Immigrants & Minorities 

About: Immigrants & Minorities is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Irish & Refugee. It has an ISSN identifier of 0261-9288. Over the lifetime, 632 publications have been published receiving 5133 citations. The journal is also known as: Immigrants and minorities.

Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and will Define Our Future

Abstract: The link between migration and economic growth in receiving and sending countries has been widely explored from the academic and policy perspectives. With this in mind, the most important contribution of this book is related to its interdisciplinary approach. The book goes beyond the economic analysis, integrating successfully the social and political implications of migration. Previous works in the literature have tackled, in a very complete manner, the main theoretical approaches explaining the relationship between migration and economic growth, as well as a review of the main empirical studies exploring that linkage. The work by Goldin et al introduces the reader to a multidimensional analysis where the effects of migration are explored from the point of view of different disciplines. An important message is conveyed along the book: migration, rather than being considered as undesirable, should be perceived as a global opportunity. The book is divided into three parts. In the first section, a very careful and detailed historical overview of migration patterns and trends is conducted, starting with the early human migrations in prehistory, and continuing with the emergence of the first sedentary communities in the Middle East, the emergence of agrarian civilizations, the associated migration flows and the appearance of growing trade networks among them. The analysis of the increasing exchange of ‘migrants, goods and ideas’ – as expressed by the authors – includes a large variety of important milestones in the history of human migration until the early 1970s. This review of 60 000 years of human migration, besides being pertinent, plays a very important role in terms of explaining to the reader how migration has ‘fueled the engine of human progress’, as expressed by the authors. The basic idea underlying this assumption is that migration should be considered as a key driver of economic development, taking into account its positive effects on both sending and receiving countries. Since the very beginning of the book, the idea that migration has propelled the diffusion not just of goods and people, but also of new ideas, technologies, is strongly defended. By studying different significant events in world history, the reader is invited to consider that migration flows have accelerated learning and innovation globally, and that history shows that migration ‘has been an engine of social progress’. Part two starts with an analysis of different factors at the micro levels, meso levels and macro levels that are supposed to influence the decision to move. Within that framework, some theories of economic migration are reviewed, such as the neoclassical approach. But something you miss in this section is a more profound debate concerning the different theories that explain migration. Are all of the main theories that account for migration included? How is the debate between these theories structured? As mentioned above, it is clear that the authors’ arguments support migration

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

Abstract: ‘Brit(ish)’ is a powerful reflection on race and racism in Britain. Afua Hirsch beautifully weaves between the particular and the universal in a personal search for identity. The experiences Hirsch...

The riots of 1958: Notes on the ideological construction of ‘race relations’ as a political issue in Britain

Abstract: The 1958 riots in Britain have received only limited attention. Those who have written about them have all assumed that they were ‘race‐related’. The paper argues, contra this orthodoxy, that the riots were the site for political and ideological conflict, and that particular political and ideological relations ensured that the idea of ‘race’ came to be used to interpret them.

The Recruitment of Colonial Troops in Africa and Asia and their Deployment in Europe during the First World War

Abstract: The impact of the First World War on the colonies was profound and many-sided.1 A conflict that began in the Balkans turned into a general European war in July and August 1914, and then took on ext...