Description
This volume focuses on processes, motivations, policies, and practices that influence international migration and the experiences of migrating and settling in a new country. With chapter contributions by international and interdisciplinary scholars, academics and researchers from Africa, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and North America, the book examines and interrogates some immigration policies, while capturing migration and transnational experiences from migratory hotspots in different parts of the world. To explore the multiple ways in which immigrants and refugees experience migration, the book is grounded in Kimberlé Crenshaw's intersectionality and Uri Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model. Using these two frameworks, the book examines how transnationality arising from migration affects immigrants' perceived pre- and post-migration expectations and lived experiences in varied spheres including family dynamics, access to services and programs, employment, coping with immigrant and refugee labels, and other related legal and policy-influenced spheres. The book provides a timely and holistic picture of migration and settlement as well as insights on racialization, discrimination, social inequalities, and attendant global remedial processes. As the world experiences more disruption and displacement, Immigrant Lives provides crucial insights of use to undergraduate and graduate students, migration scholars and researchers, policymakers, service providers, politicians, and lawmakers.
Table of Contents
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to transnationalism, intersectionality and migration ecological trajectoriesEdward Shizha and Edward MakwarimbaSECTION I: THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKSChapter 2: (Re)materializing intersectionality in transnational contextDenise L. SpitzerChapter 3: Rethinking race in research on migration: Transnational literacies as a toolPatriann Smith, S. Joel Warrican, Alex Kumi-Yeboah and Tala Karkar EsperatChapter 4: Decolonizing diaspora studies: Accounting for the transnational and intersectional interventions of 'striking' diasporasIpek DemirChapter 5: 'Do we really belong here?' Transnationalism and the temporality of naturalized citizenshipEdward ShizhaSECTION II: POLICIES GOVERNING TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENTASIAChapter 6: The Rohingya refugee situation: Seeking accountability, relief, and solutionsBrian GorlickAUSTRALIA/SOUTH PACIFICChapter 7: 'Irregular' migration, intersectionality and race: The demonization policy of refugees in AustraliaDawn BolgerChapter 8: African diasporic migration trends, relocation and resettlement: An Australian perspectiveKathomi Gatwiri, Leticia Anderson and Kiros HiruyUNITED KINGDOMChapter 9: Intersectionality and UK's multiscalar governance approach to race, gender and asylum seeking in Scotland and EnglandEmma HillChapter 10: The Windrush Generation and the British citizenship policyShelene Gomes and Arthur TorringtonEUROPEAN UNIONChapter 11: The European Union's Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex): Between impunity and accountabilityOmer KarasapanChapter 12: Data evidence-informed migration policies in Africa and Europe? A transnational perspectiveMarzia Rango and Irene SchöfbergerChapter 13: The (in)coherence of European migration policy: Between securitization and protectionPaloma González del Miño and Concepción Anguita OlmedoChapter 14: Regulating without redistributing? A review of the main EU responses to the 'migrant crisis'Stefano M. Torelli and Anna LonghiniNORTH AMERICAChapter 15: How Canada deals with asylum seekers and refugees in theory and practiceHerbert GrubelChapter 16: Intersectionality and the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programKarla Rodriguez Beltran and Erin R. HamiltonSECTION III: INTRA-REGIONAL/CONTINENTAL MIGRATION AND IMMIGRANTS' EXPERIENCESChapter 17: Of ranks and peripheries: Weaponizing difference against immigrants in Southern AfricaChristopher Changwe NshimbiChapter 18: Overcoming barriers to informal enterprising: Congolese self-settled refugee women in urban EswatiniGabriel TatiChapter 19: Food self-sufficiency: Evidence from a land security framework to a protracted refugee situation in UgandaElsemarie Jorissen & Maliamungu Habib UthumanChapter 20: The Rohingya exodus to Bangladesh: Livelihood pursuits, hope for assimilation and the associated risksHossain Ahmed Taufiq and Mahmood MuttaqeeChapter 21: Immigration, policies and socio-racial hierarchies: The Latin American experienceLuisa Feline Freier and Leon Lucar ObaSECTION IV: SETTLEMENT, IDENTITIES AND BELONGING IN A HOST COUNTRYChapter 22: Why do ethnic citizens identify more with their cultural groups than with the state inCanadaKon K. MadutChapter 23: Immigrants as potential development resource to countries of origin: A contextual report card on sub-Saharan African newcomers to CanadaPhilomina Okeke-IhejirikaChapter 24: Gender norm attitudes among Nigerian and Angolan migrants in the NetherlandsBilisuma B. Dito and Victor CebotariChapter 25: Transnational lives and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigrants, andrefugeesEdward ShizhaChapter 26: Access to labour market justice for migrant workers in AustraliaAnna BoucherSECTION V: EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: FOUNDATIONS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR IMMIGRANT SETTLEMENT AND INTEGRATIONChapter 27: Wastage of human capital? Underutilization of foreign trained immigrant professionals and highly skilled workers in CanadaEdward ShizhaChapter 28: Introducing migrants into urban politics or into urban migrant politics in Spain?Juan Carlos Triviño-SalazarChapter 29: Language training and humanitarian migrants' host language skills: Recent evidence from AustraliaZhiming Cheng, Massimiliano Tani Bertuol, and Ben Zhe WangChapter 30: 'Thou art welcome': The mental well-being of immigrants and refugees in CanadaMagnus Mfoafo-M'CarthyChapter 31: Conclusion: Directions for further migration research, policy making, theorization, and immigrants' settlement and integration programmingEdward Makwarimba and Edward Shizha
