An Introduction to International Migration Studies
European Perspectives
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
388 pages
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6 1/2 x 9
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© 2012
This essential volume is the second published in the textbook series of the International Migration and Social Cohesion Research Network. The editors have assembled a comprehensive collection of twenty-five classic papers that have had a lasting impact on studies of international migration and immigrant integration in Europe. The contributors discuss migration studies in the context of both history and theory as their base point, presenting a broad range of central topics in an accessible textbook format.
Contents
Chapter Abstracts
1. An Introduction to International Migration Studies: European Perspectives
Marco Martiniello and Jan Rath
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives
2. Beyond ‘Push-Pull’: The Economic Approach to Modelling Migration
Dragos Radu and Thomas Straubhaar
3. Historical-Structural Models of International Migration
Ewa Morawska
4. Social Networks and International Migration
Monica Boyd and Joanne Nowak
5. Transnational Migration
Eva Østergaard-Nielsen
6. Jus Sanguinis and Jus Soli: Aspects of Ethnic Migration and Immigration Policies in EU States
Efithia Voutira
7. Migration and Social Transformation
Stephen Castles
Part II: Types of Migration
8. Guest Worker Migration in Post-War Europe (1946–1974): An Analytical Appraisal
Ahmet Akgündüz
9. Skilled Migration in Europe and Beyond: Recent Developments and Theoretical Considerations
Aimee Kuvik
10. Environmental Migration
François Gemenne
11. Student Migration
Russell King and Allan Findlay
12. Sunset Migration
Russell King
13. Undocumented Migration: An Explanatory Framework
Joanne van de Leun and Maria Ilies
Part III: Regulation of Migration
14. Whither EU Immigration After the Lisbon Treaty?
Elspeth Guild
15. The Regulation of Undocumented Migration
Giuseppe Sciortino
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