Migration, Immigration & Emigration

Media practices and the everyday cultures of transnational migrants are deeply interconnected. Mediating Migration narrates aspects of the migrant ...

This book analyses social work through the concept of 'xenoracism' to challenge the outdated concepts of racism that still pervade social work. It ...

This book investigates the alarming of fatalities among migrant workers. The authors argue that migrant workers are often powerless and unprotected...

This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of t...

The figure of the Polish plumber or builder has long been a well-established icon of the British national imagination, uncovering the UK's collecti...

This book demonstrates the power and distinctiveness of the contribution that sociolinguistics can make to our understanding of everyday communicat...

Learning and Using Languages in Ethnographic Research breaks the silence that still surrounds learning a language for ethnographic research and in ...

Return to Sender is an anthropological account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for ...

Informed by witness testimonies, Eurafrican Migration details how the perilous journeys undertaken by irregular migrants are enabled by complex net...

Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as unskilled. Despite the value of migrants' work e...

Migration has become a defining feature of the contemporary age. It has brought about significant changes in political, economic, social, and relig...

This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of linguistic citizenship. All ...

In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or transnational families. The new second generation refers to foreign...

This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of linguistic citizenship. All ...

This book addresses the politically charged issue of citizenship and English language learning among adult migrants in the UK. Whilst citizenship l...

This book gives a thorough introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of planning, conducting and analysing data from Respondent Driven ...

Based on ethnographic data, this revealing study presents a humane and realistic account of Romanian economic migrants and their life in the UK, pr...

Exceptional States examines new configurations of marriage, immigration, and sovereignty emerging in an increasingly mobile Asia where Cold War leg...

This edited collection captures the intersection between migration, mobility and childhood studies. Contributors explore under-researched child and...

Since 9/11 Western states have sought to integrate 'securitisation' measures within migration regimes as asylum seekers and other migrant categorie...

Jo Langer and her husband Oscar were committed communists; she Hungarian, he Slovakian. During the Second World War the couple, both Jewish, escape...

They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields takes the reader on an ethnographic tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields of California's Central Val...

Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet, no study in social science has...

In an increasingly mobile world with mounting concerns about the states' control of borders and migration, passports and citizenship rights matter ...