Forthcoming Migration Books

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41. Migrant Professionals in the City

    Local Encounters, Identities, and Inequalities

    Edited by Lars Meier

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    The migration of professionals is widely seen as a paradigmatic representation and a driver of globalization. The global elite of highly qualified migrants - managers and scientists, for example - are partly defined by their lives’ mobility. But their everyday lives are based and take place in...

    To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
42. Migration, Incorporation, and Change in a Global World

    By Syed Ali, Doug Hartmann

    Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

    To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
43. Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration

    Edited by Sine Agergaard, Nina Tiesler

    To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
44. Seasonal Workers in Mediterranean Agriculture

    The Social Costs of Eating Fresh

    Edited by Jörg Gertel, Sarah Ruth Sippel

    Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

    Over the last three decades there has been a rapid expansion of intensive production of fresh fruit and vegetables in the Mediterranean regions of south and west Europe. Much of this depends on migrating workers for seasonal labour, including from Eastern Europe and North Africa. This book is the...

    To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
45. Religion and Mobility in a Globalising Asia

    New Ethnographic Explorations

    Edited by Sin Wen Lau, Nanlai Cao

    This volume examines the dynamic, mutually constitutive relationship between religion and mobility in the contemporary era of Asian globalisation in which an increasing number of people have been displaced, forcefully or voluntarily, by an expanding global market economy and lasting regional...

    To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
46. Migration to Rural and Peripheral Destinations

    Transnationalism, Integration, and Acculturation on the Margins

    By Ruth McAreavey

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    Current population movements involve both established and new destinations, often encompassing marginal and rural communities and resulting in a whole new set of issues for these communities. This volume examines structural forces and individual strategies and behavior to highlight the...

    To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge
47. Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class and Gender

    Edited by Shirley Jackson

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge
48. Super-diversity

    By Steven Vertovec

    Series: Key Ideas

    To Be Published March 29th 2014 by Routledge
49. The Future of Singapore

    Population, Society and the Nature of the State

    By Kamaludeen Nasir, Bryan S. Turner

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    Singapore, like many other advanced economies, has a relatively low, and declining, birth-rate. One consequence of this, and a consequence also of the successful economy, is that migrants are being drawn in, and are becoming an increasing proportion of the overall population. This book examines...

    To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
50. The West Indian Diaspora

    By Suzanne Model

    Series: Routledge Studies of Diasporic Peoples

    Suzanne Model examines the adaptation of West Indians in five host societies: the United States, Great Britain, Canada, France and the Netherlands. The economic, political, and demographic disparities within these countries raise the question: how do conditions at destination affect West Indian...

    To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge