Overview
- Links European migration research to the analysis of changing political-economic constellations in Europe.
- It provides current insights into political regulation of migration, individual practices of migration and mobility, and their embeddedness in the discourses over belonging and rights.
- Presents the most current empirical research in relation to general societal transformations.
Part of the book series: IMISCOE Research Series (IMIS)
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The contributions of this book examine contemporary dynamics of migration and mobility in the context of the general societal transformations that have taken place in Europe over the past few decades. The book will help readers to better understand the manifold ways in which migration trends in the region are linked to changing political-economic constellations, orders of power and inequality, and political discourses. It begins with an introduction to a number of theoretical approaches that address the nexus between migration and general societal shifts, including processes of supranationalisation, EU enlargement, postsocialist transformations and rescaling. It then provides a comprehensive overview of the political regulation of migration through border control and immigration policies. The contributions that follow detail the dynamic changes of individual migration patterns and their implications for the agency of mobile individuals. The final part challenges the reader to consider how policies and practices of migration are linked to symbolic struggles over belonging and rights, describing a wide range of expressions of such conflicts, from cosmopolitanism to racism and xenophobia. This book is aimed at researchers in various fields of the social sciences and can be used as course reading for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses in the areas of international migration, transnational and European studies. It will be a beneficial resource for scholars looking for material on the most current conceptual tools for analysis of the nexus of migration and societal transformation in Europe.
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Theorizing About Migration and Social Transformation in Europe
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Transformations in the Political Regulation of Migration
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Complexities of Mobilities: From One-Way Migration to Multiple Patterns
Reviews
Andrew Geddes
Department of Politics, University of Sheffield
“This is a much needed handbook that ties the booming research on migration in Europe to wider issues of societal transformation. It is a truly needed contribution to our effort of disentangling complex phenomena such as European integration, globalisation, migration and mobility.”
Anna Triandafyllidou
Robert Schuman Chair, European University Institute, Florence
“This anthology reveals how deep social forces beneath the headlines are reshaping migration in Europe. As policymakers, migrants, and natives attempt to control these transformations, they generate further changes that reverberate across the continent.”
David Scott FitzGerald
Co-Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Anthology of Migration and Social Transformation
Book Subtitle: European Perspectives
Editors: Anna Amelina, Kenneth Horvath, Bruno Meeus
Series Title: IMISCOE Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23666-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23665-0Published: 08 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79517-1Published: 30 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23666-7Published: 01 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2364-4087
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4095
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 361
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Population Economics, Political Science