Introduction to Migration Studies

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.

• PART I: Introduction to Migration Studies.- Chapter 1. An introduction to migration studies: the rise and coming of age of a research field.- Chapter 2. Migration Histories.- PART II: Conceptual approaches: migration drivers, infrastructures, and forms.- Chapter 3. Migration Drivers: why do people migrate?.- Chapter 4. Migration infrastructures: how do people migrate?.- Chapter 5. Digital migration infrastructures.- Chapter 6. Migration forms: what forms of migration can be distinguished?.- Chapter 7. Labour migration.- Chapter 8. Family migration.- Chapter 9. Humanitarian migration.- Chapter 10. Lifestyle migration.- Chapter 11. Student mobilities.- Chapter 12. Irregular migration.- PART III: Conceptual Approaches: Migration Consequences.- Chapter 13. Migration and the nation.- Chapter 14. The contested concept of ‘integration’.- Chapter 15. Transnationalism.- Chapter 16. Cities of migration.- PART IV: Transversal Themes.- Chapter 17. Locating race in migration and diversity studies.- Chapter 18. Gender and migration.- Chapter 19. Migration and development.- PART V: studies of migration policies, governance, and politics.- Chapter 20. Migration Governance.- Chapter 21. The governance of migration-related diversity.- Chapter 22. Citizenship & migration.- Chapter 23. Public opinion and the politics of migration.- Chapter 24. Migration policy indicators.- PART VI: methods in migration studies.- Chapter 25. Qualitative methods in migration research.- Chapter 26. Quantitative methods in migration research.- Chapter 27. Migration statistics.- Chapter 28. How to predict future migration: different methods explained and compared.- Chapter 29. A future agenda for migration studies.