The Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies offers a comprehensive study of the multi-disciplinary field of international migration and asylum studies. The new edition incorporates numerous new chapters on issues including return migration, the relationship between urbanisation and migration, the role of advanced digital technologies in migration governance, decision making and human agency, and the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on global migration.
Utilising contemporary information and analysis, this innovative Handbook provides an in-depth examination of the major analytical questions pertaining to migration and asylum, whilst discussing key areas such as work, welfare, families, citizenship, the relationship between migration and development, asylum and irregular migration. With a comprehensive collection of essays written by leading contributors from different world regions and covering a broad range of disciplines including sociology, geography, legal studies, political science, and economics, the Handbook is a truly multidisciplinary reader.
Organised into thematic and geographical chapters, the Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies provides a concise overview on the different topics and world regions, as well as useful guidance for both the starting and the more experienced reader. The Handbook’s expansive content and illustrative style will appeal to both students and professionals studying in the field of migration and international organisations.
Author(s): Anna Triandafyllidou
Edition: 2
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 497
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
PART I: Key analytical and policy dimensions on migration and asylum
1 Migration theories: A critical overview
2 Demography and international migration
3 Gender and migration
4 Transnational migration
5 Cities and migration
6 Return migration
7 Migration decision-making
8 Migration and artificial intelligence
9 Migration and the pandemic emergency
PART II: Migration and labour market
10 International migration and US innovation: Insights from the US experience
11 High-skilled migration in the post-Covid era
12 Global elite migrations
13 Migrant entrepreneurship: Self-employment as strategy of economic incorporation
14 From temporary migrant to labour citizen
15 Discrimination against immigrants in the labour market
PART III: Migration, families, and welfare
16 Migration, work, and welfare
17 Irregular migration and the welfare state: Strange allies?
18 Global care chains
19 Family migration and migrant integration
20 International students in a mobile world
21 Migration and the health and care sector
PART IV: Cultural diversity, citizenship, and socio-politico integration challenges
22 Migration, citizenship, and post-national membership
23 Paradigms lost? Immigrant integration and its discontents
24 Migration and cultural diversity challenges in the twenty-first century
25 Inclusion of migrant children in educational systems
26 Migrants and their cultural world: When things teach us about lives
PART V: Migration and development
27 Migration and economic remittances: Impact on development
28 Migration and diasporas: What role in home country development?
29 Migration and development: A focus on Africa
30 Migration and development in Asia: A view through the lens of 'Hubs and Hinterlands'
31 Asian migration to the Gulf States
32 Reframing the migration and development question in the twenty-first century
33 Contested migration and development agendas: contrasting views
from Africa and Europe
PART VI: Asylum and Refugee Studies today
34 Unmixing migrants and refugees
35 Refugee Studies has always been critical
36 Asylum in the twenty-first century: trends and challenges
37 Environmental change and migration: bringing power and
inequality back in
38 Climate change and migration: lessons from Oceania
39 Venezuelans in Latin America: Looking beyond the binary of migrants versus asylum-seekers
40 Seeking asylum in the Middle East: Lessons from the Syrian crisis
PART VII: Irregular migration
41 The challenge of irregular migration
42 Of ‘in
between’ spaces and (un)
interrupted
journeys: transit migration
43 Migrant smuggling
44 Sanctuary cities
45 Exploitation and situations of vulnerability of migrant workers in Europe: Legal and policy responses and challenges
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