Forced Migration

Current Issues and Debates
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-65322-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates provides a critical engagement with and analysis of contemporary issues in the field using inter-disciplinary perspectives, through different geographical case studies and by employing varying methodologies. The combination of authors reviewing both the key research and scholarship and offering insights from their own research ensures a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the current issues in forced migration.

The book is structured around three main current themes: the reconfiguration of borders including virtual borders, the expansion of prolonged exile, and changes in protection and access to rights. The first chapters in the collection provide both context and a theoretical overview by situating current debates and issues in their historical context including the evolution of field and the impact of the colonial and post-colonial world order on forced migration and forced displacement. These are followed by chapters framed around substantive issues including deportation and forced return; protracted displacements; securitising the Mediterranean and cross-border migration practices; refugees in global cities; forced migrants in the digital age; and second-generation identity and transnational practices.

Forced Migration offers an original contribution to a growing field of study, connecting theoretical ideas and empirical research with policy, practice and the lived experiences of forced migrants. The volume provides a solid foundation, for students, academics and policy makers, of the main questions being asked in contemporary debates in forced migration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bloch, Alice

Dona, Giorgia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Forced Migration: Setting the Scene 2. Conceptualising Forced Migration: Praxis, Scholarship and Empirics 3. Why Critical Forced Migration Studies has to be Post-colonial by Nature 4. Securitising the Mediterranean? Cross-border Migration Practices in Greece 5. Protracted Displacement: Living on the Edge 6. Deportation and Forced Return 7. Displacement and the Pursuit of Urban Protection: Forced Migration, Fluidity and Global Cities 8. Mobile Technologies and Forced Migration 9. Second Generation from Refugee Backgrounds: Affects and Transnational Ties and Practices to the Ancestral Homeland 10. Reflecting on the Past, Thinking about the Future: Forced Migration in the 21st Century

Über Autor(innen)

Alice Bloch is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. She has researched and published extensively in the area of forced migration. Recent books include: Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in a Global City (published by Policy Press and co-authored with Sonia McKay) and Sans Papiers: The Social and Economic Lives of Young Undocumented Migrants in the UK (published by Pluto Press and co-authored with Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter).

Giorgia Donà is Professor of Forced Migration at the University of East London co-director of the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has researched and published extensively in the area of conflict and forced migration. Publications include Child and Youth Migration: Mobility-in-Migration in an Era of Globalisation (published by Palgrave Macmillan, co-edited with Angela Veale), Research Methodologies in Forced Migration, Special Issue for the Journal of Refugee Studies (with Eftihia Voutira), and Child and Youth Migration, Special Issue for the International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care.