2nd Edition
Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies
The Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies offers a comprehensive study of the multi-disciplinary field of international migration and asylum studies. The new edition incorporates numerous new chapters on issues including return migration, the relationship between urbanisation and migration, the role of advanced digital technologies in migration governance, decision making and human agency, and the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on global migration.
Utilising contemporary information and analysis, this innovative Handbook provides an in-depth examination of the major analytical questions pertaining to migration and asylum, whilst discussing key areas such as work, welfare, families, citizenship, the relationship between migration and development, asylum and irregular migration. With a comprehensive collection of essays written by leading contributors from different world regions and covering a broad range of disciplines including sociology, geography, legal studies, political science, and economics, the Handbook is a truly multidisciplinary reader.
Organised into thematic and geographical chapters, the Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies provides a concise overview on the different topics and world regions, as well as useful guidance for both the starting and the more experienced reader. The Handbook’s expansive content and illustrative style will appeal to both students and professionals studying in the field of migration and international organisations.
Part I: Key Analytical and Policy Dimensions on Migration and Asylum
1. Migration Theories: A Critical Overview
Karen O’Reilly
2. Demography and International Migration
Philippe Fargues
3. Gender and Migration
Parvati Raghuram and Omololá S. Olarinde
4. Transnational Migration
Ayse Caglar
5. Cities and Migration
Nick Dines
6. Return Migration
Katie Kuschminder
7. Migration Decision-Making
Marta Bivand Erdal and Jessica Hagen-Zanker
8. Migration and Artificial Intelligence
Ana Beduschi
9. Migration and the Pandemic Emergency
Anna Triandafyllidou
Part II: Migration and Labour Market
10. International Migration and US Innovation: Insights from the US Experience
William R. Kerr
11. High-Skilled Migration in the Post-Covid Era
S. Irudaya Rajan
12. Global Elite Migrations
Irina Isaakyan
13. Migrant Entrepreneurship: Self-employment as a Strategy of Economic Incorporation
Jan Rath and Veronique Schutjens
14. From Temporary Migrant to Labour Citizen
Dimitria Groutsis
15. Discrimination Against Immigrants in the Labour Market
Rupa Banerjee
Part III: Migration, Families, and Welfare
16. Migration, Work and Welfare
Eleonore Kofman
17. Irregular Migration and the Welfare State: Strange Allies?
Maurizio Ambrosini
18. Global Care Chains
Gianne Sheena Sabio, Kritika Pandey, and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
19. Family Migration and Migrant Integration
Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali
20. International Students in a Mobile World
Helen Forbes-Mewett
21. Migration and the Health and Care Sector
Margaret Walton-Roberts
Part IV: Cultural Diversity, Citizenship, and Socio-Politico Integration Challenge
22. Migration, Citizenship, and Post-National Membership
Jelena Dzankic
23. Paradigms Lost? Immigrant Integration and its Discontents
Triadafilos Triadafilopoulo
24. Migration and Cultural Diversity Challenges in the 21st Century
Nasar Meer and Tariq Modood
25. Inclusion of Migrant Children in Educational Systems
Dirk Jacobs and Perrine Devleeshouwer
26. Migrants and their cultural world: when things teach us about lives
Amin Moghadam
Part IV: Migration and Development
27. Migration and Economic Remittances: Impact on Development
Bilesha Weeraratne
28. Migration and Diasporas: What Role in Home Country Development?
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
29. Migration and Development: A Focus on Africa
Joseph Kofi Teye
30. Migration and Development in Asia: A View through the Lens of ‘Hubs and Hinterlands’
Binod Khadria and Ratnam Mishra
31. Asian Migration to the Gulf States
Chinmay Tumbe
32. Reframing the Migration and Development Question in the 21st Century
Raúl Delgado Wise
33. Contested Migration and Development Agendas: Contrasting Views from Africa and Europe
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato and Oliver Bakewell
Part VI: Asylum and Refugee Studies Today
34. Unmixing Migrants and Refugees
Liza Schuster
35. Refugee Studies Has Always Been Critical
Linn Biorklund and Jennifer Hyndman
36. Asylum in the 21st Century: Trends and Challenges
Idil Atak and François Crépeau
37. Environmental Change and Migration: Bringing power and inequality back in
Sara Vigil
38. Climate Change and Migration: Lessons from Oceania
John R. Campbell and Richard D. Bedford
39. Venezuelans in Latin America: Looking Beyond the Binary of Migrants versus Asylum Seekers
Gioconda Herrera
40. Seeking Asylum in the Middle East: Lessons from the Syrian Crisis
Ayhan Kaya
Part VII: Irregular Migration
41. The Challenge of Irregular Migration
Sarah Spencer
42. Of ‘in between’ spaces and (un)interrupted journeys: transit migration
Angeliki Dimitriadi
43. Migrant Smuggling
Anna Triandafyllidou
44. Sanctuary Cities
Mireille Paquet
45. Exploitation and Situations of Vulnerability of Migrant Workers in Europe: Legal and Policy Responses and Challenges
Letizia Palumbo
Biography
Anna Triandafyllidou holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Canada. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the governance of migration and asylum; the management of cultural diversity, nationalism and identity issues; and overall, the contemporary challenges of migration and integration across different world regions. She is author of Immigrants and National Identity in Europe (Routledge, 2001) and co-author of Migrant Smuggling: Irregular Migration from Asia and Africa to Europe (2012), Rethinking Migration and Return in Southeastern Europe: Albanian Mobilities to and from Italy and Greece (Routledge, 2021), and What is Europe? (Second Edition, Routledge, 2022). She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.
