Migration Books

New and Published Books

1. Transnational Agency and Migration

   Actors, Movements, and Social Support

   Edited by Stefan Köngeter, Wendy Smith

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   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...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora

   Revisiting the boat people

   Edited by Yuk Wah Chan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Migrant Politics and Mobilisation

   Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation

   Edited by Davide Pero, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   In recent years immigration and the integration of migrants and minorities have become politicised in public and policy debates in Britain, the rest of Europe and the United States. In such debates, migrants are commonly treated as objects of politics and spoken in terms of management, national...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror'

   Edited by Fiona Tolan, Stephen Morton, Anastasia Valassopoulos, Robert Spencer

   This is a major new collection of essays on literary and cultural representations of migration and terrorism, the cultural impact of 9/11, and the subsequent ‘war on terror’. The collection commences with analyses of the relationship between migration and terrorism, which has been the focus of much...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Rewriting the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean

   Beyond Disciplinary and National Boundaries

   Edited by Robert Adams Jr.

   This volume considers the African Diaspora through the underexplored Afro-Latino experience in the Caribbean and South America. Utilizing both established and emerging approaches such as feminism and Atlantic studies, the authors explore the production of historical and contemporary identities and...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

   Edited by Tai-Chee Wong, Jonathan Rigg

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
7. Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism

   West African Labour Mobility and EU Borders

   By Hannah Cross

   Series: Routledge Research on the Global Politics of Migration

   People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe. This book offers an explanation for this phenomenon that is based on close analysis of the contradictory economic and political agendas that create and constrain...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
8. Methodologies on the Move

   The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research

   Edited by Anna Amelina, Thomas Faist, Devrimsel D. Nergiz

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   This volume establishes a new agenda for approaches to migration research and the corresponding methodologies. A wide range of international contributors focus on the question of how to overcome the so-called 'methodological nationalism' within empirical studies on migration. They address two main...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
9. Muslims and the State in the Post-9/11 West

   Edited by Erik Bleich

   From the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to the assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh to the London transportation bombings, dramatic events of recent years have generated security concerns about Muslim communities in the West. These have added an additional layer to the tensions surrounding...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
10. National Myths

    Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents

    Edited by Gérard Bouchard

    National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who...

    Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge