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Linguistic practice in changing conditions
This book draws on 10 years of collaborative sociolinguistic work on the changing conditions of language use. It begins with guiding principles, shifts to empirically driven arguments in urban sociolinguistics, and concludes with studies of (in)securitised communication addressed to challenges ah...
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Living across connectivity
This volume looks at the role of digital media platforms in shaping migrants’ practices of connectivity and mobility. Focusing on migration within and beyond East Asia, it explores the pervasive use of smartphones as an everyday reality for intimacy, entrepreneurship, and care for East Asian migr...
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Living tangier
How Moroccan society, especially in the city of Tangier, has been affected by the flows of migrants from both West Africa and EuropeSince the early 1990s, new migratory patterns have been emerging in the southern Mediterranean. Here, a large number of West Africans and young Moroccans, including ...
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Lost souls
A vivid history of how Cold War politics helped solve one of the twentieth century’s biggest refugee crisesWhen World War II ended, about one million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in the Western-occupied zones of Germany and Aust...
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Mafias on the move
"A compelling read and an impeccable work of reference."—John le CarréOrganized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in Lo...
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Making home in the euro-caribbean
Providing an in-depth analysis, author Sabrina Dinmohamed focuses on Dominican immigrants in Curaçao, a unique case study due to minimal immigration policies, constrained social services, the long-standing presence of Dominicans on the island, their institutionalized cultural practices, and their...
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Mapping the transnational world
A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communicationIncreasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnational world. Is it really a fully globalized world in which everything is l...
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Meeting the needs of reunited refugee families
This book explores the gap between policy, practice and academic literature within language learning for refugees and argues that a multilingual approach, which combines translanguaging principles, decolonising methodology and linguistic hospitality, provides a more accessible starting point than...
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Migration and democracy
How remittances—money sent by workers back to their home countries—support democratic expansionIn the growing body of work on democracy, little attention has been paid to its links with migration. Migration and Democracy focuses on the effects of worker remittances—money sent by migrants back to ...
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Migration into art
Provides close readings of works by internationally renowned artists, including Rina Banerjee, Yinka Shonibare, Fred Wilson, Pat Ward Williams and Bharti Kher
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Migration practice as creative practice
Migration Practice as Creative Practice presents an in-depth evaluation of the contributions made by migrants to modern socio-economic structures. The book also discusses the creative energies that migrant inject in the economic structures in both private and public spheres.
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Migration, reproduction and society
This volume theorises the contradiction between the need of many societies in the Global North for large scale migration and the rejection of this change through racism and xenophobia
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Migrations and diasporas
Advocating for a more welcoming world involves respecting the human dignity and fundamental rights of all individuals, regardless of their place of origin or immigration status. This perspective offers a powerful insight into the dynamics of social justice across borders.
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Mobilizing public sociology
Mobilizing Public Sociology combines theory and scholarly perspectives with a grassroots approach to challenges that Latin@ immigrants face in the U.S.
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Multilingual teaching
This book lays out a radical new approach for teaching in multilingual classrooms: to include everyone, including those who already speak the school language, in multilingual pedagogy. The author proposes Linguistically Appropriate Practice Plus, a new resource to help teachers support the langua...
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Multilingualism and gendered immigrant identity
This book examines the intersectionality of gendered, religious identity among Muslim women in Catalonia, and illustrates how this identity is brokered through language use in a multilingual and diasporic context. It offers a unique lens through which we can further our understanding of the role ...
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Native bias
What drives anti-immigrant bias—and how it can be mitigatedIn the aftermath of the refugee crisis caused by conflicts in the Middle East and an increase in migration to Europe, European nations have witnessed a surge in discrimination targeted at immigrant minorities. To quell these conflicts, so...
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Negotiating identities, language and migration in global london
This book explores the transnational practices of migrant groups in global London, illustrating the complex relations between migrants and the city in the context of globalisation. The chapters offer a starting point to examine migrants and the city from a comparative perspective by bringing toge...
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No country for migrants?
An insightful exploration of migration and integration, and attendant debates, in contemporary Germany.
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Ode to the city – an ethnographic drama
This ethnographic drama script is adapted from observations conducted in a large city centre library in the UK. It is a creative curation of field notes, transcripts, audio recordings, video recordings, conversations, and observations. The ethnographic drama tells a story of political tension in ...
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On belonging and not belonging
A look at how ideas of translation, migration, and displacement are embedded in the works of prominent artists, from Ovid to Tacita DeanOn Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range of artis...
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On the move
Why do Mexicans migrate to the United States? Is there a typical Mexican migrant? Beginning in the 1970s, survey data indicated that the average migrant was a young, unmarried man who was poor, undereducated, and in search of better employment opportunities. This is the general view that most Ame...
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One quarter of the nation
An in-depth look at the many ways immigration has redefined modern AmericaThe impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we sometimes fail to see it. This deeply researched book by one of America’s leading immigration schol...
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Politics of precarity
A study of precarity as both a condition and a mobilizing force for resistance in migrant communities across the globe
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Post-migration experiences, cultural practices and homemaking
Shining a light on previously ‘invisible’ immigrant communities, this book explores how attention to feelings of home and cultural practices provides insights into immigrants’ settlement experiences.
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Power, mobility and voice
Reflecting on and advancing Jan Blommaert’s work on language and power, this edited volume explores chronotopes, language ideologies, normativities in online and offline spaces, and voice as agency. It uses Blommaert’s frameworks as a starting point to approach the challenges of a changing social...
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Privatisation of migration control
This special issue is the second of a two-part edited collection on the privatisation of migration. The central thrust of the special issue is a critical analysis of modern day manifestations of private participation in immigration control.
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Queerly faithful
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Fletcher considers religious experiences throughout the lives of queer people who seek asylum to show the complexity of queer people’s lives in country of origin, the legal asylum process and rebuilding lives in h...
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Refuge
How states deny the full potential of refugees as people and perpetuate social inequalityAs the world confronts the largest refugee crisis since World War II, wealthy countries are being called upon to open their doors to the displaced, with the assumption that this will restore their prospects f...
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Refugee law
The word ‘refugee’ is both evocative and contested; it means different things to different people. For lawyers, the main legal reference point is the UN Refugee Convention of 1951. This concise and engaging book follows the structure of the Convention to explore international refugee law. Includ...
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Religion and welfare in europe
Using welfare as a prism, Religion and Welfare in Europe explores regional conceptions and variations in welfare and religion across Europe. Methodological approaches to research and practice draw thematic comparisons on these issues using case studies focused on gendered and minority perspectiv...
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Resisting borders and technologies of violence
The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed migrants throughout the world. To enforce their borders, these states have constructed a new digital fortress with far-reaching and ever-evolving new technologies. This pathbreaking volume exposes these insidious means of surveillan...
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Robots and immigrants
Who steals jobs? Who owns jobs? Focusing on the competitive labour market, this book scrutinises the narratives created around immigration and automation. The authors explore how the advances in AI and demands for constant flow of immigrant workers eradicate political and working rights, fuellin...
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Second language and heritage learners in mixed classrooms
This book addresses the complexity of mixed language classroom learning environments in which heritage learners and second language learners are concurrently exposed to language learning in the same physical space. It offers best practices and reproducible pedagogical initiatives and methodologie...
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Selected essays of nigel harris
The key works of one of the most prolific and insightful Marxist economists of the second half of the twentieth century.
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Social constructions of migration in nigeria and zimbabwe
Examining this pressing field of study in an underexplored regional context, this book takes a refreshing new angle to deepen our understanding around the causes and effects of migration.
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Sociology in times of glocalization
This book offers a series of critical discussions of how sociology is responding to the challenges of globalization, to local counter-reactions to them, to the many ways ‘the global’ impacts our lives, and to the new questions about research this poses.
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Souls in the kalyug
How migrant workers in contemporary India strive toward, and at times realize, elements of a good lifeThe economic development process in India is one that has induced new difficulties and hardships into the lives of poor and working people despite its alleged achievements. In villages, farming f...
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Stories from a migrant city
Taking a biographical approach, the book explores the causes and consequences of moving or staying put in the context of class inequality and racisms, and looks for commonalities between people often seen as irredeemably divided.
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Strangers no more
An up-to-date and comparative look at immigration in Europe, the United States, and CanadaStrangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four criti...
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Struggles for multilingualism and linguistic citizenship
This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of linguistic citizenship. Each chapter illuminates how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with la...
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Sub-saharan african immigrants’ stories of resilience and courage
This book seeks to produce a more specific description of Sub-Saharan African immigration in the US by recording our reflections, experiences, and strategies of coping, as well as those of the participants.
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Supply chain justice
How the UK’s immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain In the UK’s fully outsourced “immigration detainee escorting system,” private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national citizens. Run and organiz...
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Temporality in mobile lives
Shanthi Robertson provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants’ lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration has reshaped lived experiences of time for midd...
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The border crossed us
A compelling argument that re-building unions requires solidarity with migrant workers and opening borders.
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The case for open borders
A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates. Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders force migrants seeking safety and dignity to journey across seas, trudge through deserts, and cla...
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The colonial past in history textbooks - historical and social psychological perspectives
This book analyzes how colonial history is depicted in post-war textbooks worldwide, from the mid-19th century to the 1960s-70s. It uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore portrayals in former colonizer and colonized countries, focusing on collective memory, popular culture, and academic kn...
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