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.
1. Migration: An Introduction
Richard Wright
2. Moving "Out," Moving On: Gay Men’s Migrations Through the Life Course
Nathaniel M. Lewis
3. Being CBC: The Ambivalent Identities and Belonging of Canadian-Born Children of Immigrants
Audrey Kobayashi and Valerie Preston
4. Diasporic Families: Cultures of Relatedness in Migration
Joanna C. Long
5. Migration, Urbanization, and Political Power in Sub-Saharan Africa
Clionadh Raleigh
6. Following Migrant Trajectories: The Im/Mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans en Route to the European Union
Joris Schapendonk and Griet Steel
7. North Korean Women’s Narratives of Migration: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses of Trafficking and Geopolitics
Eunyoung Choi
8. Environmental Hazards as Disamenities: Selective Migration and Income Change in the United States from 2000–2010
J. Matthew Shumway, Samuel Otterstrom and Sonya Glavac
9. Migration Amidst Climate Rigidity Traps: Resource Politics and Social–Ecological Possibilism in Honduras and Peru
David J. Wrathall, Jeffrey Bury, Mark Carey, Bryan Mark, Jeff McKenzie, Kenneth Young, Michel Baraer, Adam French and Costanza Rampini
10. The Amenity Principle, Internal Migration, and Rural Development in Australia
Neil Argent, Matthew Tonts, Roy Jones and John Holmes
11. "Under the Radar": Undocumented Immigrants, Christian Faith Communities, and the Precarious Spaces of Welcome in the U.S. South
Patricia Ehrkamp and Caroline Nagel
12. Enclaves of Rights: Workplace Enforcement, Union Contracts, and the Uneven Regulatory Geography of Immigration Policy
Virginia Parks
13. On the Work of Urbanization: Migration, Construction Labor, and the Commodity Moment
Michelle Buckley
14. Spaces of Immigrant Advocacy and Liberal Democratic Citizenship
Helga Leitner and Christopher Strunk
15. On Distance and the Spatial Dimension in the Definition of Internal Migration
Thomas Niedomysl and Urban Fransson
16. The Tactics of Asylum and Irregular Migrant Support Groups: Disrupting Bodily, Technological, and Neoliberal Strategies of Control
Nick Gill, Deirdre Conlon, Imogen Tyler and Ceri Oeppen
17. Chaos and Crisis: Dissecting the Spatiotemporal Logics of Contemporary Migrations and State Practices
Alison Mountz and Nancy Hiemstra
18. Living the Way the World Does: Global Indians in the Remaking of Kolkata
Pablo S. Bose
19. In the "Service" of Migrants: The Temporary Resident Biometrics Project and the Economization of Migrant Labor in Canada
Rebecca Pero and Harrison Smith
Biography
Richard Wright holds the Orvil E. Dryfoos Chair in Public Affairs and has been a Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College since 1985. With grant support from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Russell Sage Foundation, he has authored more than 70 scholarly papers. His research and teaching focuses on race, residential segregation, and migration.
