Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies
|
Buy Now
Mobility and Migration Choices - Thresholds to Crossing Borders (Hardcover, New Ed)
Loot Price: R3,995
Discovery Miles 39 950
|
|
Mobility and Migration Choices - Thresholds to Crossing Borders (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Border Regions Series
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
The crossing of national state borders is one of the most-discussed
issues of contemporary times and it poses many challenges for
individual and collective identities. This concerns both
short-distance mobility as well as long-distance migration.
Choosing to move - or not - across international borders is a
complex decision, involving both cognitive and emotional processes.
This book tests the approach that three crucial thresholds need to
be crossed before mobility occurs; the individual's mindset about
migrating, the choice of destination and perception of crossing
borders to that location and the specific routes and spatial
trajectories available to get there. Thus both borders and
trajectories can act as thresholds to spatial moves. The threshold
approach, with its focus on processes affecting whether, when and
where to move, aims to understand the decision-making process in
all its dimensions, in the hope that this will lead to a better
understanding of the ways migrants conceive, perceive and undertake
their transnational journeys. This book examines the three
constitutive parts discerned in the cross-border mobility
decision-making process: people, borders and trajectories and their
interrelationships. Illustrated by a global range of case studies,
it demonstrates that the relation between the three is not fixed
but flexible and that decision-making contains aspects of
belonging, instability, security and volatility affecting their
mobility or immobility.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.