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Subject(s)

• Emigration and immigration [Browse]
• Emigration and immigration—History [Browse]
• Immigrants—Social conditions [Browse]
• Immigrants—Economic conditions [Browse]
• Emigration and immigration—Research [Browse]

Editor

• Gold, Steven J. (Steven James) [Browse]
• Nawyn, Stephanie J. [Browse]

Series

• Routledge international handbooks. [More in this series]
• Routledge International Handbooks

Summary note

Featuring forty-six essays written by leading international and multidisciplinary scholars, this fully revised second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies offers a conceptual and truyely global approach to the study of international migration.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Notes on the contributors
• Introduction to the second edition
• Reference
• Introduction to the first edition
• Central themes
• A conceptual focus
• The book's organization
• References
• PART I: Theories and histories of international migration
• Economic and psychological overview chapters
• Economic approaches
• Psychological approaches
• Historical approaches by world region
• Chapter 1: Economic perspectives on migration
• Introduction
• Theories of the initiating forces of migration?
• Theories about the self-perpetuating mechanisms of migration
• An alternative economic perspective on the empirical literature: an example of migrant remittances
• Summary
• Notes
• Chapter 2: Psychological acculturation: perspectives, principles, processes, and prospects
• Acculturation: a group and individual phenomenon
• Psychological acculturation
• Processes in psychological acculturation
• Risks and rewards in psychological acculturation
• Policy implications of psychological acculturation
• Future directions in psychological acculturation research
• Conclusions
• Chapter 3: European migration history
• The mobility transition
• Seasonal migrants
• Colonization
• Moves to the city
• Soldiers
• Settlement processes
• Further reading
• Chapter 4: Migration history in the Americas
• The peopling of the Americas
• Conquest,coercion, and colonization: early modern histories of Atlantic empire-building, 1492-1776
• To populate is to govern: nation states confront settlers and labor migrants from Europe and Asia, 1776-1940
• Refugees,exiles, and job-seekers in the contemporary Americas
• Further reading.
• Chapter 5: Asian migration in the longue durée
• Early human movement
• States, agriculture and armies
• Eurasian exchange
• Early modern mobility
• The creation of Asia, 1840-1940
• Into the present
• Chapter 6: A brief history of African migration
• The beginnings of migration in Africa
• Trans-Saharan movement
• Trading networks within and outside of Africa
• Forced migration within and outside of Africa
• Other pre-colonial movement
• Colonial migration
• Colonial migration into Africa
• Migration within Africa since independence
• Migration out of Africa
• Conclusion
• PART II: Displacement, refugees and forced migration
• Chapter 7: Forced migrants: exclusion, incorporation and a moral economy of deservingness
• Theoretical orientations
• Toward an integrated theoretical orientation
• Forced migration, deservingness and the limits of compassion
• Chapter 8: Refugees and geopolitical conflicts
• Disaster, flight, and refuge
• Expulsion
• Displacement
• Flight
• Considerations
• Chapter 9: Country of first asylum
• What is asylum?
• Co-construction of state and statelessness
• Refugee as a social category
• Durability
• Conclusion and future directions
• Chapter 10: Displacement, refugees, and forced migration in the MENA region: the case of Syria
• Contemporary dynamics of the MENA region: root causes, proximate conditions and intervening factors
• Root causes: economic dynamics
• Proximate conditions: the political dimension of forced migration
• The case of Syria
• Conclusion: research gaps and areas for further investigation
• References.
• Chapter 11: Climate change and human migration: constructed vulnerability, uneven flows, and the challenges of studying environmental migration in the 21st century
• A brief note on terminology
• The challenges of measuring climate migration (and why it is time to stop pursuing the one big number)
• Who is affected? Climate change, constructed vulnerability and migration
• Amplified and uneven flows: people on the move
• Continued vulnerability: environmental migration and the growth of slums
• PART III: Migrants in the economy
• Chapter 12: Unions and immigrants
• Unions and immigrants in the United States: survival over solidarity
• Unions' reluctance, immigrants' willingness
• Immigrants' contributions to the labor movement
• Unionization, Americanization, and whiteness
• Organizing immigrant workers
• Union campaigns
• The undocumented and the law
• The failure of an enforcement-only border policy
• Immigrants and unions in Europe
• Inclusion over exclusion
• Rising anti-immigrant tide
• Chapter 13: Immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship
• Conceptualizing immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship
• The benefits of entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship and assimilation
• Entrepreneurship and racialized incorporation
• New directions in immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship research
• Chapter 14: High-skilled migration
• Government approaches to high-skilled migration
• Skills within the migration and development debate
• Skills within the integration debate
• Conclusion, or what is high-skilled migration after all?
• Note
• Chapter 15: Immigration and the informal economy
• Defining the informal economy
• Why do people engage in informal activities?.
• Sectors and occupational niches of informal activities
• Measurement of informal activities: paucity of data
• Concluding remarks
• Chapter 16: Vulnerability to exploitation and human trafficking: a multi-scale review of risk
• Definitions and terms
• Risk of human trafficking and exploitation
• Conclusions and directions forward
• PART IV: Intersecting inequalities in the lives of migrants
• Chapter 17: The changing configuration of migration and race
• Chapter 18: Nativism: a global-historical perspective
• What is nativism?
• Historical nativism: defining "us" and targeting the "Other"
• Racism and xenophobia
• Islamophobia
• The politics of nativism: nationalism, populism, authoritarianism
• Chapter 19: Gender and migration: uneven integration
• The evolution of gender analysis in migration studies
• Studies of gender and labor migration
• Gender relations in migrant families and social networks
• Citizenship, transnationalism and borders
• Gender and dynamism in migration scholarship
• Chapter 20: Sexualities and international migration
• Emerging areas of research
• Juggling contradictory mandates
• Chapter 21: Migrants and indigeneity: nationalism, nativism and the politics of place
• Autochthony
• Neo-racism and the conflation between migration and colonialism
• Against nationalism
• PART V: Creating and recreating community and group identity
• Chapter 22: Panethnicity
• Panethnic organizing and racialization
• Panethnicity and internal diversities
• Individual panethnicity
• Panethnicity in transnational context
• Challenges and possibilities
• Chapter 23: Understanding ethnicity from a community perspective
• The ethnic community revisited
• The dynamics of ethnic capital for community building: old Chinatowns v. new Chinese ethnoburbs
• Chapter 24: Religion on the move: the place of religion in different stages of the migration experience
• Religion and the migration undertaking
• Religion and the immigrant experience
• Religion and transnationalism
• Bibliography
• Chapter 25: Condemned to a protracted limbo? Refugees and statelessness in the age of terrorism
• Essentializing and essentialized categories
• Massive displacement: global humanitarian crisis
• Stateless: de jure statelessness
• Refugees: de facto statelessness, international obligations, failures and policy proposals
• Intertwined fates: the globally stateless and the search for humane immigration policies at a global scale
• Chapter 26: Reclaiming the black and Asian journeys: a comparative perspective on culture, class, and immigration
• Tackling the puzzle: culture, class, and mode of incorporation
• Black counts: immigration and race reconsidered
• The Asian miracle reconsidered
• The black model minority
• PART VI: Migrants and social reproduction
• Chapter 27: Immigrant and refugee language policies, programs, and practices in an era of change: promises, contradictions, and possibilities
• Immigrants' and refugees' integration: a status report
• Language policies and programs for immigrants and refugees: promises, contradictions, and constraints
• Monolingual linguistic citizenship for multilingual newcomers
• Market-oriented immigration policy and basic language skills training.
• Normalized language teaching and structural barriers.

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ISBN

• 1-315-45829-2
• 1-315-45827-6
• 1-315-45828-4

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