Population and migration geography

This book analyzes the experiences of women living and working across the busiest and most transited frontier in South America, the Parana Tri-Border Area (TBA), between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.

In an age of migration and mobility many aspects of contemporary family life - from biological reproduction to marriage, from child-rearing to care of the elderly - take place against a backdrop of intensified movement across a range of spatial scales from the global to the local.

This book analyses the current debates around national identity and multiculturalism by addressing three key questions; why do so many people treat as common sense the idea that they live in and belong to nations?

This edited collection includes (but is not limited to) contributions in the form of chapters from the participants of the Workshop on the Macroeconomics of Migration at the University of Sheffield in June 2018.

Cultural Rights of Third-Country Nationals in EU Law provides a complex analysis of the cultural rights of third-country nationals in European Union Law.

This book offers a detailed narrative of Dalit migrants' everyday experience in urban areas with regard to the availability and accessibility of welfare services and state institutions.

This easy-to read book looks at the many ways in which diffusion bears on processes that involve dispersion, starting from the Brownian motion of molecules, covering the invasion of exotic plants, migration of populations, epidemics, and extending to the spreading of languages and ideas.

A Population History of India provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country - very roughly seventy thousand years ago - until the modern day.

'This conceptually vivid book refreshes our vision' - Ruth Wilson GilmoreThe word smuggler often unleashes a simplified, negative image painted by the media and the authorities.

Although philosophers debate the morality of open borders, few social scientists have explored what would happen if immigration were no longer limited.

Border Shifts develops a more complex and multifaceted understanding of global borders, analysing internal and external EU borders from the Mediterranean region to the US-Mexico border, and exploring a range of issues including securitization, irregular migration, race, gender and human trafficking.

Dani, Joly brings together theoretical and empirical research on ethnic minorities in Eastern and Western Europe showing that their positions and the increased prejudices they encounter share many similarities throughout Europe.

This book explores demographic changes in Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) in Poland since 1990.

This book explores the struggles that immigrant women experience when communicating with their transnational families through information and communication technologies (ICTs).

Applied Demography is clearly evolving as its practitioners become involved in the emerging trends of the Twenty-First Century.

The increase in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Europe has placed the issue of migration high on the policy agendas of national governments and the European Union.

This book focuses on the transmission of ethnic identity across three generations of Italian-Australians, specifically Italian-Australians of Calabrian descent in the Adelaide region of Australia.

This book provides a demographic profile of the Syrian diaspora into Europe and identifies the issue of forced migration as a separate and increasingly salient topic within the more general field of migration research.

This book explores the relationship between political memories of migration and the politics of migration, following over two hundred years of commemorating Australia Day.

This book recounts the understanding of three Vietnamese children and their mothers' experiences as they navigate being newcomers to Canada.

This book identifies and engages with an analysis of racism in the Caribbean region, providing an empirically-based theoretical re-framing of both the racialisation of the globe and evaluation of the prospects for anti-racism and the post-racial.

This book constitutes a systematic and critical assessment of the nature, evolution, and prospects of the development partnership between the 79-member African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) group of states and the 28-member European Union (EU).

The welcome culture of 2015 in Germany has, not least due to the (re)definition of safe countries of origin, turned into a deportation policy.

This book explores non-state actors that are or have been migratory, crossing borders as a matter of practice and identity.

This book explores how the real conditions and subjective conceptions of ageing and well-being are transformed when people move from one country to another.

Condensed into a detailed analysis and a selection of continent-wide datasets, this revised edition of World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century addresses the role of educational attainment in global population trends and models.

This book argues that although labour market needs have been an important element in the development of immigration policy, they have been filtered through a political process, the politics of immigration.

This book provides the first comprehensive study of diverse migrant memories and what they mean for Australia in the twenty-first century.

This book analyses the changing face of work, gender equality and citizenship in Europe.

This book examines the pilgrimages to China from Taiwan in the late 1980s and early 1990s and offers a wide-ranging account of urban planning statements, arguments about ritual propriety, and the material culture of pilgrimage.

This book examines urbanization and migration processes in South Asia.

This book provides a complex, socio-anthropological analysis of organized crime operating in the Vietnamese diaspora in the Czech Republic, and its international implications.

 This innovative volume introduces readers to a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches used to examine the intersections of religion and migration.

This revised and updated 2nd edition of Freedman's hard-hitting study aims to remedy the current lack of gender-specific analyses of asylum and refugee issues.

The current volume presents new empirical data on well-being of youth and emerging adults from a global international perspective.

This edited volume aims to problematise and rethink the contemporary European migrant crisis in the Central Mediterranean through the lens of the Black Mediterranean.

In a world where difference is often seen as a threat or challenge, Comparing Conviviality explores how people actually live in diverse societies.

'Through a series of excellent essays this volume uses concrete ethnographic analyses of memory practices in different parts of the globe to offer theoretical reflections on how memory shapes and is shaped by mobility in time and space.

This book enriches empirical and theoretical understandings of how school choice and school segregation are generated by the construction and negotiation of ethnic divisions by placing emphasis on feelings of belonging and we-ness as important structuring forces that guide and restrict students' school choices.

This book surveys a new trend in immigration studies, which one could characterize as a turn away from multicultural and postnational perspectives, toward a renewed emphasis on assimilation and citizenship.

Made in India examines seemingly disparate and high profile events in postcolonial India that captured national and transnational/diasporic interest since the 1990s: The emergence of the Indian homosexual, the new trans/national heterosexual woman, lesbian suicides, marriage and kinship contracts in small towns around India and the simultaneous evolution of the modern homophobia and lesbian NGOs.

This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants.

This collection is the first to examine the life experiences of young adult immigrants in Europe, as transmitted by the young adults themselves, and together with the analytical framework, seeks to uncover mechanisms at work in these individuals' lives.

This book considers positions refugees take relative to the state, humanitarian actors and faith-based organisations in the humanitarian field.

This book gives voice to the diverse diasporic Latin American communities living in the UK by exploring first and onward migration of Latin Americans to Europe, with a specific reference to London.

This book is a comparative analysis of children of international migrants in Britain, France and Germany, using survey data from the EFFNATIS project.

This volume considers 'global mobility' as an alternative concept to 'international migration' in order to gain insights into international cooperation on movements of people across international borders.

This edited volume systematically analyzes the connection between xenophobia, nativism, and Pan-Africanism.

This book draws together empirical contributions which focus on conceptualising the lived realities of time and temporality in migrant lives and journeys.

Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden sheds light on the day-to-day strategies of accommodation and resistance that Kurdish youth use in the face exclusive narratives and structures of belonging and citizenship regimes in the Middle-East and Sweden.