Migration & Diaspora Books

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21. Cultural Expertise and Litigation

    Patterns, Conflicts, Narratives

    Edited by Livia Holden

    Cultural Expertise and Litigation addresses the role of social scientists as a source of expert evidence, and is a product of their experiences and observations of cases involving litigants of South Asian origin. What is meant in court by "culture," "custom" and "law"? How are these concepts...

    Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
22. Policing Global Movement

    Tourism, Migration, Human Trafficking, and Terrorism

    Edited by S. Caroline Taylor, Daniel Joseph Torpy, Dilip K. Das

    The movement of humans across borders is increasing exponentially—some for benign reasons, others nefarious, including terrorism, human trafficking, and people smuggling. Consequently, the policing of human movement within and across borders has been and remains a significant concern to nations....

    Published September 23rd 2012 by CRC Press
23. Self-Initiated Expatriation

    Individual, Organizational, and National Perspectives

    Edited by Maike Andresen, Akram Al Ariss, Matthias Walther

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    Globalization and the development of multinational organizations have led to an increase in the number of people spending part of their lives living and working in foreign countries. While the contemporary literature has focused on organizational expatriates sent overseas by their employers,...

    Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
24. Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Michèle Lamont, Nissim Mizrachi

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    Multiculturalism and diversity have raised a number of challenges for liberal democracy, not least the stigmatization of people in response to these developments. In this book, leading experts from a range of disciplines look at the responses to stigmatization from the perspectives of ordinary...

    Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
25. Transnational Migration and Childhood

    Edited by Naomi Tyrrell, Allen White, Caitriona Ni Laoire, Fina Carpena Mendez

    This book challenges the adult-centric tendencies of migration research and policy which often overlooks children and young people’s own experiences of migration. A wide range of international contributors provide careful analysis of the situations of children in contemporary transnational...

    Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge
26. The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in East Asia

    Edited by Brenda Yeoh, Shirlena Huang

    As the world globalises, more people than ever are on the move, including the many professional, managerial and entrepreneurial elites—often referred to as ‘international talent’—who circulate between cities in response to career and business opportunities. While much has been written about...

    Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
27. Migration and Insecurity

    Citizenship and Social Inclusion in a Transnational Era

    Edited by Niklaus Steiner, Robert Mason, Anna Hayes

    Series: Routledge Research on the Global Politics of Migration

    This book presents an inter-disciplinary investigation into contemporary migration and social inclusion through an examination of migrant and refugee experience. In this edited volume, contributors discuss new understandings of individual and community security in a world where legal borders and...

    Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
28. Migration and Organized Civil Society

    Rethinking National Policy

    Edited by Dirk Halm, Zeynep Sezgin

    Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

    Migrant organizations are of vital importance for countries of residence and countries of origin, but the empirical and theoretical knowledge of the cross-border character of migrant organizations remains incomplete. It is clear that migrant transnationalism challenges the governance of...

    Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
29. Irregular Migrants

    Policy, Politics, Motives and Everyday Lives

    Edited by Alice Bloch, Milena Chimienti

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    A new era of international migration has been accompanied by increasingly restrictive immigration controls to manage migration to more developed countries. The consequence has been fewer routes to enter and/or stay in countries in a regularised way and as a result, an increase in the...

    Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
30. Linking Integration and Residential Segregation

    Edited by Gideon Bolt, A. Sule Özüekren, Deborah Phillips

    Policy-makers tend to view the residential segregation of minority ethnic groups in a negative light as it is seen as an obstacle to their integration. In the literature on neighbourhood effects, the residential concentration of minorities is seen as a major impediment to their social mobility and...

    Published June 26th 2012 by Routledge