Syllabus/achievement requirements

* = the article is in a compendium @ = the article is available online

Main books

Samers, M. (2010) Migration (Key Ideas in Geography Series), Routledge. – chapters 1-6 311 pages

Glick Schiller, N. and Faist, T. (Ed) (2010) Migration, Development and Transnationalization: A Critical Stance, Berghahn books (Pocket size), chapters 1-5, 181 pages,

Articles & book chapters:

@ Blunt, A. (2007). "Cultural geographies of migration: mobility, transnationality and diaspora". Progress in Human Geography 31(5): 684-694. 11 pages. Online

@ Brochmann, G and Hagelund, A (2011) "Migrant in the Scandinavian Welfare State: The emergence of a social policy problem", Nordic Journal for Migration Research, 1(1):13- 23 – 11 pages. Online @ Bailey, A.J (2001) "Turning Transnational: Notes on the Theorization of International Migration, International Journal of Population Geography" 7(6):413-428 – 16 pages. Online

@ Carling, J (2008) "The determinants of Migrants remittances", Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 24 (3): 581-598 – 18 pages. Online

@ Cheran, R (2006) "Multiple homes and Parallel Civil Societies: Refugee Diasporas and Transnationalism", Refuge, 23(1): 4-8 – 5 pages. Online

*Cohen, R (2008) "Global Diasporas: An Introduction", Second edition, Chapter 1 (20 pages)

@de Haas, H (2007) "Remittances, Migration and Social Development: A conceptual review of the literature, Social Policy and Development Programme paper 34", United Nations Research Institute for Social Development . 38 pages Online

@ de Haas, H (2012) "Migration and Development Pendulum: A Critical View on Research and Policy", International Migration, 50(3): 8-24, 18 pages. Online

@ Fangen, K (2010) "Social Exclusion of young Immigrants: Presentation of an analytical framework", Young, 18(2):133-156. (24 pages)Online

@ Glick Schiller, Bach, L and Blanc-Szanton, C. (1992) "Transnationalism: A New Analytic Framework for Understanding Migration", Annals New York Academy of Science, 625: 1-24. (24 pages)Online

@ Mitchell, K. (1997) "Transnational Discourse: Bringing Geography Back In", Antipode, 29(1): 101-114. (14 pages) "Online": http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8330.00038/pdf

@ Ní Laoire; G (2003) "Editorial Introduction: Locating Geographies of Diaspora", International Journal of Population Geography, 9: 275–280. (6 pages) Online

@ Rios, M., & Adiv, N. (2010). "Geographies of Diaspora: A Review". Davis, CA: UC Davis Center for Regional Change. – 21 pages.

@ Shanmugaratnam, N (2001) "On the meaning of development: An exploration of the capability approach", Forum for Development Studies, 28 (2): 263-288. (26 pages) Online

@ Silvey, R (2006) "Geographies of Gender and Migration: Spatializing social differences, International Migration Review", 40 (1): 64-81 – 18 pages. Online

@ T?l?lyan, K (2007)"The contemporary Discourse of Diaspora studies", Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 27 (3): 647-655. (9 pages). Online

@ T?l?lyan, K (2012) "Diaspora studies: Past, present and promise, working paper 55", International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK .(11 pages). Online

*Vetrovec, S (2009) Transnationalism, Routledge, "Chapter 1". (26 pages)

Recommended reading:

@ Brubaker, R (2005): "The ‘diaspora’ diaspora", Ethnic and Racial Studies, 28(1), 1-19. (19 pages). Online

@ Carling, J and Erdal, M.B (2012) "How does conflict in Migrants’ country of origin affect Remittance-Sending? Financial priorities and Transnational Obligations Among Somalis and Pakistanis in Norway", International Migration review, 46(2): 283-309. (27 pages) Online

Castles, S. Miller M.J (2009) The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World, Fourth Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, Chapters, 2 & 8. (56 pages)

@ Tharmalingam, S (2011) "Remittances Practices and Transnational Social Spaces of Tamils and Somalis in Norway", Nordic Journal of Migration Research 1(3): 166-175. (10 pages) Online

 

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