Research Catalog

Title

Trajectories and imaginaries in migration : the migrant actor in transnational space / edited by Felicitas Hillmann, Ton Van Naerssen and Ernst Spaan.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Additional Authors

• Hillmann, Felicitas
• Naerssen, A. L. van
• Spaan, Ernst

Description

xvii, 210 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book draws attention to the various factors that characterise migrant flows and mobilities, calling into question familiar concepts such as push and pull, migration as a life project and socio-cultural integration. It highlights processes such as flexible migrant routes, temporary and return migration, mental aspects of migration processes and transnationalism. Organised around the themes of shaping trajectories, frictions in space, and the migrant mental framework, - it brings together work from scholars from Europe and beyond. The book suggests a different understanding of migration and mobility as relational, non-linear, and fluid social processes, characterised by instability in migrant life trajectories. Emphasising the flexibility of migrants and migration and advocating the importance of emotionally charged, individual perceptions as central to migrant decision-making, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, politics and geography with interests in migration and diaspora studies. The contributions collected here put emphasis the social and mental processes that underpin the migratory process, which can be seen as the "soft-side" of migration. Too often, this side is neglected when the governance of migration is discussed. The novel ideas expressed here also help to overcome the mechanistic view of migration as a 'push-pull' event"--

Series Statement

Studies in migration and diaspora

Uniform Title

Studies in migration and diaspora.

Subjects

• Emigration and immigration > Cross-cultural studies
• Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
• Immigrants > Social conditions
• Cross-cultural studies

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

On wayfaring and transporting : understanding the mobility trajectories of African migrants in Europe / Joris Schapendonk -- Migrant trajectories within the context of demographic, socio-economic and environmental change : evidence from coastal Ghana / Usha Ziegelmayer and Ernst Spaan -- South-south migrant trajectories : African traders in China as guoke / Ding Yuan and Ching Lin Pang -- Unravelling the legal consciousness of deportation policies through women's bushfalling narratives in Anglophone Cameroon / Maybritt Jill Alpes -- Moving across juridical territories in Europe : migrants under humanitarian protection / Giulia Borri -- Moving home : Bolivian return migration from Spain in times of crisis / Gery Nijenhuis -- Mobilities and mindsets : locating imagination in transnational migrations / David Kyle, Saara Koikkalainen and Tanaya Dutta Gupta -- Gazing into the distance : thresholds of mobility in migrants' lifeworlds / Lothar Smith, Martin van der Velde and Ton van Naerssen -- Does policy matter? Journeys to Europe and the dynamics of migration decision-making / Richard Mallett and Jessica Hagen-Zanker -- Academic mobility and identities : stories from (ethnic) Chinese students and scholars en route / Maggi Leung and Rika Theo -- Mobilities in migration / Ton van Naerssen and Felicitas Hillmann.

Call Number

JFE 18-9428

ISBN

• 9780815359807
• 0815359802

LCCN

2018011556

OCLC

1032288406

Title

Trajectories and imaginaries in migration : the migrant actor in transnational space / edited by Felicitas Hillmann, Ton Van Naerssen and Ernst Spaan.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in migration and diaspora

Studies in migration and diaspora.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hillmann, Felicitas, editor.

Naerssen, A. L. van, editor.

Spaan, Ernst, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-9428