Migration Products

Edited by Johanna Hiitola, Kati Turtiainen, Sabine Gruber, Marja Tiilikainen

This volume examines the ways in which bordering practices influence the everyday lives of racialized parents in the changing welfare states of Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Focusing on the need to negotiate, adjust, and reconcile family life, parenthood and parenting practices in the face…

Hardback – 2020-02-26 
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Routledge Studies in Family Sociology

By Kelly H. Chong

High rates of intermarriage, especially with whites, have been viewed as an indicator that Asian-Americans are successfully "assimilating," signaling acceptance by the white majority and their own desire to become part of the white mainstream. Comparing two types of Asian-American intermarriage,…

Paperback – 2020-02-25 
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Edited by Donald M. Nonini, Ida Susser

Contemporary politics, this book contends, depend upon the turbulent struggles and strategies around scale. Conflicts over scale can be seen as opaque class struggles. Political projects, whether from the ground up or representing corporate or state interests, continually contest the scale at which…

Paperback – 2020-02-12 
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Edited by Rainer Bauböck, John Rundell

First published in 1999, this volume examines new forms of cultural diversity which result from migration and globalization. Historically, most liberal democracies have developed on the basis of national cultures – either a single one, or a dominant one, or a federation of several ones. However,…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
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Routledge Revivals

By Thomas J. Espenshade

Published in 1997. The Urban Institute has been studying immigration for almost a decade and a half. In recent years, the Institute’s focus has widened to include immigration integration. Unlike immigration policy, which is a federal responsibility, policies regarding immigrant integration have…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
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Routledge Revivals

By Pál Nyíri

First published in 1999, this book is a political enthnography of recent migration from the People’s Republic of China into Europe. It argues that the very high mobility and intensive communications of Chinese migrants enable them to maintain a transnational community within which they easily shift…

Paperback – 2020-02-01 
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Routledge Revivals

By Ron Robin

Originally published in 1990, Signs of Change assess the people of San Francisco according to their own demonstrative standards through the visual symbols. Special attention is devoted to the visual perceptions of immigrants, those whose senses were not smothered by over-familiarity or protracted…

Paperback – 2020-01-30 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban History

By Lucinda Newns

Homing the Metropole presents a new approach to diasporic fiction that reorients postcolonial readings of migration away from processes of displacement and rupture towards those of placement and homemaking. While notions of home have frequently been associated with essentialist understandings…

Hardback – 2020-01-29 
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Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Edited by Tanja Bastia, Ronald Skeldon

The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development provides an interdisciplinary, agenda-setting survey of the fields of migration and development, bringing together over sixty expert contributors from around the world to chart current and future trends in research on this topic. The links…

Hardback – 2020-01-28 
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Kumarini Silva, Margaret E. Franz

This volume responds to the question: How do you know when you belong to a country? In other words, when is the nation-state a homeland? The boundaries and borders defining who belongs and who does not proliferate in the age of globalization, although they may not coincide with national…

Hardback – 2020-01-27 
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Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

By Gregory L. Cuéllar

This book focuses on the themes of border violence; racial criminalization; competing hermeneutics of the sacred; and State-sponsored modes of desacralizing black and brown-bodied people, all in the context of the US-Mexico borderlands. It provides a much-needed substantive response to the State’s…

Hardback – 2020-01-21 
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Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies

By Diane van den Broek, Dimitria Groutsis

This book looks at the migration and work experiences of six women who have migrated to Australia from China; Zimbabwe; South Korea; the United Kingdom; India and the Philippines. It sets their journeys out into three distinct periods of migration, including the first period of their lives when…

Hardback – 2020-01-06 
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Routledge Focus on Business and Management