Maurizio Ambrosini - Migration, Borders and Citizenship

For over twenty years, the Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series has contributed to cross-disciplinary empirical and theoretical debates on migration processes, serving as a critical forum for and problematising the main issues around the global movement and circulation of people. Grounded in both local and global accounts, the Series firstly focuses on the conceptualisation and dynamics of complex contemporary national and transnational drivers behind movements and forced displacements. Secondly, it explores the nexus of migration, diversity and identity , incorporating considerations of intersectionality, super-diversity, social polarization and identification processes to examine migration through the various intersections of racialized identities, ethnicity, class, gender, age, disability and other oppressions. Thirdly, the Series critically engages the emerging challenges presented by reconfigured borders and boundaries : state politicization of migration, sovereignty, security, transborder regulations, human trade and ecology, and other imperatives that transgress geopolitical territorial borders to raise dilemmas about contemporary movements and social drivers.

More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14044

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This book was born out of our research interest in intersecting the fields of migration, borders and citizenship, and on which the editors of this collection have been working throughout their careers. This personal interest led to a series of research programmes funded by national and international institutions, allowing for development of personal networks and research findings that are the basis for this book. Indeed, we have been very fortunate to reinforce a network of scholars spanning various countries, in Europe and the United States, for the delivery of this book.

We thank Sciences Po Paris and the University of Milan for supporting the original workshop on solidarity, migration, borders and citizenship (title of workshop: Retour des frontires ou Global Seam? Une rflexion sur la solidarit transnationale, les droits, et la citoyennet au temps de la crise migratoire en Europe ) in Menton, where the contributors to this edited collection gathered in June 2017. The EU H2020 project TransSOL (European paths to transnational solidarity at times of crisis: conditions, forms, role-models and policy response; grant agreement no. 649435) is gratefully acknowledged for funding part of the workshop. Our special thanks go to Bernard El Ghoul, Director at Sciences Po Menton, for hosting us just one mile away from the controversial Franco-Italian border of Menton-Ventimiglia, one primary geographical symbol of migration crisis in Europe.