Population and migration geography

Far from being the preserve of middle-class women from Northern Europe, au pairing is now booming worldwide.

Based on content analyses of three international organizations' policy reports and interviews with Somali refugees and refugee organizations, Dilek Karal examines the construction of ethico-political paradigm for immigration and asylum policies in Ethiopia.

This volume explores the variety of forms, strategies and practices of Islamic organizations in Europe and the United States.

Providing a new perspective on migration and sex work in Europe, this book is based on interviews with migrant women in the sex sector.

This book develops an exploratory theory of immigration in multilevel states addressing two themes: governance and political parties.

This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration.

This volume investigates the relationship between migration, identity, kinship and population.

This edited volume explores migration movements to Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Portugal from Brazil, Morocco and Ukraine, focusing on how the migration processes of yesterday influence those of today.

Examining the ways in which majority Western cultures govern, represent and exclude those that are considered to be ethically 'other', this book asks what is the impact of globalization, governance and Western immigration controls on the construction of the majority 'self' and the minority 'other'?

This book examines convergent trends in asylum regimes around the world.

This book analyses social work through the concept of 'xenoracism' to challenge the outdated concepts of racism that still pervade social work.

This volume examines Canada's migration policy as part of its foreign policy.

Why have settler societies moved from a traditional position of ethnic insularity to being at the forefront of multicultural change?

Migrant Capital covers a broad range of case studies and, by bringing together leading and emerging researchers, presents state-of-the-art empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives on migration, networks, social and cultural capital, exploring the ways in which these bodies of literature can inform and strengthen each other.

There may be 20 million refugees around the world today.

The phenomenon of bird migration has fascinated people from time immemorial.

The practices and technologies of evaluation and decision making used by professionals, police, lawyers and experts are questioned in this book for their participation in the perpetuation of historical forms of colonial violence through the enforcement of racial and eugenic policies and laws in Canada.

As Europe struggles to control immigration, the EU's southern flank is perceived as the weak flank of 'Fortress Europe'.

This book traces the reception and resettlement of Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Israel during the 'boat people' crisis of 1975-79.

Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families focuses on the lived experiences of '1.

Patterns of Migration in Central Europe brings together new material on migration in the region: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

This book draws renewed attention to migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements.

This book uses human rights as part of a constructivist methodology designed to establish a causal relationship between human rights violations and different types of social and political conflict in Europe and North America.

In the post-Cold war period new security threats have arisen in Western Europe.

This volume explores psychosocial problems amongst one of the most vulnerable social groups in our societies, immigrant workers, through a multidisciplinary approach.

Migration expert Bastian Vollmer explores the contentious issue of irregular migration in the highly-charged contexts of Germany and the UK.

This book analyzes the increase in contemporary European migration to Japan, its causes and the lives of Europeans in Japan.

In 2016, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) became part of the United Nations.

Contemporary Asylum Narratives marks a transition from traditional modes of diasporic belonging to the need for identifications that encompass the statelessness of refugees and asylum seekers.

This edited collection addresses the relationship between diaspora, religion and the politics of identity in the modern world.

This book discusses history of mental construction of the border between India and Bangladesh.

This book brings small places to the main stage in an exploration of the nature of immigration in rural areas and small towns in Europe.

Collective remittances, that is to say development initiatives carried out by immigrant groups for the benefit of their place of origin, have been attracting growing attention from both academics and policy makers.

Contributors offer an in-depth look at the dynamics of cultural and political change in Pakistan and the Pakistani Diaspora.

This book explores how questions about home and belonging have been framed in the discourses on race, migration, and social relationships.

This book examines the timely topic of controlling the borders of the European Schengen Area.

This book offers critical analysis of everyday narratives of Iranian middle class migrants who use their social class and careers to "e;fit in"e; with British society.

This book examines student mobility within Africa.

This book offers a unique comparative assessment of the evolution of immigration detention systems in European Union member states since the onset of the "e;refugee crisis.

Comparing differences in migrant political participation, the author discusses the influence that institutions have on opportunities and constraints for migrants' political engagement.

This book focuses on global mobility and the worldwide articulation of family life, understood as dimensions of social change that come off from the private sphere of individuals and reverberate to the point of transforming the composition of national populations.

Numerous studies explore immigration policies of individual receiving countries.

This book examines the timely topic of controlling the borders of the European Schengen Area.

The Europeanization of National Policies and Politics of Immigration is the first cutting-edge volume presenting a comparative empirical investigation on the impact of the EU on migration policy at national level.

This book provides a critical analysis of irregular migration to Europe from a neo-Gramscian perspective.

Set against the backdrop of contemporary US economic history, Puerto Rico Is in the Heart examines the emigration, labor, and political experiences of documentary photographer, human rights activist, and Puerto Rican community leader Frank Espada and considers the cultural impact of neoliberal programs directed at Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans.

With little existing scholarship on LGBT diaspora from Asia, this groundbreaking book examines the intersectionality of migration, sexuality, and gender, as well as race and ethnicity, through an analysis of the transnational experiences of Japanese LGBT diasporas in the USA, Canada and Australia.

This book explores the everyday practices of border control and implementation of mobility policy in the European Schengen area by analyzing consular visas services on the edges of the territory.

This book analyses the development of German territorial states in the nineteenth century through the prism of five Mittelstaaten: Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Wurttemberg, and Baden.