Population, Migration and Development Research
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Crisis and Migration
Critical Perspectives
Series: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration
Migration is often seen as part of a crisis: a consequence of crisis or a cause of crisis. This book provides fresh perspectives on this routine association. It examines commonly reported examples of ‘crisis-induced migration’ and ‘migration-induced crises’, critically exploring how contemporary...
To Be Published April 29th 2014 by Routledge
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Crisis and Migration
Critical Perspectives
Series: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration
Migration is often seen as part of a crisis: a consequence of crisis or a cause of crisis. This book provides fresh perspectives on this routine association. It examines commonly reported examples of ‘crisis-induced migration’ and ‘migration-induced crises’, critically exploring how contemporary...
To Be Published April 29th 2014 by Routledge
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Domestic Workers in the Middle East
Status Enhancement and Degradation in Arab Households
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Society
Millions of women from poor countries migrate to the Middle East to undertake domestic work in order to support their families at home. This book examines the slavery-like conditions of these female migrant domestic workers, with specific reference to the Kafala system of sponsorship....
To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge
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Conservatism and Postcolonial Politics
Series: Postcolonial Politics
This book provides an updated analysis of conservative political thought and a revision of postcolonial politics, thereby producing a novel theoretical synthesis anchored in comparative case studies of postcolonial Africa and India with significant implications for global politics. The key...
To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge
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Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism
West African Labour Mobility and EU Borders
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 16th 2013 by Routledge
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Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism
West African Labour Mobility and EU Borders
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
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Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism
West African Labour Mobility and EU Borders
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
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Rethinking Security in the Age of Migration
Trust and Emancipation in Europe
Series: Routledge Research on the Global Politics of Migration
Migration and especially irregular migration are politically sensitive and highly debated issues in the developed world, particularly in Europe. This book analyses irregular protection-seeking migration in Europe, with close attention to sub-Saharan migration into the EU, from the perspective of...
Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
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Immigration and Public Opinion in Liberal Democracies
Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
Although ambivalence characterizes the stance of scholars toward the desirability of close opinion-policy linkages in general, it is especially evident with regard to immigration. The controversy and disagreement about whether public opinion should drive immigration policy are among the factors...
Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Migration and Insecurity
Citizenship and Social Inclusion in a Transnational Era
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
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Understanding Emerging Security Challenges
Threats and Opportunities
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
This book offers an overview of emerging security challenges in the global environment in the post-Cold War era. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent shifting of international political environment, a new broader concept of security began to gain acceptance. This concept encompassed...
Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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Migration and Organized Civil Society
Rethinking National Policy
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
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Transnational Marriage
New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond
Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
Marriages spanning borders are not a new phenomenon, but occur with increasing frequency and contribute substantially to international mobility and transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as ‘secondary’ to labor migration, marriage has until recent years been...
Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
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The Challenge of Differentiation in Euro-Mediterranean Relations
Flexible Regional Cooperation or Fragmentation
The tension between the aim of creating sustainable multilateral region-building dynamics and the need to find more differentiated and flexible forms of cooperation has been ever-present in Euro-Mediterranean relations. The proliferation of different and partially overlapping initiatives in recent...
Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
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Migration and Citizenship Attribution
Politics and Policies in Western Europe
How do states in Western Europe deal with the challenges of migration for citizenship? The legal relationship between a person and a state is becoming increasingly blurred in our mobile, transnational world. This volume deals with the membership dimension of citizenship, specifically the formal...
Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
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Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia
Critical Perspectives
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Since the signing of the UN Trafficking Protocol, anti-trafficking laws, policies and other initiatives have been implemented at the local, national and regional levels. These activities have received little scholarly attention. This volume aims to begin to fill this gap by documenting the...
Published April 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia
Critical Perspectives
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
Since the signing of the UN Trafficking Protocol, anti-trafficking laws, policies and other initiatives have been implemented at the local, national and regional levels. These activities have received little scholarly attention. This volume aims to begin to fill this gap by documenting the...
Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations
The Commodification of Illicit Flows
Series: Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
Although much literature on human trafficking focuses on sex trafficking, a great deal of human trafficking results from migrant workers, compelled - by economic deprivation in their home countries - to seek better life opportunities abroad, especially in agriculture, construction and domestic work...
Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
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Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and...
Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations
The Commodification of Illicit Flows
Series: Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
Although much literature on human trafficking focuses on sex trafficking, a great deal of human trafficking results from migrant workers, compelled - by economic deprivation in their home countries - to seek better life opportunities abroad, especially in agriculture, construction and domestic work...
Published March 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and...
Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge