Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies

415 Pages·2016·6.398 MB·English

by  Anna Triandafyllidou (ed.)

Routledge Handbook
of Immigration and
Refugee Studies
The Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies offers a comprehensive and unique
study of the multi-disciplinary field of international migration and asylum studies. Utilising
contemporary information and analysis, this innovative Handbook provides an in-depth
examination of legal migration management in the labour market and its effect upon families
in relation to wider issues of migrant integration and citizenship.
With a comprehensive collection of essays written by leading contributors from a broad
range of disciplines including sociology of migration, human geography, legal studies, polit-
ical sciences and economics, the Handbook is a truly multi-disciplinary book approaching
the critical issues of:
• Migration and the labour market
• Integration and citizenship
• Migration, families and welfare
• Irregular migration
• Smuggling and trafficking in human beings
• Asylum and forced migration.
Organised into short 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.
Anna Triandafyllidou heads the Research Area on Cultural Pluralism at the Global
Governance Programme of the European University Institute (Robert Schuman Centre for
Advanced Studies). She is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges (since 2002)
and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.
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Routledge Handbook of
Immigration and
Refugee Studies
Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou
First published 2016
by Routledge
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© 2016 Anna Triandafyllidou
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Routledge handbook of immigration and refugee studies/edited by
Anna Triandafyllidou.
p ages cm
1. Emigration and immigration–Cross-cultural studies. 2. Immigrants–
Social conditions. 3. Refugees–Social conditions. 4. Foreign workers–
Cross-cultural studies. 5. Migrant labor. 6. Asylum, Right of.
I. Triandafyllidou, Anna.
JV6035.R67 2015 2015011692
304.8–dc23
ISBN: 978-1-138-79431-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-75930-2 (ebk)
Typeset in Bembo
by Sunrise Setting Ltd, Paignton, UK
Dedication
For the Cultural Pluralism team of the Global Governance Programme at the European
University Institute in Florence, for our exciting and thought-provoking academic and
non-academic conversations!
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Contents
List of figures xi
List of tables xii
Notes on contributors xiii
Migration and asylum in the twenty-first century 1
Anna Triandafyllidou
PART I
Theories and historical contextualisation of migration
and asylum trends 23
1 Migration theories: a critical overview 25
Karen O’Reilly
2 Evaluating migration policy effectiveness 34
Mathias Czaika and Hein de Haas
3 Demography and international migration 41
Philippe Fargues
4 Migration and gender 54
Mirjana Morokvasic
5 Transnational migration 64
Ayse Caglar
PART II
Migration and the labour market 73
6 Are migrants good for the host country’s economy? 75
Nazmun N. Ratna

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7 International migration and US innovation: insights
from the US experience 82
William R. Kerr
8 High-skilled migration 88
S. Irudaya Rajan
9 Migrant entrepreneurship: alternative paradigms of economic integration 96
Jan Rath and Veronique Schutjens
10 Temporary, seasonal, circular migration: a critical appraisal 104
Ronald Skeldon
11 Guest worker schemes yesterday and today: advantages and liabilities 110
Dimitria Groutsis and Lina Venturas
12 Discrimination against immigrants in the labour market:
an overview and a typology 118
John Wrench
PART III
Migration, families and welfare implications 125
13 Migration, work and welfare 127
Eleonore Kofman
14 Irregular migration and the welfare state: strange allies? 133
Maurizio Ambrosini
15 Global care chains 139
Helma Lutz and Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck
16 Transnational parenthood 145
Olena Fedyuk
17 Family migration and migrant integration 153
Saskia Bonjour and Albert Kraler
PART IV
Cultural diversity, citizenship and socio-political
integration challenges 161
18 Migration, citizenship and post-national membership 163
Jelena Dzankic

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19 Integration paradigms in Europe and North America 169
Irina Isaakyan
20 Migration and cultural diversity challenges in the twenty-first century 180
Nasar Meer and Tariq Modood
21 Integration indicators: the difference between monitoring integration
and evaluating policies 190
Thomas Huddleston
22 Migrant children and educational challenges 198
Dirk Jacobs and Perrine Devleeshouwer
PART V
Migration and development 207
23 Migration and economic remittances: impact on development 209
Saman Kelegama and Bilesha Weeraratne
24 Return migration and development: the significance of
migration cycles 216
Jean-Pierre Cassarino
25 Social remittances: how migrating people drive migrating culture 223
Peggy Levitt
26 Migration and diasporas: what role for development? 229
Piyasiri Wickramasekara
27 Migration and development: a focus on Africa 236
Giorgia Giovannetti and Mauro Lanati
28 Migration and development: a view from Asia 243
Binod Khadria
29 Asian migration to the Gulf states 254
Chinmay Tumbe
30 Migration and development: the Asian experience 260
Dilip Ratha, Soonhwa Yi and Seyed Reza Yousefi
31 Migration and development in Latin America: the emergence of
a southern perspective 278
Raúl Delgado-Wise

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