Global Migration and Social Change
Series Editor: Nando Sigona, Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham, UK and Alexandra Délano Alonso, The New School
This monograph series showcases original research that looks at the nexus between migration, citizenship and social change. This series aims to open up interdisciplinary terrain and to develop new scholarship in migration and refugee studies that is theoretically insightful and innovative, empirically rich and policy engaged.
The series includes research-based monographs and occasionally edited collections, informed by a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods. It is open to in-depth ethnographic/qualitative case studies, international comparative analyses, and everything between. We welcome contributions that that address drivers and dynamics of migration, exile, transnationalism and social change at different scales, and which pay attention to different intersections of race, ethnicity, class, gender and age, and other key identity markers.
Download the proposal guidelines.
Topics may include but are not limited to the following:
- The migration and citizenship nexus
- The construction of borders and practices of bordering
- New processes of migration governance at different scales
- Emerging forms of migrant diversity
- Politics and practices of belonging
- The changing legal statuses of migration and migrants
- New manifestations of transnationalism and diaspora
- The nature and causes of migration ‘crises’
- Geopolitical disruptions and human mobility
Call for proposals:
If you would like to submit a proposal, or to discuss ideas, then please contact the Series Editors: Nando Sigona: N.Sigona@bham.ac.uk and Alexandra Délano Alonso: delanoa@newschool.edu.
You can find out more about writing for Bristol University Press on our Information for authors page.
International editorial advisory board
- Leah Bassel, University of Roehampton, UK
- Avtar Brah, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
- Sergio Carrera, CEPS, Belgium
- Elaine Chase, University College London, UK
- Alessio D'Angelo, University of Nottingham, UK
- Alan Gamlen, Australian National University, Australia
- Andrew Geddes, European University Institute, Italy
- Roberto G. Gonzales, University of Pennsylvania, US
- Elżbieta Goździak, Georgetown University, US
- Jonathan Xavier Inda, University of Illinois, US
- David Ingleby, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Anna Lindley, SOAS University of London, UK
- Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, US
- Peter Nyers, McMaster University, Canada
- Jenny Phillimore, University of Birmingham, UK
- Ben Rogaly, University of Sussex, UK
- Paul Spoonley, Massey University, New Zealand
- Susanne Wessendorf, Coventry University, UK
- Amanda Wise, Macquarie University, Australia
- Elisabetta Zontini, University of Nottingham, UK
Social Networks and Migration
Relocations, Relationships and Resources
This intersectional study provides fresh insights into the complex networks of migrants. More than 200 interviews with people following multiple routes over eight decades help to illustrate how social support and trust are developed, how networks evolve over time, and how they impact the opportunities and obstacles migrants encounter.
The EU Migrant Generation in Asia
Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities
Drawing on a comparative study with individuals who migrated to Singapore and Tokyo in 2010s, this book demonstrates how migration to Asian business centres has become an alternative to a middle-class life in Europe and how the perceived insecurities of life in the crisis-ridden EU result in these migrants’ prolonged stay in Asia.
Mediated Emotions of Migration
Reclaiming Affect for Agency
Drawing on empirical research and mediated stories of migration and asylum seeking from the Global North, this book unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around migration.
Navigating the European Migration Regime
Male Migrants, Interrupted Journeys and Precarious Lives
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND
Anna Wyss’ insightful account of male migrants’ journeys around Europe brings new perspectives to the European migration crisis and masculinity issues.
Migration, Health, and Inequalities
Critical Activist Research across Ecuadorean Borders
This interdisciplinary activist research project shows the health and well-being impacts of transnational migration on Ecuadorean families. Roberta Villalón documents the intersection of social inequalities and migration and health policies, and how individual and collective action challenges marginalising structures and fosters social justice.
Temporality in Mobile Lives
Contemporary Asia–Australia Migration and Everyday Time
This innovative study of young Asian migrants’ lives in Australia sheds new light on the complex relationship between migration and time. With in-depth interviews and a new conceptual framework, Robertson reveals how migration influences the trajectories of migrants’ lives, from career pathways to intimate relationships.