Contemporary Boat Migration : Data, Geopolitics, and Discourses Hardback
Edited by Elaine, Associated Staff Member, Department of Geography, Maynooth University, Irel Burroughs, Kira, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo Williams
Part of the Challenging Migration Studies series
Hardback
Description
This book explores contemporary migration by boat through the intertwined, and under-explored, elements of empirical data, governance and geopolitics, and discourses. While the migration of people by boat is a long-standing phenomenon, journeys have become more frequent and precarious as states illegalise entry.
As migration at sea becomes more common, it has gained attention from a range of actors, including enforcement authorities, political elites, media, and non/inter-governmental organizations.
The sea has thus become a space of hope/desperation for migrants as well as conflict over territory and sovereignty, representing wider social debates in and beyond Australia, Canada, the European Union, and the United States.
Current literature on migration by boat reflects these debates, primarily concentrating on the humanitarian and legal realities of migration by boat and border enforcement at sea , however, few studies have analysed their empirical relationship.
This edited volume aims to fill this gap and thereby address three important, overlapping aspects of these debates:The first theme will explore data and methods on migration by boat, its discourse, and its enforcement, and in addition identifying appropriate research methodologies and sources to gather these data.
The second theme will build upon the first by focusing on the relationship between data on migration by boat and governance and geopolitics of the "border".
Building upon the two themes already outlined, the third theme will identify and analyse how elite discourses represent migration at sea.
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield International
- Publication Date:18/06/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781786605146
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield International
- Publication Date:18/06/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781786605146