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20 - Environmental Changes, Displacement, and Migration

from Part VI - Displaced Peoples and Refugees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2023

Marcelo J. Borges
Affiliation:
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
Madeline Y. Hsu
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
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Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforcement that curtailed migration. One major theme worldwide across the post-1800 centuries was the differentiation between “skilled” and “unskilled” workers, often considered through a racialized lens; it emerged as the primary divide between greater rights of immigration and citizenship for the former, and confinement to temporary or unauthorized migrant status for the latter. Through thirty-one chapters, this volume further evaluates the long global history of migration; and it shows that despite the increased disciplinary systems, the primacy of migration remains and continues to shape political, economic, and social landscapes around the world.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Baldwin, Andrew and Bettini, Giovanni, eds. Life Adrift: Climate Change, Migration, Critique. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.Google Scholar
Boas, Ingrid et al. “Climate Migration Myths.” Nature Climate Change 9, 12 (2019), 901903, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0633-3.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fisher, Colin. Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Giuliani, Gaia. Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique. London: Routledge, 2020.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mitchell, Don. The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.Google Scholar
Nash, Linda. Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Nash, Sarah. Negotiating Migration in Context of Climate Change: International Policy and Discourse. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2019.Google Scholar
Nobbs-Thiessen, Ben. Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sheller, Mimi. Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes. London: Verso, 2018.Google Scholar

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