Return Migration Decision Making: Theoretical Considerations -- Chinese Migration to Japan: Then and Now -- A Conceptualization of (Locational) Decision-Making Processes -- Impact of Career, Family and Lifestyle Factors on Migrants’ Locational Decisions. .Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in…
Part1. Resettlement Challenges of Refugees -- Chapter1. Resettling Syrian Refugees in Canada: Challenges Faced by Non-Governmental Service Providers -- Chapter2. Settlement Policies for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon and Jordan: An Analysis of the Benefits and Drawbacks of Organized Camps -- Chapter3. A Landscape Perspective on the Impact of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon -- Chapter4. From emergency to…
1. Introduction -- 2. The Postdiaspora Question -- 3. Crossborder Social Protection -- 4. Transnational Schooling -- 5. Extraterritorial Human Security -- 6. The Cosmonational State -- 7. The Postdiaspora Condition.This book aims to fill a void in the literature on the contributions of the state to the social protection, educational training, and human security of its overseas citizens. Additio…
Chapter 1. Mediterranean Mobilities and Europe’s Changing Relationships -- Part 1: Viewpoints on the Mediterranean and Europe -- Chapter 2. EU Elite Representations of Mediterranean Space: Arab Student Perspectives -- Chapter 3. The EU and the Symbolic, Territorial and Institutional Organisation of the Mediterranean as a Global Mobile Space: Moroccan Student Perspectives -- Part 2: Narratives…
1. Defining and Theorizing about Household Mobility -- 2. Historical and Recent Trends in American Mobility -- 3. Characteristics of the Mobile Population -- 4. Household Mobility Decisions and Location Choice -- 5. Individual- and Family-Level Mobility Effects -- 6. Mobility Effects and Cumulative Mobility Contexts -- 7. Spatial and Community Consequences -- 8. Policy Initiatives, Programs, an…
Introduction: Social remittances and “hand-made” change by migrants -- Chapter 1. Process of transfer of social remittances in the European Union -- Chapter 2. Transnational multisited qualitative longitudinal research in investigating social remittances and change -- Chapter 3. Researched communities in Poland and in the UK: Transnational spaces of diffusion and social remittances -- Chapt…
Chapter 1: Introduction: Refugee, Language, and Literacy -- Chapter 2: “But, we are Karenni. We are not Burmese.”: Historical Contexts and Lived Experiences of Karenni Refugees from Burma -- Chapter 3: The Three Families -- Chapter 4: Life, Liberty, and (the Pursuit of) English -- Chapter 5: Karenni Youth, Multilingual Practices, and Transnational Literacy -- Chapter 6: Digital Literacy in …
1. Introduction: “I Wish I Was a Bird” -- 2. Framing Transnational Family Communication: “It Feels like a Contradiction, Close and Far” -- 3. My Methodological Approach: “It Reminds Me of Lots of Things” -- 4. Cars and Schools and Heart is in Canada: Divergent Communication Pathways of Immigrant Women -- 5. The ICT-Based Networks of Highly Skilled Immigrant Women: “I Had Bigger Am…
1: Introduction -- 2: The historical and politico-military context of the border -- 3: The refugee problem from an official account -- 4: Reconstructions of social memory by refugees -- 5: Everyday life in refugee camps -- 6: Music and Art as symbols of identity and everyday resistance -- 7: Conclusion. .This book provides a critical analysis of the Rohingya refugees’ identity building proce…
This book is an interdisciplinary attempt to understand the contemporaneous human condition of asylum seekers through analysis of their entrapment and the resultant new forms of resistance that have emerged to combat it. Based on qualitative research data, the chapters support the claim that asylum seekers are entrapped in social, legal and economic precariousness amidst the complex relationshi…