ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|78 pages
Theories and histories of international migration
part II|53 pages
Displacement, refugees and forced migration
chapter 10|12 pages
Displacement, refugees, and forced migration in the MENA region
chapter 11|13 pages
Climate change and human migration
part III|66 pages
Migrants in the economy
part IV|59 pages
Intersecting inequalities in the lives of migrants
part V|63 pages
Creating and recreating community and group identity
chapter 24|12 pages
Religion on the move
chapter 25|12 pages
Condemned to a protracted limbo?
chapter 26|16 pages
Reclaiming the black and Asian journeys
part VI|41 pages
Migrants and social reproduction
chapter 27|14 pages
Immigrant and refugee language policies, programs, and practices in an era of change
part VII|118 pages
Migrants and the state
part VIII|53 pages
Maintaining links across borders
part IX|69 pages
Methods for studying international migration