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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Inhabiting Borders, Routes Home: Youth, Gender, Asylum
1st Edition
By Ala Sirriyeh
October 26, 2016
In recent years there has been growing interest in the experiences of young people seeking asylum in Europe. While the significance of the role of age is recognized, both youth transitions and trajectories beyond the age of eighteen are still largely unexplored, the role and impact of mobility ...
Local Lives: Migration and the Politics of Place
1st Edition
By Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich, Catherine Trundle
September 30, 2016
Local Lives contests dominant trends in migration theory, demonstrating that many migrant identities have not become entirely diasporic or cosmopolitan, but remain equally focused on emplaced belonging and the anxieties of being uprooted. By addressing the question of how migrants legally and ...
The Cultures of Economic Migration: International Perspectives
1st Edition
By Tope Omoniyi, Suman Gupta
September 30, 2016
This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it. Reflecting critically on economic migration and on the process of studying and creating knowledge about it, the contributors address the question of ...
The Invisible Empire: White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging
1st Edition
By Georgie Wemyss
September 09, 2016
This book offers a significant and original contribution to critical race theory. Georgie Wemyss offers an anthropological account of the cultural hegemony of the West through investigations of the central and pivotal constituent of the dominant white discourse of Britishness - the Invisible Empire...
Accession and Migration: Changing Policy, Society, and Culture in an Enlarged Europe
1st Edition
By Yordanka Valkanova, John Eade
September 08, 2016
The expansion of the European Union in May 2004 through the entry of ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe, has generated considerable media interest - interest which was revived by further expansion in January 2007 when Bulgaria and Romania became the latest nations from the east to join. ...
Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship: Life-stories From Britain and Germany
1st Edition
By Umut Erel
September 08, 2016
Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship develops essential insights concerning the notion of transnational citizenship by means of the life stories of skilled and educated migrant women from Turkey in Germany and Britain. It interweaves and develops theories of citizenship, identity and culture with...
The Challenges of Diaspora Migration: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Israel and Germany
1st Edition
By Rainer K. Silbereisen, Peter F. Titzmann
September 06, 2016
Diaspora or 'ethnic return' migrants have often been privileged in terms of citizenship and material support when they seek to return to their ancestral land, yet for many, after long periods of absence - sometimes extending to generations - acculturation to their new environment is as complex as ...
Food in the Migrant Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne J. Kershen
August 26, 2016
At its most basic, food is vital to our survival there can be no form of life without it. But in economically developed and thriving societies there is more to eating and drinking than just surviving. As the centuries have passed, the marketing, preparation and presentation of food has become an ...
International Migration and Rural Areas: Cross-National Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
By Myriam Simard, Birgit Jentsch
September 28, 2009
While immigrants are still predominantly choosing urban areas to locate to, there is now increasing evidence of immigration to rural areas which poses its own challenges for those relocating, from the scarcity of high quality jobs to the provision of public and private services. Addressing the ...