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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration

Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration (Paperback): Christine M. Jacobsen, Marry-Anne Karlsen, Shahram Khosravi Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration (Paperback)
Christine M. Jacobsen, Marry-Anne Karlsen, Shahram Khosravi
R1,228 Discovery Miles 12 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes and practices. Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights into the complex and shifting nature of processes of bordering, belonging, state power, exclusion and inclusion, and social relations in irregular migration. The chapters in this book address legal, bureaucratic, ethical, gendered, and affective dimensions of time and migration. A key concern is to develop more theoretically robust approaches to waiting in migration as constituted in and through multiple and relational temporalities. The chapters highlight how waiting is configured in specific legal, material, and socio-cultural situations, as well as how migrants encounter, incorporate, and resist temporal structures. This collection includes ethnographic and other empirically based material, as well as theorizing that cross-cut disciplinary boundaries. It will be relevant to scholars from anthropology and sociology, and others interested in temporalities, migration, borders, and power. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com , has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

A New Maori Migration - Rural and Urban Relations in Northern New Zealand (Paperback): Joan Metge A New Maori Migration - Rural and Urban Relations in Northern New Zealand (Paperback)
Joan Metge
R1,234 Discovery Miles 12 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Until 1939 the Maori people remained an almost wholly rural community, but during and after the second world war increasing numbers of them migrated in search of work to the cities, and urban groups of Maori were established. This development has significantly affected relationships, both between Maori and Europeans, and within the Maori people as a whole. The importance of Dr Metge's book lies in its presentation of a carefully documentd comparative study of two Maori communities, one in a traditional rural area and the other in Aukland, New Zealand's largest industrial centre. Housing and domestic organization, marriage patterns, kinship structure, voluntary associations and leadership in both types of community are discussed. The author's survey and conclusions make a valuable practical contribution to Maori social studies, and also have a bearing on the world-wide problem of the urbanisation of cultural minorities.

Intersectional Lives - Chinese Australian Women in White Australia (Hardcover): Alanna Kamp Intersectional Lives - Chinese Australian Women in White Australia (Hardcover)
Alanna Kamp
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Intersectional Lives explores the varied experiences of Chinese Australian females across time and place during the White Australia Policy era (1901-1973). Chinese Australian women's personal reflections are examined alongside postcolonial feminist readings of official records to illustrate how their everyday lives were influenced by multiple and fluid identities and subject positions including migrant, mother, daughter, wife, student, worker, entrepreneur and cultural custodian. This book provides new ways to conceptualise Chinese females in the diaspora as gendered, classed, culturally varied and racialised individuals with multiple forms of oppression, agency and mobility. It offers a revision of patriarchal understandings of Chinese Australian history and broader understandings of overseas Chinese migrations and settlement experiences. It also demonstrates how historical geography, informed by postcolonial feminist approaches, can facilitate more nuanced understandings of past (and present) times and places that include women's diverse experiences at the domestic, local, national and international scale. This book will appeal to social and cultural geographers with additional audiences of interest in history and historical geography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, diaspora studies, migration studies, and gender and feminist studies.

India Migration Report 2021 - Migrants and Health (Hardcover): S.Irudaya Rajan India Migration Report 2021 - Migrants and Health (Hardcover)
S.Irudaya Rajan
R3,935 Discovery Miles 39 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

S. Irudaya Rajan's 'India Migration Report 2021', - Presents a detailed study on the health of migrants. It brings to the fore the health status of the migrant population both before the pandemic and during the pandemic; - Discusses the ease of healthcare access for migrant workers; the role of decentralisation and local self-government institutions in enabling health systems to address health problems of migrants; - Examines the major challenges faced by migrant labourers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; - will be of interest to scholars and researchers of development studies, economics, demography, sociology and social anthropology, and migration and diaspora studies.

Child Migration and Biopolitics - Old and New Experiences in Europe (Paperback): Beatrice Scutaru, Simone Paoli Child Migration and Biopolitics - Old and New Experiences in Europe (Paperback)
Beatrice Scutaru, Simone Paoli
R1,239 Discovery Miles 12 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary analysis into the lives of migrant children and youth over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present day. Adopting biopolitics as a theoretical framework, the authors examine the complex interplay of structures, contexts and relations of power which influence the evolution of child migration across national borders. The volume also investigates children's experiences, views, priorities and expectations and their roles as active agents in their own migration. Using a great variety of methodologies (archival research, ethnographic observation, interviews) and sources (drawings, documents produced by governments and experts, films and press), the authors provide richly documented case studies which cover a wide geographical area within Europe, both West (Belgium, France, Germany) and East (Romania, Russia, Ukraine), South (Italy, Portugal, Turkey) and North (Sweden), enabling a deep understanding of the diversity of migrant childhoods in the European context.

International Migration into the 21st Century - Essays in Honour of Reginald Appleyard (Hardcover): M.A.B. Siddique International Migration into the 21st Century - Essays in Honour of Reginald Appleyard (Hardcover)
M.A.B. Siddique
R3,800 Discovery Miles 38 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reginald Appleyard occupies an eminent position in the field of international migration and development studies. This enlightening volume of essays, in his honour, brings together contributions from a distinguished group of scholars who have known him for many years and hold him in high esteem. Combining judgements and expertise from all fields of the social sciences, this unique book provides a truly inter-disciplinary analysis of one of the most significant emerging problems of the 21st Century. The authors examine different aspects of migration from an international perspective, evaluating the nature and significance of change in the movement of people, and attempting to predict emerging trends in the volume, direction and composition of global migration. The book questions the causes of illegal and refugee migration, the politics of selection and restriction, and the changing determinants of return migration. In particular, the authors emphasise that original approaches and theories are required to study and understand the rapidly changing trends in international migration associated with new technology and globalisation. By addressing issues which are likely to be of growing significance during the 21st century, this thought-provoking book will be of immense value to students, scholars and researchers in the social sciences, and especially the theory and policy of international migration.

Freedom, Culture, and the Right to Exclude - On the Permissibility and Necessity of Immigration Restrictions (Hardcover): Uwe... Freedom, Culture, and the Right to Exclude - On the Permissibility and Necessity of Immigration Restrictions (Hardcover)
Uwe Steinhoff
R3,908 Discovery Miles 39 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book argues that citizens have a moral right to decide by which criteria they grant migrants citizenship, as well as to control access to their territory in the first place. In developing and defending this argument, it critically engages numerous objections, thus providing the reader with a thorough overview of the current debate on the ethics of immigration and exclusion. The author's argument is based on a straightforwardly individualist and liberal starting point. One of the rights granted by liberalism is freedom of association, which also comprises the right not to associate with people with whom one does not want to associate. While this is an individual right, it can be exercised collectively like many other individual rights. Thus, people can decide to collectively organize into an association pursuing certain goals; and subject to certain provisos, this gives rise to legitimate claims to space and territory in which they pursue these goals. The author shows that this right is far-reaching and robust, which entails an equally far-reaching and robust right to exclude. Moreover, he demonstrates that large-scale immigration from illiberal cultures tends to severely compromise the way of life, the values, and the institutions of liberal democracies in ways routinely ignored by apologists for multiculturalism. Freedom, Culture, and the Right to Exclude will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in applied ethics, political philosophy, political theory, and law.

The Criminalisation of People Smuggling in Indonesia and Australia - Asylum Out of Reach (Hardcover): Antje Missbach The Criminalisation of People Smuggling in Indonesia and Australia - Asylum Out of Reach (Hardcover)
Antje Missbach
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers an ethnographically informed critique of the hyper-politicised debate on the facilitation of irregularised migration for people seeking asylum between Indonesia and Australia. While state authorities decry such facilitation as "people smuggling" and push for its criminalisation, the book's focal points are the need for unsanctioned passages for people seeking asylum and the detrimental consequences of the criminalisation of "people smuggling" for both the facilitators and the people seeking asylum. Drawing on court verdicts and interviews with convicted facilitators and law enforcement officials in Indonesia, this book provides a unique and holistic picture of the causes, conditions, procedures and intricacies surrounding the facilitation of irregularised maritime journeys between Indonesia and Australia covering almost four decades. It scrutinises the micro-level operational and place-specific characteristics of people smuggling and the consequences of anti-people-smuggling policies in Indonesia and relates those consequences to changes in the macroenvironment, which include relevant legal, political, social and economic factors that determine the overarching conditions of irregularised mobility. Compared to other states in the Global North, Australia has claimed to be more "successful" with its comprehensive approach to eliminate unsanctioned migration at sea by combining punitive, communicative-reventive and interceptive measures. This book challenges key achievements and objectives in regard to criminalising the facilitation of irregularised migration by foregrounding the many negative side effects that have emanated from "stopping the boats". The book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of anthropology and sociology, law and criminology, Asia-Pacific Studies, Southeast Asian Studies and international migration.

Solidarity & Care - Domestic Worker Activism in New York City (Hardcover): Alana Lee Glaser Solidarity & Care - Domestic Worker Activism in New York City (Hardcover)
Alana Lee Glaser
R2,282 Discovery Miles 22 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The members of the Domestic Workers United (DWU) organization-immigrant women of color employed as nannies, caregivers, and housekeepers in New York City-formed to fight for dignity and respect and to "bring meaningful change" to their work. Alana Lee Glaser examines the process of how these domestic workers organized against precarity, isolation, and exploitation to help pass the 2010 New York State Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, the first labor law in the United States protecting in-home workers. Solidarity & Care examines the political mobilization of diverse care workers who joined together and supported one another through education, protests, lobbying, and storytelling. Domestic work activists used narrative and emotional appeals to build a coalition of religious communities, employers of domestic workers, labor union members, and politicians to first pass and then to enforce the new law. Through oral history interviews, as well as ethnographic observation during DWU meetings and protest actions, Glaser chronicles how these women fought (and continue to fight) to improve working conditions. She also illustrates how they endure racism, punitive immigration laws, on-the-job indignities, and unemployment that can result in eviction and food insecurity. The lessons from Solidarity & Care along with the DWU's precedent-setting legislative success have applications to workers across industries. All royalties will go directly to the Domestic Workers United

The Politics of Migration and Diaspora in Eastern Europe - Media, Public Discourse and Policy (Hardcover): Ruxandra Trandafoiu The Politics of Migration and Diaspora in Eastern Europe - Media, Public Discourse and Policy (Hardcover)
Ruxandra Trandafoiu
R3,618 Discovery Miles 36 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 mobility, and immigration in Eastern Europe from cultural, social and political angles, tracing the evolution of migration policies across Eastern Europe through communication, public debate and political strategy. Trandafoiu investigates the extent to which these potential 'models' or policy practices can be comparable to those in Western European countries, or whether Eastern Europe can give rise to a migration 'system' that rivals the North American one. Each chapter bridges the link between policy and politics and makes a case for considering migration politics as fundamentally intertwined with media representation and public debate. Drawing on comparative case studies of countries including Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine, the book considers how migration is both managed and experienced from political, social and cultural viewpoints and from the perspectives of a range of actors including migrants, politicians, policymakers and journalists. This book will be key reading for advanced students and researchers of migration, media, international relations, and political communication.

Migration in Africa - Shifting Patterns of Mobility from the 19th to the 21st Century (Hardcover): Michiel De Haas, Ewout... Migration in Africa - Shifting Patterns of Mobility from the 19th to the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Michiel De Haas, Ewout Frankema
R3,945 Discovery Miles 39 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

- The first book to synthesize migration history in Africa from the early 19th to the early 21st century -Cross-disciplinary approach makes it suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students across a range of social sciences subjects -Coverage is diverse across time (19th-21st centuries), geographies (migration systems are compared and contrasted across the continent), and themes (covering forced & voluntary migration, rural & urban, sudden ruptures (eg war) & more gradual changes).

Mapping Southern Routes of Migrant Women - A Case Study of Chile (Hardcover): Sondra Cuban Mapping Southern Routes of Migrant Women - A Case Study of Chile (Hardcover)
Sondra Cuban
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Whereas most migration research still focuses on South to North migration, this book shines a light on mobilities within the Global South. Using migration to and within Chile as a case study, the book looks at the experiences of women, who make up a large proportion of migrants within Latin America. Mapping the experiences, aspirations and struggles of women moving to and in Chile, the book exposes the unexpected issues encountered by migrant women in their new destination country, particularly the discrimination that leaves them feeling invisible, unsettled, and, immobile. Within the region there is a long history of feminized migration and domestic labour circuits that spurs migrants' residential movements but slows their social progress. Yet despite these challenges, the migrant women expressed their agency through the support networks they created among their compatriots and their transnational families. Overall, the book demonstrates the growing migrant populations that exist within the Global South and the impact of domestic and care labour markets in driving gendered migration in particular. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in the fields of mobilities and migration, cultural geography, international development, and gender studies, especially those with an interest in Latin America.

Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration - Migrants 'In-Between' (Hardcover): Shanthi... Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration - Migrants 'In-Between' (Hardcover)
Shanthi Robertson, Rosie Roberts
R3,917 Discovery Miles 39 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 families; well-off young Indians in Mumbai strategising their future education pathways overseas; and Japanese mothers finding ways to belong in a London middle-class neighbourhood. This book asks how relatively privileged migrant groups negotiate their life trajectories, relationships and aspirations while 'on the move' and how they transform the communities and societies that they move between across time and space. The book's chapters consider motives for migration, as well as experiences of risk, uncertainty and insecurity in diverse local contexts. A fresh look at the migration of those who possess skills and resources that can bring about significant economic, social and cultural change, this book engages critically with the notions of 'middling' migration, social mobility and mobile privilege in the global context of hardening borders and immigration complexity. It will appeal to scholars with interests in contemporary forms of migration and mobility and their local and transnational consequences.

Environmental Justice for Climate Refugees (Hardcover): Francesca Rosignoli Environmental Justice for Climate Refugees (Hardcover)
Francesca Rosignoli
R4,052 Discovery Miles 40 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores who climate refugees are and how environmental justice might be used to overcome legal obstacles preventing them from being recognized at an international level. Francesca Rosignoli begins by exploring the conceptual and complex issues that surround the very existence of climate refugees and investigates the magnitude of the phenomenon in its current and future estimates. Reframing the debate using an environment justice perspective, she examines who has the responsibility of assisting climate refugees (state vs non-state actors), the various legal solutions available and the political scenarios that should be advanced in order to govern this issue in the long term. Overall, Environmental Justice for Climate Refugees presents a critical interrogation of how this specific strand of forced migration is currently categorized by existing legal, ethical and political definitions, and highlights the importance of applying a justice perspective to this issue. Exploring the phenomenon of climate refugees through a multi-disciplinary lens, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental migration and displacement, environmental politics and governance, and refugee studies.

The Sexual Politics of Border Control (Hardcover): Billy Holzberg, Anouk Madoerin, Michelle Pfeifer The Sexual Politics of Border Control (Hardcover)
Billy Holzberg, Anouk Madoerin, Michelle Pfeifer
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Sexual Politics of Border Control conceptualises sexuality as a method of bordering and uncovers how sexuality operates as a key site for the containment, capture and regulation of movement. By bringing together queer scholarship on borders and migration with the rich archive of feminist, Black, Indigenous and critical border perspectives, it highlights how the heteronormativity of the border intersects with the larger dynamics of racial capitalism, imperialism and settler colonialism; reproductive inequalities; and the containment of contagion, disease and virality. Transnational in focus, this book includes contributions from and about different geopolitical contexts including histories of HIV in Turkey; the politics of reproduction in Palestine/Israel; settler colonialism and anti-Blackness in the United States; the sexual geographies of the Balkan and Southern Europe; the intimate politics of marriage migration between Vietnam and Canada; and sex work in Australia, the United States, France and New Zealand. This collection constitutes a key intervention in the study of border and migration that highlights the crucial role that sexual politics play in the reproduction and contestation of national border regimes. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Planning and the Multi-local Urban Experience - The Power of Lifescapes (Hardcover): Kimmo Lapintie Planning and the Multi-local Urban Experience - The Power of Lifescapes (Hardcover)
Kimmo Lapintie
R4,047 Discovery Miles 40 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The starting point of this book is the observation that there is a discrepancy between the lived reality of human beings and the fabricated, planned, and governed 'reality' of the state apparatus at both the local and national level. The book posits multi-locality as an emerging spatial configuration. The author draws from various theoretical sources, such as Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of state or royal science, the Nietzschean critique of idealism, Hagerstrnad's time-geography, Hintikka's theory of modalities, Lefebvre's urban society, Castel's network society, Foucault's concept of heterotopia, and Bhaskar's and Sartre's theories of presence and absence. He also discusses the implications of Faludi's post-territorialist critique of planning and governance, and of the failure to operationalise the concept quantitively, basing his arguments in the lived experiences of multi-locals as well. The novelty of the book is how it analyses multi-locality from such a wide theoretical perspective: what is the nature and meaning of the different multiple and coexistent places for people, and how is this spatial transformation related to their mobility, everyday practices, and work. How does the presence and absence of places form their identity and their citizenship? He also addresses the inconsistency between multi-locality and traditional statistics and the planning and governance practices based on the assumption of unilocality and discusses the implications of this incongruity. The book will be of interest to scholars in urban studies and planning theory, as well as practitioners developing more adequate practices replacing outdated ones.

Antonio, We Know You (Hardcover): Antonio Salazar-Hobson Antonio, We Know You (Hardcover)
Antonio Salazar-Hobson
R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Economics of Cultural Diversity (Hardcover): Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot, Jessie Bakens The Economics of Cultural Diversity (Hardcover)
Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot, Jessie Bakens
R4,196 Discovery Miles 41 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The populations of many countries in the world are becoming more culturally diverse. This spurs a growing need for an informed debate on the socio-economic implications of cultural diversity. This book offers a solid statistical and econometric perspective on this topical subject by bringing together studies from different countries in Europe and North America.The research in this volume sheds light on several consequences of cultural diversity, including positive impacts on innovation, growth and entrepreneurship. The original and quantitative contributions also highlight the negative social effects on communities. Throughout the volume, it is evident that the effects of cultural diversity on socio-economic outcomes depend largely on the characteristics of local economies, populations and communities. Utilising a broad spectrum of research methods over a multitude of research areas, this comprehensive overview of the socio-economic impacts of cultural diversity is a valuable resource for students and academics. Contributors: I. Abdulloev, M. Aleksynska, J. Bakens, W. Bernasco, M.R. Betz, S. Brunow, B.R. Chiswick, G.S. Epstein, I.N. Gang, M. Gheasi, J. Hartog, I. Lobach, J. Moehlmann, M. Nathan, P. Nijkamp, M.R. Olfert, B.J. Osoba, M.D. Partridge, G. Peri, J. Poot, E. Pungas, P. Rietveld, K. Shih, B. Stockinger, T.Tammaru, O. Toomet, A. Tubadji, A. Zorlu

Parenthood and Immigration in Psychoanalysis - Shaping the Therapeutic Setting (Hardcover): Marie Moro, Genevieve Welsh Parenthood and Immigration in Psychoanalysis - Shaping the Therapeutic Setting (Hardcover)
Marie Moro, Genevieve Welsh
R3,909 Discovery Miles 39 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

- Contributors from diverse backgrounds and specializations make for a rich collection of ideas that is relevant in a wide range of mental health contexts - As populations grow more diverse and global, this theme is likely to remain important

Racial Nationalisms - Borders, Refugees and the Cultural Politics of Belonging (Paperback): Sivamohan Valluvan, Virinder S.... Racial Nationalisms - Borders, Refugees and the Cultural Politics of Belonging (Paperback)
Sivamohan Valluvan, Virinder S. Kalra
R1,239 Discovery Miles 12 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book addresses the centrality of race and racism in consolidating the nationalisms currently prominent in Brexit Britain. Particular attention is given to the issues of refugees, borders and bordering, and the wider forms of nativist and anti- Muslim sentiments that anchor today's increasingly populist forms of nationalist politics. It is argued that the forms of scapegoating and alarmism integral to the revival of nationalism in British politics are fundamentally tied to racialised processes. Equally however, it is argued that such a political climate is not simply discursive, but also yields acute forms of governance, wherein an increasingly violent attention is given by the state to the border. The chapters in the book do however also attempt to think through the possibilities of a constructive response to this moment. Emphasis is given here to the everyday cultural textures that might help shape a popular opposition to racial nationalism. Similarly, the book attempts to unpack the appeal of today's distinctive populism in ways that might be more responsive to anti-racist and anti-nationalist sentiments. Racial Nationalisms will be of interest to academics and researchers studying postcolonialism, nationalism, ethnic and racial studies, and to advanced students of sociology, political science and public policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Early Modern Diasporas - A European History (Hardcover): Mathilde Monge, Natalia Muchnik Early Modern Diasporas - A European History (Hardcover)
Mathilde Monge, Natalia Muchnik
R4,072 Discovery Miles 40 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides a comparative view as well as elaborate case studies for scholars, students, and the public who are interested in learning about how the social sciences and history contribute to our understanding of integration, migrations, and religious coexistence / This book will appeal to all those interested in religious minorities in Early Modern Europe / This book investigates the tensions these groups experienced.

Cultures of Mobility, Migration, and Religion in Ancient Israel and Its World (Hardcover): Eric M Trinka Cultures of Mobility, Migration, and Religion in Ancient Israel and Its World (Hardcover)
Eric M Trinka
R3,636 Discovery Miles 36 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

By integrating evidence of the form and function of religiosities in contexts of mobility and migration, this volume reconstructs mobility-informed aspects of civic and household religiosities in Israel and its world. Readers will find a robust theoretical framework for studying cultures of mobility and religiosities in the ancient past, as well as a fresh understanding of the scope and texture of mobility-informed religious identities that composed broader Yahwistic religious heritage. This book will be of use to both specialists and informed readers interested in the history of mobilities and migrations in the ancient Near East, as well as those interested in the development of Yahwism in its biblical and extra-biblical forms.

Coping with Migrants and Refugees - Multilevel Governance across the EU (Hardcover): Tiziana Caponio, Irene Ponzo Coping with Migrants and Refugees - Multilevel Governance across the EU (Hardcover)
Tiziana Caponio, Irene Ponzo
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides a comparative overview of asylum seekers' reception throughout Europe by adopting a theoretical framework based on an analytical approach to the notion of multilevel governance (MLG). It challenges the tendency of the MLG literature to overlook political controversies and conflicts and questions the assumption that it represents the best policymaking arrangement for promoting policy convergence. In doing so, it explores the functioning of the reception component of the Common European Asylum System in centralised states and federal/regional states and analyses its implementation at both national and local levels. The book reveals the heterogeneous development of reception policies not only across Member States but also within each country where solutions adopted at the local level generally diverge substantially. Furthermore, the overall centralisation of policy-making on reception regardless the institutional structure, seems to leave little room for MLG arrangements tailored to specific localities and triggers tensions between central governments and local authorities. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of migration and asylum studies, immigration, (multilevel) global governance and more broadly to comparative politics, European studies/politics and public policy. Chapter 3, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Mobilization against Asylum Seekers in Contemporary Urban Spaces - Not in Our Backyard (Hardcover): Iris Beau Segers Mobilization against Asylum Seekers in Contemporary Urban Spaces - Not in Our Backyard (Hardcover)
Iris Beau Segers
R3,915 Discovery Miles 39 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book investigates the issue of local mobilization against asylum seekers in urban areas, which are often disproportionally affected by complex issues related to immigration and integration, as well as socio-economic development and growing inequalities. Based on ethnographic research in the city of Rotterdam, it explores the conditions under which mobilization against the establishment of an asylum seekers' centre emerged, offering a combined analysis of interviews, social media, and mainstream media to demonstrate the key role played by storytelling in the development of opposition to the arrival of asylum seekers. Presenting a theoretical model of anti-immigration mobilization that connects the social importance of storytelling to broader socio-political developments and conditions, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, and politics with interests in migration, social movements, and mobilization around contentious issues.

The Role of Language in the Wellbeing of Migrants - East Asian Communities in Germany (Hardcover): Zi Wang The Role of Language in the Wellbeing of Migrants - East Asian Communities in Germany (Hardcover)
Zi Wang
R3,903 Discovery Miles 39 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the correlations between language behaviour and happiness amongst communities of migrants, and addresses the overarching question of whether language can affect wellbeing. Zi Wang takes an innovative look at migration and wellbeing by examining the crucial role language - a quintessential part of the international migration experience - plays in migrants' wellbeing. Drawing on case studies from Chinese and Japanese-speaking communities in Germany, as well as secondary survey data on the general migrant population, Wang shows that proficiency in both host country and heritage languages is associated with robust enhancements of migrants' subjective wellbeing. He argues that acquisition of host country language and the preservation and promotion of heritage culture should not be portrayed as a zero-sum game by stakeholders in host societies. Instead, we ought to consider the unique experiences of migrants in order to fully comprehend the ways in which they experience, evaluate, and pursue happiness in a host society. Presenting a novel approach to the study of migrants' wellbeing, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of area studies, education, international migration, sociology of language, and wellbeing research.

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