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  • Making Citizens in Africa

    Ethnicity, Gender, and National Identity in Ethiopia

    by Lahra Smith ...
    Series Book 125 - African Studies
    Smith argues that citizenship creation and expansion is a pivotal part of political contestation in Africa today. Citizenship is a powerful analytical tool to approach political life in contemporary Africa because the institutional and structural reforms of the past two decades have been inextricably linked with the battle over the 'right to have rights'. Professor Lahra Smith's work advances the ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • African Perspectives on South–South Migration

    Edited by Meron Zeleke, Lahra Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
    This book investigates the diverse and dynamic forms of migration within Africa. Centring themes of agency, resource flows, and transnational networks, the book examines the enduring appeal of the Global South as a place of origin, transit, and destination.Popular media, government pronouncements, and much of the global research discourse continue to be oriented towards migration from the Global ... Read more

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  • International Migration: A Very Short Introduction

    by Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration -- both legal and illegal -- to reveal that migration actually presents ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • How Migration Really Works

    The Facts About the Most Divisive Issue in Politics

    by Hein de Haas ...
    An authoritative guide to global migration that corrects decades of misunderstanding and misguided policy, "defying orthodoxy on all sides of the debate" (Yascha Mounk, author of The Identity Trap).As debates on immigration have reached fever pitch, so has political and media fearmongering. But what are the facts behind the headlines?Drawing on three decades of research, migration expert Hein de ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Age of Migration

    International Population Movements in the Modern World

    by Hein de Haas, Stephen Castles, Mark J. Miller ...
    Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated sixth edition continues to offer an authoritative and cutting-edge account of migration flows, why they occur, and their consequences for both origin and destination societies. International migration is one of the most emotive issues of our times, ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Fragile States

    by Lothar Brock, Hans-Henrik Holm, Georg Sorenson, Michael Stohl ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    Today a billion people, including about 340 million of the world's extreme poor, are estimated to live in 'fragile states'. This group of low-income countries are often trapped in cycles of conflict and poverty, which make them acutely vulnerable to a range of shocks and crises.This engaging book defines and clarifies what we mean by fragile states, examining their characteristics in relation to ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • The Wealth of Refugees

    How Displaced People Can Build Economies

    by Alexander Betts ...
    We live in an age of displacement. Refugee numbers are increasing due to a proliferation of fragile states, and this problem will be exacerbated by climate change and the impact of COVID-19. And yet, rising populist nationalism has undermined the political willingness of rich countries to accept migrants and asylum seekers. Given these contradictory trends, how can we create sustainable refugee ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • Survival Migration

    Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement

    by Alexander Betts ...
    International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies

    Edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, Nando Sigona ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being a concern of a relatively small number of scholars and policy researchers in the 1980s to a global field of interest with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement either from traditional disciplinary perspectives or as a core component of newer programmes across the Humanities and Social and Political Sciences. Today the field ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Horn of Africa

    by Kidane Mengisteab ...
    Series series Hot Spots in Global Politics
    The Horn of Africa is a deeply troubled region engulfed in three interlocking crises. The first is a security crisis characterized by a range of devastating inter-state and inter-communal conflicts, including civil wars. The second is an economic crisis, evidenced by widespread debilitating poverty, chronic food insecurity, and frequent cycles of famines. The effects of the third - environmental - ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Understanding Migrant Decisions

    From Sub-Saharan Africa to the Mediterranean Region

    by Belachew Gebrewold, Tendayi Bloom ...
    Examining how changing conditions in the Mediterranean Region have affected the decisions of those considering migrating from Sub-Saharan Africa to or through the Region, this book represents an important and overdue contribution to international policy-making and academic discourse. In current discussions relating to this migration phenomenon, the complexity of individual decision-making is often ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Europeanization of Turkish Public Policies

    A Scorecard

    Edited by Aylin Güney, Ali Tekin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
    Turkey’s candidacy for membership of the European Union has had mixed effects on its public policies. The initial degree of cohesion between EU and Turkish national policies, practices and institutions has varied by the policy field in question, leading to a complex amalgam of fit and misfit between the two actors. Their interaction in different policy areas has had direct influence both on Turkey ... Read more

    $59.99 USD