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This book provides lucid and intuitive explanations of the most important migration concepts as used in classrooms, among policymakers and in popular and academic discourse. Arguing that there is a clear need for a better public understanding of migration, it sets out to clarify the field by explori...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bartram, David, 1966- (Author), Poros, Maritsa V., 1968- (Author), Monforte, Pierre (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, [2014]
Series:SAGE key concepts.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Migration
  • 3. Acculturation
  • 4. Alien/Foreigner
  • 5. Assimilation
  • 6. Borders
  • 7. Brain Drain/Gain/Circulation
  • 8. Chain Migration
  • 9. Circular Migration
  • 10. Citizenship
  • 11. Cumulative Causation
  • 12. Denizens
  • 13. Deportation
  • 14. Diaspora
  • 15. Displacement and Internally Displaced Persons
  • 16. Ethnic Enclaves and Ethnic Economies
  • 17. Ethnicity and Ethnic Minorities
  • 18. Family Migration and Reunification
  • 19. Forced Migration
  • 20. Gendered Migration
  • 21. Guestworkers
  • 22. Human Trafficking and Smuggling
  • 23. Integration
  • 24. Internal/Domestic Migration
  • 25. Labour Migration
  • 26. Migrant Networks
  • 27. Migration Stocks and Flows
  • 28. Multiculturalism
  • 29. Refugees and Asylum Seekers
  • 30. Regional Integration and Migration
  • 31. Remittances
  • 32. Restrictionism vs. Open Borders
  • 33. Return Migration
  • 34. Second Generation
  • 35. Selectivity
  • 36. Social Capital
  • 37. Social Cohesion
  • 38. Transnationalism
  • 39. Undocumented (Illegal) Migration.