Migration & Diaspora

This original and timely book is the first to analyze the interconnectedness of migration, regional integration and the new security studies. The book explores the conflict between the actions of transnational migrants and state government policy in a series of theoretical chapters and regional case..

Moving Lives refocuses debates about migration by following the experiences, memories and perceptions of three migrant groups in Britain: the Polish, Italian and Greek-Cypriot populations. In tracing some of the key themes of migration narratives, Kathy Burrell illustrates that the act of migration ..

This title was first published in 2000. Patterns of racism and disadvantage vary throughout Britain, yet most British research continues to focus on data from England and Wales. This Scottish study allows distinctions to emerge which contribute to our understanding of the complex processes of discr..

Examines the use of migration partnerships as a new tool in the political management of migration flows...

Examines the use of migration partnerships as a new tool in the political management of migration flows...

This volume focuses on the life experiences of the many ‘ordinary’ Muslims in their European societies of settlement, and the role that cultural and religious factors play in shaping their social relationships with majority populations and public institutions. It was published as a special issue of ..

This collection explores the beliefs of citizens and noncitizens about the impact that contemporary migration to the USA is having on American culture and on national solidarity. The six studies in this volume examine how citizens respond to immigrants—including right-wing populists, pragmatic multi..

This ground-breaking book draws on a variety of comparative surveys to provide a unique account of the relationship between nationalist attitudes and the exclusion of migrants across a range of European countries, the US, Canada and Australia...

Using life-story interviews and oral history archives, this book provides a radically different story about multicultural Britain. It explores the impact of South Asian migration from the 1950s onwards on the local white population and on the migrants themselves. Offering rich data lacking in existi..

New Challenges in Immigration Theory seeks to stretch the limits of familiar liberal political theory in order to consider the difficult normative questions presented by ‘new’ forms of migration, such as climate refugees, and skilled and unskilled temporary labour migration. It also considers the mo..

New Challenges in Immigration Theory seeks to stretch the limits of familiar liberal political theory in order to consider the difficult normative questions presented by ‘new’ forms of migration, such as climate refugees, and skilled and unskilled temporary labour migration. It also considers the mo..

First published in 1999, this book is a political ethnography of recent migration from China to Europe, focusing on migrants’ organizations and the links to China that form the skeleton of a new transnational Chinese community...