Jeffrey H. Cohen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Ohio State University. His books include Cooperation and Community: Economy and Society in Oaxaca, The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico, and Economic Development: An Anthropological Approach.Ibrahim Sirkeci is Professor of Transnational Studies at European Business School London, Regent's College. He founded the journal Migration Letters, which Jeffrey Cohen and Elli Heikkila have coedited since 2004. He has published widely on migration, ethnicity, segregation, and conflict.

"Cohen and Sirkeci's Cultures of Migration is an encouraging and ambitious attempt to introduce a new focus in the study of migration...In sum, it is a refreshing breeze in the growing arena of migration studies that Cultures of Migration raises our awareness of a new, more universal dimension, in the understanding of migration and migrants that merits attention." - Linda Q. Wang, University of South Carolina-Aiken, International Social Science Review

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Cultures of MigrationChapter 1. The Household in a Global PerspectiveChapter 2. The Growth of Migration: Mobility, Security, InsecurityChapter 3. Contemporary Migration: Commuters and Internal MoversChapter 4. Contemporary Movers: International MigrationChapter 5. Nonmovers and Those Who Stay BehindChapter 6. The Economics of Migration and the Possibilities of DevelopmentConclusionsNotesReferencesIndex

Jeffrey H. Cohen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Ohio State University. His books include Cooperation and Community: Economy and Society in Oaxaca, The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico, and Economic Development: An Anthropological Approach.Ibrahim Sirkeci is Professor of Transnational Studies at European Business School London, Regent's College. He founded the journal Migration Letters, which Jeffrey Cohen and Elli Heikkila have coedited since 2004. He has published widely on migration, ethnicity, segregation, and conflict.

"Cohen and Sirkeci's Cultures of Migration is an encouraging and ambitious attempt to introduce a new focus in the study of migration...In sum, it is a refreshing breeze in the growing arena of migration studies that Cultures of Migration raises our awareness of a new, more universal dimension, in the understanding of migration and migrants that merits attention." - Linda Q. Wang, University of South Carolina-Aiken, International Social Science Review

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Cultures of MigrationChapter 1. The Household in a Global PerspectiveChapter 2. The Growth of Migration: Mobility, Security, InsecurityChapter 3. Contemporary Migration: Commuters and Internal MoversChapter 4. Contemporary Movers: International MigrationChapter 5. Nonmovers and Those Who Stay BehindChapter 6. The Economics of Migration and the Possibilities of DevelopmentConclusionsNotesReferencesIndex

Jeffrey H. Cohen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Ohio State University. His books include Cooperation and Community: Economy and Society in Oaxaca, The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico, and Economic Development: An Anthropological Approach.Ibrahim Sirkeci is Professor of Transnational Studies at European Business School London, Regent's College. He founded the journal Migration Letters, which Jeffrey Cohen and Elli Heikkila have coedited since 2004. He has published widely on migration, ethnicity, segregation, and conflict.

"Cohen and Sirkeci's Cultures of Migration is an encouraging and ambitious attempt to introduce a new focus in the study of migration...In sum, it is a refreshing breeze in the growing arena of migration studies that Cultures of Migration raises our awareness of a new, more universal dimension, in the understanding of migration and migrants that merits attention." - Linda Q. Wang, University of South Carolina-Aiken, International Social Science Review

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Cultures of MigrationChapter 1. The Household in a Global PerspectiveChapter 2. The Growth of Migration: Mobility, Security, InsecurityChapter 3. Contemporary Migration: Commuters and Internal MoversChapter 4. Contemporary Movers: International MigrationChapter 5. Nonmovers and Those Who Stay BehindChapter 6. The Economics of Migration and the Possibilities of DevelopmentConclusionsNotesReferencesIndex