Migration Policy and Practice ― Interventions and Solutions

A gap in critical border and migration scholarship has been that empirical and theoretical advancements are rarely translated into concrete proposals for critical interventions or practical solutions. Migration Policy and Practice fills this gap and is organized around the core argument that critical interventions and practical solutions must be developed to complement explanatory analyses. A multidisciplinary array of contributors provide practical and conceptual tools to engage the contemporary developments related to migration, borders, refugee issues, and citizenship. The contributors examine multiple national contexts, including Canada, the United States, the Schengen area, and Israel, and explore diverse policies and practices related to citizenship, refugees, and the treatment of particular ethnic groups at international, national, local, and urban scales. This book comes at a time when there is a historical and political need among policy makers, researchers, and activists for such interventions and solutions.

Harald Bauder is Professor of Geography at Ryerson University, Canada, and the founding Academic Director of the Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement (RCIS), Canada. His previous books include Immigration Dialectic: Imagining Community, Economy and Nation and Labor Movement: How Migration Regulates Labor Markets.

Christian Matheis teaches in the departments of Philosophy and Political Science at Virginia Tech, USA, and in the department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at Radford University, USA. He specializes in ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of liberation with concentrations in feminism, race, and pragmatist epistemology.