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
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.
The Shape of Belonging for Unaccompanied Young Migrants
Drawing on interviews and the Deleuzo-Guattarian concepts of assemblage, this book provides an empirical and theoretical examination of the belonging of unaccompanied young migrants seeking protection in the UK, shedding light on the complex and paradoxical nature of belonging under precarious conditions.
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.
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.
Time, Migration and Forced Immobility
Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book is concerned with the effects of migration policy making in Europe on migrants in the Global South and is based on in-depth ethnographic research in Morocco with migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Visiting Immigration Detention
Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons
This study of immigration detention policy in Australia presents first-hand accounts of more than 70 people visiting and supporting asylum seekers. Documenting and theorising their experiences and treatment, it delivers new perspectives on the profound human costs of hardline immigration policy, both in Australia and beyond.