Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies / Edition 2

by Steven J. Gold, Stephanie J. Nawyn

Overview

This revised and expanded second edition of Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies provides a comprehensive basis for understanding the complexity and patterns of international migration. Despite increased efforts to limit its size and consequences, migration has wide-ranging impacts upon social, environmental, economic, political and cultural life in countries of origin and settlement. Such transformations impact not only those who are migrating, but those who are left behind, as well as those who live in the areas where migrants settle.

Featuring forty-six essays written by leading international and multidisciplinary scholars, this new edition showcases evolving research and theorizing around refugees and forced migrants, new migration paths through Central Asia and the Middle East, the condition of statelessness and South to South migration. New chapters also address immigrant labor and entrepreneurship, skilled migration, ethnic succession, contract labor and informal economies. Uniquely among texts in the subject area, the Handbook provides a six-chapter compendium of methodologies for studying international migration and its impacts.

Written in a clear and direct style, this Handbook offers a contemporary integrated resource for students and scholars from the perspectives of social science, humanities, journalism and other disciplines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138208827
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/17/2019
Series:	Routledge International Handbooks
Edition description:	New
Pages:	654
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Steven J. Gold is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. His interests include international migration, ethnic economies, qualitative methods and visual sociology. He has conducted research on Israeli emigration and transnationalism, Russian-speaking Jewish and Vietnamese refugees in the U.S., ethnic economies, and on conflicts between immigrant merchants and their customers.

Stephanie J. Nawyn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Co-Director of Academic Programs at the Center for Gender in Global Context at Michigan State University. Her work has primarily focused on refugee resettlement and protection, as well as the economic advancement of African voluntary migrants in the U.S. with a focus on gender. She was a Fulbright Fellow at Istanbul University for the 2013–14 academic year, studying the treatment of Syrian refugees in Turkey. Her most recent work was published in the Journal of Refugees Studies and the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Notes on the contributors

Introduction to the second edition

Introduction to the first edition

PART I: Theories and histories of international migration

1 Economic perspectives on migration

2 Psychological acculturation: perspectives, principles, processes, and prospects

3 European migration history

4 Migration history in the Americas

5 Asian migration in the longue durée

6 A brief history of African migration

PART II Displacement, refugees and forced migration

7 Forced migrants: exclusion, incorporation and a moral economy of deservingness

8 Refugees and geopolitical conflicts

9 Country of first asylum

10 Displacement, refugees, and forced migration in the MENA region: the case of Syria

11 Climate change and human migration: constructed vulnerability, uneven flows, and the challenges of studying environmental migration in the 21st century

PART III: Migrants in the economy

12 Unions and immigrants

13 Immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship

14 High-skilled migration

15 Immigration and the informal economy

16 Vulnerability to exploitation and human trafficking: a multi-scale review of risk

PART IV: Intersecting inequalities in the lives of migrants

17 The changing configuration of migration and race

18 Nativism: a global-historical perspective

19 Gender and migration: uneven integration

20 Sexualities and international migration

21 Migrants and indigeneity: nationalism, nativism and the politics of place

PART V: Creating and recreating community and group identity

22 Panethnicity

23 Understanding ethnicity from a community perspective

24 Religion on the move: the place of religion in different stages of the migration experience

25 Condemned to a protracted limbo? Refugees and statelessness in the age of terrorism

26 Reclaiming the black and Asian journeys: a comparative perspective on culture, class, and immigration

PART VI: Migrants and social reproduction

27 Immigrant and refugee language policies, programs, and practices in an era of change: promises, contradictions, and possibilities

28 Immigrant intermarriage

29 International adoption

PART VII: Migrants and the state

30 Undocumented (or unauthorized) immigration

31 Detention and deportation

32 Naturalization and nationality: community, nation-state and global explanations

33 Asian migrations and the evolving notions of national community

34 Immigration and education

35 Emigration and the sending state

36 International migration and the welfare state: connections and extensions

37 Immigration and crime and the criminalization of immigration

PART VIII: Maintaining links across borders

38 The historical, cultural, social, and political backgrounds of ethno-national diasporas

39 Transnationalism

40 Survival or incorporation? Immigrant (re)integration after deportation

41 Return migration

PART IX: Methods for studying international migration

42 Census analysis

43 Binational migration surveys: representativeness, standardization, and the ethnosurvey model

44 Interviewing immigrants and refugees: reflexive engagement with research subjects

45 Using photography in studies of international migration

46 Comparative methodologies in the study of migration

Index

Editorial Reviews

A gem of a book, packed with thoughtful and well-written essays, that brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to survey a broad range of topics, theoretical approaches, and methods in the field of international migration. Full of fascinating information and valuable insights, Gold and Nawyn have produced an indispensable resource for students and scholars alike.

—Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

International migration is a highly complex issue, but this handbook offers the reader a clear and comprehensive introduction into thinking about this and doing scientific research. The handbook draws together important and diverse writings, mainly but not exclusively by American authors, and provides an essential resource for students of international migration.

—Jan Rath, University of Amsterdam

Patterns of migration change over time. So do patterns of studying them. This impressive and wide-ranging survey of the most up-to-date approaches in the field of migration studies has entries on everything from sexuality to elite migration, to the view from sending states to international adoptions and climate-induced migration. The Handbook also examines concepts and methods, from assimilation to transnationalism to comparative approaches. It has something for everyone: smart syntheses of your own specialty and smart useful overviews of those you know less about. This book is a must for every migration scholar’s shelf.

—Nancy L. Green, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

In an age of migration, this International Handbook of Migration Studies is a magnificent achievement. The editors have brought together four dozen original essays by leading scholars that illuminate this vast and fascinating field, as rapidly changing as the world on the move it seeks to grasp. Global in scope, innovative in design, with wide-angle multidisciplinary lenses, this timely volume is an essential reference for scholars, students, and informed publics alike.

—Rubén G. Rumbaut, co-author of Immigrant America: A Portrait, and Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation

The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies constitutes a current and comprehensive presentation of the challenges of one of the most significant phenomenon of the contemporary world. The reader is introduced in different dimensions of migration and from this perspective the handbook is an excellent tool for scholars with backgrounds in various fields (sociology, economics, anthropology, political science, journalism, psychology and others). The numerous first hand authors, as well as the serious theoretical and empirical evidences presented generate premises for a deeper understanding of the international migration.

— Alin Croitoru, Social Change Review

 

Steven Gold and Stephanie Nawyn have assembled an impressive collection of essays from leading and rising scholars of international migration... The handbook in its entirety would be an especially useful resource for graduate students preparing their field exams and developing research questions and designs, non-specialists seeking an overview of migration studies, and migration specialists who would like to look up from their national dishes to sample from a broader smorgasbord.

— David Scott Fitzgerald, University of California, San Diego, Contemporary Sociology

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