Description
A CRITICAL, NUANCED, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION
Migration: A Critical Introduction offers a fresh and accessible framework for understanding migration through a distinctly geographical lens. Going beyond traditional borders and categories, this book examines the forces that shape migration—historical, political, spatial—and invites readers to think differently about how migration is defined, governed, and experienced.
Challenging conventional understandings of migration by centring geographical concepts, critical theory, and storytelling, the authors explore the production of migration knowledge and the power relations that underpin it. Readers are introduced to various forms of migration, from labour and family migration to displacement caused by climate change and conflict. Each chapter builds on practical, ethical, and conceptual tools for critically engaging with migration research and narratives, whilst fostering more inclusive and emancipatory imaginaries of migration futures.
Migration: A Critical Introduction is an essential resource for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of Geography, Sociology, Anthropology, International Relations, and related fields. It is particularly suitable for courses on Human Geography, Migration Studies, and Political Geography as part of broader degree programmes in the social sciences and humanities.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
List of Acronyms
Acknowledgements
Section I: Theoretical orientations
Chapter 1 Placing the geographies of migration
Chapter 2 Telling stories about migration
Section II: Three key analytics
Chapter 3 Bodies
Chapter 4 Routes and journeys
Chapter 5 Borders and bordering
Section III: Migration contexts
Chapter 6 Homes and belonging
Chapter 7 Work
Chapter 8 Environment and climate
Section IV: Lived experiences in place
Chapter 9 Encounters
Chapter 10 Connections
Chapter 11 Imaginaries
Section V: Researching Migration
Chapter 12 Telling your migration stories
Appendix Learning more about migration – sources and resources
