Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1: Introduction: Moving Across Borders
SECTION I: Movement
CHAPTER 2: Accounting for Immigration Flows
CHAPTER 3: Counting Contemporary Immigration Flows
SECTION II: Settlement
CHAPTER 4: Assimilation: Historical Perspective and Contemporary
Reframing
CHAPTER 5: Transnationalism and the Persistence of Homeland
Ties
CHAPTER 6: Multiculturalism: A New Mode of Incorporation
SECTION III: Control
CHAPTER 7: The State and Immigration Control
CHAPTER 8: Citizenship and the State in a Globalizing World
References
Index
About the Authors
Peter Kivisto is Richard A. Swanson Professor of Social Thought and
Chair of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Welfare at Augustana
College and Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of
Turku. His current research involves a collaborative project on
multiculturalism with colleagues in Finland. His interests include
immigration, social integration, citizenship, and religion. Among
his recent books are Key Ideas in Sociology (2011), Illuminating
Social Life (2011); Beyond a Border: The Causes and Consequences of
Contemporary Immigration (2010, with Thomas Faist); Citizenship:
Discourse, Theory and Transnational Prospects (2007, with Thomas
Faist); and Intersecting Inequalities (2007, with Elizabeth
Hartung). He serves on the editorial boards of Contexts, Ethnic and
Racial Studies, Journal of Intercultural Studies, and on the
Publication Committee for Sociology of Religion.
Thomas Faist* is Professor of Transnational and Development Studies
at the Department of Sociology, Bielefeld University. His research
interests focus on international migration, immigrant integration,
citizenship, social policy and development studies. He held
visiting professorships at Malmö University and the University of
Toronto.
Currently, his work centers on environmental degradation and
migration, and on the transnational social question. Thomas Faist
serves on the editorial board of The Sociological Quarterly, Ethnic
and Racial Studies, Migration Letters, and South Asian Diaspora. He
recently published "Dual Citizenship in Europe: From Nationhood to
Social Integration" (Ashgate 2007), "Citizenship: Theory, Discourse
and Transnational Prospects", with Peter Kivisto, Blackwell 2008),
and "The Europeanization of National Immigration Politics and
Policies" (Palgrave Macmillan 2007)
"Compiled by two leading scholars demonstrating their mastery of
the field, Beyond a Border provides an invaluable, single-text
resource spanning a comprehensive range of immigration theories and
dynamics."
*Steven Vertovec*
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