Mass Migration in the World-System: Past, Present, and Future

by Jones,Terry-Ann

• ISBN13: 9781594518140
• ISBN10: 1594518149
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Mass Migration in the World-Systemoffers diverse perspectives on the political, economic, social and environmental impact of international domestic migration. Written with a balance of quantitative, qualitative, and theoretical contributions and insights, this book brings to light the multiple experiences of migrants across different zones of the world economy. By engaging wide-ranging ideas and theoretical viewpoints of the migration process, the labor market for immigrants, and the rights of migrants, this book provides an important'and much needed'interdisciplinary perspective on the issues of mass migration.

Author Biography

Terry-Ann Jones is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Fairfield University and the author of Jamaican Immigrants in the United States and Canada: Race, Transnationalism, and Social Capital (2008). Eric Mielants is Associate Professor of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Fairfield University and the author of The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West" (2007). Most recently he coedited the study, Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States (2009).

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Theorizing Migration
Free Flows and Real Obstacles: Who Wants Laissez-Faire?	p. 13
Human Migration over Millenia: A World-Systems View of Human Migration, Past and Present	p. 22
Class vs. Other as Analytic Categories: The Selective Incorporation of Migrants into Theory	p. 38
Environmental Migration	p. 55
Labor Markets for Migrants
Global Integration of Nursing Labor Markets: The U.S. Instance	p. 81
The U.S.-Mexico Commodity-Labor Exchange	p. 102
In-Migration vs. Out-Migration: The Case of Kerala	p. 122
Chinese Economic Expansion and Internal Migration	p. 144
Branch Migration: Finnish Migration to Sweden: The Pulp and Paper Industry	p. 170
The Rights of Migrants
National Identity or Transnational Citizenship? Citizens' Rights and Transnational Migration	p. 185
The Post-9/11 Anti-Immigrant Movement	p. 204
France's Sans-Papiers: ICT and Sponsorship by Activist Movements	p. 223
Acknowledgments	p. 239
About the Contributors	p. 241
Series Pages	p. 246
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