An Anthology of Migration and Social Transformation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Migration and Social Transformation: Interdisciplinary Insights and European Perspectives

   • Anna Amelina, Kenneth Horvath, Bruno Meeus

   Pages 1-13

3. Theorizing About Migration and Social Transformation in Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-17

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   2. Understanding Global Migration: A Social Transformation Perspective

      • Stephen Castles

      Pages 19-41

   3. Theorizing About Change: The Promise of Comparative Political Economy for Migration Studies

      • Georg Menz

      Pages 43-56

   4. Turning to Grand Theory: Cultural Political Economy and the Regulation of Immigration

      • Nicolas Van Puymbroeck

      Pages 57-71

   5. Reflecting on Spatiality in European Migration Research: From Methodological Nationalism to Space-Sensitive Observations of Social Transformations

      • Elisabeth Scheibelhofer

      Pages 73-86

   6. Migration and Postsocialism: A Relational-Geography Approach

      • Bruno Meeus

      Pages 87-100

4. Transformations in the Political Regulation of Migration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-103

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   2. The Europeanization of Immigration Policies

      • Leila Hadj Abdou

      Pages 105-119

   3. New Guest Worker Regimes?

      • Michael Samers

      Pages 121-134

   4. Identity Check: Smart Borders and Migration Management as Touchstones for EU-Readiness and - Belonging

      • Martin Geiger

      Pages 135-149

   5. Border/Control

      • William Walters

      Pages 151-165

   6. Social Transformation, Subjectification, and Labour Migration: Theorizing the Heterogeneity of Migration Flows in the Current Italian Crisis

      • Gabriele Tomei

      Pages 167-181

5. Complexities of Mobilities: From One-Way Migration to Multiple Patterns

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-185

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   2. Cross-Border Commuting and Transformational Dynamics in Europe: What Is the Link?

      • Laura Wiesböck, Christoph Reinprecht, Raimund Haindorfer, Roland Verwiebe

      Pages 187-200

   3. Portability of Social Protection in the European Union

      • Elaine Moriarty, James Wickham, Alicja Bobek, Sally Daly

      Pages 201-215

   4. International Retirement Migration: Transforming Societies Through Purchasing Power?

      • Benno Herzog

      Pages 217-229

   5. International Students and Cosmopolitanisms: Educational Mobility in a Global Age

      • Başak Bilecen

      Pages 231-244

   6. ‘Good Motherhood’ – A Dilemma for Migrant Women from Eastern Europe

      • Helma Lutz

      Pages 245-258

The contributions of this book examine contemporary dynamics of migration and mobility in the context of the general societal transformations that have taken place in Europe over the past few decades. The book will help readers to better understand the manifold ways in which migration trends in the region are linked to changing political-economic constellations, orders of power and inequality, and political discourses. It begins with an introduction to a number of theoretical approaches that address the nexus between migration and general societal shifts, including processes of supranationalisation, EU enlargement, postsocialist transformations and rescaling. It then provides a comprehensive overview of the political regulation of migration through border control and immigration policies. The contributions that follow detail the dynamic changes of individual migration patterns and their implications for the agency of mobile individuals. The final part challenges the reader to consider how policies and practices of migration are linked to symbolic struggles over belonging and rights, describing a wide range of expressions of such conflicts, from cosmopolitanism to racism and xenophobia. This book is aimed at researchers in various fields of the social sciences and can be used as course reading for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses in the areas of international migration, transnational and European studies. It will be a beneficial resource for scholars looking for material on the most current conceptual tools for analysis of the nexus of migration and societal transformation in Europe.

• Cosmopolitanism, racism xenophobia
• Migration, mobility and social transformation in Europe
• Political regulation of migration
• Supranationalisation
• Biopolitical Migration

“This collection provides an impressive and insightful account that cuts across the societal, regional and international levels to show how migration both shapes and is shaped by key social transformations in Europe.”
 
Andrew Geddes 
Department of Politics, University of Sheffield








 “This is a much needed handbook that ties the booming research on migration in Europe to wider issues of societal transformation. It is a truly needed contribution to our effort of disentangling complex phenomena such as European integration, globalisation, migration and mobility.”


Anna Triandafyllidou
Robert Schuman Chair, European University Institute, Florence






“This anthology reveals how deep social forces beneath the headlines are reshaping migration in Europe. As policymakers, migrants, and natives attempt to control these transformations, they generate further changes that reverberate across the continent.” 
 
David Scott FitzGerald
Co-Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego

• Department of Social Sciences, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

  Anna Amelina

• University of Education of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

  Kenneth Horvath

• Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

  Bruno Meeus

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