Beyond a Border
The Causes and Consequences of Contemporary Immigration
- Peter Kivisto - Augustana College, USA, Richard A. Swanson Professor of Social Thought, and Chair of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Welfare, Augustana College, USA
- Thomas Faist - Bielefeld University, Germany
• comprehensive coverage of topics not covered in other texts
• a global portrait of contemporary immigration, including a demographic overview of today's cross-border movers
• critical assessments of the achievements of the field to date
• encourages students to rethink traditional views about the distinction between citizen and alien
"Compiled by two leading scholars demonstrating their mastery of the field, Beyond a Border provides an invaluable, single-text resource spanning a comprehensive range of immigration theories and dynamics."
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Very interesting book on contemporary immigration: the principal anthropological/sociological theories and concepts and also ethnographic dates. Very important for undergraduate students and research projects.
It provides a contemporary coverage of several migration theories. The authors take a critical position (assessment) on issues that have been achieved and others that need to be reconsidered. In particularly, I enjoined the politics of immigration where the authors raise vital questions why the national states control and permit the entrance of migrants and under which terms. They raise issues that need to further discussed and researched by several scholars around the world.
This book is every bit as good as I expected. It combines both the North American and European experiences while offering a very good selection of topics. Unusually for a textbook, I have even read most of the chapters and found them to engagingly written as well as informative. I will certainly be using it again next year with the second intake of our new MSc International Migration and Public Policy.
This book provides an excellent overview of the topic, and is especially good for graduate level students who don't have a background in the topic. I won't be using the entire book, but will be using multiple chapters.
Sample Materials & Chapters
Ch 1. Introduction: Moving Across Borders
Ch 4. Assimilation: Historical Perspective and Contemporary Reframing
