Research Handbook on the Sociology of Migration

Edited by Giuseppe Sciortino, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy, Martina Cvajner, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Italy and Peter J. Kivisto, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Augustana College, US

Contents:

Introduction. The sociology of migration: where has it been and where is it going? 1
Martina Cvajner, Peter J. Kivisto, and Giuseppe Sciortino

PART I KEY CONCEPTS
1 Mobility, immobility, and migration 12
Nicholas DeMaria Harney
2 Borders and boundaries 23
Giuseppe Sciortino
3 Migration categories and the politics of labeling 34
Leila Hadj Abdou and Federica Zardo
4 Gender 46
Johanna Leinonen
5 Migration chains and migration networks: researching migration as
a social process 60
Remus Gabriel Anghel
6 Sequences and transitions in migration 74
Russell King and Ronald Skeldon
7 Migration systems 86
Oliver Bakewell
8 Migration policies and politics 96
Joaquín Arango
9 Migration and border regimes 109
Bernd Kasparek
10 Contexts of reception 122
Ayumi Takenaka
11 Theorizing modes of incorporation 133
Peter J. Kivisto
12 Diversity and super-diversity 143
Ivano Bison and Daniel Joseph Belback
13 Inclusion and exclusion 156
Gabriel Echeverría and Claudia Finotelli
14 Remittances in a world of uncertainty and insecurity 167
Ibrahim Sirkeci
15 Transnationalism and the making of diasporas 181
Thomas Lacroix
16 Children of immigrants and the second generation 192
Davide Azzolini and Philipp Schnell

PART II METHODS AND TECHNIQUES
17 Secondary analysis of government and official data on international
migration 206
Corrado Bonifazi
18 Ethnography in migration studies: an everlasting love? 215
Martina Cvajner
19 Quantitative surveys on migration 227
Erik Vickstrom and Cris Beauchemin
20 Connecting with connected migrants: exploring the field of digital
migration studies 243
Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky
21 Toward the use of emotions as a methodological technique for the
empirical analysis of migration 258
Elizabeth Aranda, Girsea Martinez Rosas, and Rebecca Blackwell
22 Network analysis 272
Başak Bilecen
23 Visual methods in migration research 285
Susan Ball

PART III SITES, PLACES, AND SPHERES
24 Sending communities, social spheres, and households: what can be
learned about migration 300
Jeffrey H. Cohen
25 Borders, embassies, and visas: the lessons of sociological lenses 307
Federica Infantino
26 Workplaces and labor markets 319
Mattia Vitiello
27 Migration in families and households 328
Heather M. Wurtz and Heide Castañeda
28 Housing and home 340
Enrico Fravega and Paolo Boccagni
29 Sociabilities: kin, friends, and acquaintances in international migration 351
Rocco Molinari
30 Migrant associations and communities 363
Margit Fauser
31 Migration and the welfare state 375
Grete Brochmann
32 The religious migrant 387
Tuomas Martikainen
33 Sport and migration 400
Max Mauro
34 Migration, museums, (and archives) 411
Aleksandra Kubica

Index 423