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This open access book covers the main issues, challenges and techniques concerning the application of qualitative methodologies to the study of migration. It discusses theoretical, epistemological and empirical questions that must be considered before, during, and after undertaking qualitative research in migration studies. It also covers recent innovative developments and addresses the key issues and major challenges that qualitative migration research may face at different stages i.e. crafting the research questions, defining approaches, developing concepts and theoretical frameworks, mapping categories, selecting cases, dealing with concerns of self-reflection, collecting and processing empirical evidence through various techniques, including visual data, dealing with ethical issues, and developing policy-research dialogues. Each chapter discusses relative strengths and limitations of qualitative research. The chapters also identify the main drivers for qualitative research development in migration studies. It is a unique volume as it brings together a multidisciplinary perspective as well as illustrations of different issues derived from the research experience of the recognized authors. One additional value of this book is its geographic focus on Europe. It seeks to explore theoretical and methodological issues that are raised by distinctive features of the European context. This volume will be a useful reference source for scholars and professionals in migration studies and in social sciences as well. The publication is also addressed to graduate and post-graduate students and, more generally, to those who embark on the task of doing qualitative research for the first time in the field of migration.

Emigration and immigration. --- Social sciences. --- Sociology. --- Migration. --- Methodology of the Social Sciences. --- Sociology, general. --- European migration studies --- Methodology of social sciences --- Qualitative research methods --- Human mobility --- Open access --- Migration Studies --- Qualitative methodology --- European migration research --- Epistemology in migration research --- Interdisciplinary migration research

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This open access short reader offers a critical review of the debates on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities primarily in Europe, though also engaging in wider theoretical insights. Building on empirical case studies and grounded in an analytical framework that incorporates both men and women, masculinities, sexualities and wider intersectional insights, this reader provides an accessible overview of conceptual developments and methodological shifts and their implications for a gendered understanding of migration in the past 30 years. It explores different and emerging approaches in major areas, such as: gendered labour markets across diverse sectors beyond domestic and care work to include skilled sectors of social reproduction; the significance of families in migration and transnational families; displacement, asylum and refugees and the incorporation of gender and sexuality in asylum determination; academic critiques and gendered discourses concerning integration often with the focus on Muslim women. The reader concludes with considerations of the potential impact of three notable developments on gendered migrations and mobilities: Black Lives Matter, Brexit and COVID-19. As such, it is a valuable resource for students, academics, policy makers, and practitioners.

Biotechnology. --- Sex. --- Population—Economic aspects. --- Ethics. --- Gender Studies. --- Population Economics. --- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Gendered migrations --- Gendered labour --- Family migrations --- Transnational families --- Generations and life course --- Immigration, integration and citizenship --- Socio-economic and political transformations beyond migration --- Migration studies --- Migració (Població) --- Gènere --- Mobilitat laboral --- Mobilitat residencial --- Condicions socials

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This open access textbook provides an introduction to theories, concepts and methodological approaches concerning various facets of migration and migration-related diversities. It starts with an introduction to migration studies and continues with an introductory reading of migration drivers, migration infrastructures, migration flows, and several transversal topics such as gender and migration. It also covers politics, policies and governance as well as specific research methods. As an interactive guide, this book develops an innovative format that brings a connection with various online sources. This means that whereas the chapters bring together literature in a coherent way, they are also connected to IMISCOE's online interactive Migration Research Hub for further reading and for more empirical material on migration and diversity. As such, this textbook provides a very useful introductory reading for undergraduate and graduate students as well as for policymakers, policy advisors, and all those interested in studies on migration and migration-related diversities.

Emigration and immigration. --- Emigration and immigration—Social aspects. --- Human Migration. --- Sociology of Migration. --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Origins and development of migration studies --- Migration from historical and global perspective --- Migration drivers --- Migration, economic disparities and labour market --- Migration, conflict and war --- Migration, environmental change and natural disasters --- Digital migration infrastructures --- Family and humanitarian migration --- Lifestyle migration --- Student mobilities --- Irregular migration --- Migration, ethnicity and race --- Migration and transnationalism --- Gender and migration --- Migration and development --- Migration policies, governance and politics --- Migration-related diversity --- Migration statistics

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Focusing on the lived experience of immigration policy and processes, this volume provides fascinating insights into the deportation process as it is felt and understood by those subjected to it. The author presents a rich and innovative ethnography of deportation and deportability experienced by migrants convicted of criminal offenses in England and Wales. The unique perspectives developed here – on due process in immigration appeals, migrant surveillance and control, social relations and sense of self, and compliance and resistance – are important for broader understandings of border control policy and human rights. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Aliens --- Alien criminals --- Deportation --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:343.9H0 --- #SBIB:340H50 --- Expulsion --- Emigration and immigration law --- Asylum, Right of --- Extradition --- Refoulement --- Alien labor criminals --- Criminal aliens --- Foreign criminals --- Immigrant criminals (Alien criminals) --- Criminals --- Enemy aliens --- Expatriates --- Foreign citizens (Aliens) --- Foreign population --- Foreign residents --- Foreigners --- Noncitizens --- Resident aliens --- Unnaturalized foreign residents --- Persons --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Immigrants --- Refugees --- Social conditions. --- Government policy --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Criminologie --- Strafrecht --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Great Britain --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects. --- Aliens, Illegal --- Illegal immigrants --- Illegal immigration --- Undocumented aliens --- Illegal aliens --- Alien detention centers --- Human smuggling --- Undocumented immigrants --- Noncitizen criminals --- Social conditions --- Criminal noncitizens --- Immigrant criminals (Noncitizen criminals) --- Non-citizens --- Unauthorized immigrants --- Children of illegal aliens --- Illegal alien children --- Irregular migration --- Unauthorized immigration --- Undocumented immigration --- Women illegal aliens --- Noncitizen detention centers --- politics --- refugee & migration studies --- political science

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Marika Pierdicca's doctoral thesis provides an ethnography of migrant self-employment in northern Italy and highlights the link between an increasing neoliberalization of labor and notions of "integration." The study questions integration as an affirmative concept and problematizes structural forms of differential inclusion, racialization, and ethnicization of contemporary labor relations. A genealogical reconstruction of Italian migration policies illustrates how the "integration regime" acts simultaneously as a selection management and as a border regime. Against the backdrop of an understanding of self-employment as a life concept, Pierdicca performs a biopolitical analysis of labor narratives and experiences of the protagonists in the field. Her research deals with approaches to affective labor critical of capitalism, considers the integration regime as a laboratory of neoliberal subjectivation, and thereby elaborates specific forms of labor exploitation. Marika Pierdiccas Promotionsschrift liefert eine Ethnographie migrantischer Selbstständigkeit in Norditalien und zeigt die Verknüpfung zwischen einer zunehmenden Neoliberalisierung der Arbeit und Vorstellungen von »Integration« auf. Die Arbeit stellt Integration als affirmatives Konzept infrage und problematisiert strukturelle Formen von differentieller Inklusion, Rassifizierung und Ethnisierung heutiger Arbeitsverhältnisse. Eine genealogische Rekonstruktion italienischer Migrationspolitiken verdeutlicht, wie das »Integrationsregime« zugleich als Selektierungsmanagement und als Grenzpolitik agiert. Vor dem Hintergrund eines Verständnisses von Selbstständigkeit als gesamtem Lebensentwurf, vollzieht Pierdicca eine biopolitische Analyse von Arbeitsnarrativen und -erfahrungen der Protagonist_innen im Feld. Ihre Forschung beschäftigt sich mit kapitalismuskritischen Ansätzen zu affektiver Arbeit, betrachtet das Integrationsregime als Labor neoliberaler Subjektivierung und arbeitet dabei spezifische Formen von Arbeitsausbeutung heraus.

Migrant labor --- Precarious employment --- Neoliberalism --- Italy --- anthropology of labor --- neoliberal labor relations --- precarization --- Labor, Migrant --- Migrant workers --- Migrants (Migrant labor) --- Migratory workers --- Transient labor --- Employees --- Casual labor --- Neo-liberalism --- Liberalism --- Employment, Precarious --- Labor --- Italia --- Italian Republic --- Italianska republika --- Italʹi͡anskai͡a Rėspublika --- Italie --- Italien --- Italii͡ --- Italii͡a Respublikasi --- Italiĭsʹka Respublika --- Itālija --- Itālijas Republika --- Italijos Respublika --- Italikē Dēmokratia --- Īṭāliy --- Italiya Respublikasi --- It'allia --- It'allia Konghwaguk --- İtalya --- İtalya Cumhuriyeti --- Iṭalyah --- Iṭalye --- Itaria --- Itaria Kyōwakoku --- Jumhūrīyah al-Īṭālīyah --- Kgl. Italienische Regierung --- Königliche Italienische Regierung --- Laško --- Lýðveldið Ítalía --- Olasz Köztársaság --- Olaszország --- Regno d'Italia --- Repubblica italiana --- Republiḳah ha-Iṭalḳit --- Włochy --- Yidali --- Yidali Gongheguo --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography --- Migration, immigration & emigration --- Sociology: work & labour --- Human rights --- Working patterns & practices --- Integration; labor; neoliberalism; differential inclusion; precarization; migration; self-employment; neoliberal labor relations; critical migration studies; northern Italy; integration regime; Italy; subjectification; anthropology of labor