Handbook of Human Mobility and Migration
β Scribed by Ettore Recchi (editor), Mirna Safi (editor)
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 321
- Series
- Elgar Handbooks in Migration
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Introduction: human mobility as hallmark of our age
PART I RETHINKING
1 Is Homo sapiens a growingly mobile species (in the very long run)?
2 Have migrants become a distinct category in social stratification research?
3 Are migrants a select population?
4 Is there an end to mobility? Circular and onward migrants
5 Are international and internal migration distinct phenomena?
PART II MAPPING
6 How global is international mobility?
7 Are high-speed rail and airplane mobilities socially stratified?
8 Where, when and why are students internationally mobile?
9 Child migration: who, where, when and why?
10 International retirement migration: who, where, when and why?
11 Public opinion on immigration: is it converging globally or regionally?
PART III GOVERNING
12 Visas and border infrastructures: what makes them tighter or looser?
13 Does the forced/voluntary dichotomy really influence migration governance?
14 Free movement regimes: is the EU experience exportable?
15 Transnational mobility and welfare rights: are they compatible?
16 Who governs migration and mobilities globally?
Index
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