Studies in Migration and Diaspora
About the Book Series
Series now in its 20th year
Studies in Migration and Diaspora is a series designed to showcase the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of research in this important field. Volumes in the series cover local, national and global issues and engage with both historical and contemporary events. The books will appeal to scholars, students and all those engaged in the study of migration and diaspora. Amongst the topics covered are minority ethnic relations, transnational movements and the cultural, social and political implications of moving from 'over there', to 'over here'.
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Neoliberalism, Racialisation and Middling Migrants in Poland
1st Edition
By Krzysztof Jaskułowski, Marek Pawlak
September 01, 2026
This book analyses the complex relations between racism and neoliberalism in the lives of middling migrants in Poland. Focusing on ‘middling migrants’ – a heterogeneous category of migrants who are neither a highly-paid elite, nor low-paid or low-skilled workers – it offers a novel approach to the ...
Waiting as a Racialised Phenomenon: African Migration Between Hope and Suspension
1st Edition
By Doğuş Şimşek
August 18, 2026
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 ...
Deconstructing Refugee Women’s Empowerment: A Comparative Approach to British and French Aid Structures
1st Edition
By Zeynep Kilicoglu
July 20, 2026
This book explores how self-identified feminist or women’s organizations in the asylum and charity sectors in the United Kingdom and France attach meanings to and address refugee women’s empowerment in their operations and how these perpetuate or disrupt global hierarchies. Adopting a feminist, ...
The Migration of Albanians from Montenegro and Kosovo to the United States: In Search of Home
1st Edition
By Klement R. Camaj
July 20, 2026
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 ...
Migration as a Collective Project: A Temporal Perspective on Hadiya Migration to South Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Dereje Feyissa, Fana Gebresenbet
April 30, 2026
This book seeks to broaden the conversation in migration studies by incorporating a collective perspective, as illustrated by the case study of Hadiya migration from Southern Ethiopia to South Africa. Rather than presenting individualism and communalism as opposing forces, the authors conceptualize...
The Balkan Route: Albania in Contemporary Migration
1st Edition
By Shkelzen Hasanaj
February 05, 2026
This volume presents an in-depth investigation into the dynamics of irregular migration through Albania, which recently have radically transformed the traditional perception of the country from a land of emigration to a crucial transit hub. Through an interdisciplinary reading, the author examines ...
Towards Transnationality as Practice: A Bourdieusian Approach to Studying the Transnationality of Tunisians in Italy
1st Edition
By Andrea Calabretta
January 26, 2026
This book engages in the stream of transnational migration studies by drawing on an empirical examination of the ties that Tunisian migrants and their descendants, living in both northern and southern Italy, maintain with their country of origin.Through the unique application of Pierre ...
Art Practice and Asylum in Israel: Home in the Making
1st Edition
Edited
By Ofer Gazit, Hamutal Sadan, Sarah Hankins
January 23, 2026
Weaving together first-person narratives of art practice, analytical accounts, and ethnographic research by artists and scholars in art history, theater, new media, music, and anthropology, this volume offers an overview of the wide range of conditions, processes, and motivations for artmaking ...
Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean: Refugee Men on the Margins of Europe
1st Edition
By Marco Palillo
October 31, 2025
Forced Migration, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in the Mediterranean explores the role of intersectional power hierarchies and the social reproduction of vulnerability in shaping forced migrant men’s embodied realities of suffering along the Central Mediterranean migration route (CMR), which ...
Uyghur Identity and Culture: A Global Diaspora in a Time of Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Clothey, Dilmurat Mahmut
August 29, 2025
Uyghur Identity and Culture brings together the work of scholars, activists, and native Uyghurs to explore the history and growing challenges that the Uyghur diaspora face across the globe in response to shifting government policies forbidding many forms of cultural expression in their homeland. &...
Transnationality and Social Mobility: Navigating Social Structures
1st Edition
By Lisa Bonfert
August 15, 2025
Considering that changes in people’s life chances are increasingly shaped by cross-border movements and transnational connections, this book proposes a transnational conception of social mobility. Emphasising the manifold ways in which contexts of migration and transnationality affect perceptions ...
Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ayaka Yoshimizu, Daniel Ahadi
May 30, 2025
This volume examines the politics of fieldwork and the challenges of researching migrants constructed as outsiders both nationally and transnationally. Based on research with undocumented migrants, temporary workers, refugees, international students, and those who, having received citizenship ...