Ethnic and Migration Studies will publish the results of first-class research on all forms of migration and its consequences, covering diverse topics such as ethnic conflict, discrimination, racism, nationalism, citizenship and policies of integration. This series will focus particularly on comparative research, assessing the consequences of migration in a variety of European countries, or comparing the impact of migration in one or more European countries and the countries of North America and the Asia-Pacific.
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By Gracia Liu-Farrer, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Michiel Baas
March 31, 2023
Selecting migrants based on skill has become a widely practised migration policy in many countries around the world. Since the late 20th century, research on “skilled” and “highly skilled” migration has raised important questions about the value and ethics of skill-based ...
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By Valeria Bello, Sarah Léonard
March 31, 2023
This book investigates how migration has been transformed into a security threat in Europe. It argues that this process has taken place through a self-fulfilling spiralling process, which involves different actors and their specific narratives, practices and policies. The book examines how ...
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By Apostolos Andrikopoulos, Joëlle Moret, Janine Dahinden
March 21, 2023
Marriages that involve the migration of at least one of the spouses challenge two intersecting facets of the politics of belonging: the making of the ‘good and legitimate citizens’ and the ‘acceptable family’. In Europe, cross-border marriages have been the target of ...
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By Elizabeth Chacko, Marie Price
February 28, 2023
Temporary migration is a human response to uncertain economic, ecological, political and socio-cultural environments. This book provides an important contribution to the literature on the rights, lived experiences and trajectories of temporary migrants. It focuses on the precarity of temporary ...
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By Hong Zhu, Junxi Qian
February 21, 2023
This edited book emerges from the observation that the current literatures on migration in China are constrained by a series of shortfalls, including a relative topical homogeneity centred on domestic labour migration; relatively narrowly conceived and institutionalist conceptions of migration and ...
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By Zheng Mu, Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
November 30, 2021
This book analyses how Asian migrants adapt and assimilate into their host societies, and how this assimilation differs across their sociodemographic backgrounds, ethnic profiles, and political contexts. The diversities in Asian migrants’ assimilation trajectories challenge the assumption that ...
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By Paul Statham, Sarah Scuzzarello, Sirijit Sunanta, Alexander Trupp
November 30, 2021
The chapters in this volume study transnational social relationships and cross-border connections between ‘ordinary’ people that arise from the increasingly large-scale mobilities and migrations between Thailand and ‘the West’. While Thai and Western people’s social relationships are usually ...
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By Cecilia Menjívar, Krista Perreira
November 30, 2021
This book focuses on the migration of undocumented minors arriving recently to the United States and the European Union, flows that are often labeled ‘undocumented’, ‘illegal’, or ‘irregular’ and due to their sudden increase, they have been described in the media, policy circles, and scholarly work...
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By Annika Lems, Kathrin Oester, Sabine Strasser
September 30, 2021
Every year, thousands of young people on the run from war and persecution, or escaping poverty and chronic instability, make their way to Europe without their parents. Embarking on long and often dangerous journeys, they have either become separated from their families on the way or set out on ...
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By Alexandra Délano Alonso, Harris Mylonas
September 22, 2021
The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics examines the various actors within and beyond the state that participate in the design and implementation of diaspora policies, as well as the mechanisms through which diasporas are constructed by governments, political parties, diaspora entrepreneurs, or ...
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By Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Shahamak Rezaei
September 14, 2021
A burgeoning literature is currently exploring the rise of a new migratory profile: migrants engaged in Transnational Entrepreneurship, referring to immigrants who are engaged in cross-border business involving their country of origin and destination, both perceived as lands of opportunity.Until ...
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By Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu, Tineke Fokkema, Mihaela Nedelcu
February 26, 2019
Motivated by the steady increase in the population of older migrants worldwide, this book acknowledges the diversity within this population group and provides an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach for studying older migrants’ strategies to overcome vulnerability. The book brings together ...
