PEOPLE CHANGING PLACES
While migration and population settlement have always been an important feature of political life throughout the world, the dramatic changes in the pace, direction, and complexity of contemporary migration flows are undoubtedly unique. Despite the economic benefits often associated with global, regional, and internal migration, the arrival of large numbers of migrants can exacerbate tensions and give rise to violent clashes between local populations and recent arrivals. This volume takes stock of these by canvassing the globe to generate new conceptual, empirical, and theoretical contributions. The analyses ultimately reveal the critical role of the state as both an actor and arena in the migration-conflict nexus.
Isabelle Ct is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Matthew I. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.
Monica Duffy Toft is Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at Tufts Universitys Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a Global Scholar with the Peace Research Institute, Oslo.
Praise for People Changing Places
This book is the first truly global analysis of how migration flows interact with culture, economics, and state authority to create conflict. Migration today is reshaping politics around the world; Ct, Mitchell, and Tofts volume cuts through the clichs and provides a nuanced understanding of how states can reduce or exacerbate the risks that arise from people on the move.
Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason University
This volume makes an important contribution to the literature on ethnic and civil wars. The authors challenge the current classification of domestic conflict by adopting a novel and underutilized theoretical framework that highlights the role of internal migration in triggering violence between the migrants and the indigenous inhabitants of a territory. A must-read for anyone interested in both conflict and migration.
Jeannette Money, University of California-Davis
International agencies, governments, and NGOs too often miscalculate the longterm political implications of migration and resettlement both for migrant and receiving communities. It is hardly their fault. Social scientists have yet to meld a body of theory that accounts for origins, identities, particular circumstances, and community relationships. People Changing Places takes up the task and makes important strides toward such a theory.
Richard Cincotta, PoliticalDemography.org; Woodrow Wilson Center
People Changing Places is essential reading for all scholars interested in migration and political demography more broadly. By weaving together both qualitative and quantitative research, as well as numerous case studies from the developing and the developed world, the authors add significantly to our knowledge about the often complex relationship between internal and external migration, demographic change, and the outbreak of violent conflict.
Elliott D. Green,London School of Economics
PEOPLE CHANGING PLACES
New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict, and the State
Edited by Isabelle Ct, Matthew I. Mitchell, and Monica Duffy Toft
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ct, Isabelle, 1951- editor, author. | Mitchell, Matthew I., editor, author. | Toft, Monica Duffy, 1965- editor, author.
Title: People changing places : new perspectives on demography, migration, conflict, and the state / [edited by] Isabelle Ct, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Matthew I. Mitchell, University of Saskatchewan; Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018010306| ISBN 9780815360759 (hbk) | ISBN 9780815360766 (pbk) | ISBN 9781351117623 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Emigration and immigration--Social aspects. | Emigration and immigration--Government policy. | Immigrants--Social conditions. | Immigrants--Government policy. | Globalization--Social aspects.
Classification: LCC JV6225 .P465 2019 | DDC 304.8--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018010306
ISBN: 978-0-8153-6075-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-8153-6076-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-351-11762-3 (ebk)
To
Batrice and Eleanor,
Zachary, Blaise, and Florence,
Samuel Lawton and Ingrid Anne
May you grow up in a world
characterized by the more peaceful
migration of people
This work on political demography, migration and conflict emerged in response to the divisive politics around migration. Waves of international migration over the past several years have inspired a variety of academic studies and presentations, beginning for us with the 2014 International Studies Association meetings where we organized a thematic panel on sons of the soil conflict. During the relatively short period between the origins of the volume and its publication, the world has been further swept up by these forces and our work has further evolved. As this volume took shape during such politically charged times, we benefitted from the wisdom of colleagues who offered thoughtful critiques of our work. We wish therefore to thank our discussants, fellow panelists, and audience members at the following meetings: American Political Science Association (2016), the International Studies Association (2015), and the Association for the Study of Nationalities (2015). The comments we received during these meetings helped us to sharpen the chapters in this volume and ultimately enabled us to better connect the content with the rapidly changing debates and developments linked to international migration. In particular, Jack Goldstone and David Laitin two of the worlds leading authorities on migration and conflict merit special recognition for reading parts of the volume and for providing excellent critiques and suggestions.
We gratefully acknowledge the right to reprint materials that were previously published. Elements of Hvard Strand, Henrik Urdal and Isabelle Cts chapter, titled Ethnic Census Taking, Instability and Armed Conflict, appeared in
