Description: The study of international migration and ethnic relations is rapidly expanding in the social sciences, in the humanities, and in law and medicine at universities around the world.
Brief description:
Grete Brochmann teaches at the The Institute for Social Research, Oslo.
Review Quotes:
"Tomas Hammar and his associates . . . have produced a book on migration theory that avoids the pitfalls of pressing the topic into the procrustean beds of general paradigms, be they rational choice theories or agentless variants of system analysis . . . It is a genuinely multidisciplinary effort to provide analytical tools and hypotheses for empirical research . .
Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in migration studies." --International Migration Review "Provides an exciting starting point for future debate and analysis within the field of international migration." --The International History Review "An excellent collection of thoughtful and stimulating reviews, theories, and arguments about how best to conceptualize immigration, how to incorporate non-mobility in the theories of migration, and, in turn, how these fit with issues of comparative development. I know of no volume that has been as successful in integrating the thinking of sociologists, demographers, economists, and political scientists, with an anthropologist and geographer added in for wider interdisciplinary coverage." --Population Studies "[The book] offers diverse and interesting perspectives and presents impressive empirical data on South to North migration" --Cambridge Anthropology