Routledge international handbook of migration studies / edited by Steven J. Gold and Stephanie J. Nawyn

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gold, Steven J. (Steven James), editor.

Nawyn, Stephanie J., editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks.

Routledge International Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Emigration and immigration--History.

Immigrants--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--Economic conditions.

Emigration and immigration--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

1 recurso en línea (655 páginas)

Edition:

Second edition

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2019]

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-315-45829-2

1-315-45827-6

1-315-45828-4

9781315458298

OCLC:

823170518