Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants' desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth of specialized transportation and labour immigration companies, to multinational companies managing detention centres or establishing border security, to the organized criminal networks profiting from human smuggling and trafficking, we are currently witnessing a growing commercialization of international migration. This volume claims that today it is almost impossible to speak of migration without also speaking of the migration industry. Yet, acknowledging the role the migration industry plays prompts a number of questions that have so far received only limited attention among scholars and policy makers. The book offers new concepts and theory for the study of international migration by bringing together cross-disciplinary theoretical explorations and original case studies. It also provides a global coverage of the phenomena under study, covering migrant destinations in Europe, the United States and Asia, and migrant sending regions in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants' desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth of specialized transportation and labour immigration companies, to multinational companies managing detention centres or establishing border security, to the organized criminal networks profiting from human smuggling and trafficking, we are currently witnessing a growing commercialization of international migration. This volume claims that today it is almost impossible to speak of migration without also speaking of the migration industry. Yet, acknowledging the role the migration industry plays prompts a number of questions that have so far received only limited attention among scholars and policy makers. The book offers new concepts and theory for the study of international migration by bringing together cross-disciplinary theoretical explorations and original case studies. It also provides a global coverage of the phenomena under study, covering migrant destinations in Europe, the United States and Asia, and migrant sending regions in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Contents:
Introduction: Mobile Livelihoods: Making a Living in the World
Part 1: Mobile Livelihoods - Regional and Historical Perspectives
1. Ninna Nyberg Sorenson Representing the Local: Mobile Livelihood Practices in the Peruvian Central Sierra
2. Bodil Folke Frederiksen Mobile Minds and Socio-Economic Barriers: Livelihoods and African-American Identifications among Youth in Nairobi
3. Carla Freeman Mobility, Rootedness, and the Caribbean Higgler: Production, Consumption and Transnational Livelihoods
Part 2: Livelihoods Extended
4. Karen Fog Olwig A 'Responsible' Livelihood: Mobility and Identity in a Caribbean Family
5. Carla Tamagno 'You Must Win Their Affection...: Migrants' Social and Cultural Practices between Peru and Italy
6. Karsten Paerregaard Business as Usual: Livelihood Strategies and Migration Practice in the Peruvian Diaspora
7. Vered Amit The Moving 'Expert': a Study of Mobile Professionals in the Cayman Islands and North America
8. Jorge Duany Irse pa'fuera: the Mobile Livelihood of Circular Migrants Between Puerto Rico and the United States
Part 3: Livelihoods and the Transnational Return
9. Transnational Livelihoods and Identities in Return Migration to the Caribbean: the Case of Skilled Returnees to Jamaica
10. The Final Move? - Displaced Livelihoods and Collective Returns in Peru and Guatemala