Studies in Migration and Diaspora
About the Book Series
Series now in its 20th year
Studies in Migration and Diaspora is a series designed to showcase the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of research in this important field. Volumes in the series cover local, national and global issues and engage with both historical and contemporary events. The books will appeal to scholars, students and all those engaged in the study of migration and diaspora. Amongst the topics covered are minority ethnic relations, transnational movements and the cultural, social and political implications of moving from 'over there', to 'over here'.
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The Social Consequences of Forced Migration: Integrated Refugee Solutions for Solidarity
1st Edition
By Jakub Isański, Heidi Erbsen
April 01, 2027
The Social Consequences of Forced Migration offers a compelling analysis of the unprecedentedly positive reception of Ukrainian refugees in Poland and Estonia following Russia’s 2022 invasion, examining how these countries responded to the crisis and the profound impact the refugees had on public ...
The Detention of Immigrants in Poland: Securitising Discourses, Practices and Spaces
1st Edition
By Maciej Stępka
January 15, 2027
This book explores how securitisation of migration unfolds within detention facilities, where states seek to organise (im)mobility. Drawing on fieldwork in all six Polish Guarded Centres for Foreigners, including 161 interviews with Border Guard officers and civilian staff, the book examines ...
Exposing Complexity in Migration Narratives: Archival and Audiovisual Self-Representations of Guest Workers in Austria
1st Edition
By Faime Alpagu
December 02, 2026
This book examines the lived experiences of "guest workers" from Turkey in Austria since the 1960s through their own voices and personal archives. This pioneering study challenges homogenized perceptions by systematically analyzing migrants' biographies alongside their photographs, written ...
Transnationality and Social Mobility: Navigating Social Structures
1st Edition
By Lisa Bonfert
November 24, 2026
Considering that changes in people’s life chances are increasingly shaped by cross-border movements and transnational connections, this book proposes a transnational conception of social mobility. Emphasising the manifold ways in which contexts of migration and transnationality affect perceptions ...
Reconceptualising the Migrant: The Non-Binary Nature of Sociocultural Identities and Interactions
1st Edition
By Doğa Atalay
November 09, 2026
This book highlights the impact of migrant self-narratives and the non-binary nature of sociocultural identities on everyday social interactions, demonstrating how meaningful relationships emerge not from predetermined social categories, but through shared experiences, common interests and everyday...
Hope and Asylum: Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change
1st Edition
By Torun Elsrud, Philip Lalander, Jesper Andreasson, Marcus Herz
August 27, 2026
This book applies perspectives of hope to understand the precariousness, suffering, and agency of people seeking asylum. With attention to the restrictions and austerity politics that have characterised public policy following the significant rise in asylum applications in 2015, it draws on ...
Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Ayaka Yoshimizu, Daniel Ahadi
August 27, 2026
This volume examines the politics of fieldwork and the challenges of researching migrants constructed as outsiders both nationally and transnationally. Based on research with undocumented migrants, temporary workers, refugees, international students, and those who, having received citizenship ...
Transnational Ties, Local Lives: Translocal Dynamics of Chinese Diaspora and Community Re-organisation
1st Edition
By Qiuping Pan
August 27, 2026
Transnational Ties, Local Lives: Translocal Dynamics of Chinese Diaspora and Community Re-organisation delves into the evolving civic life and organisational structures of Chinese diaspora communities. Drawing on rich, multi-method ethnographic research in Australia, this book unveils the dynamic ...
Waiting as a Racialised Phenomenon: African Migration Between Hope and Suspension
1st Edition
By Doğuş Şimşek
August 18, 2026
Waiting as a Racialised Phenomenon offers a powerful and original account of the lives of migrants from East, West, North, and Sub-Saharan Africa in Türkiye, grounded in rich ethnographic research. Challenging dominant understandings of waiting as a neutral or purely temporal condition, the book ...
Neoliberalism, Racialisation and Middling Migrants in Poland
1st Edition
By Krzysztof Jaskułowski, Marek Pawlak
August 11, 2026
This book analyses the complex relations between racism and neoliberalism in the lives of middling migrants in Poland. Focusing on ‘middling migrants’ – a heterogeneous category of migrants who are neither a highly paid elite nor low-paid or low-skilled workers – it offers a novel approach to the ...
Deconstructing Refugee Women’s Empowerment: A Comparative Approach to British and French Aid Structures
1st Edition
By Zeynep Kilicoglu
July 20, 2026
This book explores how self-identified feminist or women’s organizations in the asylum and charity sectors in the United Kingdom and France attach meanings to and address refugee women’s empowerment in their operations and how these perpetuate or disrupt global hierarchies. Adopting a feminist, ...
The Migration of Albanians from Montenegro and Kosovo to the United States: In Search of Home
1st Edition
By Klement R. Camaj
July 20, 2026
This book examines the ways in which Albanian men, women, and families who have migrated from Montenegro and Kosovo to the United States understand and make sense of their mobility and settlement. Drawing on empirical research, including interview material, it goes beyond the experiences of ...