Current representations of large movements of migrants and asylum seekers have become
part of the global consciousness. Media viewers are bombarded with images of people from …

The Bengal Borderland constitutes the epicentre of the partition of British India. Yet while the
forging of international borders between India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma (the'Bengal …

Because freedom of choice and economic gain are at the heart of productivity, human
trafficking impedes national and international economic growth. Within the next 10 years …

Graphic narratives of tragedies involving the journeys of irregular migrants trying to reach
destinations in the global north are common in the media and are blamed almost invariably …

In the 1990s, societies across the world were confronted with a sudden mass inflow of
Chinese migrants. Transnational Chinese investigates the global nature of this migration by …

Challenging traditional approaches to migration, which puts migrants in narrow categories
(legal and illegal, newcomer and settler),'Transit Migration'shows that migrants and refugees …

Chronicling the experience of young Andean families as their lives extend between
Ecuadorian highlands and New York City, this book takes an in-depth look at transnational …

Why, every year, tens of thousands of people are willing to risk their lives in perilous
voyages across Africa and the Mediterranean Sea? Why do they face such an ordeal to …

Navigating Borders into the Netherlands provides a unique in-depth look at human
smuggling processes. Based on biographical interviews with smuggled migrants in the …

This book examines the ways in which poverty in the Global South is created and
reproduced. More than a billion people, one in five, live on less than US $1 a day. Poverty is …