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
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.
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.
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.
Borders, Migration and Class in an Age of Crisis
Producing Workers and Immigrants
Informed by Marxist theory, this book examines how categories of ‘workers’ and ‘migrants’ have been mobilised within representations of a ‘migrant crisis’ and a ‘welfare crisis’ to facilitate capitalist exploitation, and proposes alternative understandings that foreground solidarity.
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.