Migration Studies: The Fundamentals - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032958421 ISBN 13: 9781032958422

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

This book is an essential toolkit for students and early researchers of population studies and demography, geography, economics, development studies political science, sociology, anthropology, and gender studies.

The volume:

- Presents in-depth coverage of basic concepts;

- Includes empirical data, case studies, and references for further reading;

- Covers critical aspects of migration studies ranging from the theoretical to contemporary issues and policies.

The book will be of interest to scholars, students, researchers, or anyone interested in migration and diasporic studies, development studies, the politics of migration, immigration policy, social anthropology, economics, and sociology.

About this title

About the Author

Avijit Mistri is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, School of Human and Environmental Sciences, Manipur University, Imphal, India. His research interests are environmental migration, labour migration, tribal migration, and ethnopolitical issues.

Bhaswati Das is an Associate Professor of Population Studies at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her area of interest includes the study of population in the context of development, family demography, migration, gender and maternal and child health.

Md. Selim Reja is an Assistant Professor at the Dept of Geography, the University B. T. and Evening College, West Bengal. India. His areas of interest are national and international labour migration, livelihood issues of labour migrants and rural development issues, especially linked to remittances.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032958421
• ISBN 13: 9781032958422
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Mistri Avijit, SELIM REJA MD, Das Bhaswati