Migration Theory

Talking across Disciplines
Herausgeber: Brettell, Caroline B; Hollifield, James F

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The revised fourth edition of Migration Theory continues to offer a one-stop synthesis of contemporary thought on migration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 4th edition
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780367638573
• ISBN-10: 0367638576
• Artikelnr.: 63297629

Autorenporträt

Caroline B. Brettell is University Distinguished Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. From 2012 to 2018, she served as the Founding Director of the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. James F. Hollifield is Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is also a member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations, a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC, and Fellow at the French Institute for Advanced Studies in Paris (2021-22).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines 1. Historical Migration Studies: Time
Temporality
and Theory 2. Demography and Migration: The Wildcard in Population Dynamics 3. Economic Aspects of Migration 4. The Sociology of International Migration 5. Theorizing Migration in Anthropology: The Cultural
Social
Phenomenological
and Embodied Dimensions of Human Mobility 6. Geographical Theories of Migration: Exploring Scalar
Spatial and Placeful Dimensions of Human Mobility 7. The Politics of International Migration: How Can We Bring the State Back In? 8. Law and Migration: Constants
Challenges
and Changes 9. The State of Migration Theory: Challenges
Interdisciplinarity and Critique