Immigration, Integration and Mobility: New Agendas in Migration Studies - Paperback

by Adrian Favell (Author)

A compilation of Adrian Favell's innovative and agenda-setting essays which, since the late 1990s, have charted the emergence of new migration patterns and politics in Europe. Tackling in turn issues of multiculturalism, immigrant integration, free movement, high skilled mobilities, new East-West migrations and regional integration, the collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the dynamic field of international migration studies. At the same time, it poses a sharp challenge to current complacencies, challenging researchers to escape methodological nationalism and the unreflective reproduction of concepts and assumptions in the field, as well as embracing new methodologies and theoretical resources. Moving fluidly across intellectual boundaries as much as national borders, Favell points the way forward to new thinking in this burgeoning and rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field.

Author Biography

Adrian Favell is Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris. He is the author of Philosophies of Integration: Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain (1998), The Human Face of Global Mobility: International Highly Skilled Migration in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific(edited with Michael Peter Smith, 2006), Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe (2008), and Before and After Superflat: A Short History of Japanese Contemporary Art 1990‒2011 (2012)