Temporary Migration - Category of Analysis Or Category of Practice?

This book proposes a new analytical framework that brings together the role of policies defining migrants as temporary and the role of migrant's own agency in perceiving their migration project as temporary or permanent. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

List of contents

Introduction - Temporary migration: category of analysis or category of practice? 1. Temporariness management by elite migrant-artists 2. Forced, regulated and flexible temporariness in return migration 3. Dilemmas around temporariness and transnational recruitment agencies: the case of migrant caregivers in Taiwan and Germany 4.Temporary labour migration in South Asia: Nepal and its fragmented labour migration sector 5.Temporariness and the production of policy categories in Canada 6. Regulating migrant worker temporariness in Australia: the role of immigration, employment and post-arrival support policies

About the author

Anna Triandafyllidou holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, at Toronto Metropolitan University. Prior to joining TMU in 2019, she held a Robert Schuman Chair at the European University Institute, in Florence, Italy. She is the Editor of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. In 2021, the University of Liège awarded Triandafyllidou a doctorate honoris causa in recognition of her contribution to migration scholarship. She has published widely on migration governance and migrant integration.

Summary

This book proposes a new analytical framework that brings together the role of policies defining migrants as temporary and the role of migrant’s own agency in perceiving their migration project as temporary or permanent. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Anna (European University Institu Triandafyllidou
• Assisted by: Anna Triandafyllidou (Editor), Triandafyllidou Anna (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032880150
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3288015-0
• No. of pages: 118
• Series: Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General