Overview
- Open access interactive textbook on migration studies
- Encourages students to search on key theories or concepts
- Makes academic literature on migration studies accessible
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: IMISCOE Research Series (IMIS)
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About this book
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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Keywords
- Open access
- Origins and development of migration studies
- Migration from historical and global perspective
- Migration drivers
- Migration, economic disparities and labour market
- Migration, conflict and war
- Migration, environmental change and natural disasters
- Digital migration infrastructures
- Family and humanitarian migration
- Lifestyle migration
- Student mobilities
- Irregular migration
- Migration, ethnicity and race
- Migration and transnationalism
- Gender and migration
- Migration and development
- Migration policies, governance and politics
- Migration-related diversity
- Migration statistics
Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Migration Studies
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Front Matter
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Conceptual Approaches: Migration Drivers, Infrastructures, and Forms
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Conceptual Approaches: Migration Consequences
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Migration Studies
Book Subtitle: An Interactive Guide to the Literatures on Migration and Diversity
Editors: Peter Scholten
Series Title: IMISCOE Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92377-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92376-1Published: 04 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92379-2Published: 05 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92377-8Published: 03 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2364-4087
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4095
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 500
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration