Migration Studies and Colonialism

by Lucy Mayblin

Book Overview

The history of migration is deeply entangled with colonialism. To this day, colonial logics continue to shape the dynamics of migration as well as the responses of states to those arriving at their borders. And yet migration studies has been surprisingly slow to engage with colonial histories in making sense of migratory phenomena today.

This book starts from the premise that colonial histories should be central to migration studies and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509542949
• ISBN13: 9781509542949
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"