Thomas Faist [Faist - The Transnationalized Social Question: Migration and the Politics of Social Inequalities in the Twenty-First Century

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Many colleagues have inspired the thoughts presented and advanced in this book. I am grateful to all of them, especially Peter Kivisto who read the manuscript and provided thoughtful comments. I also benefited from invitations extended by, among others, Maurizio Ambrosini, Ral Delgado Wise, Luis Guarnizo, Ahmet Iduygu, Danile Joly, Riva Kastoryano, Akihiro Koido, Peggy Levitt, Alessandro Monsutti, Nina Nyborg-Srensen, Erik Olsson, Waldemar Skrobacki, Cathrine Wihtol de Wenden, and Elke Winter. Their workshops and colloquia all provided venues for stimulating exchange. I also had the privilege of informally discussing various aspects of issues related to the transnationalized social question with Oliver Bakewell, Simone Castellani, Jorge Durand, Marisol Garcia, Nina Glick Schiller, Jrg Httermann, Branka Liki Brbori, Tao Liu, Alejandro Portes, Jeanette Schade, Inka Stock, Levent Tezcan, Christian Ulbricht, and Nick van Hear. Conversations with these colleagues stimulated my thoughts on migration and inequalities. Thanks also go to the research team of the project Informal Social Protection and Social Inequalities funded by the German Research Council (DFG) from 2011 to 2015among them Anna Amelina, Karolina Barglowski, Baak Bilecen, and Joanna Sienkiewicz. Some aspects of that project are presented in Chapter 6 of this book on social protection in families and friendship networks. As to the analysis on environmental destruction and migration I draw on work within the European Social Science (ESF) Research Conference series on Climate Change and International Migration (201012), which was also supported by Bielefeld University and its Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF). Throughout, Edith Klein has provided thorough editorial support for various versions of this text and has helped to render the ideas expressed more clearly and the prose much more legibly; Brian Norths copy editing, Rebecca Bryants proofreading, and Palani Santhoshs project management also proved very helpful. At Oxford University Press, Olivia Wells attentively guided me along the way toward publication. I sincerely apologize if I have not mentioned other colleagues here from whose critical feedback I benefited.

Some material has been published previously and is included with permission: parts of Chapter 3 on the migrationinequalities nexus appeared in a preliminary version in the Annual Review of Sociology (2016);1 some basic thoughts on transnational social rights explored in Chapters 2 and 4 appeared in an article in International Sociology (2009);2 and the main ideas on migration and social protection in the European Union in Chapter 5 were published in the Journal of European Social Policy (2014) and in Oxford Development Studies (2016).3 The empirical studies on the social protection web of migrants from Poland, Turkey, and Kazakhstan presented in Chapter 6 are drawn in part from the conclusion of a special issue on social protection in small groups in Population, Space and Place (2015).4 Ideas on the moral polity of migration control and externalization in Chapter 7 are drawn from a symposium contribution in Ethnic and Racial Studies, and thoughts on the migrationdevelopment nexus appeared in Population, Space and Place (2008).5 The various stages of the climate change and migration nexus were first explored in a contribution to the Journal of Intercultural Studies.6 Basic thoughts on the public role of social scientists in Chapter 11 were applied to the migrationdevelopment nexus in an article for New Diversities (2014).7 For the purposes of this volume the ideas from these earlier publications have been significantly revised, expanded, and embedded in a broader argument.

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1. Cross-Border Migration and Social Inequalities. Annual Review of Sociology 42 (2016): pp. 32346. Annual Reviews, Inc.

2. The Transnational Social Question: Social Rights and Citizenship in a Global Context. International Sociology 24(1) (2009): pp. 735. SAGE Publications Ltd.

3. On the Transnational Social Question in Europe: How Inequalities are Reproduced in Europe. Journal of European Social Policy 24(3) (2014): pp. 20722. SAGE Publications Ltd.; Transnational Social Protection in Europe: A Social Inequality Perspective. Oxford Development Studies 45(1) (2017): pp. 113. Taylor & Francis Ltd, http://www.tandfonline.com.

4. Social Inequalities through the Lens of Social Protection: Notes on the Transnational Social Question. Population, Space and Place 21 (2015): pp. 28293. Co-authored with Baak Bilecen. John Wiley & Sons.

5. The Moral Polity of Forced Migration. Ethnic and Racial Studies 41(3) (2018): pp. 41223. Taylor & Francis Ltd, http://www.tandfonline.com; Migrants as Transnational Development Agents: An Inquiry into the Newest Round of the MigrationDevelopment Nexus. Population, Space and Place 14(1) (2008): pp. 2142. John Wiley & Sons.

6. The Socio-Natural Question: How Climate Change Adds to Social Inequalities. Journal of Intercultural Studies 39(2) (2018): pp. 195206. Taylor & Francis Ltd, http://www.tandfonline.com.

7. The Public Role of Social Scientists in Constituting the MigrationDevelopment Nexus. New Diversities 16(2) (2014): pp. 11223. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.