Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration
About the Book Series
This series is dedicated to the growing and important area of mobilities and migration, particularly through the lens of international development. It promotes innovative and interdisciplinary research targeted at a global readership. The series welcomes submissions from established and junior authors on cutting-edge and high-level research on key topics that feature in global news and public debate.
These include the so called European migration crisis; famine in the Horn of Africa; riots; environmental migration; development-induced displacement and resettlement; livelihood transformations; people-trafficking; health and infectious diseases; employment; South-South migration; population growth; children’s wellbeing; marriage and family; food security; the global financial crisis; drugs wars; and other contemporary crisis.
To submit proposals, please contact the Editor, Helena Hurd ([email protected]).
The Politics of Migration and Diaspora in Eastern Europe: Media, Public Discourse and Policy
1st Edition
By Ruxandra Trandafoiu
September 25, 2023
This book provides a critical analysis of the politics of migration in Eastern Europe and an in-depth understanding of the role played by media and public discourse in shaping migration and migration policy. Ruxandra Trandafoiu looks at emigration, diaspora, return, kin-minority cross-border ...
Nigerian and Ghanaian Women Working in the Brussels Red-Light District
1st Edition
By Sarah Adeyinka, Sophie Samyn, Sami Zemni, Ilse Derluyn
September 26, 2022
This book unravels the lives, needs and experiences of Nigerian and Ghanaian women working in prostitution in Brussels. This volume casts a light on the working conditions and the experiences of 38 women of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, whose daily struggles and challenges are recalled from ...
Family Practices in Migration: Everyday Lives and Relationships
1st Edition
Edited
By Martha Montero-Sieburth, Rosa Mas Giralt, Noemi Garcia-Arjona, Joaquín Eguren
May 25, 2021
This book places family at the centre of discussions about migration and migrant life, seeing migrants not as isolated individuals, but as relational beings whose familial connections influence their migration decisions and trajectories. Particularly prioritising the voices of children and young ...
Transnational Mobility and Global Health: Traversing Borders and Boundaries
1st Edition
By Peter H. Koehn
June 30, 2020
Transnational Mobility and Global Health spotlights the powerful and dynamic intersections of human movement, inequality, and health. The book explores the interacting political, economic, social, cultural, and climatic drivers of health and migration, proposing innovative ways to enhance global ...
Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia: A Political Ecology of Vulnerability, Migration and Environmental Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Carl Middleton, Rebecca Elmhirst, Supang Chantavanich
July 25, 2019
This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and policy contexts in Southeast Asia. It challenges simple analyses of flooding as a singular driver of ...
A Gendered Approach to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Freedman, Zeynep Kivilcim, Nurcan Özgür Baklacıoğlu
January 10, 2019
The refugee crisis that began in 2015 has seen thousands of refugees attempting to reach Europe, principally from Syria. The dangers and difficulties of this journey have been highlighted in the media, as have the political disagreements within Europe over the way to deal with the problem. However,...
Organizational Perspectives on Environmental Migration
1st Edition
Edited
By Kerstin Rosenow-Williams, François Gemenne
April 16, 2018
Over the past decade, international organizations (IOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have increasingly focused their efforts on the plight of environmental migrants in both industrialized and developing countries. However, to date very few studies have analysed the influence and ...
South–South Educational Migration, Humanitarianism and Development: Views from the Caribbean, North Africa and the Middle East
1st Edition
By Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
November 10, 2017
This ground-breaking book is one of the first to analyse the important phenomenon of South-South educational migration for refugees. It focuses particularly on South-South scholarship programmes in Cuba and Libya, which have granted free education to children, adolescents and young adults from two ...
Intimate Economies of Development: Mobility, Sexuality and Health in Asia
1st Edition
By Chris Lyttleton
January 27, 2017
Aspirations, desires, opportunism and exploitation are seldom considered as fundamental elements of donor-driven development as it impacts on the lives of people in poor countries. Yet, alongside structural interventions, emotional or affective engagements are central to processes of social change ...
Crisis and Migration: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Lindley
December 18, 2015
Crisis and migration have a long association, in popular and policy discourse as well as in social scientific analysis. Despite the emergence of more nuanced and even celebratory accounts of mobility in recent years, there remains a persistent emphasis on migration being either a symptom or a cause...
Gender, Mobilities, and Livelihood Transformations: Comparing Indigenous People in China, India, and Laos
1st Edition
Edited
By Ragnhild Lund, Kyoko Kusakabe, Smita Mishra Panda, Yunxian Wang
June 08, 2015
In the era of globalization many minority populations are subject to marginalization and expulsion from their traditional habitats due to rapid economic restructuring and changing politico-spatial relations. This book presents an analytical framework for understanding how mobility is an inherent ...