Shifting Boundaries of Belonging and New Migration Dynamics in Europe and China [Hardcover]

This book explores the role that boundary making plays in creating a societal understanding of current migration dynamics and, by extension, in legitimising migration regimes. By comparing most recent developments in Europe and China, it reveals insights on convergent social and political practices of boundary making under divergent conditions.1. Introduction: New Dynamics of Migration and Belonging; Ludger Pries and Robert Pauls 2. Beyond Assimilation: Shifting Boundaries of Belonging in France; Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, Monika Salzbrunn and Serge Weber 3. Changing Categories and the Bumpy Road to Recognition in Germany; Ludger Pries 4. The 'Others' in the Netherlands: Shifting Notions of Us and Them Since World War Two; Jeroen Doomernik 5. Shifting Categories of Belonging in the United Kingdom Census: Changing Definitions of Migration, Labour Market Access and Experience; Anne Green and Ronald Skeldon 6. Shifting Two-tiered Boundaries of Belonging: A Study of the Hukou System and Rural-urban Migration in China; Zhang Jijiao 7. The New Generation of Migrant Workers in the Labour Market in China; Zhang Xiaomin 8. Migration and the Shifting Boundaries of Belonging; Ludger PriesJeroen Doomernik, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The NetherlandsAnne Green, University of Warwick, UKZhang Jijiao, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ChinaRobert Pauls, Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, GermanyMonika Salzbrunn, Universit? de Lausanne, SwitzerlandRonald Skeldon, University of Sussex, UKSerge Weber, Universit? Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall?e, FranceCatherine Wihtol de Wenden, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CERI), FranceZhang Xiaomin, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China