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IMISCOE Research Series Anna Amelina Kenneth Horvath Bruno Meeus Editors An Anthology of Migration and Social Transformation European Perspectives IMISCOE Research Series This series is the offi cial book series of IMISCOE, the largest network of excellence on migration and diversity in the world. It comprises publications which present empirical and theoretical research on different aspects of international migration. The authors are all specialists, and the publications a rich source of information for researchers and others involved in international migration studies. The series is published under the editorial supervision of the IMISCOE Editorial Committee which includes leading scholars from all over Europe. The series, which contains more than eighty titles already, is internationally peer reviewed which ensures that the book published in this series continue to present excellent academic standards and scholarly quality. Most of the books are available open access. F or information on how to submit a book proposal, please visit: http://www. imiscoe.org/publications/how-to-submit-a-book-proposal . More information about this series at h ttp://www.springer.com/series/13502 Anna Amelina • Kenneth Horvath Bruno Meeus Editors An Anthology of Migration and Social Transformation European Perspectives Editors Anna Amelina Kenneth Horvath Department of Social Sciences University of Education of Karlsruhe Goethe-University Frankfurt Karlsruhe , Germany Frankfurt , Germany Bruno Meeus Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research Vrije Universiteit Brussel Brussels , Belgium ISSN 2364-4087 ISSN 2364-4095 (electronic) IMISCOE Research Series ISBN 978-3-319-23665-0 ISBN 978-3-319-23666-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23666-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015957383 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 T his work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper S pringer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Acknowledgements T he list of people who have supported the publication of this book in one way or the other is very long. First of all, we as the editors would like to thank all the authors who have contributed to this project and have made this project an illuminating and fascinating endeavour. We would like to express our deep appreciation to the whole IMISCOE team whose enthusiasm and encouragement for this project have guided us through the process. In this context, we owe special thanks to Warda Belabas and Michelle Luijben for their reliable, competent, and patient assistance. Bernadette Deelen-Mans and Evelien Bakker from Springer have done a marvellous job in turning our academic manuscript into a market-ready product. We are also very grateful to William White and René Reinholz who were of great help during the editing process. Special acknowledgements go to the association ‘Freunde und Förderer der Goethe-Universität’ – the ‘Friends and Sponsors of Goethe-University Frankfurt’ – who have provided important fi nancial assistance for the publication process. Last but not least, we are extremely grateful to the anonymous reviewers who have taken their job very seriously and have provided impressively rigorous and constructive feedback! Frankfurt , Germany Anna Amelina Karlsruhe , Germany Kenneth Horvath Brussels , Belgium Bruno Meeus v Contents 1 Migration and Social Transformation: Interdisciplinary Insights and European Perspectives .................................................................... 1 Anna Amelina , Kenneth Horvath and Bruno Meeus Part I Theorizing About Migration and Social Transformation in Europe Kenneth Horvath and Bruno Meeus Introduction to Part I ........................................................................... 15 2 Understanding Global Migration: A Social Transformation Perspective ................................................................... 19 Stephen Castles 3 Theorizing About Change: The Promise of Comparative Political Economy for Migration Studies .............................................. 43 Georg Menz 4 Turning to Grand Theory: Cultural Political Economy and the Regulation of Immigration ....................................................... 57 Nicolas Van Puymbroeck 5 Reflecting on Spatiality in European Migration Research: From Methodological Nationalism to Space-Sensitive Observations of Social Transformations ............................................... 73 Elisabeth Scheibelhofer 6 Migration and Postsocialism: A Relational- Geography Approach .................................................................................................. 87 Bruno Meeus vii viii Contents Part II Transformations in the Political Regulation of Migration Kenneth Horvath and Bruno Meeus Introduction to Part II ........................................................................ 101 7 The Europeanization of Immigration Policies ...................................... 105 Leila Hadj Abdou 8 New Guest Worker Regimes? ................................................................ 121 Michael Samers 9 Identity Check: Smart Borders and Migration Management as Touchstones for EU-Readiness and - Belonging .............................. 135 Martin Geiger 10 Border/Control ........................................................................................ 151 William Walters 11 Social Transformation, Subjectification, and Labour Migration: Theorizing the Heterogeneity of Migration Flows in the Current Italian Crisis ........................................................ 167 Gabriele Tomei Part III Complexities of Mobilities: From One-Way Migration to Multiple Patterns Bruno Meeus and Kenneth Horvath Introduction to Part III ..................................................................... 183 12 Cross-Border Commuting and Transformational Dynamics in Europe: What Is the Link? ................................................................ 187 Laura Wiesböck , Christoph Reinprecht , Raimund Haindorfer and Roland Verwiebe 13 Portability of Social Protection in the European Union ...................... 201 Elaine Moriarty , James Wickham , Alicja Bobek and Sally Daly 14 International Retirement Migration: Transforming Societies Through Purchasing Power? .................................................. 217 Benno Herzog 15 International Students and Cosmopolitanisms: Educational Mobility in a Global Age ................................................... 231 Başak Bilecen 16 ‘Good Motherhood’ – A Dilemma for Migrant Women from Eastern Europe .............................................................................. 245 Helma Lutz Contents ix Part IV Shifting Politics of Belonging Bruno Meeus and Kenneth Horvath Introduction to Part IV ..................................................................... 259 17 Struggles at the Boundaries of Neoliberal Citizenship: Theorizing Immigrant-Led Movements in Contemporary Europe ....................................................................... 263 Federico Oliveri 18 ‘Islamophobism’ as an Ideology in the West: Scapegoating Migrants of Muslim Origin .................................................................... 281 Ayhan Kaya 19 ‘How Would You React If You Learned That Your Son Was Gay?’ Racialized Sexualities and the Production of Migrant Others in Europe ................................................................. 295 Paul Scheibelhofer 20 Locating Migrant Pathways of Economic Emplacement: Thinking Beyond the Ethnic Lens ......................................................... 307 Nina Glick Schiller and Ayşe Çağlar 21 Mediated Communication and Migration in Europe: A Contribution to the Ongoing Debate ................................................. 327 Ricarda Drüeke Part V Outlook for Researching Migration and Social Transformation Beyond Eurocentrism 22 The ‘European’ Question: Migration, Race, and Post-Coloniality in ‘Europe’ ........................................................... 343 Nicholas De Genova Index ................................................................................................................. 357
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