Migration & Diaspora Books

New and Published Books – Page 5

41. The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

    Beyond Restitution

    By Anneke Smit

    The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution explores how the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement. The focus of most of the international community’s recent protection efforts has been on returning...

    Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
42. Migration in Comparative Perspective

    Caribbean Communities in Britain and France

    By Margaret Byron, Stéphanie Condon

    Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration

    This book presents a comparative perspective on post-war Caribbean migration to Britain and France. Both migrations were responses to the link between former colonies and colonial powers. However, the movements of labor occurred within separately and differently evolving political contexts,...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
43. Parsis in India and the Diaspora

    Edited by John Hinnells, Alan Williams

    Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

    The Parsis are India's smallest minority community, yet they have exercised a huge influence on the country. As pioneers in education in nineteenth century India, and as leading figures in banking and commerce, medicine, law and journalism, they were at the forefront of India's industrial...

    Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
44. Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement

    Edited by Peter Nyers, Kim Rygiel

    Series: Routledge Research on the Global Politics of Migration

    Migration is an inescapable issue in the public debates and political agendas of Western countries, with refugees and migrants increasingly viewed through the lens of security. This book analyses recent shifts in governing global mobility from the perspective of the politics of citizenship,...

    Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
45. The Contested Politics of Mobility

    Borderzones and Irregularity

    Edited by Vicki Squire

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    Irregular migration has emerged as an issue of intensive political debate and governmental practice over recent years. Critically intervening in debates around the governing of irregular migration, The Contested Politics of Mobility explores the politics of mobility through what is defined as an...

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
46. Sanctuary? (Routledge Revivals)

    Remembering postwar immigration

    By Catherine Panich

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    In the ten years immediately following the Second World War, some 170 000 immigrants from Europe and Britain arrived in Australia. First published in 1988, this unique book recreates the experiences of those who fled a ravaged Europe to seek a new life in far-distant Australia. Their stories are...

    Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
47. Latino Identity in Contemporary America

    Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    This edited collection brings together original research papers that explore an important aspect of race and ethnic studies, namely the processes that are shaping the making of Latina and Latino identities in contemporary America. This is a question that has received much attention in the USA over...

    Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
48. The EU's Shifting Borders

    Theoretical Approaches and Policy Implications in the New Neighbourhood

    Edited by Klaus Bachmann, Elzbieta Stadtmuller

    Series: Routledge/GARNET series

    The EU’s internal borders have become mostly invisible. Today, external borders are at the centre of controversy about an alleged 'fortress Europe'. Using different theoretical and methodological perspectives this book examines the challenges facing the EU’s external borders, including Neighborhood...

    Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
49. Human Trafficking

    Exploring the International Nature, Concerns, and Complexities

    Edited by John Winterdyk, Benjamin Perrin, Philip Reichel

    Human trafficking is a crime that undermines fundamental human rights and a broader sense of global order. It is an atrocity that transcends borders—with some regions known as exporters of trafficking victims and others recognized as destination countries. Edited by three global experts and...

    Published December 4th 2011 by CRC Press
50. Transnational Spaces

    Edited by Philip Crang, Claire Dwyer, Peter Jackson

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    Social relations in our globalising world are increasingly stretched out across the borders of two or more nation-states. Yet, despite the growing academic interest in transnational economic networks, political movements and cultural forms, too little attention has been paid to the transformations...

    Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge