Böcker i Studies in Migration and Diaspora-serien

Focusing on the case of Southeast Asian women who have been epitomized on the global marriage market as 'ideal' brides and wives, this volume examines these women's experiences of international marriage, migration and state's governmentality.

This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class migrant groups across the globe, including 'ethnic entrepreneurs' building new businesses in cosmopolitan neighbourhoods in Sydney; Chinese grandparents shuttling between Australia, China and Singapore to support their extended families; well-off young Indians in Mumbai strategising their future education pathways overseas; and Japanese mothers finding ways to belong in a London middle-class neighbourhood. This book asks how relatively privileged migrant groups negotiate their life trajectories, relationships and aspirations while 'on the move' and how they transform the communities and societies that they move between across time and space. The book's chapters consider motives for migration, as well as experiences of risk, uncertainty and insecurity in diverse local contexts. A fresh look at the migration of those who possess skills and resources that can bring about significant economic, social and cultural change, this book engages critically with the notions of 'middling' migration, social mobility and mobile privilege in the global context of hardening borders and immigration complexity. It will appeal to scholars with interests in contemporary forms of migration and mobility and their local and transnational consequences.

Examines where, when and how minority ethnic groups miss out on educational opportunities. This title provides a fresh approach to examining the long-standing debates over ethnicity, and in particular ethnic differences in educational achievement.

Food not only sustains the migrant on the journey from home to elsewhere, it also provides a bridge between the familiar and the unfamiliar. Academics in the areas of migration, economics, nutrition, medicine and history address issues relating to migration and food in this multidisciplinary text.

Presenting rich empirical data gathered among second-generation Italians in Switzerland and southern Italy, and drawing on studies undertaken in other parts of Europe and the US, this book investigates why as adults, members of the second generation maintain diverging transnational relations.

Exploring attempts by various actors - institutions, groups, individuals - to create transnational European identities, this book scrutinizes the cultural formations that have either reignited or emerged in often contradictory relations to the EU project, including local, regional and transnational allegiances.

Explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it. Presenting economic migration and the process of studying and creating knowledge about it, this book addresses whether enquiries into modernity bring a comprehension of the nature of dislocation and movement.

Issues of cultural hybridity, diaspora and identity are central to debates on ethnicity and race. This book uses these ideas to explore cultural production by British South Asian women including Monica Ali, Meera Syal and Gurinder Chadha. It also provides a sociological analysis of the contexts and experiences of the British South Asian community.

By addressing the question of how migrants legally and symbolically lay claim to owning and belonging to place, this title refocuses our attention on the micro-politics and everyday rituals of place-making, that are central to the construction of migrant identities.

Offers a holistic analysis of contemporary lifestyle migrations, exploring the expectations and aspirations which inform and drive migration alongside the realities of life within the destination. This title recognizes the structural conditions (and constraints) which frame lifestyle migration, laying the groundwork for intellectual enquiry.

Addressing the shortcomings in research on the relationship between immigrants and rural areas, this book employs an innovative approach by exploring this relationship from a cross-national comparative, global perspective, drawing lessons from case studies across a range of geographical and political contexts, including Canada and the USA.

Since the 2004 enlargement of the European Union over half a million Polish migrants have registered to work in the United Kingdom. This collection investigates what is actually fresh about this migration flow, what its causes and consequences are, and how these migrants' lives have changed by moving to the United Kingdom.

Offers insights into the notion of transnational citizenship by means of the life stories of educated Turkish migrant women in Germany and Great Britain. This book explores the ways in which diverging concepts and policies of citizenship allow for a differentiated examination of ethnicity, gender, multiculturalism and citizenship in Europe.

Explores the connection between migration and domestic work on an empirical and theoretical level. This book elaborates on the phenomenon of 'domestic work' by discussing different methodological and theoretical approaches in an interdisciplinary setting. It also looks at the gendered aspects of domestic work.

In the space of around ten years Ireland went from being a traditional labour exporter to a leading European economy. This title takes Ireland as a paradigmatic case of social transformation, exploring the reasons for which emigration was replaced by immigration, along with the social, political, cultural and economic effects of this change.

Through an exploration and analysis of the experiences of children who moved to Ireland in the first decade of the 21st century, thsi book addresses the tendency of migration research and policy to overlook the presence of children in migratory flows.

Demonstrates the significance of studying migration through the lens of gender and ethnicity, and the contribution this perspective makes to migration histories. Through a consideration of the impact of migration on men and masculine identities as well as women and feminine identities, this book helps understand questions of gender and migration.

While marriage has lost its popularity in many developed countries and is no longer an obligatory path to family formation, it has gained momentum among binational couples as states reinforce their control over human migration. Focusing on the case of Southeast Asian women who have been epitomized on the global marriage market as 'ideal' brides and wives, this volume examines these women's experiences of international marriage, migration and state's governmentality. This book will appeal to social scientists with interests in migration, family formation, the sociology of intimate relations and gender.

The expansion of the European Union in May 2004 through the entry of ten countries from central and eastern Europe has generated considerable media interest. This book offers an analysis of the social and cultural processes bound up with migration flows between Britain and Bulgaria and places these flows in the wider European perspective.

With a longitudinal, intersectional study of migrant women, this book examines the lives of first generation Bangladeshi migrants to the UK, considering the dynamic relationship between people and place.

Using an interdisciplinary and transhistorical framework this book examines the cultural, material, and symbolic articulations of Irish migration relationships from the medieval period through to the contemporary post-Celtic Tiger era. With attention to people's different uses of social space, relationships with and memories of the landscape.

This text presents a political and historical revelation of unsuspected facets of the migrant experience. It aims to enable readers to reconsider attitudes, approaches and policies towards immigrants and refugees in the 21st century.

Through the concept of 'home' the book draws together and reflects on interconnections between integration in areas such as education or housing and experiences of social networks. Examining experiences of the asylum process and the manner in which they are interwoven within a wider narrative of home both within and beyond, Inhabiting Borders.

Explores the phenomena of migration, human smuggling and illegal work, in order to develop an account of international migration, linking it with irrational, risky economic behaviour and male sexual desire.

Reflects on the tensions and contradictions that arise within debates on social inclusion, arguing that both the concept of social inclusion and policy surrounding it need to incorporate visions of citizenship that value ethnic diversity.