The SAGE Handbook of International Migration
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The SAGE Handbook of International Migration
About This Book
The SAGE Handbook of International Migration provides an authoritative and informed analysis of key issues in international migration, including its crucial significance far beyond the more traditional questions of immigrant settlement and incorporation in particular countries. Bringing together chapters contributed by an international cast of leading voices in the field, the Handbook is arranged around four key thematic parts:
- Part 1: Disciplinary Perspectives on Migration
- Part 2: Historical and Contemporary Flows of Migrants
- Part 3: Theory, Policy and the Factors Affecting Incorporation
- Part 4: National and Global Policy Challenges in Migration
The last three decades have seen the rapid increase and diversification in the types of international migration, and this Handbook has been created to meet the needamong academics and researchers across the social sciences, policy makers and commentators for a definitive publication which provides a range of perspectives and insights intokey themes anddebates in the field.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on the Editors and Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Understanding Migration
- PART I Disciplinary Perspectives On Migration
- 2 Part I Introduction: Disciplinary Perspectives on International Migration
- 3 Demography
- 4 Development Studies and Migration
- 5 Economics and Migration
- 6 Education, Citizenship, and International Migration
- 7 Environmental Studies and Migration
- 8 Geography and Migration
- 9 History
- 10 Migration, Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
- 11 Migration and the Policy Sciences
- PART II Historical and Contemporary Flows of Migrants
- 12 Part II Introduction: International Migration Flows1
- 13 Historical Patterns of Migration Prior to Mid-20th Century
- 14 Rethinking Global Migration Flows
- 15 Gender and the Feminisation of Migration
- 16 Regional and Intercontinental Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
- 17 Middle East and North Africa (MENA)Mohammed Charef
- 18 South Asian Migration
- 19 International Migration Trends and Policies in Southeast Asia
- 20 International Migration in East Asia
- 21 Australasia and the Pacific Islands
- 22 Migrations in South America
- 23 Contemporary Migration Patterns in North and Central America
- 24 European Migration Transition in the Context of Post-Enlargement Migration from and into Central and Eastern Europe
- 25 International Migration Trends and Policies in Russia and Eurasia
- PART III Theory, Policy and the Factors Affecting Incorporation
- 26 Part III Introduction: Theory, Policy and the Factors Affecting Incorporation
- 27 Assimilation
- 28 Multiculturalism and Immigration
- 29 Transnationalism
- 30 Migrant Entrepreneurship and Transnational Links
- 31 Inequality and the Structure of Educational Opportunity and Institutions
- 32 Language and Incorporation
- 33 Spatial Concentration and Ghettos
- 34 The Role of Religion in Migrant Incorporation
- 35 Citizenship
- 36 Racism and the Age of Super-Diversity
- PART IV National and Global Policy Challenges in Migration
- 37Part IV Introduction: National and Global Policy Challenges in Migration
- 38 Remittances and Migrants: Altruism, Insurance, Investment and Development
- 39 Migration and State Concerns about the Emigration and Welfare of their Citizens1
- 40 Trends in International, National and Local Policies on Migrant Entry and Integration
- 41 Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- 42 Migration and the State's Focus on Human Trafficking as a Security Issue
- Index