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This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class or 'middling' migrant groups across the globe, asking how relatively privileged migrant groups negotiate their life trajectories and aspirations while 'on the move' and how they potentially transform the communities and societies that they move both from and to.

Building on research within the fields of exile studies and critical migration studies and drawing links between historical and contemporary 'refugee scholarship', this book challenges the bias of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism in discussing the multifaceted forms of knowledge emerging in the context of migration and mobility.

This book offers an in-depth sociological exploration of the social trajectories and experiences of children of post-colonial immigrants in France who are embarking on paths of extreme upward intergenerational mobility.

Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region examines the influence of imperialism and colonialism on the formation of national identities in the Nordic countries, exploring the manner in which contemporary discourses in Nordic society are rendered meaningful or obscured by references to past events and tropes related to the practices and ideologies of colonialism.

This book brings an intersectional perspective to border studies, drawing on case studies from across the world to consider the ways in which notably gender and race dynamics change the ways in which people cross international borders, and how diffuse and virtual borders impact on migrants' experiences.

Examining historical and contemporary narratives of migrant and refugee discrimination, this book explores the question of whether the conceptualisation of New Zealand as a welcoming nation is accurate, considering the economic, social, political, cultural and historical contexts from which discrimination emerges and its repercussions.

Building on research within the fields of exile studies and critical migration studies and drawing links between historical and contemporary `refugee scholarship¿, this book challenges the bias of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism in discussing the multifaceted forms of knowledge emerging in the context of migration and mobility.

This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class or `middling¿ migrant groups across the globe, asking how relatively privileged migrant groups negotiate their life trajectories and aspirations while `on the move¿ and how they potentially transform the communities and societies that they move both from and to.

This book examines the complex encounters between Polish migrant women and local populations in Manchester and Barcelona, with attention to the ways in which difference is negotiated and managed through everyday practices of conviviality, which help to overcome hierarchies and create elements of sameness.

This book critically engages with dominant ideas of cultural homogeneity in the Nordic countries and contests the notion of homogeneity as a crucial determinant of social cohesion and societal security.

This book examines the needs, aspirations, strategies, and challenges of transnational Muslim migrants in Europe with regard to family practices such as marriage, divorce and parenting.

Drawing upon media and visual sources and rich interview data from Iran, Britain and Israel, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism examines the concepts of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, tracing their evolution and inter-relations, and considering the distinct ways in which they are manifested, and responded to, by Muslim and Jewish communities in Iran.

Offers a discussion of the role of organisations in maintaining or challenging structures and cultures based on racism and discrimination, through an exploration of the relations between whiteness, identity and organization in migratory contexts.

With a longitudinal, intersectional study of migrant women, this book examines the lives of first generation Bangladeshi migrants to the UK, considering the dynamic relationship between people and place.

Based on extensive and original primary sources, including archival research, cookbooks and a variety of cultural products - from songs to dance steps, this book sheds light on an important cultural and ideational diffusion that has occurred between the Zionist settlers and the indigenous Arab-Palestinian people in Historical Palestine.