Social Transformation and Migration National and Local Experiences in South Korea, Turkey, Mexico and Australia

by Castles, Stephen; Ozkul, Derya; Cubas, Magdalena

• ISBN13: 9781137474940
• ISBN10: 1137474947
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-03-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book examines theories and specific experiences of international migration and social transformation, with special reference to the effects of neo-liberal globalization on four societies with vastly different historical and cultural characteristics: South Korea, Australia, Turkey and Mexico. All of these countries have undergone far-reaching changes linked to incorporation of their economics into global value chains over the last decades. At the same time they have experienced new forms of immigration and emigration, which are closely related to the interaction between global forces and national and local forms of adaptation and resistance. Social Transformation and Migration conceptualizes migration not as the result of change nor a cause of change, but as an integral component of these transformation processes.

Author Biography

Stephen Castles holds a Research Chair in Sociology at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a sociologist and political economist, and works on international migration dynamics, global governance, multiculturalism, transnationalism, migration and development, and regional migration trends in Africa, Asia and Europe.
 

Derya Ozkul is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, Australia. In addition to her doctoral thesis, she has taught as a tutor and lecturer in the Sociology Department. She holds a BA degree in Political Sciences from Bogazici University, Turkey and an MSc degree in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics, UK.
 

Magdalena Arias Cubas is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, Australia. In addition to her studies, she has worked as a tutor and lecturer for the Department of Political Economy. She has also worked as a research assistant for the project 'Social Transformation and International Migration in the 21st Century'.

Table of Contents

1.International Human Mobility: Key Issues and Challenges to Social Theory; Stephen Castles
PART I: METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES
2.Towards a Multi-Scalar Methodology: The Challenges of Studying Social Transformation and International Migration; Rebecca Williamson
3.The Virtues and Challenges of Comparative Analyses of Immigration, Migrant Settlement and Transnationalism; Kevin Dunn and Alanna Kamp
4.The Temporalities of International Migration: Implications for Ethnographic Research; Shanthi Robertson
PART II: CASE-STUDY INSIGHTS: SOUTH KOREA
5.The Political Economy of Immigration in South Korea; Dong-hoon Seol
6.An Overview of International Migration to South Korea; Hye-Kyung Lee
7.From Salt Fields to 'Multicultural Village Special Zone': The Transformation of a Migrant City in South Korea; Chulhyo Kim
PART III: CASE-STUDY INSIGHTS: TURKEY
8.Migration Realities and State Responses: Rethinking International Migration Policies in Turkey; Ahmet Içduygu and Damla B. Aksel
9.Turkey's Neoliberal Transformation and Changing Migration Regime: The Case of Female Migrant Workers; Mine Eder
10. Migration Flows in Neoliberal Turkey: The Case of Kumkapi, Istanbul; Derya Ozkul
PART IV: CASE-STUDY INSIGHTS: MEXICO
11. From Casa Blanca to Tulsa: A Social Transformation Analysis of Mexican Migration in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization; Magdalena Arias Cubas
12. The Return of Migrants in the United States to Mexico: Impacts and Challenges for Zacatecas; Rodolfo García Zamora, Alondra Ambriz Nava and Patricia Herrera Castro
13. Unravelling Mexican Highly Skilled Migration in the Context of Neoliberal Globalization; Raúl Delgado Wise
PART V: CASE STUDY INSIGHTS: AUSTRALIA
14. 'In the Beginning all is Chaos…': Roaming the Dystopic Realm in Australian Multiculturalism; Andrew Jakubowicz
15. Multiculturalism at the Margins of Global Sydney: Cacaphonous Diversity in Fairfield, Australia; Elsa Koleth
16. The Political Economy of the Social Transformation of Australian Suburbs; Jock Collins
17. Law as an Agent of Social Transformation: Trends in the Legal Regulation of Migration; Mary Crock
18. Generations and Change: Affinities Old and New; Ellie Vasta
19. International Migration in an Era of Neoliberal Social Transformation; Magdalena Arias Cubas, Derya Ozkul and Stephen Castles