Global Migration

'With Global Migration, Elizabeth Mavroudi and Caroline Nagel provide a much-needed textbook for the study of one of the most important topics of our time. Their multidisciplinary approach offers comprehensive insights into the global patterns, politics, and practices of migration. A product of and for the classroom, the book is engaging and highly accessible to students.' Harald Bauder, Ph.D. Professor, Graduate Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies (ISS) & Dept. of Geography, Ryerson University, Canada 'An impressively comprehensive account of one of the world’s most important geographical phenomena – the movement of people across borders. Global Migration is a must-read for any serious student of migration, and will appeal to a wide range of social-science disciplines and degree programmes.' Russell King, Professor of Geography, University of Sussex; Visiting Professor of Migration Studies (and former Willy Brandt Guest Professor), Malmö University, Sweden. ‘This is an invaluable guide to understanding global migration. Beginning with a historical overview of global migration from the sixteenth century onwards, the book then focuses on labour migration, migration and development, refugees, state regulation, citizenship and integration and migrant lives and identities. The book engages with a wide range of ideas and examples in illuminating and compelling ways. Particularly impressive in the clarity of its multi-disciplinary approach, the book provides an excellent guide for both students and a wider readership interested in learning more about the complex and multi-faceted nature of migration and how it shapes our world.’ Alison Blunt, Professor of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Global Migration is a valuable, up to-date and highly readable account of contemporary migration, its processes, politics, and geographical causes and consequences. Jonathan Darling, University of Manchester, Geography, Volume 102