An Introduction to International Migration Studies

An Introduction to International Migration Studies

European Perspectives

  • Author: Martiniello, Marco; Rath, IMISCOE AUP Royaltyfonds; Rath, Jan
  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
  • Serie: IMISCOE Textbooks
  • ISBN: 9789089644565
  • eISBN Pdf: 9789048517350
  • Place of publication:  Amsterdam , Netherlands
  • Year of digital publication: 2012
  • Month: December
  • Pages: 388
  • DDC: 304.8
  • Language: English
Focusing mainly on the European experience including Eastern Europe, this important volume offers an advanced introduction to immigrant incorporation studies from a historical, empirical and theoretical perspective. Beyond incorporation theories, renowned scholars in the field explore incorporation in action in different fields, policy issues and normative dimensions.
  • Contents
  • Chapter Abstracts
  • 1. An Introduction to International Migration Studies: European Perspectives / Marco Martiniello and Jan Rath
  • Part I. Theoretical Perspectives
    • 2. Beyond 'Push-Pull' : The Economic Approach to Modelling Migration / Dragos Radu and Thomas Straubhaar
    • 3. Historical-Structural Models of International Migration / Ewa Morawska
    • 4. Social Networks and International Migration / Monica Boyd and Joanne Nowak
    • 5. Transnational Migration / Eva Østergaard-Nielsen
    • 6. Jus Sanguinis and Jus Soli: Aspects of Ethnic Migration and Immigration Policies in EU States / Efthia Voutira
    • 7. Migration and Social Transformation / Stephen Castles
  • Part II: Types of Migration
    • 8. Guest Worker Migration in Post-War Europe (1946 - 1974): An Analytical Appraisal / Ahmet Akgündüz
    • 9. Skilled Migration in Europe and Beyond: Recent Developments and Theoretical Considerations / Aimee Kuvik
    • 10. Environmental Migration / François Gemenne
    • 11. Student Migration / Russell King and Allan Findlay
    • 12. Sunset Migration / Russell King
    • 13. Undocumented Migration: An Explanatory Framework / Joanne van der Leun and Maria Ilies
  • Part III: Regulation of Migration
    • 14. Whither EU Immigration After the Lisbon Treaty? / Elspeth Guild
    • 15. The Regulation of Undocumented Migration / Giuseppe Sciortino
  • About the Authors

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