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The collection captures the methodological and conceptual range of migration research in the discipline of Geography today. This volume also covers a lot of ground geographically and in subject expertise: the eighteen contributions investigate migration from, to, or within at least fifteen countries, with several articles spanning multiple places and scales.
List of contents
1. Migration: An Introduction 2. Moving "Out," Moving On: Gay Men’s Migrations Through the Life Course3. Being CBC: The Ambivalent Identities and Belonging of Canadian-Born Children of Immigrants 4. Diasporic Families: Cultures of Relatedness in Migration 5. Migration, Urbanization, and Political Power in Sub-Saharan Africa 6. Following Migrant Trajectories: The Im/Mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans en Route to the European Union 7. North Korean Women’s Narratives of Migration: Challenging Hegemonic Discourses of Trafficking and Geopolitics 8. Environmental Hazards as Disamenities: Selective Migration and Income Change in the United States from 2000–2010 9. Migration Amidst Climate Rigidity Traps: Resource Politics and Social–Ecological Possibilism in Honduras and Peru 10. The Amenity Principle, Internal Migration, and Rural Development in Australia 11. "Under the Radar": Undocumented Immigrants, Christian Faith Communities, and the Precarious Spaces of Welcome in the U.S. South 12. Enclaves of Rights: Workplace Enforcement, Union Contracts, and the Uneven Regulatory Geography of Immigration Policy 13. On the Work of Urbanization: Migration, Construction Labor, and the Commodity Moment14. Spaces of Immigrant Advocacy and Liberal Democratic Citizenship 15. On Distance and the Spatial Dimension in the Definition of Internal Migration 16. The Tactics of Asylum and Irregular Migrant Support Groups: Disrupting Bodily, Technological, and Neoliberal Strategies of Control 17. Chaos and Crisis: Dissecting the Spatiotemporal Logics of Contemporary Migrations and State Practices 18. Living the Way the World Does: Global Indians in the Remaking of Kolkata 19. In the "Service" of Migrants: The Temporary Resident Biometrics Project and the Economization of Migrant Labor in Canada
About the author
Richard Wright holds the Orvil E. Dryfoos Chair in Public Affairs and has been a Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College since 1985. With grant support from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Russell Sage Foundation, he has authored more than 70 scholarly papers. His research and teaching focuses on race, residential segregation, and migration.
Summary
The collection captures the methodological and conceptual range of migration research in the discipline of Geography today. This volume also covers a lot of ground geographically and in subject expertise: the eighteen contributions investigate migration from, to, or within at least fifteen countries, with several articles spanning multiple places and scales.
