MIGRATION IN A GLOBALISED WORLD: NEW RESEARCHISSUESANDPROSPECTS edited by Cédric Audebert and Mohamed Kamel Dorai. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2010. No. of pages: 224. Price: $39.95 (paperback). ISBN 978-90-8964-157-1

摘要

Patterns of international migration are becomingnincreasingly complex. More and more countriesnare receiving significant numbers of immigrantsnfrom an increasingly wide range of originncountries. Improved means of communicationnand cheap travel have strengthened migrant transnationalism.nThese developments have not beennwelcomed by everybody. In many receiving countries,nthere is a heated debate about the impact ofnimmigration on the existing social structure andnnational identity, although at the same time,nselected migrants are welcomed to bring in muchnneeded skills and manpower. This volume editednby Cédric Audebert and Mohamed Kamel Dorajnseeks to explore these new developments innmigration and respond to the related ‘social issues’n(p. 13). It is a collection of papers from a 2006nconference in Poitiers organised by Migrinter (thenmigration research centre of the University ofnPoitiers) and the HumanitarianNet Europeannnetwork on ‘1985-2005: Twenty years of researchnon international migration’. It is published in thensuccessful IMISCOE research series of AmsterdamnUniversity Press and therefore also available asnopen-access publication.