Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
About the Book Series
Ethnic and Migration Studies will publish the results of first-class research on all forms of migration and its consequences, covering diverse topics such as ethnic conflict, discrimination, racism, nationalism, citizenship and policies of integration. This series will focus particularly on comparative research, assessing the consequences of migration in a variety of European countries, or comparing the impact of migration in one or more European countries and the countries of North America and the Asia-Pacific.
Reimagining Chinese Diasporas in a Transnational World
1st Edition
Edited
By Shibao Guo
December 18, 2024
Reimagining Chinese Diasporas in a Transnational World examines the changing nature of the Chinese diasporas in a transnational world and its concomitant implications for Chinese diaspora studies internationally. With a shifting paradigm of transnationalism and transnational migration, new patterns...
Temporary Migration: Category of Analysis or Category of Practice?
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Triandafyllidou
December 16, 2024
Temporariness has become an increasingly salient feature in international migration that presents itself as fragmented, non-linear, including different intermediate stops and multiple returns and new departures. This book proposes a new analytical framework that brings together the role of policies...
COVID-19 Return Migration Phenomena: Experiences from South and Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By S Irudaya Rajan, Jean-Louis Arcand
November 25, 2024
This book examines the large-scale return migration of South and Southeast Asian workers triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring its causes, consequences, challenges, and policy responses. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a global phenomenon emerged - the mass repatriation of migrant ...
Computational Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Emanuel Deutschmann, Lucas G. Drouhot, Carolina V. Zuccotti, Emilio Zagheni
November 08, 2024
This book showcases the potential of computational approaches for research questions at the heart of migration and integration research via a set of original, cutting-edge empirical studies by a diverse, international team of authors. Why do people emigrate? Do weather conditions and climate ...
The Digital Empowerment-Control Nexus: Precarious Migrants, Migration Regimes and Digital Technologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Mihaela Nedelcu, Ibrahim Soysüren
November 04, 2024
This book analyses the diverse and complex interactions between the emancipatory practices of precarious (i.e. forced, vulnerable, undocumented or deported) migrants enabled by information and communication technologies, and the constraints imposed by technological tools used for surveillance and ...
Children of Immigrants in Southern Europe: Overcoming Ethnic Penalties
1st Edition
Edited
By Giuseppe Gabrielli, Roberto Impicciatore
November 01, 2024
The goal of successfully incorporating ethnic minorities represents a decisive challenge for modern societies. However, migratory background continues to negatively affect the life trajectories of migrants’ descendants. ‘Hard’ and ‘soft’ barriers determine long-term inequality gaps and low ...
Intellectual Migration: The Movements of Students and Professionals
1st Edition
Edited
By Wei Li, Lucia Lo, Yixi Lu
November 01, 2024
Employing the intellectual migration analytical framework, this book examines the dynamics of student and professional migration. Intellectual migration encompasses a spectrum where higher education students and professionals at various life stages move to pursue intellectual credentials that can ...
(Un)Settled Sojourners in Cities: Challenges of “Temporariness” among Migrants and Asylum Seekers
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Chacko, Marie Price
October 09, 2024
Temporary migration is a human response to uncertain economic, ecological, political and socio-cultural environments. This book provides an important contribution to the literature on the rights, lived experiences and trajectories of temporary migrants. It focuses on the precarity of temporary ...
Cross-Border Marriages: State Categories, Research Agendas and Family Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Apostolos Andrikopoulos, Joëlle Moret, Janine Dahinden
October 09, 2024
Marriages that involve the migration of at least one of the spouses challenge two intersecting facets of the politics of belonging: the making of the 'good and legitimate citizens' and the 'acceptable family'. In Europe, cross-border marriages have been the target of increasing state controls, an ...
The Question of Skill in Cross-Border Labour Mobilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Gracia Liu-Farrer, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Michiel Baas
October 09, 2024
Selecting migrants based on skill has become a widely practised migration policy in many countries around the world. Since the late 20th century, research on 'skilled' and 'highly skilled' migration has raised important questions about the value and ethics of skill-based labour mobility. More ...
The Spiralling of the Securitisation of Migration in the European Union
1st Edition
Edited
By Valeria Bello, Sarah Léonard
October 09, 2024
This book investigates how migration has been transformed into a security threat in Europe. It argues that this process has taken place through a self-fulfilling spiralling process, which involves different actors and their specific narratives, practices and policies. The book examines how ...
New Theoretical Dialogues on Migration in China
1st Edition
Edited
By Hong Zhu, Junxi Qian
August 26, 2024
This edited book emerges from the observation that the current literatures on migration in China are constrained by a series of shortfalls, including a relative topical homogeneity centred on domestic labour migration; relatively narrowly conceived and institutionalist conceptions of migration and ...