This book attests to the ample research needs and opportunities around migration and health, with a focus on recent as well as earlier migration to Europe. It sheds light on several issues ranging ...from non-communicable disease epidemiology and health services utilization to aspects of quality of life, and of some methodological challenges.
This revised and expanded second edition of Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies provides a comprehensive basis for understanding the complexity and patterns of international ...migration. Despite increased efforts to limit its size and consequences, migration has wide-ranging impacts upon social, environmental, economic, political and cultural life in countries of origin and settlement. Such transformations impact not only those who are migrating, but those who are left behind, as well as those who live in the areas where migrants settle.
Featuring forty-six essays written by leading international and multidisciplinary scholars, this new edition showcases evolving research and theorizing around refugees and forced migrants, new migration paths through Central Asia and the Middle East, the condition of statelessness and South to South migration. New chapters also address immigrant labor and entrepreneurship, skilled migration, ethnic succession, contract labor and informal economies. Uniquely among texts in the subject area, the Handbook provides a six-chapter compendium of methodologies for studying international migration and its impacts.
Written in a clear and direct style, this Handbook offers a contemporary integrated resource for students and scholars from the perspectives of social science, humanities, journalism and other disciplines.
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Introduction to the second edition
Steven J. Gold and Stephanie J. Nawyn
Introduction to the first edition
Steven J. Gold and Stephanie J. Nawyn
PART I: Theories and histories of international migration
1 Economic perspectives on migration
Peter Karpestam and Fredrik N.G. Andersson
2 Psychological acculturation: perspectives, principles, processes, and prospects
Marc H. Bornstein, Judith K. Bernhard, Robert H. Bradley, Xinyin Chen, Jo Ann M. Farver, Steven J. Gold, Donald J. Hernandez, Christiane Spiel, Fons van de Vijver, and Hirokazu Yoshikawa
3 European migration history
Leo Lucassen and Jan Lucassen
4 Migration history in the Americas
Donna R. Gabaccia
5 Asian migration in the longue durée
Adam McKeown
6 A brief history of African migration
David Newman Glovsky
PART II Displacement, refugees and forced migration
7 Forced migrants: exclusion, incorporation and a moral economy of deservingness
Charles Watters
8 Refugees and geopolitical conflicts
David Haines
9 Country of first asylum
Breanne Grace
10 Displacement, refugees, and forced migration in the MENA region: the case of Syria
Seçil Paçaci Elitok and Christiane Fröhlich
11 Climate change and human migration: constructed vulnerability, uneven flows, and the challenges of studying environmental migration in the 21st century
Daniel B. Ahlquist and Leo A. Baldiga
PART III: Migrants in the economy
12 Unions and immigrants
Héctor L. Delgado
13 Immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship
Ali R. Chaudhary
14 High-skilled migration
Metka Hercog
15 Immigration and the informal economy
Rebeca Raijman
16 Vulnerability to exploitation and human trafficking: a multi-scale review of risk
Amanda Flaim and Celine Villongco
PART IV: Intersecting inequalities in the lives of migrants
17 The changing configuration of migration and race
Miri Song
18 Nativism: a global-historical perspective
Maritsa V. Poros
19 Gender and migration: uneven integration
Stephanie J. Nawyn
20 Sexualities and international migration
Eithne Luibhéid
21 Migrants and indigeneity: nationalism, nativism and the politics of place
Nandita Sharma
PART V: Creating and recreating community and group identity
22 Panethnicity
Y.n Lê Espiritu
23 Understanding ethnicity from a community perspective
Min Zhou
24 Religion on the move: the place of religion in different stages of the migration experience
Jacqueline Maria Hagan and Holly Straut-Eppsteiner
25 Condemned to a protracted limbo? Refugees and statelessness in the age of terrorism
Cawo M. Abdi and Erika Busse
26 Reclaiming the black and Asian journeys: a comparative perspective on culture, class, and immigration
Patricia Fernández-Kelly
PART VI: Migrants and social reproduction
27 Immigrant and refugee language policies, programs, and practices in an era of change: promises, contradictions, and possibilities
Guofang Li and Pramod Kumar Sah
28 Immigrant intermarriage
Charlie V. Morgan
29 International adoption
Andrea Louie
PART VII: Migrants and the state
30 Undocumented (or unauthorized) immigration
Cecilia Menjívar
31 Detention and deportation
Caitlin Patler, Kristina Shull, and Katie Dingeman
32 Naturalization and nationality: community, nation-state and global explanations
Thomas Janoski
33 Asian migrations and the evolving notions of national community
Yuk Wah Chan
34 Immigration and education
Ramona Fruja Amthor
35 Emigration and the sending state
Cristián Doña-Reveco and Brendan Mullan
36 International migration and the welfare state: connections and extensions
Aaron Ponce
37 Immigration and crime and the criminalization of immigration
Rubén G. Rumbaut, Katie Dingeman, and Anthony Robles
PART VIII: Maintaining links across borders
38 The historical, cultural, social, and political backgrounds of ethno-national diasporas
Gabriel (Gabi) Sheffer
39 Transnationalism
Thomas Faist and Basak Bilecen
40 Survival or incorporation? Immigrant (re)integration after deportation
Kelly Birch Maginot
41 Return migration
Audrey Kobayashi
PART IX: Methods for studying international migration
42 Census analysis
Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield
43 Binational migration surveys: representativeness, standardization, and the ethnosurvey model
Mariano Sana
44 Interviewing immigrants and refugees: reflexive engagement with research subjects
Chien-Juh Gu
45 Using photography in studies of international migration
Steven J. Gold
46 Comparative methodologies in the study of migration
Irene Bloemraad
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Steven J. Gold is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. His interests include international migration, ethnic economies, qualitative methods and visual sociology. He has conducted research on Israeli emigration and transnationalism, Russian-speaking Jewish and Vietnamese refugees in the U.S., ethnic economies, and on conflicts between immigrant merchants and their customers.
Stephanie J. Nawyn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Co-Director of Academic Programs at the Center for Gender in Global Context at Michigan State University. Her work has primarily focused on refugee resettlement and protection, as well as the economic advancement of African voluntary migrants in the U.S. with a focus on gender. She was a Fulbright Fellow at Istanbul University for the 2013–14 academic year, studying the treatment of Syrian refugees in Turkey. Her most recent work was published in the Journal of Refugees Studies and the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Human mobility has been a defining feature of human social evolution. In a global community, the term "mobility" captures the full gamut of types, directions, and patterns of human movement. The ...psychology of mobility is important because movement is inherently behavioral. Much of the behavioral study of mobility has focused on the negative - examining the trauma of forced migration, or the health consequences of the lack of adaptation - but this work looks into the benefits of mobility, such as its impact on career capital and well-being. Recent years have witnessed a phenomenal increase in efforts to understand human mobility, by social scientists, think-tanks, and policymakers alike. The book focuses on the transformational potential of mobility for human development. The book details the historical, methodological, and theoretical trajectory of human mobility (Context), followed by sections on pre-departure incentives and predispositions (Motivation), influences on acculturation, health and community fit (Adjustment), and changes in career capital, overcoming bias, and diaspora networks (Performance). TOC:Context.- Introduction.- History.- Methodology.- Theory.- Motivation.- Personality.- Identity.- Economy.- Disaster.- Adjustment.- Preparation.- Acculturation.- Fit.- Health.-Performance.- Career.- Bias.- Diaspora.- Human Development.
US-Mexico border region area has unique social, demographic and policy forces at work that shape the health of its residents as well as serves as a microcosm of migration health challenges facing an ...increasingly mobile and globalized world. This region reflects the largest migratory flow between any two nations in the world. Data from the Pew Research Center shows over the last 25 years there has never been lower than 140,000 annual immigrants from Mexico to the United States (with peaks over 700,000). This migratory route is extremely hazardous due to natural (e.g., arid and hot desert regions) and human made barriers as well as border enforcement practices tied to socio-political and geopolitical pressures. Also, reflecting the national interdependency of public health and human services needs, during the most recent five year period surveyed the migratory flow between the US and Mexico has equaled that of the flow of Mexico to the US--both around 1.4 million persons. Of particular public health concern, within the US-Mexico region of both nations there is among the highest disparities in income, education, infrastructure and access to health care--factors within the World Health Organization’s conceptualization of the Social Determinants of Health, and among the highest rates of chronic disease. For instance obesity and diabetes rates in this region are among the highest of those monitored in the world, with adult population estimates of the former over 40% and estimates in some population sub-groups for the latter over 20%. The publications reflected in this Research Topic, all reviewed from experts in the field, addressed many of the public health issues in the US Mexico Border Health Commission’s Healthy Border 2020 objectives. Those objectives-- broad public health goals used to guide a diverse range of government, research and community-based stakeholders--include Non Communicable Diseases (including adult and childhood obesity-related ones; cancer), Infectious Diseases (e.g., tuberculosis; HIV; emerging diseases--particularly mosquito borne illnesses), Maternal and Child Health, Mental Health Disorders, and Motor Vehicle Accidents. Other relevant public health issues affecting this region, for example environmental health, binational health services coordination (e.g., immunization), the impact of migration throughout the Americas and globally in this region, health issues related to the physical climate, access to quality health care, discrimination/mistreatment and well-being, acculturative/immigration stress, violence, substance use/abuse, oral health, respiratory disease, and well-being from a social determinants of health framework, are critical areas addressed in these publications or for future research. Each of these Research Topic publications presented applied solutions (e.g., new programs, technology or infrastructure) and/or public health policy recommendations relevant to each public health challenge addressed.
Lives in Limbo Gonzales, Roberto G
2015., 20151215, 2015, 2015-12-15
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"My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I'm moving backward. And I can't do anything about it." -EsperanzaOver two million of the nation's eleven million undocumented immigrants ...have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures. InLives in Limbo,Roberto G. Gonzales introduces us to two groups: the college-goers, like Ricardo, who had good grades and a strong network of community support that propelled him to college and DREAM Act organizing but still landed in a factory job a few short years after graduation, and the early-exiters, like Gabriel, who failed to make meaningful connections in high school and started navigating dead-end jobs, immigration checkpoints, and a world narrowly circumscribed by legal limitations. This vivid ethnography explores why highly educated undocumented youth share similar work and life outcomes with their less-educated peers, despite the fact that higher education is touted as the path to integration and success in America. Mining the results of an extraordinary twelve-year study that followed 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles,Lives in Limboexposes the failures of a system that integrates children into K-12 schools but ultimately denies them the rewards of their labor.
This book discusses the concepts of migration, race, and ethnicity and demonstrates how these can be applied in scientific research, policy making, health service planning, and health promotion. ...Extensive examples are used to demonstrate the application of the theory.
Admittedly, the world and the nature of forced migration have changed a great deal over the last two decades. The relevance of data accumulated during that time period can now be called into ...question. The roundtable and the Program on Forced Migration at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University have commissioned a series of epidemiological reviews on priority public health problems for forced migrants that will update the state of knowledge. Malaria Control During Mass Population Movements and Natural Disasters -- the first in the series, provides a basic overview of the state of knowledge of epidemiology of malaria and public health interventions and practices for controlling the disease in situations involving forced migration and conflict.