ABSTRACT A critical review of the state-of-the-art in migration studies. The paper centres on
a contrast between established comparative scholarship–elaborating progressive models of …

The introduction offers an overview to migration studies, comparing and contrasting different
disciplinary approaches—what they have in common and where they differ. The chapter …

The notion of 'immigrant integration'is used everywhere–by politicians, policy makers,
journalists and researchers–as an all-encompassing framework for rebuilding 'unity from …

Metaphors of flooding and “flows” are often applied in the public sphere to the phenomena
of displacement and migration, but there are also “waves” and “tides” of humanitarian …

Urban village regeneration has been considered an effective way to achieve the vision of
transforming the arrival cities in China to affordable cities. However, the existing research …

Displacement is typically approached in anthropology as an exceptional experience that is
associated with refugees and forced migration. Recent representations of a migration 'crisis' …

Sustainability and migration are typically treated as discrete policy spheres in international,
national, and local fora, separated in governance structures and institutions. This results in …

This article investigates how migrants experience “co-presence” with their loved ones
through social media. On the basis of empirical investigation, the article engages with …

The present exercise is a provisional effort to dedicate serious critical reflection to a variety
of keywords operating within contemporary discourses of power and resistance, which …

Over the years, cities have figured as exemplary places for neoliberal urban policies which
tend to appropriate the right to the city through city-branding policies. However, as this article …