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'Like the city, the nation, life itself, migration has become
increasingly diverse. This stimulating, multi-disciplinary edited
collection looks at questions about the connections between time,
space and migration at a variety of scales and across a range of
sites. Rhythms, patterns and scales of permanent, cyclical and
temporary migration are explored in fascinating detail, providing
new insights into an increasingly important phenomenon in a
globalising world. This collection will reset the agenda for
migration studies.' - Linda McDowell, University of Oxford, UK
Seeking to re-energise debates on the relationship between human
mobility and timespace, this book furthers our understanding of how
people move by foregrounding both time and space in the analysis of
different empirical migration stories. Though migration is often
seen as inherently spatial, the way space is being imagined is
rarely analysed, whilst questions of time are widely neglected by
migration scholars. Here, in contrast, the idea of timespace is
used to assert the significance and connections of these two
dimensions. The focus is on how timespace intersects with dynamic
migrant constructions, negotiations and performances as an integral
aspect of the rhythms of mobilities. Highlighting migration
journeys and emotions as embedded and embodied in everyday lives,
the chapters also examine the intricate and complex ways timespace
enters into, and is juxtaposed with, such feelings and practices in
different spaces. Migrations and mobilities are not seen as
one-off, separate processes, suspended in timespace, but rather
need to be theorised and analysed in more innovative and malleable
ways which take into account the non-linear, non-teleological,
ambivalent, irrational, messy and fluid ways in which people move.
Individual chapters engage with these concepts by considering a
broad spectrum of migration stories, from youth mobility, to
refugee migration, to gentrification, to food and to the political
geography of the border. The overall aim of the book is to
interrupt and challenge the ways in which migration scholars use
time and space within their research. Contributors include: E.
Ascensao, J. Carling, A. Christou, F. Collins, M.B. Erdal, M.
Griffiths, A. Ma, E. Mavroudi, J. McGarrigle, P. Novak, B. Page, S.
Shubin, D. Smith, H. Zaban
This new, fully updated edition of Global Migration provides
students with a thorough and grounded understanding of multiple
dimensions of migration, including labour markets, citizenship,
border control, integration, and identity. Written by two
geographers, the book incorporates insights from across the social
sciences and is accessible to students in many disciplines.
Providing a useful and timely introduction to migration, the
textbook addresses migration in a holistic way and equips students
with the tools they need to participate in contemporary debates
about migration in sending and destination contexts. It conveys to
students that the causes and effects of migration are
geographically specific and contingent upon class, race, gender,
and other markers of social difference. Rather than identifying
simple solutions to migration 'problems', the book encourages
students to think about unauthorized migration, asylum, refugee
resettlement, labour migration, and other forms of mobility (and
immobility) from different vantage points. Global Migration serves
as the go-to book for teaching advanced undergraduate and
Master's-level students about the complexities of migration across
nation-state borders.
There is simply no other textbook that offers the same breadth and
depth that this book does. Authors’ provide a global perspective.
The text is highly readable and engaging, while maintaining a depth
of understanding critical to the topic. Text is much more
"scholarly" than usual textbooks are, e.g. being based on academic
articles as well and most recent scholarly work which is at the
forefront. Book also covers much more specialized topics, e.g.
migration management, protests etc., than usually are covered in
textbooks.
There is simply no other textbook that offers the same breadth and
depth that this book does. Authors’ provide a global perspective.
The text is highly readable and engaging, while maintaining a depth
of understanding critical to the topic. Text is much more
"scholarly" than usual textbooks are, e.g. being based on academic
articles as well and most recent scholarly work which is at the
forefront. Book also covers much more specialized topics, e.g.
migration management, protests etc., than usually are covered in
textbooks.
This new, fully updated edition of Global Migration provides
students with a thorough and grounded understanding of multiple
dimensions of migration, including labour markets, citizenship,
border control, integration, and identity. Written by two
geographers, the book incorporates insights from across the social
sciences and is accessible to students in many disciplines.
Providing a useful and timely introduction to migration, the
textbook addresses migration in a holistic way and equips students
with the tools they need to participate in contemporary debates
about migration in sending and destination contexts. It conveys to
students that the causes and effects of migration are
geographically specific and contingent upon class, race, gender,
and other markers of social difference. Rather than identifying
simple solutions to migration 'problems', the book encourages
students to think about unauthorized migration, asylum, refugee
resettlement, labour migration, and other forms of mobility (and
immobility) from different vantage points. Global Migration serves
as the go-to book for teaching advanced undergraduate and
Master's-level students about the complexities of migration across
nation-state borders.
Re-energising debates on the conceptualisation of diasporas in
migration scholarship and in geography, this work stresses the
important role that geographers can play in interrupting
assumptions about the spaces and processes of diaspora. The
intricate, material and complex ways in which those in diaspora
contest, construct and perform identity, politics, development and
place is explored throughout this book. The authors 'dismantle'
diasporas in order to re-theorise the concept through empirically
grounded, cutting-edge global research. This innovative volume will
appeal to an international and interdisciplinary audience in
ethnic, migration and diaspora studies as it tackles comparative,
multi-sited and multi-method research through compelling case
studies in a variety of contexts spanning the Global North and
South. The research in this book is guided by four interconnected
themes: the ways in which diasporas are constructed and performed
through identity, the body, everyday practice and place; how those
in diaspora become politicised and how this leads to unities and
disunities in relation to 'here' and 'there'; the ways in which
diasporas seek to connect and re-connect with their 'homelands' and
the consequences of this in terms of identity formation, employment
and theorising who 'counts' as a diaspora; and how those in
diaspora engage with homeland development and the challenges this
creates.
Re-energising debates on the conceptualisation of diasporas in
migration scholarship and in geography, this work stresses the
important role that geographers can play in interrupting
assumptions about the spaces and processes of diaspora. The
intricate, material and complex ways in which those in diaspora
contest, construct and perform identity, politics, development and
place is explored throughout this book. The authors 'dismantle'
diasporas in order to re-theorise the concept through empirically
grounded, cutting-edge global research. This innovative volume will
appeal to an international and interdisciplinary audience in
ethnic, migration and diaspora studies as it tackles comparative,
multi-sited and multi-method research through compelling case
studies in a variety of contexts spanning the Global North and
South. The research in this book is guided by four interconnected
themes: the ways in which diasporas are constructed and performed
through identity, the body, everyday practice and place; how those
in diaspora become politicised and how this leads to unities and
disunities in relation to 'here' and 'there'; the ways in which
diasporas seek to connect and re-connect with their 'homelands' and
the consequences of this in terms of identity formation, employment
and theorising who 'counts' as a diaspora; and how those in
diaspora engage with homeland development and the challenges this
creates.
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