Migration & Diaspora

In the wake of the USSR's collapse, more than 25 million Russians found themselves living outside Russian territory, their status ambiguous. This volume, prepared under the sponsorship of the Kennan Institute, offers a comprehensive and amply documented examination of the issue...

The Politicisation of Migration examines the differences between seven Western European countries by developing a conceptual framework to empirically explain patterns of politicisation and de-politicisation. The analyses show that over the past decade immigration has been increasingly defined in soc..

_x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_  Offering an innovative exploration of party competition and migration in Italy, as well as providing the conceptual and analytical tools to understand how these dynamics play out beyond the Italian case, this book is essential reading for students, scholars..

This book seeks to understand migrant integration processes and develops a theory: the status paradox of migration. It explores the interaction between migrants’ integration into the receiving country and the maintained inclusion into the sending society; and their simultaneous loss and gain of stat..

This book seeks to understand migrant integration processes and develops a theory: the status paradox of migration. It explores the interaction between migrants’ integration into the receiving country and the maintained inclusion into the sending society; and their simultaneous loss and gain of stat..

This title was first published in 2000:  Examining a year in the lives of Russian, Ethiopian and Bedouin people of the Negev, this book explores questions of immigration and immigrant absorption, regional development, health, education, race and ethnic conflict. It is a 'photo-documentation' includi..

Migrants, both spatially and mentally, no longer settle in only one national territory but interact or move across borders regularly, profoundly challenging the nation-state and the image of society as a container. This volume explores the ways in which migrants connect social worlds across national..

Contemporary migration has transformed the institution of citizenship in the Americas. This book examines the reasons why and outlines the new landscape of possible relations between states and migrants. It was originally published as a special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Powe..

This innovative book provides an overview of the emergence of new understandings of ethnicities, identities and family forms across a number of ethnic groups, family types, and national boundaries...

Marriages spanning borders are not a new phenomenon, but occur with increasing frequency and contribute substantially to international mobility and transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as ‘secondary’ to labor migration, marriage has until recent years been ..

Transnational Migration and Childhood provides a challenge to the adult-centric tendencies of much migration research and policy, which often overlooks children and young people’s own experience of migration. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migratio..

Transnational Migration and Childhood provides a challenge to the adult-centric tendencies of much migration research and policy, which often overlooks children and young people’s own experience of migration. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migratio..