Aspiration, Desire and the Drivers of Migration

ISBN-13: 9780367236953 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 146 str.

Francis Collins; Jorgen Carling

Opis

This book throws new light on the drivers of migration and explores the different ways in which aspiration and desire are involved in the generation, experiences and outcomes of migration. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Aspiration, desire and drivers of migration Jørgen Carling and Francis Collins 1. Push-pull plus: reconsidering the drivers of migration Nicholas Van Hear, Oliver Bakewell and Katy Long 2. Revisiting aspiration and ability in international migration Jørgen Carling and Kerilyn Schewel 3. Desire as a theory for migration studies: temporality, assemblage and becoming in the narratives of migrants Francis L. Collins 4. Forced to leave? The discursive and analytical significance of describing migration as forced and voluntary Marta Bivand Erdal and Ceri Oeppen 5. Shifting migration aspirations in second modernity Elisabeth Scheibelhofer 6. Desiring ‘foreign talent’: lack and Lacan in anti-immigrant sentiments in Singapore Peidong Yang 7. Navigating aspirations and expectations: adolescents’ considerations of outmigration from rural eastern Germany Frank Meyer