Forthcoming Migration Books

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11. Statelessness and Citizenship

    Camps and the Creation of Political Space

    By Victoria Redclift

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

    In-depth field research with a stateless population in Bangladesh has revealed that, despite liberal theory’s reductive vision, the boundaries between statelessness and citizenship are fluid and contingent. The Urdu-speaking population in Bangladesh exemplify some of the key problems facing...

    To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge
12. Diaspora and Identity

    Perspectives on South Asian Diaspora

    Edited by Ajaya Sahoo, Gabriel Sheffer

    This book investigates the identity issues of South Asians in the diaspora. It engages the theoretical and methodological debates concerning processes of culture and identity in the contemporary context of globalisation and transnationalism. It analyses the South Asian diaspora - a perfect route to...

    To Be Published July 2nd 2013 by Routledge
13. Migrant Marginality

    A Transnational Perspective

    Edited by Philip Kretsedemas, Jorge Capetillo-Ponce, Glenn Jacobs

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    This edited book uses migrant marginality to problematize several different aspects of global migration. It examines how many different societies have defined their national identities, cultural values and terms of political membership through (and in opposition to) constructions of migrants and...

    To Be Published July 3rd 2013 by Routledge
14. Mobilities and Forced Migration

    Edited by Nick Gill, Javier Caletrío, Victoria Mason

    Whether precipitated by political or environmental factors, human displacement can be more fully understood by attending to the ways in which a set of bodily, material, imagined and virtual mobilities and immobilities interact to produce population movement. Very little work, however, has addressed...

    To Be Published July 14th 2013 by Routledge
15. Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care

    Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life

    Edited by Loretta Baldassar, Laura Merla

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly...

    To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
16. Migrants and Race in the US

    Territorial Racism and the Alien/Outside

    By Philip Kretsedemas

    Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

    This book explains how migrants can be viewed as racial others, not just because they are nonwhite, but because they are racially "alien." This way of seeing makes it possible to distinguish migrants from a set of racial categories that are presumed to be "indigenous" to the nation. In the US,...

    To Be Published July 25th 2013 by Routledge
17. Diverse Spaces of Childhood and Youth

    Gender and socio-cultural differences

    Edited by Ruth Evans, Louise Holt

    Diverse Spaces of Childhood and Youth focuses on the diverse spaces and discourses of children and youth globally. The chapters explore the influence of gender, age and other socio-cultural differences, such as race, ethnicity and migration trajectories, on the everyday lives of children and...

    To Be Published August 4th 2013 by Routledge
18. Transbordering Latin Americas

    Liminal Places, Cultures, and Powers (T)Here

    Edited by Clara Irazábal

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    This book examines transborder Latin American socio-cultural and spatial conditions across the globe and at different scales, from gendered and racialized individuals to national and transnational organizations. Gathering scholars from the "spatial sciences" - architecture, urban design, urban...

    To Be Published August 11th 2013 by Routledge
19. My Father's Wars

    Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century

    By Alisse Waterston

    Series: Innovative Ethnographies

    My Father’s Wars is an anthropologist's vivid account of her father's journey across continents, countries, cultures, generations, and wars. It is a daughter's moving portrait of a charming, funny, wounded and difficult man. And it is a scholar's reflection on the dramatic forces of history, the...

    To Be Published August 26th 2013 by Routledge
20. Being a Man in a Transnational World

    The Masculinity and Sexuality of Migration

    By Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila

    Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

    This book explores the masculinity and sexuality of migration, analyzing the complex processes of becoming a man and the strategies used by men to reconcile paradoxes and contradictions that co-exist between multiple masculinities and contradictory models of being a man. Vasquez del Aguila offers a...

    To Be Published August 26th 2013 by Routledge