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"The Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies offers a comprehensive study of the multi-disciplinary field of international migration and asylum studies. The new edition incorporates numerous new chapters on issues including return migration, the relationship between urbanisation and migration, the role of advanced digital technologies in migration governance, decision making and human agency, and the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on global migration. Utilising contemporary information and analysis, this innovative Handbook provides an in-depth examination of the major analytical questions pertaining to migration and asylum, whilst discussing key areas such as work, welfare, families, citizenship, the relationship between migration and development, asylum and irregular migration. With a comprehensive collection of essays written by leading contributors from different world regions and covering a broad range of disciplines including sociology, geography, legal studies, political science, and economics, the Handbook is a truly multidisciplinary reader. Organised into thematic and geographical chapters, the Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies provides a concise overview on the different topics and world regions, as well as useful guidance for both the starting and the more experienced reader. The Handbook's expansive content and illustrative style will appeal to both students and professionals studying in the field of migration and international organisations"--

"The Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies offers a comprehensive study of the multi-disciplinary field of international migration and asylum studies. The new edition incorporates numerous new chapters on issues including return migration, the relationship between urbanisation and migration, the role of advanced digital technologies in migration governance, decision making and human agency, and the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on global migration. Utilising contemporary information and analysis, this innovative Handbook provides an in-depth examination of the major analytical questions pertaining to migration and asylum, whilst discussing key areas such as work, welfare, families, citizenship, the relationship between migration and development, asylum and irregular migration. With a comprehensive collection of essays written by leading contributors from different world regions and covering a broad range of disciplines including sociology, geography, legal studies, political science, and economics, the Handbook is a truly multidisciplinary reader. Organised into thematic and geographical chapters, the Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies provides a concise overview on the different topics and world regions, as well as useful guidance for both the starting and the more experienced reader. The Handbook's expansive content and illustrative style will appeal to both students and professionals studying in the field of migration and international organisations"--

Part I. Pandemic Borders, Belonging, and Exclusion -- 1. Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception: Migration and Membership During Pandemic Times (Anna Triandafyllidou) -- 2. (In)Essential Bordering: Canada, COVID, and Mobility (Audrey Macklin) -- 3. Territorial and Digital Borders and Migrant Vulnerability Under a Pandemic Crisis (Petra Molnar) -- 4. Vulnerability and Resilience in the Covid-19 Crisis: Race, Gender, and Belonging (Eileen Boris) -- 5. Sanctuary Cities and Covid-19: The Case of Canada (Mireille Paquet, Noémie Benoit, Idil Atak, Meghan Joy, Graham Hudson, and John Shields) -- Part II. Pandemics and 'Essential' Migrants -- 6. Migrant Care Labour, Covid-19, and the Long-Term Care Crisis: Achieving Solidarity for Care Providers and Recipients (Lena Gahwi and Margaret Walton-Roberts) -- 7. Pandemic Shock Absorbers: Domestic Workers' Activism at the Intersection of Immigrants' and Workers' Rights (Anna Rosińska and Elizabeth Pellerito) -- 8. Essential Farmworkers and the Pandemic Crisis: Migrant Labour Conditions, and Legal and Political Responses in Italy and Spain (Alessandra Corrado and Letizia Palumbo) -- 9. The Entangled Infrastructures of International Student Migration: Lessons from Covid-19 (Parvati Raghuram and Gunjan Sondhi) -- 10. Voluntary and Forced Return Migration Under a Pandemic Crisis (Zeynep Sahin Mencutek) -- 11. Return Migration from the Gulf Region to India Amidst COVID-19 (S Irudaya Rajan and H. Arokkiaraj) -- 12. Internal Migration and the Covid-19 Pandemic in India (S Irudaya Rajan and R. B. Bhagat).

This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe and Asia. The book addresses several categories of migrants including medical staff, farm labourers, construction workers, care and domestic workers and international students. It looks at border closures for non-citizens, disruption for temporary migrants as well as at special arrangements made for essential (migrant) workers such as doctors or nurses as well as farmworkers, 'shipped' to destination with special flights to make sure emergency wards are staffed, and harvests are picked up and the food processing chain continues to function. The book illustrates how the pandemic forces us to rethink notions like membership, citizenship, belonging, but also solidarity, human rights, community, essential services or 'essential' workers alongside an intersectional perspective including ethnicity, gender and race.

This work examines the different cultural and geopolitical understandings of global governance in different regions of the world.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Migration and asylum in the twenty-first century -- Part I Theories and historical contextualisation of migration and asylum trends -- 1 Migration theories: a critical overview -- 2 Evaluating migration policy effectiveness -- 3 Demography and international migration -- 4 Migration and gender -- 5 Transnational migration -- Part II Migration and the labour market -- 6 Are migrants good for the host country's economy? -- 7 International migration and US innovation: insights from the US experience -- 8 High-skilled migration -- 9 Migrant entrepreneurship: alternative paradigms of economic integration -- 10 Temporary, seasonal, circular migration: a critical appraisal -- 11 Guest worker schemes yesterday and today: advantages and liabilities -- 12 Discrimination against immigrants in the labour market: an overview and a typology -- Part III Migration, families and welfare implications -- 13 Migration, work and welfare -- 14 Irregular migration and the welfare state: strange allies? -- 15 Global care chains -- 16 Transnational parenthood -- 17 Family migration and migrant integration -- Part IV Cultural diversity, citizenship and socio-political integration challenges -- 18 Migration, citizenship and post-national membership -- 19 Integration paradigms in Europe and North America -- 20 Migration and cultural diversity challenges in the twenty-first century -- 21 Integration indicators: the difference between monitoring integration and evaluating policies -- 22 Migrant children and educational challenges -- Part V Migration and development -- 23 Migration and economic remittances: impact on development -- 24 Return migration and development: the significance of migration cycles.

This title studies the realities of circular migration on the ground by empirical analysis of seven pairs of countries Greece-Albania, Italy-Albania; Italy-Morocco, Spain-Morocco; and Poland-Ukraine, Hungary-Ukraine, Italy-Ukraine. It provides for a comparative and in depth analysis of circular migration in Europe.

"With specific attention to irregular migrant workers - that is to say, those without legal permits to stay in the countries in which they work - this volume focuses on domestic work, presenting studies from ten European countries, including Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain. Offering a comparative analysis of irregular migrants engaged in all kinds of domestic work, the authors explore questions relating to employment conditions, health issues and the family lives of migrants. The book examines the living and working conditions of irregular migrant domestic workers, their relations with employers, their access to basic rights such as sick leave, sick pay, and holiday pay, as well as access to health services. Close consideration is also given to the challenges for family life presented by workers' status as irregular migrants, with regard to their lives both in their countries of origin and with their employers. Through analyses of the often blurred distinction between legality and illegality, the notion of a 'career' in domestic work and the policy responses of European nations to the growth of irregular migrant domestic work, this volume offers various conceptual developments in the study of migration and domestic work. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists with interests in migration, gender, the family and domestic work."--Publisher's website.

Explores the interaction between native majorities and Muslim minorities in different European countries. This book highlights the internal diversity of both minority and majority populations and critically analyses the political and institutional responses to the presence of Muslims

"With each chapter following a systematic structure, the information and analyses proffered in this volume are coherent, consistent and accessible and will be of interest to policy makers and researchers within the fields of migration, sociology and social anthropology, political science, European integration and European studies, political science and public administration."--Jacket