Studies in Migration and Diaspora
About the Book Series
Series now in its 20th year
Studies in Migration and Diaspora is a series designed to showcase the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of research in this important field. Volumes in the series cover local, national and global issues and engage with both historical and contemporary events. The books will appeal to scholars, students and all those engaged in the study of migration and diaspora. Amongst the topics covered are minority ethnic relations, transnational movements and the cultural, social and political implications of moving from 'over there', to 'over here'.
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Migration as a Collective Project: A Temporal Perspective on Hadiya Migration to South Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Dereje Feyissa, Fana Gebresenbet
April 30, 2026
This book seeks to broaden the conversation in migration studies by incorporating a collective perspective, as illustrated by the case study of Hadiya migration from Southern Ethiopia to South Africa. Rather than presenting individualism and communalism as opposing forces, the authors conceptualize...
The Balkan Route: Albania in Contemporary Migration
1st Edition
By Shkelzen Hasanaj
February 05, 2026
This volume presents an in-depth investigation into the dynamics of irregular migration through Albania, which recently have radically transformed the traditional perception of the country from a land of emigration to a crucial transit hub. Through an interdisciplinary reading, the author examines ...
Towards Transnationality as Practice: A Bourdieusian Approach to Studying the Transnationality of Tunisians in Italy
1st Edition
By Andrea Calabretta
January 26, 2026
This book engages in the stream of transnational migration studies by drawing on an empirical examination of the ties that Tunisian migrants and their descendants, living in both northern and southern Italy, maintain with their country of origin.Through the unique application of Pierre ...
Art Practice and Asylum in Israel: Home in the Making
1st Edition
Edited
By Ofer Gazit, Hamutal Sadan, Sarah Hankins
January 23, 2026
Weaving together first-person narratives of art practice, analytical accounts, and ethnographic research by artists and scholars in art history, theater, new media, music, and anthropology, this volume offers an overview of the wide range of conditions, processes, and motivations for artmaking ...
Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean: Refugee Men on the Margins of Europe
1st Edition
By Marco Palillo
October 31, 2025
Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean explores the role of intersectional power hierarchies and the social reproduction of vulnerability in shaping forced migrant men’s embodied realities of suffering along the Central Mediterranean migration route (CMR), which ...
Uyghur Identity and Culture: A Global Diaspora in a Time of Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Clothey, Dilmurat Mahmut
August 29, 2025
Uyghur Identity and Culture brings together the work of scholars, activists, and native Uyghurs to explore the history and growing challenges that the Uyghur diaspora face across the globe in response to shifting government policies forbidding many forms of cultural expression in their homeland. &...
Transnationality and Social Mobility: Navigating Social Structures
1st Edition
By Lisa Bonfert
August 15, 2025
Considering that changes in people’s life chances are increasingly shaped by cross-border movements and transnational connections, this book proposes a transnational conception of social mobility. Emphasising the manifold ways in which contexts of migration and transnationality affect perceptions ...
Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ayaka Yoshimizu, Daniel Ahadi
May 30, 2025
This volume examines the politics of fieldwork and the challenges of researching migrants constructed as outsiders both nationally and transnationally. Based on research with undocumented migrants, temporary workers, refugees, international students, and those who, having received citizenship ...
Transnational Ties, Local Lives: Translocal Dynamics of Chinese Diaspora and Community Re-organisation
1st Edition
By Qiuping Pan
May 27, 2025
Transnational Ties, Local Lives: Translocal Dynamics of Chinese Diaspora and Community Re-organisation delves into the evolving civic life and organisational structures of Chinese diaspora communities. Drawing on rich, multi-method ethnographic research in Australia, this book unveils the dynamic ...
Hope and Asylum: Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change
1st Edition
By Torun Elsrud, Philip Lalander, Jesper Andreasson, Marcus Herz
May 20, 2025
This book applies perspectives of hope to understand the precariousness, suffering, and agency of people seeking asylum. With attention to the restrictions and austerity politics that have characterised public policy following the significant rise in asylum applications in 2015, it draws on ...
Social Media in the Lives of Young Connected Migrants: Making and Unmaking Boundaries
1st Edition
By Xinyu Zhao
May 06, 2025
Digital media are a key part of everyday social life for international migrants. However, we don’t know enough about how these migrants critically understand and cope with the cultures and infrastructures of ubiquitous connectivity while on the move. Social Media in the Lives of Young Connected ...
Deconstructing Refugee Women’s Empowerment: A Comparative Approach to British and French Aid Structures
1st Edition
By Zeynep Kilicoglu
April 16, 2025
This book explores how self-identified feminist or women’s organizations in the asylum and charity sectors in the United Kingdom and France attach meanings to and address refugee women’s empowerment in their operations and how these perpetuate or disrupt global hierarchies. Adopting a feminist, ...