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NEW! This book breaks new ground in scholarship on the politics of migration. The edited volume brings together in-depth case studies from Argentina, Tunisia, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Australia, the Philippines, China, and Saudi Arabia to showcase the complex interplay between migration politics and broader dynamics of regime change, state formation, and nation-state ideology.
Challenging conventional wisdom, we reveal that political systems—whether liberal or illiberal, democratic or authoritarian—do not rigidly dictate migration politics. Instead, migration politics and political regimes co-produce one another. Our exploration delves into the roles of civil society, legal actors, employers, and international norms across diverse political contexts and bridges conversations around immigration and emigration politics.
Uncovering unexpected similarities in migration policies across different political regimes at a time when states are increasingly adopting illiberal practices, this collection is essential for political scientists, sociologists, and migration scholars seeking a fresh perspective. Migration Politics Across the World offers an ideal vantage point for understanding the role of migration in state transformations and political changes around the world.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
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NEW! RESEARCH HANDBOOK on the Institutions of Global Migration Governance, Edited by Antoine Pécoud and Hélène Thiollet, Edward Elgar, 2023. ISBN: 978 1 78990 806 0 Drawing together the work of leading researchers from various disciplines and backgrounds, this illuminating Research Handbook contributes to a revitalised understanding of migration governance. It introduces novel debates regarding how actors and institutions shape significant migration dynamics.
This erudite Research Handbook features a systematic review of the analytical framework of global migration governance. Chapters identify and explain key institutions involved in global migration, focusing on changes in patterns and actor behaviours. Key actors explored in the Research Handbook include international organisations, migrant networks, civil society groups, smuggling cartels, religious transnational organisations, security firms and trade unions. Ultimately, it aims to contribute to a renewed understanding of migration drivers and proceedings.
Endorsements by Peggy Levitt, Douglas Massey, Brenda Yeoh, David FitzGerald, Virginie Guiraudon, Hein de Haas https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/research-handbook-on-the-institutions-of-global-migration-governance-9781789908060.html
Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World with Camille Schmoll, Catherine Lejeune and Delphine Pagès-El Karoui (eds.). Springer IMISCOE Research Series. 2021 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67365-9 OPEN ACCESS
Globalization and migration have generated acute and often contradictory changes: they have increased social diversity while inducing global homogenization; they have sharpened differentiation of spaces and statuses while accelerating and amplifying communication and circulations; they have induced more complex social stratification while enriching individual and collective identities.
Urban contexts offer privileged sites of inquiry to understanding the social dynamics of globalization, informal belonging and local citizenships, transient and multi-layered identities, symbolic orders and exclusionary practices. But cities are also material sites and they create multisensorial scapes that shape experiences of globalization and social change. They operate through multiple scales, connecting horizontal extensions and vertical layers of the city with generic, landmark, interstitial and neglected places.
Far from being mere contexts, cities are both changing and being changed by migration and globalization. This book chooses cosmopolitanism as a crucial notion to study migration and mobility in contemporary cities. Central to debates in the early 1990s debates to describe the changes induced by the second modernity, cosmopolitanism was later reframed, recast, and criticized for its ambivalence and political loading, for its Western centrism, uprootedness and theoretical biases. We claim that it is the very “thickness” of the notion that makes it useful. Cosmopolitanism is both a normative and empirical notion which is made up of layers of methodological and theoretical controversies. Building upon these controversies, this book uses the lens of cosmopolitan as a way to explore and make sense of urban diversity and migrant belonging in the global era.
Migration en Méditerranée with Camille Schmoll and Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (eds.). CNRS Editions. 2015 EAN : 9782271085580
La mort de migrants et de réfugiés tentant d’atteindre les portes de l’Europe par la Méditerranée a mis en évidence les contradictions et la fragilité de l’Europe face aux crises qui touchent le Moyen-Orient et l’Afrique, dans un contexte marqué par une récession économique globale. À travers ses diverses contributions, cet ouvrage rappelle que l’Europe forme, avec la rive sud de la Méditerranée, un espace migratoire régional, où chaque État est pays de départ, d’accueil, de transit, et souvent tout cela à la fois.
En Méditerranée, trois espaces migratoires se structurent autour de trois types de mobilités : des migrations de travail, des migrations de transit, et des migrations forcées des demandeurs d’asile. L’analyse des pratiques des migrants et des politiques de contrôle de la mobilité dans une région qui constitue l’une des plus grandes lignes de fracture du monde, est au cœur de cet ouvrage.
En identifiant les éléments de continuité et de rupture, les auteurs interrogent l’évolution des systèmes migratoires sur la longue, moyenne et courte durée, les transformations des formes de mobilité, ainsi que les changements institutionnels, culturels, politiques, économiques et sociaux qui les accompagnent et les déterminent. Ils reviennent sur les effets de frontières, de géographies et d’histoires migratoires, les appartenances et les identités locales, nationales, régionales et transnationales, tout en proposant de dépasser une vision euro-centrée. Un éclairage précieux sur la crise migratoire.
Reviews
Afailal, Hafsa, C. Schmoll, H. Thiollet, and C. Wihtol de Wenden. European Review of International Studies 3, no. 3 (2016): 166–69. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26583600.
Adelina Miranda, « Schmoll Camille, Thiollet Hélène et Wihtol de Wenden Catherine, Migrations en Méditerranée. Permanences et mutations à l’heure des révolutions et des crises », Revue européenne des migrations internationales, vol. 32 - n°3 et 4 | 2016, 356-358.
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