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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Refugees and Knowledge Production: Europe's Past and Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Magdalena Kmak, Heta Björklund
September 25, 2023
Building on research within the fields of exile studies and critical migration studies and drawing links between historical and contemporary ‘refugee scholarship’, this volume challenges the bias of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism in discussing the multifaceted forms of knowledge ...
Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration: Migrants ‘In-Between’
1st Edition
Edited
By Shanthi Robertson, Rosie Roberts
September 25, 2023
This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class migrant groups across the globe, including ‘ethnic entrepreneurs’ building new businesses in cosmopolitan neighbourhoods in Sydney; Chinese grandparents shuttling between Australia, China and Singapore to support their extended ...
Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age: Emotion and Belonging in Migrant Maternal Online Communities
1st Edition
By Leah Williams Veazey
January 09, 2023
This book explores the experiences of migrant mothers through the lens of the online communities they have created and participate in. Examining the ways in which migrant mothers build relationships with each other through these online communities and find ways to make a place for themselves and ...
Higher Education and Social Mobility in France: Challenges and Possibilities among Descendants of North African Immigrants
1st Edition
By Shirin Shahrokni
August 01, 2022
This book offers an in-depth sociological exploration of the social trajectories and experiences of children of post-colonial immigrants in France who are embarking on paths of extreme upward intergenerational mobility. The author draws on life history interviews with young adults of North African ...
Mobile Citizenship: Spatial Privilege and the Transnational Lifestyles of Senior Citizens
1st Edition
By Margit Fauser
April 29, 2022
Mobile Citizenship addresses the crucial question of how mobility reconfigures citizenship. Engaging with debates on transnationalism, citizenship, and lifestyle migration, the book draws on ethnographic research and interview material collected among retired lifestyle migrants moving south from ...
Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA: A Historical Exploration of Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Jana Sverdljuk, Terje Mikael Hasle Joranger, Erika Jackson, Peter Kivisto
April 29, 2022
This volume explores the complex and contradictory ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness has influenced identities, self-perceptions and the process of integration of Nordic immigrants into multicultural and racially segregated American society in the nineteenth and...
Democracy, Diaspora, Territory: Europe and Cross-Border Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Olga Oleinikova, Jumana Bayeh
June 30, 2021
This volume offers a profoundly new interpretation of the impact of modern diasporas on democracy, challenging the orthodox understanding that ties these two concepts to a bounded form of territory. Considering democracy and diaspora through a deterritorialised lens, it takes the post-Euromaidan ...
London the Promised Land Revisited: The Changing Face of the London Migrant Landscape in the Early 21st Century
1st Edition
By Anne J. Kershen
June 30, 2021
Some two decades since the publication of London the Promised Land?, which charted and investigated the successes and failures of the migrant experience in London over a period of three hundred years, this book re-examines the migrant landscape in London. While remaining a beacon for immigrants, ...
Migration, Education and Translation: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Human Mobility and Cultural Encounters in Education Settings
1st Edition
Edited
By Vivienne Anderson, Henry Johnson
June 30, 2021
This multidisciplinary collection examines the connections between education, migration and translation across school and higher education sectors, and a broad range of socio-geographical contexts. Organised around the themes of knowledge, language, mobility, and practice, it brings together ...
The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege
1st Edition
By Elaine Marie Carbonell Laforteza
June 30, 2021
Investigating the emergence of a specific mestiza/mestizo whiteness that facilitates relations between the Philippines and Western nations, this book examines the ways in which the construction of a particular form of Philippine whiteness serves to deploy positions of exclusion, privilege and ...
Convivial Cultures in Multicultural Cities: Polish Migrant Women in Manchester and Barcelona
1st Edition
By Alina Rzepnikowska
April 01, 2021
The large-scale migration brought about by the expansion of the EU over a decade ago led to migration from less ethnically diverse countries to multicultural and super-diverse societies. This book examines the complex encounters between Polish migrant women and local populations in Manchester and ...
Tracing Asylum Journeys: Transnational Mobility of Non-European Refugees to Canada via Turkey
1st Edition
By Ugur Yildiz
April 01, 2021
This book explores the asylum journey of non-European asylum applicants who seek asylum in Turkey before resettling in Canada with the aid of the Canadian government’s assisted resettlement programme. Based on ethnographic research among Syrian, Afghan, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Iraqi, Iranian, Somali, ...