1st Edition
Aspiration, Desire and the Drivers of Migration
Introduction: Aspiration, desire and drivers of migration
Jørgen Carling and Francis Collins
1. Push-pull plus: reconsidering the drivers of migration
Nicholas Van Hear, Oliver Bakewell and Katy Long
2. Revisiting aspiration and ability in international migration
Jørgen Carling and Kerilyn Schewel
3. Desire as a theory for migration studies: temporality, assemblage and becoming in the narratives of migrants
Francis L. Collins
4. Forced to leave? The discursive and analytical significance of describing migration as forced and voluntary
Marta Bivand Erdal and Ceri Oeppen
5. Shifting migration aspirations in second modernity
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
6. Desiring ‘foreign talent’: lack and Lacan in anti-immigrant sentiments in Singapore
Peidong Yang
7. Navigating aspirations and expectations: adolescents’ considerations of outmigration from rural eastern Germany
Frank Meyer
Biography
Francis L. Collins is a Professor of Geography in the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research focuses on international migration and cities with a particular emphasis on the experiences, mobility patterns, and government regulation of temporary migrants in urban contexts.
Jørgen Carling is a Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway. His research addresses migration theory, transnational practices, and the links between migration and development. He has a particular interest in the thoughts and feelings that precede migration, and in the experience of involuntary immobility.
