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]).
Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruxandra Trandafoiu
May 27, 2024
Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen media, from mobile devices, to television, film, computers, video art and advertising displays. People have never moved around more, and increasingly ...
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 ...
Contemporary European Emigration: Situating Integration in New Destinations
1st Edition
Edited
By Brigitte Suter, Lisa Åkesson
September 30, 2021
At a time when European unity is politically challenged by the question of immigration and integration, it is easy to overlook the fact that there are significant numbers of Europeans leaving the continent. Academically, little is known about why Europeans leave the continent, how they chose their ...
Europe and the Refugee Response: A Crisis of Values?
1st Edition
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By Elżbieta M. Goździak, Izabella Main, Brigitte Suter
September 30, 2021
This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and values, with some commentators questioning ...
Family Practices in Migration: Everyday Lives and Relationships
1st Edition
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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 ...
Migration, Development and Social Change in the Himalayas: An Ethnographic Village Study
1st Edition
By Madleina Daehnhardt
March 31, 2021
This book teases out the reasons for, and the socio-economic impacts of, different types of migration on contemporary rural households and individuals. The author creatively depicts the dynamic microcosm of one village in the North Indian Kumaun Himalayas, near the border with Chinese Tibet, giving...
Country Frameworks for Development Displacement and Resettlement: Reducing Risk, Building Resilience
1st Edition
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By Susanna Price, Jane Singer
December 18, 2020
The problem of escalating population displacement demands global attention and country co-ordination. This book investigates the particular issue of development-induced displacement, whereby land is seized or restricted by the state for the purposes of development projects. Those displaced by these...
South-South Migration: Emerging Patterns, Opportunities and Risks
1st Edition
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By Patricia Short, Moazzem Hossain, M. Adil Khan
December 18, 2020
South-South migration contributes significantly to the development of the emerging economies, the migration of receiving countries and, at the same time, generates a major share of remittance income flowing into the sending countries. By capturing field experience and observations from a ...
Return Migration and Nation Building in Africa: Reframing the Somali Diaspora
1st Edition
By Adele Galipo
September 30, 2020
Return migration has received growing levels of attention in both academic and policy circles in recent years, as the African diaspora's role in contributing to the development of their country of origin has become apparent. However, little is known about the lived experiences of those who come ...
Undocumented Migrants in the United States: Life Narratives and Self-representations
1st Edition
By Ina Batzke
September 30, 2020
Whilst many undocumented migrants in the United States continue to exist in the shadows, since the turn of the millennium an increasing number have emerged within public debate, casting themselves against the dominant discursive trope of the "illegal alien," and entering the struggle over political...
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 ...