Migration & Diaspora

Local Lives contests dominant trends in migration theory, demonstrating that many migrant identities have not become entirely diasporic or cosmopolitan, but remain equally focused on emplaced belonging and the anxieties of being uprooted. By addressing the question of how migrants legally and symbol..

Local Lives contests dominant trends in migration theory, demonstrating that many migrant identities have not become entirely diasporic or cosmopolitan, but remain equally focused on emplaced belonging and the anxieties of being uprooted. By addressing the question of how migrants legally and symbol..

Some two decades since the publication of London the Promised Land?, which charted and investigated the successes and failures of the migrant experience in London over a period of three hundred years, this book re-examines the migrant landscape in London. Examining the changes to the migrant landsca..

This title was first published in 2001: Employing detailed international research and focusing particularly upon family life, this volume examines the background, current position and key features of minority communities living within multi cultural societies...

This book demonstrates the global scope of the Filipino diaspora and explores ways in which the dynamics of nation-state institutions, labour migration, and social relationships intersect for transnational communities. Filipinas are seen as mobile, as they have crossed geographical borders and are p..

As America begins the 21st century there is growing outcry across the land for reform of the nation's chaotic immigration policies. This text shows how immigration patterns are in direct conflict with emerging labour market trends and constitute a serious threat to the jobs of American workers...

This book establishes a new agenda for approaches to migration research and the corresponding methodologies. It was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies...

In contrast to scholarship on cross-cultural encounters which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and ‘settlers’ or ‘sojourners’, this book is concerned with migrant aspects of this phenomenon - whether migrant-migrant, or migrant-host encounters - bringing together studies acros..

This volume brings together a wide array of contributors to provide a global overview of immigration, focusing not only on the impact and role of immigration on the Global North, but also on the effect of immigration on the Global South (such as the contribution immigrants make to the economic and s..

This book looks at the diverse ways in which migrant mothers contribute to making new modes of citizenship, in the process challenging racial hierarchies of citizenship. It explores different registers of creative interventions into racialized hierarchies of belonging, participation and citizenship,..

This book analyses the relevance of locality for a mobile group and provides a new perspective on migrant professionals by considering the relevance of social identities for local encounters in socially unequal cities. Contributors explore shifting identities, senses of belonging, and spatial and so..

This book analyses the relevance of locality for a mobile group and provides a new perspective on migrant professionals by considering the relevance of social identities for local encounters in socially unequal cities. Contributors explore shifting identities, senses of belonging, and spatial and so..