ABSTRACT
The questions asked in this chapter are whether modern migration changes the outlook and problem framing of political sociology and what the contribution of political sociology might be to the study of migration. Migration research is typically a multidisciplinary enterprise: many studies on migration freely pick from the methodological and theoretical offerings of sociology, history, demography, political economy or political science. The advantage of eclecticism might be that it allows closer proximity to the social problems of migration; the disadvantage of this approach is certainly that it lacks unitary theoretical and methodological standards and risks applying contradictory and often outdated concepts from these diverse disciplines. In this chapter, I will attempt to reformulate the problem focus and the theoretical assumptions of political sociology to adapt it to the challenges of migration in a global context.
