Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines
by James F. Hollifield /
2014 / English / PDF
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During the last decade the issue of migration has increased in
global prominence and has caused controversy among host countries
around the world. To remedy the tendency of scholars to speak
only to and from their own disciplinary perspective, this book
brings together in a single volume essays dealing with central
concepts and key theoretical issues in the study of international
migration across the social sciences. Editors Caroline B.
Brettell and James F. Hollifield have guided a thorough revision
of this seminal text, with valuable insights from such fields as
anthropology, demography, economics, geography, history, law,
political science, and sociology.
During the last decade the issue of migration has increased in
global prominence and has caused controversy among host countries
around the world. To remedy the tendency of scholars to speak
only to and from their own disciplinary perspective, this book
brings together in a single volume essays dealing with central
concepts and key theoretical issues in the study of international
migration across the social sciences. Editors Caroline B.
Brettell and James F. Hollifield have guided a thorough revision
of this seminal text, with valuable insights from such fields as
anthropology, demography, economics, geography, history, law,
political science, and sociology.
Each essay focuses on key concepts, questions, and theoretical
frameworks on the topic of international migration in a
particular discipline, but the volume as a whole teaches readers
about similarities and differences across the boundaries between
one academic field and the next. How, for example, do political
scientists wrestle with the question of citizenship as compared
with sociologists, and how different is this from the questions
that anthropologists explore when they deal with ethnicity and
identity? Are economic theories about ethnic enclaves similar to
those of sociologists? What theories do historians (the
"essentializers") and demographers (the "modelers") draw upon in
their attempts to explain empirical phenomena in the study of
immigration? What are the units of analysis in each of the
disciplines and do these shape different questions and diverse
models and theories?
Each essay focuses on key concepts, questions, and theoretical
frameworks on the topic of international migration in a
particular discipline, but the volume as a whole teaches readers
about similarities and differences across the boundaries between
one academic field and the next. How, for example, do political
scientists wrestle with the question of citizenship as compared
with sociologists, and how different is this from the questions
that anthropologists explore when they deal with ethnicity and
identity? Are economic theories about ethnic enclaves similar to
those of sociologists? What theories do historians (the
"essentializers") and demographers (the "modelers") draw upon in
their attempts to explain empirical phenomena in the study of
immigration? What are the units of analysis in each of the
disciplines and do these shape different questions and diverse
models and theories?
Scholars and students in migration studies will find this book a
powerful theoretical guide and a text that brings them up to
speed quickly on the important issues and the debates. All of the
social science disciplines will find that this book offers a
one-stop synthesis of contemporary thought on migration.
Scholars and students in migration studies will find this book a
powerful theoretical guide and a text that brings them up to
speed quickly on the important issues and the debates. All of the
social science disciplines will find that this book offers a
one-stop synthesis of contemporary thought on migration.