Series: Global Migration and Social Change

What happens when human rights norms and law collide with the complexities of asylum decision-making? Entangled Asylum in the Nordic Region offers a bold examination of how institutional dynamics and human rights oversight shape the intricate mechanisms behind asylum adjudication. By framing asylum law as an 'entangled regime,' the author uncovers how national decision-makers interpret, apply, and contest norms of...

Refugee Reception and Camps is available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This edited collection provides new insights into refugee reception and camps by focusing on the overlap between local and global dynamics in the governance of camps. It offers valuable insights to understand the complex realities of refugee camps around the world.

This innovative study of young Asian migrants' lives in Australia sheds new light on the complex relationship between migration and time. With in-depth interviews and a new conceptual framework, Robertson reveals how migration influences the trajectories of migrants' lives, from career pathways to intimate relationships. Robertson provides fresh perspectives on the 21st-century migratory experience in this innovative study of young...

Migration and Mobile Rights by Marco Perolini delves into the realm of migrant activism, a potent force within today's globalised society. The book raises crucial questions about the efficacy of such activism as an instrument for social transformation. This work presents a fresh and thought-provoking perspective on the role that migrant movements play in challenging discriminatory policies. It offers insights...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Using the analytical framework of reproductive justice, this book examines migrant women's experiences of pregnancy and maternity care within the context of gendered and racialised discourses around health, reproduction and citizenship, austerity, and an expanding border regime. Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy provides a comprehensive exploration of these critical issues, offering insights into how...

Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure examines the buildings used as reception centres for asylum seekers in central Italy. It reveals how they reflect the European migration crisis and EU border management. The book highlights key debates on the EU border, including their logistical management, the profit-driven industry they create, and their colonial implications.

Every migrant journey reshapes both the people undergoing it and the places it encounters. Migrant, Habitus explores how Lebanese-Australians navigate settlement as they rework the resources they bring and acquire new ones. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research across generations, it highlights the cultural, temporal, and generational dimensions of migration, showing how everyday practices shape belonging, identity, and social opportunity. The...

What happens when death becomes part of the journey of international migrants? Death in Migration examines how mortality is woven into the experience of displacement and migration. From perilous border crossings to the business of repatriation and contested burial grounds, it reveals the hidden geographies and politics that underpin the death of migrants in transit or abroad. Drawing together diverse...

This powerful volume brings together scholars, activists, artists, and experts-by-experience offering a radical critique of immigration detention and border carceral regimes more broadly, testifying to their inherent harms. The contributors critically examine how COVID-19 intensified state control, abandonment, and marginalisation while highlighting inspiring acts of resistance and solidarity. Combining abolitionist and no-border perspectives alongside critical scholarly analysis, the book offers...