In recent years, scholarly attention has shifted away from debates on ethnicity to focus on issues of migration and citizenship. Inspired, in part, by earlier studies on European guestworker migration, these debates are fed by the new “transnational mobility”, by the immigration of Muslims, by the increasing importance of human rights law, and by the critical attention now paid to women migrants. With respect to citizenship, many discussions address the diverse citizenship regimes. The present volume, together with its predecessor (Bodemann and Yurdakul 2006), addresses these often contentious issues. A common denominator which unites the various contributions is the question of migrant agency, in other words, the ways in which Western societies are not only transforming migrants, but are themselves being transformed by new migrations (Palgrave).
Table of Contents
- Introduction—Y. Michal Bodemann
- PART I: THE CHANGING NATURE OF MIGRATION IN NORTH AMERICA
- The Changing Nature of Migration in the 21st Century: Implications for Integration Strategies—Aristide Zolberg
- The Economic Adaptation of Past and Present Immigrants: Lessons from a Comparative-Historical Approach—Ewa Morawska
- Citizenship and Pluralism: Multiculturalism in a World of Global Migration—Irene Bloemraad
- PART II: DIASPORA, RELIGION AND COUNTER-TRADITIONS
- Islam and Multicultural Societies: A Transatlantic Comparison—Jocelyne Cesari
- The Changing Contours of Immigrant Religious Life—Peggy Levitt
- Crafting an Identity in the Diaspora: Iranian Immigrants in the United States—Valentine M. Moghadam
- PART III: IMMIGRANT WORKERS AND THE NATION-STATE
- Nation-State Building Projects and the Politics of Transnational Migration: Locating Salvadoran Migrants in Canada, the United States and El Salvador—Patricia Landolt
- Freedom to Discriminate: National State Sovereignty and Temporary Visa Workers in North America—Nandita Sharma
- Professionals and Saints: How Post-Soviet Immigrants Do Home-Care Work—Cinzia Solari
- PART IV: IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION INTO SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
- ’We Are Together Strong’?: The Unhappy Marriage between Migrant Associations and Trade Unions in Germany—Gökçe Yurdakul
- Liberal Values and Illiberal Cultures: The Question of Sharia Tribunals in Ontario—Donald Forbes
