People Changing Places [Paperback]

While migration and population settlement have always been an important feature of political life throughout the world, the dramatic changes in the pace, direction, and complexity of contemporary migration flows are undoubtedly unique. Despite the economic benefits often associated with global, regional, and internal migration, the arrival of large numbers of migrants can exacerbate tensions and give rise to violent clashes between local populations and recent arrivals. This volume takes stock of these trends by canvassing the globe to generate new conceptual, empirical, and theoretical contributions. The analyses ultimately reveal the critical role of the state as both an actor and arena in the migration-conflict nexus.

PART I: Introduction: Concepts and Overview

1. Demography, Migration, Conflict, and the State: The Contentious Politics of Connecting People to Places

2. Sons of the Soil Conflicts and Autochthony: Bridging the Literatures

PART II: The State, Migration, and Violent Conflict

3. This Land is Whose Land?: Sons of the Soil Conflicts in Darfur

4. Ethnic Census-Taking, Instability, and Armed Conflict

5. Internal Migration, Political Liberalization, and Violent Conflict in Authoritarian China

PART III: Identity, Territory, and the Politics of Belonging

6. The Concept of Rootedness in the Struggle for Political Power in the Former Soviet Union in the 1990s

7. How Homelands Change?: Lessons from the Experience of Two IsralãÏ