Resources List for Migration Reading

Introduction/ General

Arango, Joaquin. “Global Trends and Issues – Explaining Migration: A Critical View.” International Social Science Journal 52.3 (2000): 283-96.

Castles, Stephen. “International Migration at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century: Global Trends and Issues.” International Social Science Journal 52. 3 (2000): 269-81.

Koser, Khalid. Human Migration. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006 (forthcoming).

Massey, Douglas S., et al. “Theories of International Migration: A Review and Appraisal.” Population and Development Review 19.3 (1993): 431-66.

Further References
Castles, Stephen, and Mark J. Miller. The Age of Migration (3rd Edition). Basingstoke: Guilford, 2003.


Political Economy

Borjas, George. “The Economics of Immigration.” Journal of Economic Literature 32 (1994): 1667-717.

Nikolinakos, Marios. “Notes Towards a General Theory of Migration in Late Capitalism.” Race and Class XVII.1 (1975): 5-17.

Further References
Beneria, Lourdes. “Gender and the Construction of Global Markets: Engendering Polanyi’s The Great Transformation.” Gender and Identity Construction: Women of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Turkey. Ed. Feride Acar, and Ayşe Güneş-Ayata. Leiden: Brill, 2000: 3-22.

Strikwerda, Carl, and Camille Guerin-Gonzales. “Labor, Migration, and Politics.” The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration in the World Economy since 1830. Ed. Camille Guerin-Gonzales, Carl Strikwerda, and David Brody. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1993: 3-48.

Worsley, Peter. “Models of the Modern World-System.” Global Culture. Ed. Mike Featherstone. London: Sage, 1990: 83-95.

Bauder, Harald. Labor Movement: How Migration Regulates Labor Markets. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.

Cohen, Robin. The New Helots. Migrants in the International Division of Labour. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997.

Cohen, Robin. Migration and its Enemies. Global Capital, Migrant Labour and the Nation-State. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Findlay, Allan M. “New Technology, High-Level Labour Movements and the Concept of the Brain Drain.” OECD. The Changing Course of International Migration. Paris: OECD, 1993: 149-60.

Jordan, Bill, and Franck Düvell. Migration: The Boundaries of Equality and Justice (Themes for the 21st Century). Cambridge: Polity, 2003.

Meillassoux, Claude. Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Community. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1981.

Potts, Lydia. The World Labour Market: A History of Migration. London: Zed, 1990.

Stalker, Peter. Workers without Frontiers: The Impact of Globalization on International Migration. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publ., 1996.

Stark, Oded, and J. Edward Taylor (Eds.), Relative Deprivation and Migration: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications. The World Bank: Population and Human Resources Department – Working Papers Series: No. 656, 1991.[electronic version:http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1991/04/01/000009265_3961001023149/Rendered/PDF/multi_page.pdf]


Sociological Approaches
Schmitter Heisler, Barbara. “The Sociology of Immigration. From Assimilation to Segmented Integration, From the American Experience to the Global Arena.” Migration Theory. Talking across Disciplines. Ed Caroline Bretell, and James Hollifield. London: Routledge, 2000: 77-96.

Ackers, Louise. Shifting Spaces. Women Citizenship and Migration within the European Union. Bristol: Policy Press, 1998: 223-70 (“Facilitating Mobility? Migrant Women’s Experience of Living in Different Welfare Systems”)

Boyd, Monica. “Family and Personal Networks in International Migration: Recent Developments and New Agendas.” International Migration Review 23. 3 (1989): 638-70.

Castles, Stephen. “Towards a Sociology of Forced Migration and Social Transformation.” Sociology 37.1 (2003): 13-33.

Fouron, Georges, and Nina Glick-Schiller. “All in the Family: Gender, Transnational Migration, and the Nation States.” Identities 7.4 (2001): 539-82.


Further References
Hałas, Elżbieta (Ed). Florian Znaniecki’s Sociological Theory and the Challenges of 21st Century. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 2000.

Ravenstein, Ernest. “The Laws of Migration. Second Paper.” Journal of The Royal Statistical Society 52 (1889): 241-301.

Eisenstadt, Shmuel N.The Absorption of Immigrants. A Comparative Study. Based Mainly on the Jewish Community in Palestine and the State of Israel. London: Greenwood, 1954.

Gordon, Milton R.. Assimilation in American Life. The Role of Race, Religion, and National Origin. New York: Oxford UP, 1964.

Znaniecki, Florian, and William Thomas. The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: Monograph of an Immigrant Group. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, 1996 [1919].

Migration Systems

Fawcett, J. “Networks, Linkages, and Migration Systems.” International Migration Review 23 (1989): 671-80.

Matthei, L.M. “Gender and International Labor Migration: A Networks Approach.” Social Justice 23 (1997): 38-53.

Tamas, Kristof, and Joakim Palme (Eds.). Globalizing Migration Regimes. New Challenges to Transnational Cooperation. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Further References
Kritz, Mary M., Lin Lean Lim, and Hania Zlotnik (Eds.). International Migration Systems. A Global Approach. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

Smith, Robert, and Aristide Zolberg. Migration Systems and Public Policy. Oxford: Routledge, 2007

Tamas, Kristof, and Joakim Palme (Eds.). Globalizing Migration Regimes. New Challenges to Transnational Cooperation. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Triandafyllidou, Anna (Ed). Contemporary Polish Migration in Europe: Complex Patterns of Movement and Settlement. Ceredigion: Edwin Mellen, 2006.

Zlotnik, Hania. “Empirical Identification of International Migration Systems.” International Migration Systems. A Global Approach. Ed. Mary M. Kritz, Lin Lean Lim, and Hania Zlotnik. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992: 19-40.



Transnational Migration

Pries, Ludger. “Transnational Migration: New Challenges for Nation States and New Opportunities for Regional and Global Development.” Transnational Migration – Dilemmas. Ed. Krystyna Iglicka. Warszawa: Center for International Relations, 2006: 9-28.electronic version: [http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/soaps/download/publ-2006_transnational_migration.pdf]
Fouron, Georges and Nina Glick-Schiller. “All in the Family: Gender, Transnational Migration, and the Nation States.” Identities 7.4 (2001): 539-82.

Wimmer, Andreas and Nina Glick-Schiller. “Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology.” International Migration Review 37. 3 (2003): 576-610.

Further References

Adler Lomnitz, Larissa. Networks and Marginality. Life in a Mexican Shantytown. New York/ San Francisco/ London: Academic Press, 1997.

Basch, Linda, Nina Glick-Schiller, and C. Blanc-Szanton. Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Post-Colonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation States. London: Routledge, 1994.

Castells, Manuel. The Rise of the Network Society. Malden/ Mass.: Blackwell, 2000.
Faist, Thomas. The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.

Nolin, Catherine. Transnational Ruptures. Gender and Forced Migration. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Pries, Ludger (Ed). Migration and Transnational Social Spaces. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999.

Arya, Sadhna, and Anupama Roy (Eds.). Poverty, Gender and Migration. New Delhi: Sage, 2006.

Boyd, Monica. “Family and Personal Networks in International Migration: Recent Developments and New Agendas.” International Migration Review 23. 3 (1989): 638-70.

Cappai, Gabriele. “Migrant Organizations: Their Order and Evolution.” Florian Znaniecki’s Sociological Theory and the Challenges of 21st Century. Ed. Elżbieta Hałas. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 2000: 257-67.

Pessar, Patricia, and Sarah Mahler. “Transnational Migration: Bringing Gender in.” International Migration Review 37.3 (2003): 812-46.


Post-Colonial Studies

Mishra, Vijay, and Bob Hodge. “What is Post(-)colonialism?” Colonial Disourse and Post-Colonial Theory. A Reader. Ed. Patrick Williams, and Laura Chrisman. New York: Columbia UP, 1994: 276-90.

Said, Edward. “From Orientalism”. Colonial Disourse and Post-Colonial Theory. A Reader. Ed. Patrick Williams, and Laura Chrisman. New York: Columbia UP, 1994 [1978], 132-49.

Riley, Dylan, and Rebecca Jean Emigh. “Post-Colonial Journeys: Historical Roots of Immigration and Integration.” Comparative Sociology 1.2 (2002): 169-91.

Further References
Ahmad, Aijiz. In Theory – Classes, Nations, Literatures. London:Verso, 1992.

Brah, Avtar. Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities. London: Routledge, 1996.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000.
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. London: Grove, (1965) 2005.

hooks, bell. From Margin to Center. Boston: South End, (1984) 2000.

Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic. Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge: Harvard UP 1995.

McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather. Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Context. London: 1995.

Said, Edward. Culture and Orientalism. New York: Vintage, 1978.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. The Post-Colonial Critic. Ed. Sarah Harasym. New York/ London: Routledge, 1990.

Young, Robert C. Colonial Desire. Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race. London: Routledge 1995.

Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffins, and Helen Tiffin (Eds.). Key Concepts in Post Colonial Studies. London: Routledge, 1998.

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.

Edgar, Andrew, and Peter Sedgwick. Key Concepts in Cultural Theory. London: Routledge, 1999.



Gender and Migration

M. Donato, Katharine, et al. “A Glass Half Full? Gender in Migration Studies.” International Migration Review 40. 1 (2006): 3-26.

Campani, Giovanna. “Women Migrants: From Marginal Subjects to Social Actors.” The Cambridge Survey of World Migration. Ed. Robin Cohen. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995: 546-50.

Hondagneu-Sotelo, P., and C. Cranford. “Gender and Migration”. Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. Ed. J.S. Chafetz. New York: Kluwer Academic, 1999: 105-27.

Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse.” Colonial Disourse and Post-Colonial Theory. A Reader. Ed. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman. New York: Columbia UP, 1994[1988]: 196-221.

Pessar, Patricia R. “The Role of Gender, Households, and Social Networks in the Migration Process: A Review and Appraisal.” The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience. Ed. Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitz, and Josh Dewind. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999: 53-70.

Further References

Acar, Feride, and Ayşe Güneş-Ayata (Eds.). Gender and Identity Construction: Women of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Turkey. Leiden: Brill, 2000.

Boyle, Paul, and Keith Halfacree. Migration and Gender in the Developed World. London: Routledge, 2001.

Indra, Doreen (Ed.). Engendering Forced Migration. Theory and Practice. New York: Berghahn, 1999.

Kofman, Eleonore, et al. (Eds.). Gender and International Migration in Europe. Employment, Welfare and Politics. London: Routledge, 2000.

Nolin, Catherine. Transnational Ruptures. Gender and Forced Migration. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Beneria, Lourdes. “Gender and the Construction of Global Markets: Engendering Polanyi’s The Great Transformation.” Gender and Identity Construction: Women of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Turkey. Ed. Feride Acar, and Ayşe Güneş-Ayata. Leiden: Brill, 2000: 3-22.

Lenz, Ilse, et al. (Eds.). Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries. Vol. II: Gender, Identities and Networks. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2002.

Momsen, Janet Henshall (Ed). Gender, Migration and Domestic Service. London: Routledge, 1999.

Morokvasic-Müller, Mirijana, Umut Erel, and Kyoko Shinozaki (Eds.). Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries. Vol. I: Gender on the Move. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2003.

O’Connell, Julia Davidson, and Jacquline Sanchez Taylor. “Tales of Two Worlds: Globalization and Sexual Exploitation.” The Global Economy, National States and the Regulation of Labour. Ed. Paul Edwards, and Tony Elger. London: Routledge, 1999: 202-19.

Willis, Katie, and Brenda Yeoh (Eds.). Gender and Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2000.

Sharpe, Pamela (Ed). Women, Gender and Labour Migration. Historical and Global Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2001.

Tastsoglou, Evangelia, and Alexandra Dobrowolsky (Eds.). Women, Migration and Citizenship. Making Local, National and Transnational Connections. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.



Globalisation and Migration

Giddens, Anthony. Sociology (5th Edition). Cambridge, 2006, xxx , (“Chpt. 2: Globalization and the Changing World”).

Ellwood, Wayne. The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization. Oxford: Verso, 2003. (selected chapters)

Evans Braziel, Jana, and Anita Mannur. “Nation, Migration, Globalization: Points of Contention in Diaspora Studies.” Theorizing Diaspora. A Reader. Ed. Jana Evans Braziel, and Anita Mannur. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003: 1-22.

Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson. “The Limits to Economic Globalization.” The Global Transformations Reader. An Introduction to the Globalization Debate (2nd Edition). Ed. David Held, and Anthony Mc Grew. Cambridge: Polity, 2003: 335-48.

Moses, Jonathon. International Migration. Globalization’s Last Frontier. London: Zed, 2006.

Stalker, Peter. The No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration. Oxford: Verso, 2001: 121-33 (“Shock Absorbers for the Global Economy”).

Further References

Bauböck, Rainer. Migration and Citizenship. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2006.

Castles, Stephen, and Alastair Davidson. Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and the Politics of Belonging. London: Routledge, 2000.

Jordan, Bill, and Franck Düvell. Migration: The Boundaries of Equality and Justice (Themes for the 21st Century). Cambridge: Polity, 2003.

Papastergiadis, Nikos. The Turbulence of Migration: Globalization, Deterritorialization, and Hybridity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

Parreñas, R. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work. Standford, CA: Standford UP, 2001.

Sassen, Saskia. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991.

Sassen, Saskia. Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money. New York: New Press, 1998.

Schierup, Cal-Ulrik, Peo Hansen, and Stephen Castles. Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare State. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.

Papademetriou, Demetrios (Ed). Europe and its Immigrants in the 21st Century. A New Deal or a Continuing Dialogue of the Deaf? New York: Migration Policy Institute; Luso-American Foundation, 2006.

Tamas, Kristof, and Joakim Palme (Eds.). Globalizing Migration Regimes. New Challenges to Transnational Cooperation. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Tapinos, Georges Photios. “Globalisation, Regional Integration, International Migration.” International Social Science Journal 52.3 (2000): 297-306.


Theories on Culture, Racism, Nationalism

Melucci, Alberto. “Differences and Otherness in a Global Society.” Racism. Ed. Martin Bulmer, and John Solomos. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999: 412-25.

Phoenix, Ann. “A Monocultural Nation in a Multi-Cultural Society?” Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries. Vol. II: Gender, Identities and Networks. Ed. Ilse Lenz et al. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2002: 75-92.

Papastergiadis, Nikos. “Mobility and the Nation: Skins, Machines and Complex Systems.” Static. Issue 02 – Trafficking (2006): 1-26.


Further References