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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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 ...
The Migration of Professional Women from Nigeria to the UK: Narratives of Work, Family Life and Adaptation
1st Edition
By Joy Ogbemudia
January 29, 2024
Based on interviews with women who were professionals in different fields in Nigeria prior to migrating, The Migration of Professional Women from Nigeria to the UK examines the ways in which professional, middle-class women make sense of their lived experiences, their roles in migration ...
Political Dissent and Democratic Remittances: The Activities of Russian Migrants in Europe
1st Edition
By Joanna Fomina
September 25, 2023
With a focus on the most recent wave of political emigration from Russia unleashed during President Vladimir Putin’s third term, this book explores the activities of those who voice political dissent after leaving their country. Based on rich ethnographic data and interviews gathered among Russian ...
Refugees and Knowledge Production: Europe's Past and Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Magdalena Kmak, Heta Björklund
September 25, 2023
Building on research within the fields of exile studies and critical migration studies and drawing links between historical and contemporary ‘refugee scholarship’, this volume challenges the bias of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism in discussing the multifaceted forms of knowledge ...
Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration: Migrants ‘In-Between’
1st Edition
Edited
By Shanthi Robertson, Rosie Roberts
September 25, 2023
This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class migrant groups across the globe, including ‘ethnic entrepreneurs’ building new businesses in cosmopolitan neighbourhoods in Sydney; Chinese grandparents shuttling between Australia, China and Singapore to support their extended ...
Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age: Emotion and Belonging in Migrant Maternal Online Communities
1st Edition
By Leah Williams Veazey
January 09, 2023
This book explores the experiences of migrant mothers through the lens of the online communities they have created and participate in. Examining the ways in which migrant mothers build relationships with each other through these online communities and find ways to make a place for themselves and ...
Higher Education and Social Mobility in France: Challenges and Possibilities among Descendants of North African Immigrants
1st Edition
By Shirin Shahrokni
August 01, 2022
This book offers an in-depth sociological exploration of the social trajectories and experiences of children of post-colonial immigrants in France who are embarking on paths of extreme upward intergenerational mobility. The author draws on life history interviews with young adults of North African ...
Mobile Citizenship: Spatial Privilege and the Transnational Lifestyles of Senior Citizens
1st Edition
By Margit Fauser
April 29, 2022
Mobile Citizenship addresses the crucial question of how mobility reconfigures citizenship. Engaging with debates on transnationalism, citizenship, and lifestyle migration, the book draws on ethnographic research and interview material collected among retired lifestyle migrants moving south from ...
Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA: A Historical Exploration of Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Jana Sverdljuk, Terje Mikael Hasle Joranger, Erika Jackson, Peter Kivisto
April 29, 2022
This volume explores the complex and contradictory ways in which the cultural, scientific and political myth of whiteness has influenced identities, self-perceptions and the process of integration of Nordic immigrants into multicultural and racially segregated American society in the nineteenth and...
Democracy, Diaspora, Territory: Europe and Cross-Border Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Olga Oleinikova, Jumana Bayeh
June 30, 2021
This volume offers a profoundly new interpretation of the impact of modern diasporas on democracy, challenging the orthodox understanding that ties these two concepts to a bounded form of territory. Considering democracy and diaspora through a deterritorialised lens, it takes the post-Euromaidan ...
London the Promised Land Revisited: The Changing Face of the London Migrant Landscape in the Early 21st Century
1st Edition
By Anne J. Kershen
June 30, 2021
Some two decades since the publication of London the Promised Land?, which charted and investigated the successes and failures of the migrant experience in London over a period of three hundred years, this book re-examines the migrant landscape in London. While remaining a beacon for immigrants, ...