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Migration Patterns Across the Mediterranean
Exchanges, Conflicts and Coexistence
9781800887343 Edward Elgar Publishing
With contributions from leading scholars in Southern Europe, this compelling book demonstrates the plurality of migratory circumstances and analyses the significance of the Mediterranean migration model. Highlighting the challenges of studying the variability and heterogeneity of migratory patterns in the Mediterranean, this insightful book provides a comprehensive examination of the variations of spatial-temporal scales and sedimentation of different migratory configurations.
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With contributions from leading scholars in Southern Europe, this compelling book demonstrates the plurality of migratory circumstances and analyses the significance of the Mediterranean migration model.
Highlighting the challenges of studying the variability and heterogeneity of migratory patterns in the Mediterranean, this insightful book provides a comprehensive examination of the spatial-temporal scales and sedimentation of different migratory configurations. Chapters explore the continuities between colonial past, postcolonialism and migration; the integration and exploitation in the labour market; and the impact of political discourses on migrants and non-migrants.
Contributors analyse the links between race and gender relations, colonialism, and migration policies across countries including Greece, Italy, Lebanon, the Maghreb region, and Spain.
Proposing that the ‘principle of coexistence’ can be an interpretive tool for studying migration in the Mediterranean, this book will be essential for students and researchers in comparative social policy, cultural sociology, development studies, history and migration studies. It will also be beneficial for policymakers and practitioners in national and international political bodies and agencies.
Highlighting the challenges of studying the variability and heterogeneity of migratory patterns in the Mediterranean, this insightful book provides a comprehensive examination of the spatial-temporal scales and sedimentation of different migratory configurations. Chapters explore the continuities between colonial past, postcolonialism and migration; the integration and exploitation in the labour market; and the impact of political discourses on migrants and non-migrants.
Contributors analyse the links between race and gender relations, colonialism, and migration policies across countries including Greece, Italy, Lebanon, the Maghreb region, and Spain.
Proposing that the ‘principle of coexistence’ can be an interpretive tool for studying migration in the Mediterranean, this book will be essential for students and researchers in comparative social policy, cultural sociology, development studies, history and migration studies. It will also be beneficial for policymakers and practitioners in national and international political bodies and agencies.
Critical Acclaim
‘The chapters presented in this compelling book edited by Adelina Miranda and Antía Pérez-Caramés emphasize the importance of mobility in the Mediterranean region, by detailing the diverse nature of the migration history in the area. The book specifically aims to restore the different facets of the migratory phenomenon by moving beyond Euro-centric and nationalist perspectives of migration studies.''
– Gabrielle Gagnon, Journal of Borderlands Studies
‘An indispensable contribution to comparative immigration studies, this book brings together an impressive group of country specialists on southern European migration, working in a broad range of disciplines. While deeply sensitive to historical context, the contributors offer original insights into ongoing policy issues like the tension between child/elder-care needs of native-born families and restrictive immigration measures. This book is a model of cross-national scholarship that breaks new theoretical ground.’
– Wayne A. Cornelius, University of California, San Diego, US
‘With a multidisciplinary and outward looking (not Eurocentric) perspective, this book offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of research on migration in the Mediterranean area. The contributions cover countries on the European side and those on the opposite side of the Mediterranean. They examine the policies adopted, the motivations and the aims of the multiple parties involved.’
– Paola Corti, University of Turin, Italy
– Gabrielle Gagnon, Journal of Borderlands Studies
‘An indispensable contribution to comparative immigration studies, this book brings together an impressive group of country specialists on southern European migration, working in a broad range of disciplines. While deeply sensitive to historical context, the contributors offer original insights into ongoing policy issues like the tension between child/elder-care needs of native-born families and restrictive immigration measures. This book is a model of cross-national scholarship that breaks new theoretical ground.’
– Wayne A. Cornelius, University of California, San Diego, US
‘With a multidisciplinary and outward looking (not Eurocentric) perspective, this book offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of research on migration in the Mediterranean area. The contributions cover countries on the European side and those on the opposite side of the Mediterranean. They examine the policies adopted, the motivations and the aims of the multiple parties involved.’
– Paola Corti, University of Turin, Italy
Contributors
Contributors: Fabio Amato, Maurizio Ambrosini, Imad Amer, María Jesús Cabezón-Fernández, Francisco Checa y Olmos, Alessandra Corrado, Kamel Doraï, Mustapha El Miri, Belén Fernández-Suárez, Wolfgang Kaiser, Alberto Capote Lama, Alice Latouche, Jorge Malheiros, Adelina Miranda, Claudia Moatti, Michel Peraldi, Antía Pérez-Caramés, Natalia Ribas-Mateos, Francesco Saverio Caruso
Contents
Contents:
Introduction: broadening the scope of Southern European migration 1
Adelina Miranda and Antía Pérez-Caramés
An extended foreword to a critique on Mediterranean Europe as
a place of migration 11
Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Jorge Malheiros
PART I MOBILITIES AND COLONIALISMS
1 Human mobility in the pre-modern Mediterranean 30
Wolfgang Kaiser and Claudia Moatti
2 Migration and otherness in the Mediterranean region:
colonial past and postcolonial continuities through the
conception of the ‘Other Moor’ 50
María-Jesús Cabezón-Fernández
3 The weight of colonial cultural legacy in scholarly and
political discourses on migration: for a denationalisation
of the migration issue 67
Mustapha El Miri
PART II BEYOND NATIONAL MIGRATORY DYNAMICS
4 Migration in Italy: a multiscalar analysis 85
Fabio Amato
5 The Maghreb of transit, new laboratory of postcolonial migrations 99
Michel Peraldi
6 Gender and emigration: labour market integration and
work‒life balance strategies of young Spanish female
migrants to France and Germany 113
Belén Fernández-Suárez and Alberto Capote Lama
7 A Southern European model of migrant agricultural
labour: two case studies in Andalusia (Spain) and Calabria (Italy) 130
Francisco Checa y Olmos, Francesco Saverio Caruso and
Alessandra Corrado
8 The care shortage and social acceptance: why the welfare
needs of native families subvert immigration policies 145
Maurizio Ambrosini
9 Lebanese migration policy since 2011 and its role in the
Syrian refugee movement 162
Kamel Doraï and Imad Amer
10 Repoliticising gendered vulnerability: the blind spots of
vulnerability-focused humanitarian programmes in Greece 180
Alice Latouche
Conclusions: migration patterns across the Mediterranean 195
Adelina Miranda and Antía Pérez-Caramés
Index
Introduction: broadening the scope of Southern European migration 1
Adelina Miranda and Antía Pérez-Caramés
An extended foreword to a critique on Mediterranean Europe as
a place of migration 11
Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Jorge Malheiros
PART I MOBILITIES AND COLONIALISMS
1 Human mobility in the pre-modern Mediterranean 30
Wolfgang Kaiser and Claudia Moatti
2 Migration and otherness in the Mediterranean region:
colonial past and postcolonial continuities through the
conception of the ‘Other Moor’ 50
María-Jesús Cabezón-Fernández
3 The weight of colonial cultural legacy in scholarly and
political discourses on migration: for a denationalisation
of the migration issue 67
Mustapha El Miri
PART II BEYOND NATIONAL MIGRATORY DYNAMICS
4 Migration in Italy: a multiscalar analysis 85
Fabio Amato
5 The Maghreb of transit, new laboratory of postcolonial migrations 99
Michel Peraldi
6 Gender and emigration: labour market integration and
work‒life balance strategies of young Spanish female
migrants to France and Germany 113
Belén Fernández-Suárez and Alberto Capote Lama
7 A Southern European model of migrant agricultural
labour: two case studies in Andalusia (Spain) and Calabria (Italy) 130
Francisco Checa y Olmos, Francesco Saverio Caruso and
Alessandra Corrado
8 The care shortage and social acceptance: why the welfare
needs of native families subvert immigration policies 145
Maurizio Ambrosini
9 Lebanese migration policy since 2011 and its role in the
Syrian refugee movement 162
Kamel Doraï and Imad Amer
10 Repoliticising gendered vulnerability: the blind spots of
vulnerability-focused humanitarian programmes in Greece 180
Alice Latouche
Conclusions: migration patterns across the Mediterranean 195
Adelina Miranda and Antía Pérez-Caramés
Index
