportive and nurturing ways, but also violent and oppressive at other times.Featuring state-of-the-art reviews from leading scholars, the Handbook attends to cross-cutting themes such as gender relations, intergenerational relationships, social inequalities and social mobility. The chapters cover a wide range of subjects, from forced migration and displacement, to expatriatism, labour migration, transnational marriage, education, LGBTQI families, digital technology and mobility regimes.By highlighting the complexity of the migration-family nexus, this Handbook will be a valuable resource for researchers, scholars and students in the fields of human geography, sociology, anthropology and social policy. Policymakers and practitioners working on family relations and gender policy will also benefit from reading this Handbook.Trade Review‘The past few decades have witnessed important theoretical advances to previous understandings of how families weather and are central to engagement in global migration processes. At the same time, the world has changed in fundamental ways, including the introduction of new communication technologies and increasingly bifurcated possibilities for mobility between those with and without social and financial capital. Taking these changes as their starting point, the chapters in this handbook provide important insight for understanding contemporary transnational family life. Covering topics ranging from intimacy and home-making to professional and educational migratory flows to left-behind youth and temporalities and the life-cycle, this comprehensive volume highlights key intersections to pay attention to and continue exploring in order to better understand the complex social processes involved at the intersection of family life and global mobility regimes.’ -- Nicole Newendorp, Harvard University, US‘Few things are more central to migration projects than the family, yet rarely in simple ways. This Handbook presents the transnational family in all of its complexity and multiplicity, tracing its diverse meanings over time, across space and generations. Inequalities and power dynamics are deeply woven into family relations, yet migration also generates novel familial arrangements and subjectivities. The rich contributions span a range of geographical contexts and adopt feminist, agency-centred and grounded approaches to crucially overturn long-standing normative assumptions about transnational families. The Handbook will be an essential resource for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the personal and societal impacts of migration on families, and of families on migration.’ -- Megha Amrith, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Migration and the Family 1 Johanna L. Waters and Brenda S.A. Yeoh PART I GENDER RELATIONS AND GENDER SUBJECTIVITIES 2 Nanny families and the making of gender (in)equality 20 Rosie Cox, Terese Anving and Sara Eldén 3 Transnational marriage migration: agency, structures and intimate gendered governmentality 42 Neil Amber Judge and Margaret Walton-Roberts 4 Nation, gender and location: understanding transnational families in the face of violence 65 Biftu Yousuf and Jennifer Hyndman 5 Vietnamese masculinities in transition: negotiating manhood in the context of female labour migration 86 Lan Anh Hoang 6 The transnationalisation of intimacy: family relations and changes in an age of global mobility and digital media 107 Earvin Charles Cabalquinto and Yang Hu PART II AGE AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS 7 Mobility and intergenerational transfers of capital: narrating expatriate and globally mobile children’s perspectives 130 Sin Yee Koh and I Lin Sin 8 Young people, intergenerationality and the familial reproduction of transnational migrations and im/mobilities 151 Caitríona Ní Laoire 9 Split households and migration in the Global South: gender and intergenerational perspectives 173 C. Cindy Fan 10 Negotiating long-distance caring relations: migrants in the UK and their families in Poland 197 Weronika Kloc-Nowak and Louise Ryan 11 Analysing youth migrations through the lens of generation 218 Rhondeni Kikon and Roy Huijsmans 12 Unaccompanied child migrants and family relationships 236 Katie Willis, Sue Clayton and Anna Gupta PART III POWER, SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL MOBILITY 13 Families in educational migration: strategies, investments and emotions 257 Johanna L. Waters and Zhe Wang 14 Privileged migration and the family: family matters in corporate expatriation 279 Sophie Cranston and George Tan 15 Not as safe as houses: experiences of domestic violence among international migrant women 298 Cathy McIlwaine 16 Academic mobility and the family 320 Yanbo Hao and Maggi W.H. Leung 17 The heterosexual family ideal and its limitations for bi-national same-sex family formations 340 Claire Fletcher PART IV SPATIALITIES AND TEMPORALITIES 18 Migrant family separation, reunification and recalibration 366 Denise L. Spitzer and Sara Torres 19 ‘Maybe in the future I’ll have two homes’: temporalities of migration and family life among Vietnamese people in London 385 Annabelle Wilkins20 Offshoring social reproduction: low-wage labour circulation and the separation of work and family life 403 Thomas Saetre Jakobsen, Sam Scott and Johan Fredrik Rye 21 Growing over time: left-behind children in the past three decades 425 Theodora Lam 22 Transnational families and mobility regimes 445 Franchesca Morais and Brenda S.A. Yeoh Index 466

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. International migration has emerged as one of the most pressing issues faced by national and regional governments in our modern world. This Research Agenda provides much-needed discussion on the health of migrants, and fundamental research directions for the future. The editors draw together key contributions that address people with a range of immigration statuses, including refugees. Written by leading experts in the field, chapters explore the evolving nature of health, from how this is experienced by migrants in their countries of origin, to the impact of the immigrant journey and experiences in their country of residence. Topical and timely, the Research Agenda offers key insights into previously underdeveloped areas of study, including an analysis of female migrants, a discussion of immigration relative to the Global South, and the relationship between climate change, migration and health. An important read for human geography scholars, this will be particularly useful for those looking into population and health geography and demography. It will also be beneficial to sociology and anthropology scholars interested in immigration and health. Contributors include: A.T. Banerjee, V. Chouinard, X. Deng, S. Gal, S. Gravel, J. Hanley, J. Hennebry, L. Hunter, A. Kobayashi, J.-H. Koo, L. Malhaire, K.B. Newbold, J.-A. Osei-Twum, S. Park, D.H. Simon, K. Stelfox, M. Walton-Roberts, L. Wang, K. WilsonTrade Review‘The various essays provide some innovative exploration of the migration-health nexus. As such, the book promises to be inspirational for scholars of geography, public health and related fields. Graduate students who seek to get oriented in this truly complex field and to identify salient research questions will undoubtedly benefit from perusing the essays of this volume.’ -- Brigitte Waldorf, Regional Science Policy and Practice‘A timely contribution to the field of migration and health, and a valuable resource for researchers seeking to explore newer questions. The nine chapters in this book offer diverse perspectives on themes such as inequity and discrimination in access to healthcare, gender, cultural safety, food security, disability and climate change as experienced by immigrants from countries in the Global South. The authors challenge and demystify pre-existing frameworks on migrant health, seek to broaden the theoretical and methodological scope of the field and provide a research agenda for future work.’ -- Divya Ravindranath, Progress in Development Studies‘It is a valuable resource for those seeking to refine their research questions and as a means to draw parallels across work on migration and health. While focused on international migration, the questions and approaches outlined are relevant to research on internal migration, and there is significant space to better articulate the connections between internal migration, international migration, and health.’ -- Frances Darlington-Pollock, Geographical Research'Bruce Newbold and Kathi Wilson are both health geographers with a strong legacy; this edited volume on which they have partnered is no exception. As they state in their opening chapter, the health of an immigrant is shaped by the immigration journey and the factors precipitating it (forced versus voluntary; economic, social, cultural, environmental push and pull factors…). What Newbold and Wilson have done with this edited volume is bring the immigrant health literature into the 21st Century by bringing heretofore invisible issues to the forefront: gender; climate change; inequalities in the global south. Their section on future research directions takes us even further through suggestions for alternative theoretical and epistemological approaches to the growing issues of immigration and immigrant health.' --Susan J Elliot, University of Waterloo, Canada'Tapping into the expertise from scholars in geography, international affairs, nursing, psychiatry, public health, social service and social work, A Research Agenda for Migration and Health fills a gap in migration studies by foregrounding climate change, gender/race and health, health status, health care, nutrition and their impacts.' --Wei Li, Arizona State University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Migration and Health K. Bruce Newbold and Kathi Wilson 2. Disability, Migration and Health in the Global South: An Agenda for Research and Action Vera Chouinard 3. Healthcare Access among Immigrants and Transnational Migrants Lu Wang 4. Climate Change, Migration and Health Lori M. Hunter and Daniel H. Simon 5. Migrant Worker Strategies in Access to Health: Recognizing agency in a context of constraints Jill Hanley, Sol Park, Sylvie Gravel, Jah-Hon Koo, Loic Malhaire and Sigalit Gal 6. Rebalancing Act: Promoting an international research agenda on women migrant careworkers’ health and rights Jenna Hennebry and Margaret Walton-Roberts 7. Securing Culturally Appropriate Food for Refugee Women in Canada: Opportunities for Research Katherine B. Stelfox and K. Bruce Newbold 8. An Agenda for Newcomer Health Care? Research in Canada Audrey Kobayashi and Xiaojun Deng 9. Exploring the Applicability of Indigenous Cultural Safety to Immigrant Health Research Jo-Ann Osei-Twum, Erika Pulfer and Ananya T. Banerjee Index

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the social impact of migration, this book explores migration as an inevitable part of rural development and transition in light of the sharp political divides in European and national political arenas on the topic. It provides an innovative immigration impact assessment based on recently conducted empirical work to enhance local development in European rural and remote regions, looking to promote change in the perception of migration and related policies and practices.The book concentrates on third country nationals (TCNs), considering the spaces in which TCNs settle down as both the input and output of a process of collective production of places. Chapters analyse how the particular traits of rural and remote contexts interact with TCNs’ integration paths and impact, looking at how demographic trends, socio-economic dynamics and migration patterns to a specific region affect the opportunities, policy responses, societal attitudes and perceptions towards TCNs.With empirically grounded recommendations and advice on strategies and solutions to improve the local governance of migration, this book will be a useful tool for European policymakers. It will also be an informative and interesting read for regional studies, governance and human geography scholars focusing on migration.Trade Review‘With this book, the researchers of the MATILDE project fill an important research gap. Through the diversity of the case studies, the range of opportunities and challenges experienced in remote areas through third-country nationals are impressively exemplified. The book is a valuable addition to the literature, especially for migration studies and rural studies.’ -- Birte Nienaber, University of Luxembourg, LuxembourgTable of ContentsContents: 1 On the potential of immigration for the remote areas of Europe: an introduction 1 Jussi P. Laine, Daniel Rauhut and Marika Gruber PART I RECOGNITION, RENEGOTIATION, REVITALISATION 2 Appropriate housing in rural and mountain areas? Current structures and practices of access for immigrants – the case of Alpine regions in Austria and Germany 27 Stefan Kordel, Tobias Weidinger, Ingrid Machold and Marika Gruber 3 Labour market shortages and exclusion practices: the irrationalities of the labour markets and the legislation 44 Marika Gruber, Kathrin Zupan, Nuria del Olmo Vicén and Raúl Lardiés-Bosque 4 Long-term needs to achieve social inclusionary pathways for migrants 60 Ingrid Machold, Thomas Dax and Lisa Bauchinger 5 Russian-speaking immigrants’ vulnerable transnational family lives on the border: the case of North Karelia 77 Pirjo Pöllänen, Lauri Havukainen and Olga Davydova-Minguet 6 De/re/bordering remoteness in times of crisis: migration for reterritorialization and revitalization of a remote region 93 Anna Krasteva 7 Migrating to Scottish insular communities: how remoteness affects integration by shaping borders and identities 111 Maria Luisa Caputo, Michele Bianchi and Simone Baglioni PART II CHALLENGES FOR POLICY AND GOVERNANCE 8 The impact of foreign immigrants on the revitalization of rural areas in Spain 130 Raúl Lardiés-Bosque and Nuria del Olmo Vicén 9 Access to welfare policies by immigrants: comparing centralized and decentralized governance in the examples of Turkey and Spain 149 Põnar Uyan Semerci, Fatma Yõlmaz Elmas, Raœl LardiŽs Bosque and Nuria Del Olmo-Vicén 10 The local turn in migrant practices in Turkey: Syrians in Bursa 166 Ayhan Kaya 11 Immigrant integration in Austria and Sweden: a patchwork of multilevel governance and fragmented responsibilities 183 Marika Gruber and Daniel Rauhut 12 ‘A spanner in the works’: exploring the relationship between provision of welfare and integration in rural areas 201 Susanne Stenbacka and Tina Mathisen 13 Structures, trends and turning points of Norwegian and Swedish integration policies 218 Ulf Hansson, Akin Deniz, Zuzana Macuchova and Per Olav Lund 14 Conclusions: renegotiated remoteness and the social impact of immigration 237 Daniel Rauhut, Jussi P. Laine and Marika Gruber Index

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Book SynopsisLooking beyond urban immigration, this ground-breaking book explores how immigrants can become a part of local communities in remote regions. Contributors argue that immigrant integration is place-dependent, and develop new theories, methodologies, and policies that address the specific dynamics of immigration to peripheral areas.Emphasising migrants’ attachments to the places they reside in, this book adopts a bottom-up approach to immigrant integration, prioritising the needs of individual agents. It highlights the various methodological flaws and ideological biases of existing theories of integration and provides novel solutions to integration problems. Chapters examine key features of immigration to remote places, including transnational social networks developed by migrants, and translocal and global understandings of place. Ultimately, the book reveals the multi-faceted, multi-layered and socially-constructed nature of immigrant integration.New Methods and Theory on Immigrant Integration will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars in international migration, human geography, ethnic relations, European studies, and sociology. It will also be essential reading for professionals in NGOs and political institutions seeking to develop effective immigration integration policies.Trade Review‘In our day and age, when migrants in the West are no longer confined to cities and metropoles, but also increasingly make their mark in the countryside and small towns, there is a dire need for scholarly research on migration outside urban areas. Wait no more. In Daniel Rauhut’s New Methods and Theory on Immigration Integration, all those sorely overlooked topics are carefully analyzed from refreshing perspectives by distinguished scholars in the field. Along with it, conventional wisdom is being challenged. Certainly, an extremely valuable research and teaching resource!’ -- Göran Adamson, Uppsala University, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Preface ix 1 Methodological and theoretical perspectives on immigrant integration in rural and remote areas: an introduction 1 Daniel Rauhut 2 Theorising immigrant integration: a critical examination 13 Daniel Rauhut and Jussi P. Laine 3 Integration and rural space in Sweden: a three-dimensional approach 33 Susanne Stenbacka 4 Integrating remote places: a place-based perspective on integration in the Scottish Outer Hebrides 51 Maria Luisa Caputo, Michele Bianchi, and Simone Baglioni 5 Crossing the border: immigrant integration in a bordering perspective 68 Daniel Rauhut and Jussi P. Laine 6 Transcultural and post-migrant evidence in rural Carinthia: a conceptual approach 86 Marika Gruber 7 Subjective perceptions of immigrant integration: an example from rural Spain 104 Raúl Lardiés-Bosque and Nuria del Olmo-Vicén 8 Measuring immigrant integration – determining how, what, and who 123 Zuzana Macuchova and Daniel Rauhut 9 The methodology of immigrant integration: an epistemological perspective 142 Daniel Rauhut 10 Epilogue: what is lurking behind migrant integration? 163 Ayhan Kaya Index

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Book SynopsisWhile mobility trajectories and experiences are key in migrants’ lives, they are relatively neglected in the field of migration studies. Using mobility as a unique angle of approach, the Handbook of Human Mobility and Migration is a pioneering assessment of the theoretical concerns, empirical questions and issues of governance surrounding international mobility and migration today.Adopting an empirical interdisciplinary approach, Ettore Recchi and Mirna Safi draw together incisive contributions from a wide range of experts in the fields of sociology, geography, political science and demography. Chapters explore circular migration, public opinion on immigration, visa and border infrastructure and debates on whether international migration is truly global. They examine the critical research gap between mobility and migration, and address paramount questions using state-of-the-art theories and evidence.Providing concise overviews of issues at the top of the current research agenda in the field, this timely Handbook will be an essential reference for students and academics of migration studies, sociology, social policy, political science, human geography, demography, and international relations. It will also be of significant interest to researchers and policy professionals operating in these fields.Trade Review‘What truly sets this Handbook apart is its robust empirical foundation, drawing from both established and innovative data sources. It is, without a doubt, a truly “handy” Handbook, an indispensable resource for aspiring scholars entering the field and a must-have for anyone seeking to remain at the forefront of recent advancements and research trends.’ -- Stefano M. Iacus, Harvard University, US‘If to be human is to be mobile, then what is special about migration? The answer is to be found in the elegantly written, deeply informative chapters that comprise this Handbook, an essential guide to a core phenomenon that is shaping our world. Highly recommended to scholars and students alike.’ -- Roger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles, US‘The Handbook of Human Mobility and Migration is a powerful volume that brings a new framework to a crowded field of studies on mobility and migration. In fact, it is precisely the crowded nature of these fields that creates a need for a synthetic and reflective volume such as this one. Anchored in their careful consideration of mobility and migration, the authors encourage us to move forward and understand the broader trends of human movement. We have all spent too many years publishing in narrow and outdated perspectives. Therefore, the Handbook will be valuable for a wide range of scholars looking to understand the next generation of research on these topics.’ -- Rahsaan Maxwell, New York University, US‘This is an innovative Handbook bringing together different types of mobility and migration and asking how they are connected from analytical and policy perspectives. Ettore Recchi and Mirna Safi have brought together a distinguished group of scholars to review critically different types of migration and related policies and practices. The result is a selective but highly innovative book that will be an important read for both students and researchers in the field.’ -- Anna Triandafyllidou, Toronto Metropolitan University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Human Mobility and Migration: Human mobility as hallmark of our age xii Ettore Recchi and Mirna Safi PART I RETHINKING 1 Is Homo sapiens a growingly mobile species (in the very long run)? 2 Massimo Livi Bacci 2 Have migrants become a distinct category in social stratification research? 12 Mirna Safi 3 Are migrants a select population? 34 Mathieu Ichou 4 Is there an end to mobility? Circular and onward migrants 53 Louise Caron 5 Are international and internal migration distinct phenomena? 70 Marine Haddad and Haley McAvay PART II MAPPING 6 How global is international mobility? 94 Emanuel Deutschmann and Ettore Recchi 7 Are high-speed rail and airplane mobilities socially stratified? 113 Yoann Demoli and Frédéric Dobruszkes 8 Where, when and why are students internationally mobile? 128 Christof Van Mol, Joep Cleven and Benjamin Mulvey 9 Child migration: who, where, when, why? 148 Chiara Galli 10 International retirement migration: who, why, where and when? 163 Russell King 11 Public opinion on immigration: is it converging globally or regionally? 182 James Dennison and Alina Vrânceanu PART III GOVERNING 12 Visas and border infrastructures: what makes them tighter or looser? 203 Fabian Gülzau and Steffen Mau 13 Does the forced/voluntary dichotomy really influence migration governance? 221 Hélène Thiollet, Ferruccio Pastore and Camille Schmoll 14 Free movement regimes: is the EU experience exportable? 241 Rainer Bauböck 15 Transnationality mobility and welfare rights: are they compatible? 256 Maurizio Ferrera and Anna Kyriazi Index

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Book SynopsisBorder walls, shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, separated families at the border, island detention camps: migration is at the centre of contemporary political and academic debates. This ground-breaking Handbook offers an exciting and original analysis of critical research on themes such as these, drawing on cutting-edge theories from an interdisciplinary and international group of leading scholars. With a focus on spatial analysis and geographical context, this volume highlights a range of theoretical, methodological and regional approaches to migration research, while remaining attuned to the underlying politics that bring critical scholars together. Divided into six thematic sections, including new areas in critical migration research, the book covers the key questions galvanizing migration scholars today, such as issues surrounding refugees and border militarization. Each chapter explores new themes, expanding on core theories to convey fresh insight to contemporary research. A key resource for migration, refugee and border studies this Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the topic, covering a vast array of research ideas with a specific focus on the geographical aspects of migration. Scholars working on migration, refugees, asylum, transnationalism, humanitarianism and borders will find this an invaluable read. Contributors: J. Allsopp, I. Ataç, N. Bagheri, A. Blunt, J. Bonnerjee, A. Burridge, M. Casas-Cortes, A. Chikanda, S. Cobarrubias, K. Coddington, M. Collyer, D. Conlon, J. Crush, T. Davies, S. Dhesi, P. Ehrkamp, J.L. Fluri, G. Garelli, N. Gill, M. Gilmartin, C. Goh, M. Griffiths, E. Ho, J. Hyndman, A. Isakjee, R. Jones, B. Kasparek, P. Kelly, S. Kok, A.-K. Kuusisto-Arponen, R.B. Lacy, J. Loyd, K. MacFarlane, C. Maharaj, L. Martin, D.E. Martinez, E. Mavroudi, C. Menjívar, K. Mitchell, B. Muller, P. Pallister-Wilkins, N. Paszkiewicz, T. Raeymaekers, R. Rogers, R. Rotter, A. Sabhlok, R. Sampson, M. Schmidt-Sembdner, A. Secor, J. Slack, E. Steinhilper, S.D. Walsh, H. van Houtum, M. Walton-Roberts, K. Wee, Y. Weima, B. YeohTrade Review'This Handbook arrives at a significant time, when state and public responses to human mobility have taken a particularly hostile turn. A rich compendium, it examines numerous key spaces, scales, structures and dynamics of migration that characterize our turbulent era.' --Steven Vertovec, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany'By highlighting the intersection of two major themes - qualitative historical change within continuity and the significance of spatial analysis in the mapping of economic and political restructuring - this book advances migration studies and speaks to our precarious challenging times.' --Nina Glick Schiller, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany'This comprehensively framed and engaging collection of essays by leading international geographers provides an innovative global perspective and critical analytic insights for both scholars and advocates into the multiple cultural, social, and political dimensions of international migration - a major contribution to contemporary theoretical and public policy debates.' --Josh DeWind, Social Science Research Council, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Critical Geographies of Migration Katharyne Mitchell, Reece Jones, and Jennifer L. Fluri PART I New Issues in Critical Migration Research 1. Borders and bodies: Siting critical geographies of migration Mary Gilmartin and Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen 2. Managing displacement: Negotiating transnationalism, encampment, and return Yolanda Weima and Jennifer Hyndman 3. Gender, Violence and Migration Cecilia Menjívar and Shannon Drysdale Walsh 4. The laws of impermanence: Displacement, sovereignty, subjectivity Timothy Raeymaekers 5. Biometric borders Benjamin J Müller PART II Corporeal and Gendered Geographies of Migration 6. Embodied migration and the geographies of care: The worlds of unaccompanied refugee minors Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen and Mary Gilmartin 7. Corporeal geographies of labour migration in Asia Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Kellynn Wee, and Charmian Goh 8. Seasonal Migration and the working-class laboring body in India Anu Sabhlok 9. Embodiment and memory in the geopolitics of trauma Patrica Ehrkamp, Jenna M. Loyd, and Anna Secor 10. Gendered circular migrations of Afghans: Fleeing conflict and seeking opportunity Nazgol Bagheri and Jennifer L. Fluri PART III Borders, Violence, and the Externalization of Control 11. The geography of migrant death: Violence on the U.S.-Mexico border Jeremy Slack and Daniel E. Martinez 12. 'Ceci n'est pas la migration: The surrealist migration map of Frontex Henk van Houtum and Rodrigo Bueno-Lacy 13. From preventative to repressive: The changing use of development and humanitarianism to control migration Michael Collyer 14. Military-humanitarianism Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 15. Genealogies of contention in concentric circles: Remote migration control and its Eurocentric geographical imaginaries Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 16. Renationalization and spaces of migration: The European border regime after 2015 Bernd Kasparek and Matthais Schmidt-Sembdner PART IV Camps, Detention, and Prisons 17. Informal migrant camps Thom Davies, Arshad Isakjee, and Surindar Dhesi 18. Fractures in Australia’s Asia-Pacific border continuum: Deterrence, detention, and the production of illegality Kate Coddington 19. Carceral mobility and flexible territoriality in immigration enforcement Lauren Martin 20. The biopolitics of alternatives to immigration detention Robyn Sampson PART V Transnationalism and Diaspora 21. Home and diaspora Alison Blunt and Jayani Bonnerjee 22. Revisiting diaspora as process: timespace, performative diasporas? Elizabeth Mavroudi 23. Diasporas and development Margaret Walton-Roberts , Jonathan Crush and Abel Chikanda 24. Approximating citizenship: Affective practices of Chinese diasporic descendants in Myanmar Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho 25. Geographies of the next generation: Outcomes for the children of immigrants through a spatial lens Philip Kelly and Cindy Maharaj 26. Social media and migration: A moral epistemology of Rwandan return Saskia Kok and Richard Rogers Part VI Refugees, Asylum, Humanitarianism 27. Contentious subjects: Spatial and relational perspectives on refugee mobilizations in Europe Elias Steinhilper and Ilker Ataç 28. Law, presence and refugee claim determination Nick Gill, Jennifer Allsopp, Andrew Burridge, Melanie Griffiths, Natalia Paszkiewicz, and Rebecca Rotter 29. Im/mobility and humanitarian triage Polly Pallister-Wilkins 30. Contradictions and provocations of neoliberal governmentality in the U.S. asylum seeking system Deirdre Conlon 31. Counter-mapping, refugees and asylum borders Martina Tazzioli and Glenda Garelli 32. The sanctuary network: Transnational church activism and refugee protection in Europe Katharyne Mitchell and Key MacFarlane Index

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Book SynopsisThe rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics reflect, construct, intervene in, denature, and reconfigure geopolitical borders. This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary border fortification processes, showing how cinematic media have functioned technologically and aesthetically to engender contemporary shifts in national and individual identities while proposing alternative conceptions of these identities to those promulgated by the often restrictive current political rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to globalization. Trade Review"While border aesthetics have attracted increasing attention over the last decade, this wide-ranging and innovative collection offers a dynamic argument about why border cinema has become a central direction in contemporary film. Intricately weaving the digital technologies that support it and the shifting global politics that are its target, the book intervenes precisely and provocatively in how we understand world cinema today.” -- Timothy Corrigan * author of A Short Guide to Writing about Film *"Examining media from around the globe, this collection of essays compellingly interrogates the relationship between the digital and border cinema aesthetics. As the editors show, the border has become multiple, even mobile borders; mediated representations of these third spaces call viewers to political action and ethical engagement while affording opportunities for re-imagining subjectivities in a post 9-11 world. Essential reading for those invested in the way cinema imagines liminal social spaces." -- Laura Isabel Serna * author of Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture *"Recommended." * Choice *"While border aesthetics have attracted increasing attention over the last decade, this wide-ranging and innovative collection offers a dynamic argument about why border cinema has become a central direction in contemporary film. Intricately weaving the digital technologies that support it and the shifting global politics that are its target, the book intervenes precisely and provocatively in how we understand world cinema today.” -- Timothy Corrigan * author of A Short Guide to Writing about Film *"Examining media from around the globe, this collection of essays compellingly interrogates the relationship between the digital and border cinema aesthetics. As the editors show, the border has become multiple, even mobile borders; mediated representations of these third spaces call viewers to political action and ethical engagement while affording opportunities for re-imagining subjectivities in a post 9-11 world. Essential reading for those invested in the way cinema imagines liminal social spaces." -- Laura Isabel Serna * author of Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture *"Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction: “Moving Images: Cinematic Contestations of Global Borders in the Digital Age,” by Monica Hanna and Rebecca A. Sheehan “Composite Aesthetics as Cultural Cartographies of Europe-in-Transition,” Marina Hassapopoulou “Undocumation: Documentary Animation’s Unsettled Borders,” Rebecca A. Sheehan “The Art of Witness in Lourdes Portillo’s Señorita Extraviada (2001),” Rosa-Linda Fregoso “The Cinematic Borderlands of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel,” Monica Hanna “Challenging European Borders: Goran Paskaljevic’s Honeymoons,” Anita Pinzi “Remapping the Borderlands in ¿Quién diablos es Juliette?” Elena Lahr-Vivaz “Crossing through el Hueco: The Visual Politics of Smuggling in Colombian Migration Films,” Jennifer Harford Vargas “Toward a Transfrontera-Latinx Aesthetics: An Interview with Filmmaker and Artist Alex Rivera,” Frederick Luis Aldama “No-man's Land: Shifting Borders and Alternating Identities in Contemporary Israeli Cinema,” Anat Zanger and Nurith Gertz “Te Borders We Cross in Search of a Better World: On Border Crossing in Three of Amos Gitai’s Feature Films,” Yael Munk “Filipinos at the Border: Migrant Workers in Transnational Philippine Cinema,” José B. Capino

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Book SynopsisThe rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics reflect, construct, intervene in, denature, and reconfigure geopolitical borders. This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary border fortification processes, showing how cinematic media have functioned technologically and aesthetically to engender contemporary shifts in national and individual identities while proposing alternative conceptions of these identities to those promulgated by the often restrictive current political rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to globalization. Trade Review"While border aesthetics have attracted increasing attention over the last decade, this wide-ranging and innovative collection offers a dynamic argument about why border cinema has become a central direction in contemporary film. Intricately weaving the digital technologies that support it and the shifting global politics that are its target, the book intervenes precisely and provocatively in how we understand world cinema today.” -- Timothy Corrigan * author of A Short Guide to Writing about Film *"Examining media from around the globe, this collection of essays compellingly interrogates the relationship between the digital and border cinema aesthetics. As the editors show, the border has become multiple, even mobile borders; mediated representations of these third spaces call viewers to political action and ethical engagement while affording opportunities for re-imagining subjectivities in a post 9-11 world. Essential reading for those invested in the way cinema imagines liminal social spaces." -- Laura Isabel Serna * author of Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture *"Recommended." * Choice *"While border aesthetics have attracted increasing attention over the last decade, this wide-ranging and innovative collection offers a dynamic argument about why border cinema has become a central direction in contemporary film. Intricately weaving the digital technologies that support it and the shifting global politics that are its target, the book intervenes precisely and provocatively in how we understand world cinema today.” -- Timothy Corrigan * author of A Short Guide to Writing about Film *"Examining media from around the globe, this collection of essays compellingly interrogates the relationship between the digital and border cinema aesthetics. As the editors show, the border has become multiple, even mobile borders; mediated representations of these third spaces call viewers to political action and ethical engagement while affording opportunities for re-imagining subjectivities in a post 9-11 world. Essential reading for those invested in the way cinema imagines liminal social spaces." -- Laura Isabel Serna * author of Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture *"Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction: “Moving Images: Cinematic Contestations of Global Borders in the Digital Age,” by Monica Hanna and Rebecca A. Sheehan “Composite Aesthetics as Cultural Cartographies of Europe-in-Transition,” Marina Hassapopoulou “Undocumation: Documentary Animation’s Unsettled Borders,” Rebecca A. Sheehan “The Art of Witness in Lourdes Portillo’s Señorita Extraviada (2001),” Rosa-Linda Fregoso “The Cinematic Borderlands of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel,” Monica Hanna “Challenging European Borders: Goran Paskaljevic’s Honeymoons,” Anita Pinzi “Remapping the Borderlands in ¿Quién diablos es Juliette?” Elena Lahr-Vivaz “Crossing through el Hueco: The Visual Politics of Smuggling in Colombian Migration Films,” Jennifer Harford Vargas “Toward a Transfrontera-Latinx Aesthetics: An Interview with Filmmaker and Artist Alex Rivera,” Frederick Luis Aldama “No-man's Land: Shifting Borders and Alternating Identities in Contemporary Israeli Cinema,” Anat Zanger and Nurith Gertz “Te Borders We Cross in Search of a Better World: On Border Crossing in Three of Amos Gitai’s Feature Films,” Yael Munk “Filipinos at the Border: Migrant Workers in Transnational Philippine Cinema,” José B. Capino

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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 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 SynopsisThis open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the framework of EU laws and policies, have a beneficial or negative impact on the effective capacity of these countries to integrate migrants, refugees and asylum seekers into their labour markets. The analysis builds on the understanding of socio-cultural, institutional and legal factors as “barriers” or “enablers”; elements that may facilitate or obstruct the integration processes. The book examines the two dimensions of integration being access to the labour market (which, translated into a rights language means the right to work) with its corollaries (recognition of qualifications, vocational training, etc.), and non-discriminatory working conditions (which, translated into a rights language means right to both formal and substantial equality) and its corollaries of benefits and duties deriving from joining the labour market. It thereby offers a novel approach to labour market integration and migration/asylum issues given its focus on legal aspects, which includes most recent policy changes and legal decisions (including litigation cases). The robust, evidence-based and comparative research illustrated in the book provides academics and students, but also practitioners and policy makers, with up to date knowledge that will likely impact positively on policy changes needed to better address integration conundrums.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Europe’s Legal Peripheries: Migration, Asylum and the European Labour Market.- Chapter 2. Between Numbers and Political Drivers: What Matters in Policy-Making.- Chapter 3. Tightening Asylum and Migration Law and Narrowing the Access to European Countries: A Comparative Discussion.- Chapter 4. Migrant integration and the role of the EU.- Chapter 5. “Enchanted with Europe”: Family Migration and European Law on Labour-Market Integration.- Chapter 6. Governing through Rituals: Regulatory Ritualism in Czech Migration and Integration Policy.- Chapter 7. Accessing the Danish Labour Market: On the coexistence of legal barriers and enabling factors.- Chapter 8. Legal Issues Affecting Labour Market Integration of Migrants in Finland.- Chapter 9. Between Reception, Legal Stay and Integration in a Changing Migration Landscape in Greece.- Chapter 10. The labour market needs them, but we don’t want them to stay for good: the conundrum of MRA integration in Italy.- Chapter 11. 'Fortress' Switzerland? Challenges to Integrating Migrants, Refugees and Asylum-Seekers.- Chapter 12. Regulating Fortress Britain: Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Applicants in the British Labour Market.

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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 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 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 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 book provides an analysis of the functioning, consequences and inherent limitations of internalised immigration control. By adopting the perspective of irregular residents as well as local service providers, the book sheds new light on the intricate mechanisms that either help or hinder the diffusion of immigration control into concrete institutional settings, like schools or hospitals. A simple and innovative analytical framework enables the systematic comparison of three different spheres of service provision across two distinct local as well as also national contexts. This is necessary to understand the complex interplay between formal law and policy, the intrinsic rules and logics operating within institutions, and the ethical or practical obligations and constraints attached to particular roles and professions. Based on empirical findings and rigorous analysis, the book argues that internalised control is part of the problem that irregular migration poses for society, rather than constituting a potential solution to it.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The ‘Management’ of Migration – And of the Resulting Irregularities.- Chapter 3. Research Design, Cases and Methodology.- Chapter 4. Migrant Irregularity in Britain and Spain, London and Barcelona.- Chapter 5. Managing Irregularity Through the Provision of Public Healthcare.- Chapter 6. Managing Irregularity Through the Provision of Public Education.- Chapter 7. Managing Irregularity Through the Provision of Social Assistance.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

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