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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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 ...
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' ...