Crisis and Migration

Dr. Anna Lindley is Lecturer at the Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

• 1. Crisis and migration: concepts and issues 2. Migration and ‘crisis’ in the Middle East and North Africa region 3. Histories and contemporary challenges of crisis and mobility in Somalia 4. Criminal violence and displacement in Mexico: evidence, perceptions and politics 5. The global economic crisis and East Asian labour migration: A crisis of migration or struggles of labour? 6. Crisis, enforcement and control at the EU border 7. The social construction of (non) crises and its effects: Government discourse on xenophobia, immigration and social cohesion in South Africa 8. Imagined threats, manufactured crises and "real" emergencies: the politics of border closure in the face of mass refugee influx 9. Crisis? Which crisis? Families and forced migration

"Welding together the discussion of crisis and migration turns out to be an inspired intervention, taking us fittingly far from the prosaic categories of policy analysis." –Robin Cohen, University of Oxford, UK"This book deftly probes the links between migration and crisis, destabilizing the normative assumptions that migration is crisis. The authors conceptualise crisis and migration not as isolated events but rather as co-constituted processes understood in relation to colonialism, nation-state formation, industrialisation, and urbanization. And crisis migration, they argue, precipitates crisis management. A compelling read." –Jennifer Hyndman, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada"Overall, the book makes an invaluable contribution to the literature by illustrating the interests that have motivated a range of actors to deploy the terms and categories of "crisis" and "migration" in particular ways, at particular moments, for particular reasons." – Refuge, James Milner, Carleton University