Migration & Diaspora Books

New and Published Books – Page 6

51. Chinese Migrants in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Felix B. Chang, Sunnie T. Rucker-Chang

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    Much of the former Soviet bloc has become a destination for new Chinese migrants. Throughout Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Chinese migrants are engaged in entrepreneurial activities, primarily as petty merchants of consumer goods in unsteady economies. This book situates these migrants...

    Published September 27th 2011 by Routledge
52. Theorising Transnational Migration

    The Status Paradox of Migration

    By Boris Nieswand

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    Societal transformations have recently stimulated political debates and policies on the integration of migrants and minorities in most Western European countries. While transnational migration studies have documented migrants’ cross-border activities there have been few empirically grounded efforts...

    Published August 18th 2011 by Routledge
53. Gender and Family Among Transnational Professionals

    Edited by Anne Coles, Anne-Meike Fechter

    Series: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place

    While interest in migration flows is ever-growing, this has mostly concentrated on disadvantaged migrants moving from developing to Western industrialised countries. In contrast, Euro-American mobile professionals are only now becoming an emergent research topic. Similarly, debates on the...

    Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
54. Globalisation, Migration, and the Future of Europe

    Insiders and Outsiders

    Edited by Leila Simona Talani

    Series: Routledge Research on the Global Politics of Migration

    Showcasing an original, interdisciplinary approach, this text examines the effect of migration on the domestic politics of individual states and how they are eroding the distinctions between the domestic and foreign policy, the ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ components of politics and law. During the...

    Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge
55. Migration, Nation States, and International Cooperation

    Edited by Randall Hansen, Jobst Koehler, Jeannette Money

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    Against a background of past, limited examples of international cooperation, and ambitious hopes for extensive future efforts, this volume puts two related questions to the empirical test: under which conditions are states prepared to cooperate over international migration, and what form - ...

    Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
56. The Political Economy of Global Remittances

    Gender, Governmentality and Neoliberalism

    By Rahel Kunz

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    Over the last decade, a new phenomenon has emerged within the international community: the Global Remittances Trend (GRT). Thereby, government institutions, international (financial) organisations, NGOs and private sector actors have become interested in migration and remittances and their...

    Published June 8th 2011 by Routledge
57. The Germans of the Soviet Union

    By Irina Mukhina

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    The Germans were a very substantial minority in Russia, and many leading figures, including the Empress Catherine the Great, were German. Using rarely seen archival information, this book provides an account of the experiences of the Germans living in the Soviet Union from the early post-revolution...

    Published April 19th 2011 by Routledge
58. Development–induced Displacement, Rehabilitation and Resettlement in India

    Current Issues and Challenges

    Edited by Sakarama Somayaji, Smrithi Talwar

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    Compulsory land acquisition and involuntary displacement of communities for a larger public purpose captures the tension of development in the modern state, with the need to balance the interests of the majority while protecting the rights of the minority. In India, informal estimates of...

    Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge
59. Chinese Migrants and Internationalism

    Forgotten Histories, 1917–1945

    By Gregor Benton

    Series: Chinese Worlds

    The transnational and diasporic dimensions of early Chinese migrant politics opened in the late nineteenth century when Chinese radical groups bent on overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) vied with one another to win Chinese overseas to their modernizing projects, and immigrants who had...

    Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
60. The Securitization of Migration

    A Study of Movement and Order

    By Philippe Bourbeau

    Series: Security and Governance

    The international movement of people is provoking worldwide anxiety and apprehension. Nation-states around the globe, especially Western ones, are cracking down on migration for security reasons. International migration has become a key security issue and is perceived, by some, as an existential...

    Published March 16th 2011 by Routledge