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Transnationalism by Steven Vertovec
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18'Transnationalism' refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states. This book surveys the broader meanings of transnationalism within the... -
Super-diversity by Steven Vertovec
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Superdiversity explores processes of diversification and the complex, emergent social configurations that now supersede prior forms of diversity in societies around the world. Migration plays a key... -
Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies by Steven Vertovec
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18In recent years the concept of 'diversity' has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide. Although variously used, 'diversity' tends to refer to... -
The Hindu Diaspora: Comparative Patterns Steven Vertovec 9780415238939
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80Hinduism outside the Indian subcontinent represents a contrasting and scattered community. From Britain to the Caribbean, diasporic Hindus have substantially reformed their beliefs and practices in... -
Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Context, and Practice by Steven Vertovec 9780199252282
RRP: £81.00Booksplease Price: £64.00Understanding the ancient and long sidelined concept of cosmopolitanism has suddenly found a fresh impetus and urgency. Globalization, international migration, multiculturalism and global social... -
Globalization, Globalism, Environments, and Environmentalism: Consciousness of Connections by Steven Vertovec 9780199264520
Booksplease Price: £73.63Over the past two decades there has been a growing attention to environmental matters in both scientific research and public interest. Global concerns have arisen particularly surrounding global... -
The Multiculturalism Backlash: European Discourses, Policies and Practices by Steven Vertovec 9780415556491
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63In a relatively short time, many European governments have been purposefully dropping the notion 'multicultural' or other references to cultural diversity in their policy vocabularies. More and more... -
Muslim European Youth: Reproducing Ethnicity, Religion, Culture by Steven Vertovec
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £34.59First Published in 1998, this volume consists of contributors providing position of Muslim youth in a European context. Providing case studies from 5 European nations: Denmark, France, Germany, the... -
Muslim European Youth: Reproducing Ethnicity, Religion, Culture by Steven Vertovec 9781138322905
Booksplease Price: £110.69First Published in 1998, this volume consists of contributors providing position of Muslim youth in a European context. Providing case studies from 5 European nations: Denmark, France, Germany, the... -
Diversities Old and New: Migration and Socio-Spatial Patterns in New York, Singapore and Johannesburg by Steven Vertovec 9781349504947
Booksplease Price: £46.74Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories,... -
Diversities Old and New: Migration and Socio-Spatial Patterns in New York, Singapore and Johannesburg by Steven Vertovec 9781137495471
Booksplease Price: £46.28Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories,... -
Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism: New Directions Steven Vertovec (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany) 9780415508827
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The field of anthropology of migration and multiculturalism is booming. Throughout its hundred-odd year history, studies of migration and diverse or 'plural' societies have arguably been both... -
Cosmopolitanism in Practice by Maria Rovisco
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59What makes people cosmopolitan? How is cosmopolitanism shaping everyday life experiences and the practices of ordinary people? Making use of empirical research, Cosmopolitanism in Practice examines... -
Celebrating 40 Years of Ethnic and Racial Studies: Classic Papers in Context by Martin Bulmer
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54This volume celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Ethnic and Racial Studies. It reproduces eleven classic papers published in the journal, accompanied by discussions of each paper by invited... -
Comparing Super-Diversity Fran Meissner (European University Institute, Florence, Italy) 9781138098879
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18The concept of 'super-diversity' has received considerable attention since it was introduced in Ethnic and Racial Studies in 2007, reflecting a broadening interest in finding new ways to talk about... -
Citizenship in European Cities: Immigrants, Local Politics and Integration Policies by Karen Kraal 9780367604486
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24There are relatively few books that provide comparative analysis of European cities in relation to immigrants and political participation. This fresh and insightful volume, from the same team that... -
European Muslims and the Secular State by Sean McLoughlin
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59The institutionalization of Islam in the West continues to raise many questions for a range of different constituencies. Secularization represents much more than the legal separation of politics and... -
Food in the Migrant Experience Anne J. Kershen 9781138251359
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98At its most basic, food is vital to our survival there can be no form of life without it. But in economically developed and thriving societies there is more to eating and drinking than just... -
From Uncertainty to Policy: A Guide to Migration Scenarios Jakub Bijak 9781035319794
Booksplease Price: £97.15This unique book provides a practical and interdisciplinary blueprint for determining quantitative scenarios of future international migration. Focusing on complexity and uncertainty as the defining... -
Sites of Pluralism: Community Politics in the Middle East by Firat Oruc
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.93Within some policy circles, at the heart of these conflicts lies a fundamental incompatibility between different ethno-linguistic and religious communities; it is held that these divisions impede any... -
The Partition of India by Ian Talbot
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.09The British divided and quit India in 1947. The partition of India and the creation of Pakistan uprooted entire communities and left unspeakable violence in its trail. This volume tells the story of... -
The European Second Generation Compared: Does the Integration Context Matter? by Maurice Crul 9789089644435
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £70.59Integration of newcomers is a foremost challenge for contemporary Europe. The 'second generation' - children born of immigrant parentage - is crucial in this process, for they constitute a growing... -
Multi-Sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research by Mark-Anthony Falzon 9780367603168
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Multi-Sited Ethnography has established itself as a fully-fledged research method among anthropologists and sociologists in recent years. It responds to the challenge of combining multi-sited work... -
Transnational Competence: Empowering Curriculums for Horizon-rising Challenges by Peter H. Koehn
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63In this timely new contribution, Koehn and Rosenau develop their transnational-competence framework and demonstrate the promise of its application across six critical professions: teacher education,... -
Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, c.1880-1950 by Kevin Grant 9781403986436
Booksplease Price: £90.56Explores the central role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of high imperialism and the two... -
The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies Adrian Favell (University of California) 9781509549405
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19The notion of 'immigrant integration' is used everywhere - by politicians, policy makers, journalists and researchers - as an all-encompassing framework for rebuilding 'unity from diversity' after... -
Handbook on Transnationalism by Brenda S.A. Yeoh 9781035332069
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £46.46Providing a critical overview of transnationalism as a concept, this Handbook looks at its growing influence in an era of high-speed, globalised interconnectivity. It offers crucial insights on how... -
The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies by Adrian Favell 9781509549399
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05The notion of 'immigrant integration' is used everywhere - by politicians, policy makers, journalists and researchers - as an all-encompassing framework for rebuilding 'unity from diversity' after... -
Beyond a Border: The Causes and Consequences of Contemporary Immigration by Peter J. Kivisto 9781412924955
Booksplease Price: £112.85The most up-to-date analysis of today's immigration issues As the authors state in Chapter 1, "the movement of people across national borders represents one of the most vivid dramas of social... -
Diversity and Contact: Immigration and Social Interaction in German Cities by Karen Schonwalder 9781137586025
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book analyzes how the socio-demographic and cultural diversity of societies affect the social interactions and attitudes of individuals and groups within them. Focusing on Germany, where in some... -
Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration Katharyne Mitchell 9781839109850
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £46.76Border walls, shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, separated families at the border, island detention camps: migration is at the centre of contemporary political and academic debates. This... -
Muslim Britain: Communities under Pressure by Tahir Abbas 9781842774496
Booksplease Price: £39.80This edited collection is a cogent exploration of how the events of September 11 and the subsequent war on terror have impacted on the lived experiences of British South Asian Muslims in a number of... -
The Transnational Studies Reader: Intersections and Innovations by Peggy Levitt
RRP: £78.99Booksplease Price: £73.64In recent years, 'transnationalism' has become a key analytical concept across the social sciences. While theoretical approaches to the study of global social phenomena have traditionally focused on... -
Regulating Difference: Religious Diversity and Nationhood in the Secular West by Marian Burchardt
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £44.592021 ISSR Best Book Award (International Society for the Sociology of Religion) Transnational migration has contributed to the rise of religious diversity and has led to profound changes in the... -
Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe's Superdiverse Neighbourhoods by Jenny Phillimore
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Migration-driven diversity means European cities are becoming increasingly superdiverse. Some European neighbourhoods have become places where newcomers arrive from across the world, speaking many... -
Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai Sharon Zukin 9781138023932
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai, a cutting-edge text/ethnography, reports on the rapidly expanding field of global, urban studies through a unique pairing...