International migration has always mattered, but today it matters more than ever before. The increasing importance of migration derives from its growing scale and its widening global reach, but also f
International migration has always mattered, but today it matters more than ever before. The increasing importance of migration derives from its growing scale and its widening global reach, but also f
In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The rising rates of international migration have been matched by growin
Finds that the new wave of migration is characterized by increasing numbers, changing profiles, feminization, and new geographical patterns, but is most important for eliciting new political responses
At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "refugee cycle" - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and
Koser (Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland) and Martin (international migration, Georgetown U., US) deploy the concept of the "migration-displacement nexus" as a means of illustrating "the
This book critically evaluates the transnational communities approach to contemporary international migration. It does so through a specific focus on the relationship between 'transnational communitie
