Bücher der Reihe Studies in Migration and Diaspora

Indian Transnationalism Online investigates the online organization of, and exchanges within the global Indian diaspora. Bringing together research from around the world and presenting studies drawn from the US, Europe and India.

This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class migrant groups across the globe, including 'ethnic entrepreneurs' building new businesses in cosmopolitan neighbourhoods in Sydney; Chinese grandparents shuttling between Australia, China and Singapore to support their extended families; well-off young Indians in Mumbai strategising their future education pathways overseas; and Japanese mothers finding ways to belong in a London middle-class neighbourhood. This book asks how relatively privileged migrant groups negotiate their life trajectories, relationships and aspirations while 'on the move' and how they transform the communities and societies that they move between across time and space. The book's chapters consider motives for migration, as well as experiences of risk, uncertainty and insecurity in diverse local contexts. A fresh look at the migration of those who possess skills and resources that can bring about significant economic, social and cultural change, this book engages critically with the notions of 'middling' migration, social mobility and mobile privilege in the global context of hardening borders and immigration complexity. It will appeal to scholars with interests in contemporary forms of migration and mobility and their local and transnational consequences.

This book examines the needs, aspirations, strategies, and challenges of transnational Muslim migrants in Europe with regard to family practices such as marriage, divorce and parenting.

Building on research within the fields of exile studies and critical migration studies and drawing links between historical and contemporary `refugee scholarship¿, this book challenges the bias of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism in discussing the multifaceted forms of knowledge emerging in the context of migration and mobility.

This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class or `middling¿ migrant groups across the globe, asking how relatively privileged migrant groups negotiate their life trajectories and aspirations while `on the move¿ and how they potentially transform the communities and societies that they move both from and to.

Offers a discussion of the role of organisations in maintaining or challenging structures and cultures based on racism and discrimination, through an exploration of the relations between whiteness, identity and organization in migratory contexts.

This book draws attention to the various factors that characterise migrant flows and mobilities, calling into question familiar concepts such as push and pull, migration as a life project and socio-cultural integration.

This book focuses on migrants employed in sectors of the economy that are typically regarded as marginal or precarious ¿ domestic and care work in private settings, cleaning work in hospitals, call centre labour, the selling of sex ¿ to understand the aspirations and mobilities of migrants in relation to questions of gender and labour.

This book examines the needs, aspirations, strategies, and challenges of transnational Muslim migrants in Europe with regard to family practices such as marriage, divorce and parenting.

This interdisciplinary, comparative volume examines migration from German and Jewish Diasporas to Germany and Israel, examining the roles of origin, ethnicity, and destination in the acculturation and adaptation of immigrants.

Demonstrates the significance of studying migration through the lens of gender and ethnicity, and the contribution this perspective makes to migration histories. Through a consideration of the impact of migration on men and masculine identities as well as women and feminine identities, this book helps understand questions of gender and migration.

Presenting empirical information relating to young people of Black, White, Asian and Chinese interethnic backgrounds, this book examines the impact that inter-religious relationships have upon young people's sense of identity, also discussing the implications of the election of America's first interethnic president.

Offers a contribution to critical race theory. This book provides an anthropological account of the cultural hegemony of the West through investigations of the central and pivotal constituent of the dominant white discourse of Britishness - the Invisible Empire.

Examines where, when and how minority ethnic groups miss out on educational opportunities. This title provides a fresh approach to examining the long-standing debates over ethnicity, and in particular ethnic differences in educational achievement.

Presenting rich empirical data gathered among second-generation Italians in Switzerland and southern Italy, and drawing on studies undertaken in other parts of Europe and the US, this book investigates why as adults, members of the second generation maintain diverging transnational relations.

Exploring attempts by various actors - institutions, groups, individuals - to create transnational European identities, this book scrutinizes the cultural formations that have either reignited or emerged in often contradictory relations to the EU project, including local, regional and transnational allegiances.

By addressing the question of how migrants legally and symbolically lay claim to owning and belonging to place, this title refocuses our attention on the micro-politics and everyday rituals of place-making, that are central to the construction of migrant identities.

Offers a holistic analysis of contemporary lifestyle migrations, exploring the expectations and aspirations which inform and drive migration alongside the realities of life within the destination. This title recognizes the structural conditions (and constraints) which frame lifestyle migration, laying the groundwork for intellectual enquiry.

Addressing the shortcomings in research on the relationship between immigrants and rural areas, this book employs an innovative approach by exploring this relationship from a cross-national comparative, global perspective, drawing lessons from case studies across a range of geographical and political contexts, including Canada and the USA.

In the space of around ten years Ireland went from being a traditional labour exporter to a leading European economy. This title takes Ireland as a paradigmatic case of social transformation, exploring the reasons for which emigration was replaced by immigration, along with the social, political, cultural and economic effects of this change.

Through an exploration and analysis of the experiences of children who moved to Ireland in the first decade of the 21st century, thsi book addresses the tendency of migration research and policy to overlook the presence of children in migratory flows.

Focusing on the case of Southeast Asian women who have been epitomized on the global marriage market as 'ideal' brides and wives, this volume examines these women's experiences of international marriage, migration and state's governmentality.

Through the concept of 'home' the book draws together and reflects on interconnections between integration in areas such as education or housing and experiences of social networks. Examining experiences of the asylum process and the manner in which they are interwoven within a wider narrative of home both within and beyond, Inhabiting Borders.