International Migration Research

’In this timely and significant book, Michael Bommes and Ewa Morawska bring together leading American and European scholars to explore central questions in the study of international migration. What theoretical concepts and methodological tools guide immigration research in various disciplines? How do migration scholars talk across the disciplines? What impact does migration research have on different disciplines? The insightful and provocative essays will help to push the immigration field forward at the same time as they highlight the critical role of international migration in the broader study of contemporary societies.’ Nancy Foner, City University of New York, USA ’This volume actually takes a new, big step in the long lived aim of making migration research genuinely interdisciplinary rather than merely declaring it to be so. Michael Bommes and Ewa Morawska’s agenda is clear: to bring this research into the mainstream theoretical agendas of various disciplines where immigration could and should function as a foundational category or, at the least, as a bridging concept. An excellent, theoretically informed collection.’ Saskia Sassen, author of Denationalization: Assemblages of Territory, Authority and Rights ’Too often migration researchers take the notions on which they base their work for granted. They may also copy the discourse of public authorities on these matters without any reflection or sense of criticism. This book will make all migration researchers more conscious of these practices. It shows very convincingly how harmful these can be not only for good quality research, but also for furthering the development of theory in this field...This book is a must for anyone genuinely interested in advancing scientific knowledge on international migration and integration processes, core phenomena of the 21st century.’ Professor Han Entzinger, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands ’...an invaluable guide to scholars interested