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Book SynopsisWith contributions from leading scholars in Southern Europe, this compelling book demonstrates the plurality of migratory circumstances and analyses the significance of the Mediterranean migration model.
Highlighting the challenges of studying the variability and heterogeneity of migratory patterns in the Mediterranean, this insightful book provides a comprehensive examination of the spatial-temporal scales and sedimentation of different migratory configurations. Chapters explore the continuities between colonial past, postcolonialism and migration; the integration and exploitation in the labour market; and the impact of political discourses on migrants and non-migrants.
Contributors analyse the links between race and gender relations, colonialism, and migration policies across countries including Greece, Italy, Lebanon, the Maghreb region, and Spain.
Proposing that the ‘principle of coexistence’ can be an interpretive tool for studying migration in the Mediterranean, this book will be essential for students and researchers in comparative social policy, cultural sociology, development studies, history and migration studies. It will also be beneficial for policymakers and practitioners in national and international political bodies and agencies.
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An indispensable contribution to comparative immigration studies, this book brings together an impressive group of country specialists on southern European migration, working in a broad range of disciplines. While deeply sensitive to historical context, the contributors offer original insights into ongoing policy issues like the tension between child/elder-care needs of native-born families and restrictive immigration measures. This book is a model of cross-national scholarship that breaks new theoretical ground.’ -- Wayne A. Cornelius, University of California, San Diego, US
‘With a multidisciplinary and outward looking (not Eurocentric) perspective, this book offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of research on migration in the Mediterranean area. The contributions cover countries on the European side and those on the opposite side of the Mediterranean. They examine the policies adopted, the motivations and the aims of the multiple parties involved.’ -- Paola Corti, University of Turin, Italy
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: broadening the scope of Southern European migration 1 Adelina Miranda and Antía Pérez-Caramés An extended foreword to a critique on Mediterranean Europe as a place of migration 11 Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Jorge Malheiros PART I MOBILITIES AND COLONIALISMS 1 Human mobility in the pre-modern Mediterranean 30 Wolfgang Kaiser and Claudia Moatti 2 Migration and otherness in the Mediterranean region: colonial past and postcolonial continuities through the conception of the ‘Other Moor’ 50 María-Jesús Cabezón-Fernández 3 The weight of colonial cultural legacy in scholarly and political discourses on migration: for a denationalisation of the migration issue 67 Mustapha El Miri PART II BEYOND NATIONAL MIGRATORY DYNAMICS 4 Migration in Italy: a multiscalar analysis 85 Fabio Amato 5 The Maghreb of transit, new laboratory of postcolonial migrations 99 Michel Peraldi 6 Gender and emigration: labour market integration and work‒life balance strategies of young Spanish female migrants to France and Germany 113 Belén Fernández-Suárez and Alberto Capote Lama 7 A Southern European model of migrant agricultural labour: two case studies in Andalusia (Spain) and Calabria (Italy) 130 Francisco Checa y Olmos, Francesco Saverio Caruso and Alessandra Corrado 8 The care shortage and social acceptance: why the welfare needs of native families subvert immigration policies 145 Maurizio Ambrosini 9 Lebanese migration policy since 2011 and its role in the Syrian refugee movement 162 Kamel Doraï and Imad Amer 10 Repoliticising gendered vulnerability: the blind spots of vulnerability-focused humanitarian programmes in Greece 180 Alice Latouche Conclusions: migration patterns across the Mediterranean 195 Adelina Miranda and Antía Pérez-Caramés Index
