Mass Migration in the World-system Past, Present, and Future

Mass Migration in the World-System brings to light the multiple experiences of migrants across different zones of the world economy. By engaging wide-ranging ideas and theoretical viewpoints of the migration process, the labor market for immigrants, and the rights of migrants, this book provides an important-and much needed-interdisciplinary perspective on the issues of mass migration.

Introduction, Terry-Ann Jones, Eric Mielants; Part I Theorizing Migration; Chapter 1 Free Flows and Real Obstacles, Immanuel Wallerstein; Chapter 2 Human Migration Over Millenia, Thomas D. Hall, P. Nick Kardulias; Chapter 3 Class vs. Other as Analytic Categories, Manuela Boatc?; Chapter 4 Environmental Migration, Rafael Reuveny; Part II Labor Markets for Migrants; Chapter 5 The Global Integration of Nursing Labor Markets, Salimah Valiani; Chapter 6 The U.S.–Mexico Commodity-Labor Exchange, Kathleen C. Schwartzman; Chapter 7 In-Migration vs. Out-Migration, K Ravi Raman; Chapter 8 Chinese Economic Expansion and Internal Migration, Ganesh Trichur; Chapter 9 Branch Migration, Lars Hansson; Part III The Rights of Migrants; Chapter 10 National Identity or Transnational Citizenship?, Mónica Ibáñez Angulo; Chapter 11 The Post-9/11 Anti-Immigrant Movement, Carina A. Bandhauer; Chapter 12 France’s Sans-Papiers, Dana Diminescu, Mathieu Renault;

Authored by Jones, Terry-Ann; Mielants, Eric