People Changing Places

Isabelle Côté is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Matthew I. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Monica Duffy Toft is Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a Global Scholar with the Peace Research Institute, Oslo.

PART I: Introduction: Concepts and Overview

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

Isabelle Côté and Matthew I. Mitchell

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

Ragnhild Nordås

PART II: The State, Migration, and Violent Conflict

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

Johan Brosché and Ralph Sundberg

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

Håvard Strand, Henrik Urdal, and Isabelle Côté

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

Isabelle Côté

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

Pål Kolstø

7. How Homelands Change?: Lessons from the Experience of Two Israeli Nationalist Movements

Nadav G. Shelef

8. Sons of the Soviet Soil and the Collapse of the USSR

Monica Duffy Toft

PART IV: Migration and Conflict in the Global North?

9. Migration and Conflict in OECD Countries

Michael S. Teitelbaum

10. Ethnic Nationalism or Relaxed Assimilation?: The Response of Dominant Ethnic Groups to Immigration in the Anglo-Saxon World

Eric Kaufmann

PART V: Conclusion

11. Concluding Remarks on the Politics of People Changing Places

Monica Duffy Toft