Contested Concepts in Migration Studies
eBook - ePub

Contested Concepts in Migration Studies

  1. 260 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Contested Concepts in Migration Studies

About this book

This volume demonstrates that migration- and diversity-related concepts are always contested, and provides a reflexive critical awareness and better comprehension of the complex questions driving migration studies. The main purpose of this volume is to enhance conceptual thinking on migration studies.

Examining interaction between concepts in the public domain, the academic disciplines, and the policy field, this book helps to avoid simplification or even trivialization of complex issues. Recent political events question established ways of looking at issues of migration and diversity and require a clarification or reinvention of political concepts to match the changing world. Applying five basic dimensions, each expert chapter contribution reflects on the role concepts play and demonstrates that concepts are ideology dependent, policy/politics dependent, context dependent, discipline dependent, and language dependent, and are influenced by how research is done, how policies are formulated, and how political debates extend and distort them.

This book will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners in migration studies/politics, migrant integration, citizenship studies, racism studies, and more broadly of key interest to sociology, political science, and political theory.

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Yes, you can access Contested Concepts in Migration Studies by Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Dirk Jacobs, Riva Kastoryano, Ricard Zapata-Barrero,Dirk Jacobs,Riva Kastoryano in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Globalisation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: conceptual thinking in migration studies
  10. 1 Border: meanings, practices and fields in academia, politics, and public domains
  11. 2 Citizenship: from liberal right to neoliberally earned
  12. 3 Cohesion: beyond the diversity threatening hypothesis
  13. 4 Cosmopolitanism: moral universalism and the politics of migration
  14. 5 Discrimination: studying the racialized structure of disadvantage
  15. 6 Diversity: polyphony of the concept
  16. 7 Identity and immigration: core concepts
  17. 8 Integration: a critical view
  18. 9 Interculturalism: reimagining dialogue and connectedness in super-diverse realities
  19. 10 Mobility and migration: physical, contextual, and perspectival interpretations
  20. 11 Multiculturalism: maximum misunderstanding
  21. 12 Nationalism: the concept and its varieties
  22. 13 Secularism: political secularism and post-immigration ethno-religious communities
  23. 14 Tolerance: recognition, reasonable accommodation, and minority rights
  24. 15 Transnationalism: theory and experience
  25. Index