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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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...
Migration Across Boundaries: Linking Research to Practice and Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Parvati Nair, Tendayi Bloom
June 30, 2020
Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplinary backgrounds working in Europe, North and South America, South Asia and the Middle East, this volume explores the question of how to ensure that migration research feeds back into improving the lives of migrants. It emphasises...
Color that Matters: A Comparative Approach to Mixed Race Identity and Nordic Exceptionalism
1st Edition
By Tony Sandset
January 14, 2020
This book examines the ways in which mixed ethnic identities in Scandinavia are formed along both cultural and embodied lines, arguing that while the official discourses in the region refer to a "post-racial" or "color blind" era, color still matters in the lives of people of mixed ethnic descent. ...
Trajectories and Imaginaries in Migration: The Migrant Actor in Transnational Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Felicitas Hillmann, Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan
January 14, 2020
This book draws attention to the various factors that characterize migrant flows and mobilities, calling into question familiar concepts such as push and pull, migration as a life project and sociocultural integration. It highlights processes such as fl exible migrant routes, temporary and return ...
Growing Up Muslim in Europe and the United States
1st Edition
Edited
By Medhi Bozorgmehr, Philip Kasinitz
December 03, 2019
This volume brings together scholarship from two different, and until now, largely separate literatures—the study of the children of immigrants and the study of Muslim minority communities—in order to explore the changing nature of ethnic identity, religious practice, and citizenship in the ...
Gender, Work and Migration: Agency in Gendered Labour Settings
1st Edition
Edited
By Megha Amrith, Nina Sahraoui
October 17, 2019
While the feminisation of transnational migrant labour is now a firmly ingrained feature of the contemporary global economy, the specific experiences and understandings of labour in a range of gendered sectors of global and regional labour markets still require comparative and ethnographic ...
Global Nomads and Extreme Mobilities
1st Edition
By Paivi Kannisto
June 06, 2019
Presenting a ground-breaking study of the emerging phenomenon of location-independence, this book examines the way in which the practices of 'global nomads', who live on the road, without fixed abode, place of employment or localised circle of friends, question many of the unwritten norms and ...
Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism in Australia
1st Edition
By Randa Abdel-Fattah
April 16, 2019
This book explores Islamophobia in Australia, shifting attention from its victims to its perpetrators by examining the visceral, atavistic nature of people’s feelings and responses to the Muslim ‘other’ in everyday life. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism ...
Brokering High-Risk Migration and Illegality in West Africa: Abroad at any cost
1st Edition
By Maybritt Jill Alpes
February 04, 2019
Do young West Africans want to go abroad at any cost because they receive too little or erroneous information? Why do they and their families risk large sums of money with migration brokers? How do the risks of illegality and deportation change migration aspirations in West Africa? This book places...
The Politics of Integration: Law, Race and Literature in Post-War Britain and France
1st Edition
By Chloe Gill-Khan
February 04, 2019
After almost seven decades, Britain and France, nations with divergent political cultures and heirs to contrasting philosophies of 'integration', have proclaimed the failure to integrate their post-war ethnic minorities: at this present time, the ‘Muslim’. The ‘argument’ of this book, therefore, is...
Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement: Unsettling the Everyday and the Extraordinary
1st Edition
By Jay Marlowe
January 17, 2019
The image we have of refugees is one of displacement – from their homes, families and countries – and yet, refugee settlement is increasingly becoming an experience of living simultaneously in places both proximate and distant, as people navigate and transcend international borders in ...