Contents: Introduction. The sociology of migration: where has it been and where is it going? 1 Martina Cvajner, Peter J. Kivisto, and Giuseppe Sciortino PART I KEY CONCEPTS 1 Mobility, immobility, and migration 12 Nicholas DeMaria Harney 2 Borders and boundaries 23 Giuseppe Sciortino 3 Migration categories and the politics of labeling 34 Leila Hadj Abdou and Federica Zardo 4 Gender 46 Johanna Leinonen 5 Migration chains and migration networks: researching migration as a social process 60 Remus Gabriel Anghel 6 Sequences and transitions in migration 74 Russell King and Ronald Skeldon 7 Migration systems 86 Oliver Bakewell 8 Migration policies and politics 96 Joaquín Arango 9 Migration and border regimes 109 Bernd Kasparek 10 Contexts of reception 122 Ayumi Takenaka 11 Theorizing modes of incorporation 133 Peter J. Kivisto 12 Diversity and super-diversity 143 Ivano Bison and Daniel Joseph Belback 13 Inclusion and exclusion 156 Gabriel Echeverría and Claudia Finotelli 14 Remittances in a world of uncertainty and insecurity 167 Ibrahim Sirkeci 15 Transnationalism and the making of diasporas 181 Thomas Lacroix 16 Children of immigrants and the second generation 192 Davide Azzolini and Philipp Schnell PART II METHODS AND TECHNIQUES 17 Secondary analysis of government and official data on international migration 206 Corrado Bonifazi 18 Ethnography in migration studies: an everlasting love? 215 Martina Cvajner 19 Quantitative surveys on migration 227 Erik Vickstrom and Cris Beauchemin 20 Connecting with connected migrants: exploring the field of digital migration studies 243 Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky 21 Toward the use of emotions as a methodological technique for the empirical analysis of migration 258 Elizabeth Aranda, Girsea Martinez Rosas, and Rebecca Blackwell 22 Network analysis 272 Başak Bilecen 23 Visual methods in migration research 285 Susan Ball PART III SITES, PLACES, AND SPHERES 24 Sending communities, social spheres, and households: what can be learned about migration 300 Jeffrey H. Cohen 25 Borders, embassies, and visas: the lessons of sociological lenses 307 Federica Infantino 26 Workplaces and labor markets 319 Mattia Vitiello 27 Migration in families and households 328 Heather M. Wurtz and Heide Castañeda 28 Housing and home 340 Enrico Fravega and Paolo Boccagni 29 Sociabilities: kin, friends, and acquaintances in international migration 351 Rocco Molinari 30 Migrant associations and communities 363 Margit Fauser 31 Migration and the welfare state 375 Grete Brochmann 32 The religious migrant 387 Tuomas Martikainen 33 Sport and migration 400 Max Mauro 34 Migration, museums, (and archives) 411 Aleksandra Kubica Index 423

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