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
The Politics of Compassion
Immigration and Asylum Policy
Through case studies from Australia, Europe and the US, this book explores how emotion is central to understanding the formation of immigration policy. The author looks beyond the ‘negative’ emotions of fear and hostility to examine the politics of compassion in immigration and asylum policy discourse.
Postcoloniality and Forced Migration
Mobility, Control, Agency
As the pervasive legacy of colonialism continues to shape global politics, this unprecedented book presents case studies of forced migration events from the 18th century to present day across 5 continents, all put in dialogue with each other to propose new theoretical and real-world agendas for the field.
Belonging in Translation
Solidarity and Migrant Activism in Japan
This is the first book to investigate how migrants and migrant rights activists work together to generate new forms of citizenship identities in a multilingual setting. Based on robust theoretical engagement and detailed empirical analysis, Shindo's book makes a compelling case for rethinking citizenship and community from the angle of language.
The German Migration Integration Regime
Syrian Refugees, Bureaucracy, and Inclusion
Giving voice to the experiences of Syrian refuges who sought asylum in Germany, this ethnography puts a spotlight on how the binary notions of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ refugees produced by the regime strained the relationship between refugees and the state, revealing the inconsistencies and failings of a universal approach to integration.
Intimacy as a Lens on Work and Migration
Experiences of Ethnic Performers in Southwest China
This book explores the experiences of ethnic performers' in a small Chinese city. Introducing the concept of ‘intimacy as a lens’, the author examines intimate negotiations involving emotions, sense of self and relationships as a way of understanding wider social inequalities.
Home-Land: Romanian Roma, Domestic Spaces and the State
This book is the first intimate ethnography of governing encounters in the home space between Romanian Roma migrants and local frontline workers. It covers the divide between state and family, home-land and home and what it means for the new rules of citizenship.