Ethnic and Racial Studies
About the Book Series
Race, ethnicity and nationalism are at the heart of many of the major social and political issues in the present global environment. New antagonisms have emerged which require a rethinking of traditional theoretical and empirical perspectives. The books in this series are based on special issues of Ethnic and Racial Studies, the leading journal for the analysis of these issues throughout the world. Expert authors and editors present interdisciplinary research and theoretical analysis, drawing on sociology, social policy, anthropology, political science, economics, geography, international relations, history, social psychology and cultural studies.
Multisensory Approaches in Migration Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła, Amandine Desille
May 29, 2026
Multisensory Approaches in Migration Studies rethinks how we understand human mobility by placing the sensing, feeling body at the centre of migration research. Challenging decades of scholarship dominated by textual and state-centred perspectives, this volume reveals how people's multisensory ...
Refugee Resettlement as an Institution
1st Edition
Edited
By Rawan Arar, Molly Fee, Heba Gowayed, Blair Sackett
April 27, 2026
This book examines how scholars and policy makers primarily characterize refugee resettlement as a humanitarian solution or a migration pathway. While these descriptions may be accurate, they are not comprehensive. It examines how such framing influences understandings of resettlement's scope and ...
Remembering and Dealing with Violent Pasts: Diasporic Experiences and Transnational Dimensions
1st Edition
Edited
By Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova
March 25, 2026
In an era defined by armed conflicts and mass displacement, this book offers a powerful journey into the lives of diasporic communities as they grapple with memories of war, genocide and persecution. Drawing on eight case studies - from Rwandan, Bosnian and Kurdish diasporas to Ukrainian, Chechen ...
The Racism Debate in Germany: Concepts of Anti-Racism and Matters of Solidarity
1st Edition
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By Manuela Bojadžijev, Robin Celikates, Paul Mecheril
February 04, 2026
This book traces current debates on the critical theory of racism in Germany and emphasizes its contribution to the global discourse on racism and anti-racism. It provides a comprehensive examination of the key debates, blind spots, and pitfalls of this theory while exploring the politicization of ...
Queer Liberalisms and Marginal Mobilities
1st Edition
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By Fadi Saleh, Mengia Tschalär
January 22, 2026
This book addresses queer migration through the intersectional lens of queer liberalisms, authoritarianism, and marginal mobilities. Globally, LGBTIQ+ rights form an inherent part of human rights discourse and politics. At the same time, this very human rights language is increasingly used by ...
The South African Tradition of Racial Capitalism
1st Edition
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By Zachary Levenson, Marcel Paret
October 27, 2025
This book documents the emergence and development of the theory of racial capitalism in apartheid South Africa. It interrogates the specificity of this theory in the South African context and draws lessons for its global applicability. Racism and capitalism have a long history of entanglement. ...
Migration and Citizenship pathways in/beyond Asia
1st Edition
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By Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Brenda S.A. Yeoh
September 17, 2025
This edited volume explores the complex and varied pathways to citizenship that migrants navigate in both sending and receiving countries. By examining the diverse strategies which migrants employ to handle uncertainties and global disparities, this work highlights how citizenship pathways evolve ...
Urbanization and Migration in Three Continents
1st Edition
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By Alejandro Portes, Margarita Rodríguez
August 29, 2025
This book offers a systematic historical analysis of the relationships between migration and the development of cities, including their physical, economic, and cultural evolution. The volume results from a comparative project that examines the interface between migration and the development of ...
The Emerging Second Generation in Asia
1st Edition
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By Pei-Chia Lan, Minjeong Kim
August 26, 2025
Presenting six case studies from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong, this volume marks one of the first forums dedicated to the emerging second generation in Asia. It aims to enhance the literature on the second generation, which has predominantly focused on North America and ...
Fighting Discrimination in a Hostile Political Environment: The Case of “Colour-Blind” France
1st Edition
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By Angéline Escafré-Dublet, Virginie Guiraudon, Julien Talpin
January 30, 2025
The book investigates the experience of ethno-racial discrimination in France and the forms that resistance takes in a colour-blind context. Among pluriethnic, multi-religious, post-colonial states with a long immigration history, France holds a specific place in international comparisons due to ...
Reexamining Racism, Sexism, and Identity Taxation in the Academy
1st Edition
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By Tiffany D. Joseph, Laura E. Hirshfield
January 30, 2025
This book explores the diversity-related labour that marginalized faculty, students, and staff are expected to perform because of their social identities – i.e., “identity taxation” in US higher education institutions. It compiles new research on cultural and identity taxation to highlight how ...
Unwritten Afro-Iberian Memories and Histories: Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Portugal and Spain
1st Edition
Edited
By Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré
December 16, 2024
This book sketches out an innovative Afro-Iberian mosaic that puts forgotten memories and histories into circulation, constructing an Afro-Iberian past that is critical of the cultural racialization of Spaniards and Portuguese. It builds an early late modern and contemporary Afro-Iberian history ...