Introduction to Migration Studies
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This open access textbook provides an introduction to theories, concepts and methodological approaches concerning various facets of migration and migration-related diversities. It starts with an introduction to migration studies and continues with an introductory reading of migration drivers, migration infrastructures, migration flows, and several transversal topics such as gender and migration. It also covers politics, policies and governance as well as specific research methods.
As an interactive guide, this book develops an innovative format that brings a connection with various online sources. This means that whereas the chapters bring together literature in a coherent way, they are also connected to IMISCOE's online interactive Migration Research Hub for further reading and for more empirical material on migration and diversity.
As such, this textbook provides a very useful introductory reading for undergraduate and graduate students as well as for policymakers,policy advisors, and all those interested in studies on migration and migration-related diversities.
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Peter Scholten is full professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam with a chair in the Governance of Migration and Diversity. Peter is academic coordinator of the IMISCOE Research Network, alliance coordinator of the European University of Post-Industrial Cities (UNIC) and director of the LDE Centre on the Governance of Migration and Diversity. His work focuses on science-politics relations, multi-level governance and urban governance of migration and diversity. He published in numerous international journals and recently published his monograph on Mainstreaming versus Alienation; a complexity perspective on the governance of migration and diversity. Peter is also founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Comparative Migration Studies and associated editor of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.
Content
PART I: Introduction to Migration Studies.- Chapter 1. An introduction to migration studies: the rise and coming of age of a research field.- Chapter 2. Migration Histories.- PART II: Conceptual approaches: migration drivers, infrastructures, and forms.- Chapter 3. Migration Drivers: why do people migrate?.- Chapter 4. Migration infrastructures: how do people migrate?.- Chapter 5. Digital migration infrastructures.- Chapter 6. Migration forms: what forms of migration can be distinguished?.- Chapter 7. Labour migration.- Chapter 8. Family migration.- Chapter 9. Humanitarian migration.- Chapter 10. Lifestyle migration.- Chapter 11. Student mobilities.- Chapter 12. Irregular migration.- PART III: Conceptual Approaches: Migration Consequences.- Chapter 13. Migration and the nation.- Chapter 14. The contested concept of 'integration'.- Chapter 15. Transnationalism.- Chapter 16. Cities of migration.- PART IV: Transversal Themes.- Chapter 17. Locating race in migration and diversity studies.- Chapter 18. Gender and migration.- Chapter 19. Migration and development.- PART V: studies of migration policies, governance, and politics.- Chapter 20. Migration Governance.- Chapter 21. The governance of migration-related diversity.- Chapter 22. Citizenship & migration.- Chapter 23. Public opinion and the politics of migration.- Chapter 24. Migration policy indicators.- PART VI: methods in migration studies.- Chapter 25. Qualitative methods in migration research.- Chapter 26. Quantitative methods in migration research.- Chapter 27. Migration statistics.- Chapter 28. How to predict future migration: different methods explained and compared.- Chapter 29. A future agenda for migration studies.