Aspiration, Desire and the Drivers of Migration

ISBN-13: 9781032086606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 156 str.

Francis L. Collins; Jørgen 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 migrationJørgen Carling and Francis Collins1. Push-pull plus: reconsidering the drivers of migrationNicholas Van Hear, Oliver Bakewell and Katy Long2. Revisiting aspiration and ability in international migrationJørgen Carling and Kerilyn Schewel3. Desire as a theory for migration studies: temporality, assemblage and becoming in the narratives of migrantsFrancis L. Collins4. Forced to leave? The discursive and analytical significance of describing migration as forced and voluntaryMarta Bivand Erdal and Ceri Oeppen5. Shifting migration aspirations in second modernityElisabeth Scheibelhofer6. Desiring ‘foreign talent’: lack and Lacan in anti-immigrant sentiments in SingaporePeidong Yang7. Navigating aspirations and expectations: adolescents’ considerations of outmigration from rural eastern GermanyFrank Meyer

O autorze

Francis L. Collins is a Professor of Geography in the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. His research focuses on international migration and cities with a particular emphasis on the experiences, mobility patterns, and government regulation of temporary migrants in urban contexts.

Jørgen Carling is a Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway. His research addresses migration theory, transnational practices, and the links between migration and development. He has a particular interest in the thoughts and feelings that precede migration, and in the experience of involuntary immobility.