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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Transnational Ties, Local Lives: Translocal Dynamics of Chinese Diaspora and Community Re-organisation
1st Edition
By Qiuping Pan
May 27, 2025
Transnational Ties, Local Lives: Translocal Dynamics of Chinese Diaspora and Community Re-organisation delves into the evolving civic life and organisational structures of Chinese diaspora communities. Drawing on rich, multi-method ethnographic research in Australia, this book unveils the dynamic ...
Hope and Asylum: Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change
1st Edition
By Torun Elsrud, Philip Lalander, Jesper Andreasson, Marcus Herz
May 20, 2025
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 ...
Social Media in the Lives of Young Connected Migrants: Making and Unmaking Boundaries
1st Edition
By Xinyu Zhao
May 06, 2025
Digital media are a key part of everyday social life for international migrants. However, we don’t know enough about how these migrants critically understand and cope with the cultures and infrastructures of ubiquitous connectivity while on the move. Social Media in the Lives of Young Connected ...
Migrant Narratives: Storytelling as Agency, Belonging and Community
1st Edition
Edited
By Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich, Anastasia Christou, Silke Meyer, Marie Johanna Karner, Anton Jakob Escher
April 14, 2025
With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community. Driven by an agenda of deep listening, each chapter presents a narrative ...
Migration and Families in East and North Europe: Translocal Lifelines
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Assmuth, Marit Aure, Marina Hakkarainen, Pihla Maria Siim
April 14, 2025
This book explores the phenomenon of familyhood across borders, examining the experience of translocal familyhood and the manner in which lifelines in and between countries are formed when individual family members spend long periods away from home. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, it ...
Polish Immigrant Organizations in Germany: The Transnational Opportunity Structure
1st Edition
By Michał Nowosielski
April 14, 2025
Polish Immigrant Organizations in Germany examines the situation of Polish immigrant organizations in Germany. Based on in-depth, mixed-method research consisting of surveys, case studies, and interviews with immigrants, representatives of institutions involved in the implementation of integration ...
Polish Return Migration after Brexit: A Sociological Forecast
1st Edition
By Marek Wodawski, Stanisław Fel, Jarosław Kozak
April 14, 2025
This book explores the attitudes of Polish migrants towards the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union and considers possible return migration trajectories that may result. Based on quantitative sociological research conducted in Britain, it investigates the perceptions of Polish people...
Race and the Colour-Line: The Boundaries of Europeanness in Poland
1st Edition
By Bolaji Balogun
December 18, 2024
Race and the Colour-Line addresses the foundational ideas about race and colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and reconnects them to the global manifestations that influenced them. Focusing on race and colonialism, this book indicates a shift in the global racial discourse – an ...
African Heritage Australian Youth: Forced Displacement, Educational Attainment, and Integration Outcomes
1st Edition
By Tebeje Molla
November 28, 2024
In the last four decades, Australia has resettled thousands of African refugees. As a visibly different minoritised group, Black African youth are often represented as disengaged, dangerous, and undesirable. Even so, rarely are generative mechanisms that negatively affect the life-courses of the ...
The Gender of Borders: Embodied Narratives of Migration, Violence and Agency
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Freedman, Alice Latouche, Adelina Miranda, Nina Sahraoui, Glenda Santana de Andrade, Elsa Tyszler
August 26, 2024
This book brings an intersectional perspective to border studies, drawing on case studies from across the world to consider the ways in which notably gender and race dynamics change the ways in which people cross international borders, and how diffuse and virtual borders impact on migrants' ...
African Pentecostalism in Britain: Migration, Inclusion, and the Prosperity Gospel
1st Edition
By Katharine Stockland
May 27, 2024
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,...
Narratives of Migrant and Refugee Discrimination in New Zealand
1st Edition
Edited
By Angela McCarthy
May 27, 2024
This book explores the question of whether the conceptualisation of New Zealand as a welcoming nation is accurate. Examining historical and contemporary narratives of migrant and refugee discrimination, it considers the economic, social, political, cultural and historical contexts from which ...