The Soviet Union comprehensively governed the mobility of its citizens by barring emigration and strictly regulating internal migration. In the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, the constitution and laws of the new Russian Federation appeared to herald a complete break with the repressiveness of the previous government. Russian law now proclaims the right of Russian citizens and residents to move around their country freely.

This book examines how and why this post-Soviet legal promise of internal freedom of movement has been undermined in practice by both federal and regional policies....

Public discourses around migrant sex workers are often more confident about what migrant sex workers signify morally but are less clear about who the migrant is. Based on interviews with immigrant, migrant and racialized sex workers in Vancouver, Canada and Melbourne, Australia, "Sex Work, Immigration and Social Difference "challenges the migrant sex worker category by investigating the experiences of women who are often assumed to be migrant sex workers in Australia and Canada.

Many migrant sex workers in Melbourne and Vancouver are in fact, naturalized citizens or permanent residents,...

The region of Southeast Europe that includes the Former Yugoslavia (Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo) and Albania is one of the largest routes for undocumented migrants and asylum seekers in Europe and remains a notoriously difficult place to conduct research. Many of the states in this region are in the process of accession to the EU and this process has a direct impact on border control practices. This book considers the relationship between EU enlargement and border policing in Southeast Europe and its impact on mobile bodies, such as asylum...

The organization of human smuggling from the Middle East and Africa through Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean has become a contemporary political concern throughout Europe, receiving intense and polarised media attention. This timely book reformulates how we conceive of human smuggling, challenging popular and political conceptions of the practice in Europe.

This book proposes a new framework for examining the causes and effects of human smuggling in the Mediterranean, analysing the contingent patterns of human smuggling in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean with a...