Geographies of Migration

Richard Wright

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317212812
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Demography

Migration is an enormously broad topic of academic enquiry engaging researchers from many different social science disciplines. A wide variety of contributors from across the globe capture some of the methodological and conceptual range of migration research in the discipline of Geography today. This volume covers a large area geographically and in the expanse of subject areas involved: eighteen chapters investigate migration from, to, or within at least fifteen countries, with several sections spanning multiple places and scales. Many chapters are deeply concerned with vulnerable populations, which is not only a characteristic of much immigration scholarship but also one that connects with other areas of geography. The study of geographical assertions of sovereign power via the discourses of disorder, chaos, and crisis, shows that in these transnational times, national power is being violently reasserted, on, within, and beyond international borders. Other important topics covered include migration and climate change, "illegality", security, government policy, labor, family, and sexual orientation. This book was previously published as a special issue of Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Migration: An Introduction
• 2. Moving “Out,” Moving On: Gay Men’s Migrations Through the Life Course
• 3. Being CBC: The Ambivalent Identities and Belonging of Canadian-Born Children of Immigrants
• 4. Diasporic Families: Cultures of Relatedness in Migration
• 5. Migration, Urbanization, and Political Power in Sub-Saharan Africa
• 6. Following Migrant Trajectories: The Im/Mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans en Route to the European Union
• 7. North Korean Women’s Narratives of Migration: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses of Trafficking and Geopolitics
• 8. Environmental Hazards as Disamenities: Selective Migration and Income Change in the United States from 2000–2010
• 9. Migration Amidst Climate Rigidity Traps: Resource Politics and Social–Ecological Possibilism in Honduras and Peru
• 10. The Amenity Principle, Internal Migration, and Rural Development in Australia
• 11. “Under the Radar”: Undocumented Immigrants, Christian Faith Communities, and the Precarious Spaces of Welcome in the U.S. South
• 12. Enclaves of Rights: Workplace Enforcement, Union Contracts, and the Uneven Regulatory Geography of Immigration Policy
• 13. On the Work of Urbanization: Migration, Construction Labor, and the Commodity Moment
• 14. Spaces of Immigrant Advocacy and Liberal Democratic Citizenship
• 15. On Distance and the Spatial Dimension in the Definition of Internal Migration
• 16. The Tactics of Asylum and Irregular Migrant Support Groups: Disrupting Bodily, Technological, and Neoliberal Strategies of Control
• 17. Chaos and Crisis: Dissecting the Spatiotemporal Logics of Contemporary Migrations and State Practices
• 18. Living the Way the World Does: Global Indians in the Remaking of Kolkata
• 19. In the “Service” of Migrants: The Temporary Resident Biometrics Project and the Economization of Migrant Labor in Canada
• Index