Research on Migration, Borders and Citizenship: The Way Ahead

Abstract

This book has considered three areas, migration, borders and citizenship , and their intersections across local, national and transnational levels. The field of migration, borders and citizenship is characterized by paradoxes and dialectics-migration policies expand or otherwise restrict rights, where intolerance toward migrants is alternated with their protection, where migrants play an active role or are otherwise the weak object of others' intervention, where solidarity can be taken for crime, where the local and the national level are mutually intertwined , and so forth. These varied, sometimes even contradictory, forces