Fundamentals of International Migration is prepared as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate courses/modules. This book is a collection of articles and book chapters published in various journals and volumes carefully selected to cover a comprehensive range of topics and issues in contemporary human mobility. Students and tutors of the module would find it useful to guide and enhance classroom discussions. There are 8 parts with 28 chapters. Each part of the book begins with a list of essential and further reading to offer a wide range of views and perspectives to the students of international migration.
CONTENTS
PART 1: Introduction to Migration Studies
Chapter 1. A record 65.3 million people were displaced last year: What does that number actually mean? - Jeffrey H. Cohen and Ibrahim Sirkeci
Chapter 2. It is all about being happy in search of security - Ibrahim Sirkeci
Chapter 3. Europe’s migration crisis: an American perspective - Philip L. Martin
Chapter 4. Fleeing from the Global Compact for Migration: A missed opportunity for Italy - Chiara Scissa
PART 2: Concepts and Theories in Migration Studies
Chapter 5. A Missing Element in Migration Theories - Douglas S. Massey
Chapter 6. Transnational mobility and conflict - Ibrahim Sirkeci
Chapter 7. “Old” natives and “new” immigrants: beyond territory and history in Kymlicka's account of group-rights - Darian Heim
PART 3: Data and Methods in Migration Studies
Chapter 8. Social Research Methods: Migration in Perspective - AKM Ahsan Ullah, Md. Akram Hossain, Mohammad Azizuddin, and Faraha Nawaz
Chapter 9. Biographical methods in migration research - Theodoros Iosifides and Deborah Sporton
Chapter 10. Strengths, Risks and Limits of Doing Participatory Research in Migration Studies - Diana Mata-Codesal, Laure Kloetzer and Concha Maiztegi
PART 4: Migration, Security, and Rights
Chapter 11. Universalist Rights and Particularist Duties: The Case of Refugees - Per Bauhn
Chapter 12. Bordering Practices across Europe: The Rise of “Walls” and “Fences” - Burcu Toğral Koca
Chapter 13. Turkey’s Refugees, Syrians and Refugees from Turkey: A Country of Insecurity - Ibrahim Sirkeci
PART 5: Migration Politics, Law and Organisations
Chapter 14. Turkish Migration Policy at a Glance - Barbara Pusch and Ibrahim Sirkeci
Chapter 15. Immigration and Civil Society: New ways of democratic transformation - Óscar García Agustín and Martin Bak Jørgensen
Chapter 16. Immigration Policy in the European Union: Still bringing up the walls for fortress Europe? - Petra Bendel
Chapter 17. The Case for a Foreign Worker Advisory Commission - Ray Marshall
PART 6: Citizenship, Integration, and Diasporas
Chapter 18. Migration and Integration: Austrian and California Experiences with Low-Skilled Migrants - Gudrun Biffl and Philip L. Martin
Chapter 19. Integration of Syrians: Politics of integration in Turkey in the face of a closing window of opportunity - Onur Unutulmaz
Chapter 20. Citizenship and Naturalization Among Turkish Skilled Migrants - Deniz Yetkin Aker
Chapter 21. Westphalia, Migration, and Feudal Privilege - Harald Bauder
Chapter 22. Naturalisation Policies Beyond a Western focus - Tobias Schwarz
Chapter 23. Wrestling with 9/11: Immigrant Perceptions and Perceptions of Immigrants - Caroline Brettell
PART 7: Turkey’s Migration Experience
Chapter 24. Syrian Crisis and Migration - Pinar Yazgan, Deniz Eroglu Utku, Ibrahim Sirkeci
Chapter 25. Demographic Gaps Between Syrian and the European Populations - Murat Yüceşahin and Ibrahim Sirkeci
Chapter 26. Turkish Migration in Europe and Desire to Migrate to and from Turkey - Ibrahim Sirkeci and Neli Esipova
PART 8: Contemporary Issues
Chapter 27. International Mobility, Erotic Plasticity and Eastern European Migrations - Martina Cvajner
Chapter 28. Coronavirus and Migration: Analysis of Human Mobility and the Spread of COVID-19 - Ibrahim Sirkeci and M. Murat Yüceşahin