Contested Concepts in Migration Studies

This volume demonstrates that migration and diversity related concepts are always contested and provides a reflective critical awareness and better comprehension of the complex questions driving migration studies.

Ricard Zapata-Barrero is Full Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Dirk Jacobs is Full Professor at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and Chairperson of the Brussels Studies Institute, Belgium. Riva Kastoryano is Emerite Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated at Sciences Po - Center for International Studies (CERI-Sciences Po, Paris).

Introduction: Conceptual Thinking in Migration Studies 1. Border: Meanings, practices and fields in academia, politics, and public domains 2. Citizenship: From liberal right to neoliberally earned 3. Cohesion: Beyond the diversity threatening hypothesis 4. Cosmopolitanism: Moral Universalism and the Politics of Migration 5. Discrimination: Studying the racialized structure of disadvantage 6. Diversity: Polyphony of the concept 7. Identity and immigration: Core concepts 8. Integration: A critical view 9. Interculturalism: Re-imagining dialogue and connectedness in super-diverse realities 10. Mobility and Migration: Physical, Contextual and Perspectival Interpretations 11. Multiculturalism: Maximum Misunderstanding 12. Nationalism: The concept and its varieties 13. Secularism: Political Secularism and Post-immigration Ethno-Religious Communities 14. Tolerance: Recognition, reasonable accommodation, and minority rights 15. Transnationalism: Theory and experience