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Migration of Albanians from Montenegro and Kosovo to the United States
In Search of Home
Häftad, 2026
710 kr
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This book examines the ways in which Albanian men, women, and families who have migrated from Montenegro and Kosovo to the United States understand and make sense of their mobility and settlement.Drawing on empirical research, including interview material, it goes beyond the experiences of …
Hope and Asylum
Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change
Av Torun Elsrud, Philip Lalander m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2324 kr
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This book applies perspectives of hope to understand the precariousness, suffering, and agency of people seeking asylum. With attention to the restrictions and austerity politics that have characterised public policy following the significant rise in asylum applications in 2015, it draws on …
Hope and Asylum
Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change
Av Torun Elsrud, Philip Lalander m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
710 kr
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This book applies perspectives of hope to understand the precariousness, suffering, and agency of people seeking asylum. With attention to the restrictions and austerity politics that have characterised public policy following the significant rise in asylum applications in 2015, it draws on …
Waiting as a Racialised Phenomenon
African Migration Between Hope and Suspension
Av Doğuş Şimşek
Inbunden, 2026
2525 kr
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Waiting as a Racialised Phenomenon offers a powerful and original account of the lives of migrants from East, West, North, and Sub-Saharan Africa in Türkiye, grounded in rich ethnographic research. Challenging dominant understandings of waiting as a neutral or purely temporal condition, the book …
International Marriages and Marital Citizenship
Southeast Asian Women on the Move
Av Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot, Gwénola Ricordeau
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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While marriage has lost its popularity in many developed countries and is no longer an obligatory path to family formation, it has gained momentum among binational couples as states reinforce their control over human migration. Focusing on the case of Southeast Asian women who have been epitomized …
Islam, Race, and Pluralism in the Pakistani Diaspora
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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This book explores the Pakistani diaspora in a transatlantic context, enquiring into the ways in which young first- and second-generation Pakistani Muslim and non-Muslim men resist hegemonic identity narratives and respond to their marginalised conditions. Drawing on rich documentary, ethnographic …
Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement
Unsettling the Everyday and the Extraordinary
Av Jay Marlowe
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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The image we have of refugees is one of displacement – from their homes, families and countries – and yet, refugee settlement is increasingly becoming an experience of living simultaneously in places both proximate and distant, as people navigate and transcend international borders in numerous and …
Politics of Integration
Law, Race and Literature in Post-War Britain and France
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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After almost seven decades, Britain and France, nations with divergent political cultures and heirs to contrasting philosophies of 'integration', have proclaimed the failure to integrate their post-war ethnic minorities: at this present time, the ‘Muslim’. The ‘argument’ of this book, therefore, is …
Brokering High-Risk Migration and Illegality in West Africa
Abroad at any cost
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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Do young West Africans want to go abroad at any cost because they receive too little or erroneous information? Why do they and their families risk large sums of money with migration brokers? How do the risks of illegality and deportation change migration aspirations in West Africa?This book places …
Global Nomads and Extreme Mobilities
Häftad, 2019
695 kr
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Presenting a ground-breaking study of the emerging phenomenon of location-independence, this book examines the way in which the practices of 'global nomads', who live on the road, without fixed abode, place of employment or localised circle of friends, question many of the unwritten norms and …
Migration, Education and Translation
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Human Mobility and Cultural Encounters in Education Settings
Av Vivienne Anderson, Henry Johnson
Inbunden, 2019
2454 kr
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This multidisciplinary collection examines the connections between education, migration and translation across school and higher education sectors, and a broad range of socio-geographical contexts. Organised around the themes of knowledge, language, mobility, and practice, it brings together …
Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA
A Historical Exploration of Identity
Av Jana Sverdljuk, Terje Mikael Hasle Joranger m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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This volume explores the complex and contradictory ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness has influenced identities, self-perceptions and the process of integration of Nordic immigrants into multicultural and racially segregated American society in the nineteenth and …
Democracy, Diaspora, Territory
Europe and Cross-Border Politics
Av Olga Oleinikova, Jumana Bayeh
Inbunden, 2019
2600 kr
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This volume offers a profoundly new interpretation of the impact of modern diasporas on democracy, challenging the orthodox understanding that ties these two concepts to a bounded form of territory. Considering democracy and diaspora through a deterritorialised lens, it takes the post-Euromaidan …
Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism in Australia
Häftad, 2019
724 kr
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This book explores Islamophobia in Australia, shifting attention from its victims to its perpetrators by examining the visceral, atavistic nature of people’s feelings and responses to the Muslim ‘other’ in everyday life. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, Islamophobia and Everyday Multiculturalism …
Color that Matters
A Comparative Approach to Mixed Race Identity and Nordic Exceptionalism
Av Tony Sandset
Häftad, 2020
716 kr
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This book examines the ways in which mixed ethnic identities in Scandinavia are formed along both cultural and embodied lines, arguing that while the official discourses in the region refer to a "post-racial" or "color blind" era, color still matters in the lives of people of mixed ethnic descent. …
Trajectories and Imaginaries in Migration
The Migrant Actor in Transnational Space
Av Felicitas Hillmann, Ton van Naerssen m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
724 kr
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This book draws attention to the various factors that characterize migrant flows and mobilities, calling into question familiar concepts such as push and pull, migration as a life project and sociocultural integration. It highlights processes such as fl exible migrant routes, temporary and return …
Mobile Citizenship
Spatial Privilege and the Transnational Lifestyles of Senior Citizens
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
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Mobile Citizenship addresses the crucial question of how mobility reconfigures citizenship. Engaging with debates on transnationalism, citizenship, and lifestyle migration, the book draws on ethnographic research and interview material collected among retired lifestyle migrants moving south from …
Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration
Migrants ‘In-Between’
Av Shanthi Robertson, Rosie Roberts
Inbunden, 2022
2600 kr
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This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class migrant groups across the globe, including ‘ethnic entrepreneurs’ building new businesses in cosmopolitan neighbourhoods in Sydney; Chinese grandparents shuttling between Australia, China and Singapore to support their extended …
Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA
A Historical Exploration of Identity
Av Jana Sverdljuk, Terje Mikael Hasle Joranger m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
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This volume explores the complex and contradictory ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness has influenced identities, self-perceptions and the process of integration of Nordic immigrants into multicultural and racially segregated American society in the nineteenth and …
Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration
Migrants ‘In-Between’
Av Shanthi Robertson, Rosie Roberts
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class migrant groups across the globe, including ‘ethnic entrepreneurs’ building new businesses in cosmopolitan neighbourhoods in Sydney; Chinese grandparents shuttling between Australia, China and Singapore to support their extended …
Political Dissent and Democratic Remittances
The Activities of Russian Migrants in Europe
Inbunden, 2021
2600 kr
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With a focus on the most recent wave of political emigration from Russia unleashed during President Vladimir Putin’s third term, this book explores the activities of those who voice political dissent after leaving their country. Based on rich ethnographic data and interviews gathered among Russian …
Political Dissent and Democratic Remittances
The Activities of Russian Migrants in Europe
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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With a focus on the most recent wave of political emigration from Russia unleashed during President Vladimir Putin’s third term, this book explores the activities of those who voice political dissent after leaving their country. Based on rich ethnographic data and interviews gathered among Russian …
Refugees and Knowledge Production
Europe's Past and Present
Av Magdalena Kmak, Heta Björklund
Inbunden, 2022
2600 kr
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Building on research within the fields of exile studies and critical migration studies and drawing links between historical and contemporary ‘refugee scholarship’, this volume challenges the bias of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism in discussing the multifaceted forms of knowledge …
Refugees and Knowledge Production
Europe's Past and Present
Av Magdalena Kmak, Heta Björklund
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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Building on research within the fields of exile studies and critical migration studies and drawing links between historical and contemporary ‘refugee scholarship’, this volume challenges the bias of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism in discussing the multifaceted forms of knowledge …
Migration Across Boundaries
Linking Research to Practice and Experience
Av Parvati Nair, Tendayi Bloom
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplinary backgrounds working in Europe, North and South America, South Asia and the Middle East, this volume explores the question of how to ensure that migration research feeds back into improving the lives of migrants. It emphasises …
African Pentecostalism in Britain
Migration, Inclusion, and the Prosperity Gospel
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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Based on ethnographic research among African Pentecostal Christians living in the UK, this book addresses themes of migration and community formation, religious identity and practice, and social and political exclusion. With attention to strained kinship relationships, precarious labour conditions, …
African Pentecostalism in Britain
Migration, Inclusion, and the Prosperity Gospel
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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Based on ethnographic research among African Pentecostal Christians living in the UK, this book addresses themes of migration and community formation, religious identity and practice, and social and political exclusion. With attention to strained kinship relationships, precarious labour conditions, …
Lives in Transit
An Ethnographic Study of Refugees’ Subjectivity across European Borders
Häftad, 2020
724 kr
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This book explores the border-crossing mobilities of refugees within Europe. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Germany and Italy, it examines the precarious everyday lives of non-citizens living between and beyond EU internal borders. With attention to the constant re-construction of borders …
Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific
Av Jacqueline Leckie, Angela McCarthy m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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In contrast to much scholarship on cross-cultural encounters, which focuses primarily on contact between indigenous peoples and ’settlers’ or ’sojourners’, this book is concerned with migrant aspects of this phenomenon – whether migrant-migrant or migrant-host encounters – bringing together studies …
Making Home in Diasporic Communities
Transnational belonging amongst Filipina migrants
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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Making Home in Diasporic Communities demonstrates the global scope of the Filipino diaspora, engaging wider scholarship on globalisation and the ways in which the dynamics of nation-state institutions, labour migration and social relationships intersect for transnational communities. Based on …
