Migration, Incorporation, and Change in an Interconnected World [Hardcover]

Written in engaging and approachable prose, Migration, Incorporation, and Change in an Interconnected World covers the bulk of material a student needs to get a good sense of the empirical and theoretical trends in the field of migration studies, while being short enough that professors can easily build their courses around it without hesitating to assign additional readings. Taking a unique approach, Ali and Hartmann focus on what they consider the important topics and the potential route the field is going to take, and incorporate a conceptual lens that makes this much more than a simple relaying of facts.

Introduction 1. Leaving Home 2. Cheap Meat for the Global Market 3. Globally Mobile Professionals 4. Assimilation of Second-Generation Immigrants 5. Maligned migrants: Muslims in the US and Western Europe 6. How Migration Impacts Societies Conclusion: Factors and Actors that will Shape the Future

This book is a much-needed and refreshing look into the globalized nature of contemporary migration that highlights lesser-known aspects such as temporary workers, expatriates, and Muslims in Europe, and by distilling important academic theories, concepts, and analysis of contemporary immigration into a more accessible text that will hopefully reach a wider, more popular audience.

-C.N. Le, Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

This is an indispensable text for faculty teaching about migration issues in an era of globalization. The book packages the latest research in global migration in a way that faculty will be able to easily structure courses around and that students will find not only informative but also thoroughly engaging. I highly recommend it!

-Matthew Ward, Sociology, University of Southern Mississippi

The story of migration is far too unruly to be contained within disciplinary boundaries. With this book, the authors have achieved the near-impossible; they hal2