Anna Amelina

This edited collection contributes to studies of intra-EU migration and mobility, welfare, and European social citizenship by focusing on transnational labour movements from new to the old EU member states (The volume provides a comparative analysis of formal organization and mobile individuals' use of European social security coordination, which involves mobile Europeans' access to and portability of social security rights from the sending to the receiving country (and back). The book discloses the selectivity criteria of welfare provision in four areas (unemployment, family benefits, health insurance, and pensions) that lay at heart of European cross-border social security governance. It also identifies specific discourses of belonging (gendered, ethnicized/racialized and class-related images of 'Us' and 'Them') that frame the institutional selectivity by constructing images of mobile EU citizens' 'deserv-ing' or 'non-deserving' social membership. The collection offers a detailed examination of inequality experiences mobile EU citizens from the new EU countries encounter while accessing and porting social security rights across borders. It will be of interest to a wide range of social science and interdisciplinary researchers, students, and practitioners as well as those interested in intra-EU migration and mobility, social security, European social citizenship, and transnational studies. Anna Amelina is a Professor for Intercultural Studies at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg and UNESCO Chair for Heritage Studies. Her research areas are transnational migration studies, cultural sociology, gender and intersectionality, cross-border social inequalities, and European studies. Her recent publication is Gender and Migration: Transnational and Intersectional Prospects (with Helma Lutz, Routledge 2019). Emma Carmel investigates how social and political order is imagined, produced, and contested in a range of empirical contexts. Her recent empirical work has been on EU and UK migration governance,

Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society Gender and Migration seeks to introduce the most relevant sociological theories of gender relations and migration that consider ongoing transnationalization processes, at the beginning of the third millennium. 20% Discount Available-enter the code SOC19 at checkout* Hb: 978-1-138-47920-3 | £92.00 * Offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount and only applies to books purchased directly via our website. For more details, or to request a copy for review, please contact: "A remarkable book which provides a comprehensive and conceptually sophisticated analysis of the field of gender and migration studies with a particular emphasis on a much needed intersectional perspective. Both critical and engaging..."-Floya Anthias, Professor of Sociology and Social Justice (Emeritus), University of Roehampton, London "Making sense of transnational mobility and gender, this timely textbook breaks new ground by pushing us to take a closer look at the interstices of cross-border structures and practices in burgeoning fields such as (post-)migration, care and citizenship studies."-Thomas Faist, Professor of Sociology of Transnationalization, Migration and Development, Bielefeld University "Using an intersectional lens to explore key issues of migration as a fundamentally gendered process, this book breaks new ground in the study of transnationalism, care, and citizenship."-Russell King, Professor of Geography, University of Sussex "Gender, for long a neglected dimension of the migration experience, has been increasingly discussed in the recent literature. Never, however, had this resulted in such a clear and exhaustive overview. By bringing together insights from theories of transnationalism, intersectionality and gender relations, the authors make a major contribution to the teaching and research agenda on gender and migration."-Paolo Boccagni, Associate Professor,

Unequal life-chances became a key feature of cross-border migration to, and within, the enlarged Europe. Combining transnational, intersectional and cultural-sociological perspectives, this book develops a conceptual tool to analyse patterns, contexts and mechanisms of these cross-border inequalities.

This book synthesizes the theories of social boundaries and of intersectionality, approaching cross-border relations as socially generated and as an inherent element of contemporary social inequalities. It analyses the mechanisms of cross-border inequalities as ‘regimes of intersection’ relating spatialized cross-border inequalities to other types of unequal social relations (in terms of gender, ethnicity/race, class etc.). The conceptual arguments are supported by empirical research on cross-border migration in Europe: migration of scientists and care workers between Ukraine and Germany.

This book integrates the analysis of space – including cross-border categories of global and transnational – into intersectionally-informed studies of social inequalities. Broadly, it will appeal to scholars and students in the areas of sociology, political sciences, social anthropology and social geography. In particular, it will interest researchers concerned with transnational and global social inequalities, the interplay of the categories ‘gender’, ‘ethnicity’ and ‘class’ on the one hand and global and transnational relations on the other, theories of space and society, and migration and mobility in Europe.

The contributions of this book examine contemporary dynamics of migration and mobility in the context of the general societal transformations that have taken place in Europe over the past few decades. The book will help readers to better understand the manifold ways in which migration trends in the region are linked to changing political-economic constellations, orders of power and inequality, and political discourses. It begins with an introduction to a number of theoretical approaches that address the nexus between migration and general societal shifts, including processes of supranationalisation, EU enlargement, postsocialist transformations and rescaling. It then provides a comprehensive overview of the political regulation of migration through border control and immigration policies. The contributions that follow detail the dynamic changes of individual migration patterns and their implications for the agency of mobile individuals. The final part challenges the reader to consider how policies and practices of migration are linked to symbolic struggles over belonging and rights, describing a wide range of expressions of such conflicts, from cosmopolitanism to racism and xenophobia. This book is aimed at researchers in various fields of the social sciences and can be used as course reading for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses in the areas of international migration, transnational and European studies. It will be a beneficial resource for scholars looking for material on the most current conceptual tools for analysis of the nexus of migration and societal transformation in Europe.

According to UNHCR, more than 6.3 million people have left Ukraine since 24 February 2022. Most of them have arrived in the EU (3.4 million in Poland alone), but also over 850'434 in Russia. The tragedy of the Ukrainian citizens forced to move and those forced to continue living in Ukraine is unprecedented. Public reflections on these movements, however, remain caught in naturalizing vocabulary that discursively transforms movers from Ukraine into 'migrants' and, thus, reproduces the conventional figure of the 'migrant stranger.'

Building on the representation problem of migration studies, this article identifies current alternative knowledge production strategies in social scientific migration research. After reviewing calls for denaturalization, demigranticization and decolonization, it elaborates on an integrated "umbrella" perspectivethe doing-migration approachfor implementing these alternative strategies. First, building on the socioconstructivist and performativist accounts, the article pleads for studying the institutional and non-institutional sayings and doings about "migration" that generate historicspecific and changeable migranticized societal orders. Second, the article synthesizes the doing-migration approach and coloniality/ies-sensitive approaches to explicitly study long-term, large-scale power asymmetries and patterns of inequalities in the context of the postcolonial, postsocialist and neo-colonial dynamics. Finally, in addressing the question "Who has the power of definition within migration studies?", this article differentiates between the concepts of standpoint and positionality.

The figure of the female migrant has been a major focus of feminist thought in the German-speaking migration studies since the early 1980s. The article provides some reflections on the past to show how a number of milestones in feminist thought have influenced migration studies. It then continues with reflections on the present stance that analyses the dominant (re)production of (post-)migration realities as a gendered, ethnicized/racialized and classrelated project(s). Finally, the article concludes with a discussion of the prospects of gender-sensitive migration research in relation to postcolonial, decolonial and queer approaches to migrant othering.

This article proposes to move towards an intersectional regime perspectives to enhance our understanding of the interrelations of borders, boundaries, and inequalities in migration contexts. It addresses a conspicuous mismatch in current research: While the contingencies and context-dependencies of migration regimes are widely acknowledged, little attention has been paid to the actual interwoven mechanisms and processes that link political orders to social formations. We suggest amending already existing analyses of intersectional effects of migration-related 'lines of oppression' in two regards. First, we argue for focusing on the intersectional dynamics of political rationalities that give rise to boundaries and borders (the securitisation, the economisation, and the humanitarianisation of migration). Second, we highlight the need to investigate the intersections between different fields of practice involved in the implementation and enactment of boundaries and borders. We conclude by identifying key challenges and promises of an intersectional regime perspective for migration research.

What processes transform (im)mobile individuals into 'migrants' and geographic movements across political-territorial borders into 'migration'? Addressing this question , the article develops the doing migration approach that combines socio construc-tivist, praxeological and the sociology of knowledge and performativity perspectives. 'Doing migration' starts with the processes of social attribution that separate between 'migrants' and 'nonmigrants' and that are embedded into institutional, organisational and interactional routines which generate unique social order(s) of migration. Illustrating these conceptual ideas, the article provides insights into the elements of the contemporary European order of 'migration'. The institutional routines contribute to the emergence of the European migration regime that includes narratives of economisation, securitisation and humanitarisation. The organisational routines of European migration order realise bordering, surveillance and othering contributing to the disciplining effects on those defined as 'migrants'. Furthermore, the routines of daily face-to-face interactions generate various microforms of 'migra-tion' by stigmatisation, while also giving the potential to resist the social attribution as 'migrant'. K E Y W O R D S doing migration, European migration order, intersectionality, migration regime, reflexive turn, social constructivism

The concept of assemblage has recently become fashionable in studies of cross-border, global and transnational relations. In addressing the most important elements of this approach, the article provides an analytical vocabulary for analysing the processes of societalization in the context of global and transnational realms. After critically reflecting on the classical sociological approaches to society and social differentiation, the article argues that, because of its poststructuralist basis, the concept of assemblage is the appropriate conceptual tool for studying societal macro-relations of power and inequality while avoiding the modernist heritage of classical social theory. Furthermore, by synthesizing poststructuralist thinking, intersectional theory and multiscalar approaches to space, the article suggests that the assemblage theory can be used to better understand the current forms of cross-border social inequalities in the multiple and partly overlapping contexts of postcolonialism, postsocialism and the EU political project. In a nutshell, it is not a plea to adopt the assemblage approach as a new 'grand theory' but rather as a flexible conceptual tool that allows an inductive theory-building.

The article analyses various forms of care and social protection that forced-migrant transnational families exchange despite their individual members living in different countries. It presents outcomes of a small-scale empirical study of the family practices of mobile individuals from Syria and Afghanistan who arrived in Germany during and after the "long summer of 2015". Building on social protection research and transnational care studies, the article introduces the concept of care and protection assemblages, which highlights the heterogeneity, processuality and multi-scalar quality of migrant families' efforts to improve well-being. It includes an empirical analysis that illustrates key elements of the proposed concept and shows the significance of cross-border circulation of remittances, the selectivity in the cross-border circulation of emotions and limitations on the cross-border circulation of hands-on and practical care. These findings are framed by an analysis of solidarity organizations at the meso-level and (multiscalar) securitized asylum policies at the macro-level in the German context. The proposed conceptual framework takes into consideration migrant families' simultaneity of solidarity and inequality experiences by locating the examination of family-making at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels of analysis.

The aim of this special issue is to critically assess the potential of regime theory for migration research. Against the background of contemporary political dynamics, regime terminology has become rather popular in migration studies. There has, however , been little debate on the foundations and implications of the very notion of 'regime'. Although regime is anything but a unified concept, in this article we argue that there are commonalities in analytical perspectives useful for migration research. Current usages in migration research are informed by at least four different strands of theory building that differ in their epistemological, ontological, and methodological foundations: (i) international relations—notions of regimes as international regulatory frameworks, (ii) conceptualizations informed by welfare regime theories, (iii) regime notions that stem from the French regulation school, and (iv) regime theories inspired by governmentality studies. The collection of articles in this special issue mirrors this constellation. The contributions come from different disciplinary and methodological backgrounds, employ different regime notions, and focus on a wide range of aspects of contemporary European migration politics. While it seems crucial to acknowledge this conceptual variety, we argue that there are also important points of convergence between these strands of theory building: attention to the complexities and contradictions of regulatory practices, a focus on normative and discursive orders, and consideration of relations of power and inequality. This specific simultaneity of variety and convergence may open spaces for academic debates that move beyond established conceptual and methodological boundaries.

This introductory article of the special issue is based on the criticism of the sedentarist lens used in migration studies on social inequalities. It is organised around two questions: In what ways have forms of inequality and patterns of migration in the enlarged Europe been changed, and how should the nexus between migration and social inequality be rethought after the 'mobility turn' in the social sciences? First, the article proposes that the mobility turn and transnational sociology be combined to approach varieties of geographic mobility in the current Europe and that inequality analysis be conceptualised from a 'mobile perspective', meaning that forms of mobility and patterns of inequality be considered as mutually reinforcing. Second, Europe is considered as a fragmented and multi-sited societal context, which is co-produced by current patterns of mobility. The article discusses recent societal shifts such as supranationali-sation and the end of socialism in the Eastern part of Europe (among many others) and identifies the concept of assemblage as a useful heuristic tool both for migration studies and European studies. Third, the final part illustrates how the contributions collected in this special issue address the challenges of the sedentarist lens and provide conceptual solutions to the analytical problems in question.

Building on the transnational approach to migration, this introduction
outlines some elements of the programme of an emergent methodological
transnationalism. This effort aims to de-naturalize the concept of the
national within migration studies. First, the analysis identifies methodological
challenges of migration studies, such as contextualization, the
ethnic lens and the essentializing view on ethnicity. Second, it indicates
the relevant conceptual elements which deal with these methodological
challenges, such as the critique of methodological nationalism, cosmopolitanism
and the relational concept of space. Third, it addresses the
relevant methods, such as multi-sited ethnography, the mobile methods
approach, as well as researchers’ positionality and strategies of deethnicization,
all of which correspond to the new epistemology of
migration studies. Finally, it highlights the common characteristics of
the contributions to this special issue, which go beyond the normative
view of cross-border migration.

Starting from the critique of methodological nationalism the article questions the conventional limitation of migration studies on social inequalities imposed by the nation state context. First, it highlights the conceptual shortcomings of assimilation approaches which mainly analyse hierarchies of social positions within the settings of the immigration countries. Second, it reviews migration research which addresses inequality patterns at the global and the transnational scale. It analyses both bodies of literature which have in common their inability to explicitly address the interaction between particular socio-spatial scales. This is the reason for the necessity to include the scale approach in migration studies. Moreover, to adopt the scale theory into inequality research, spatial scales, such as the global and local, the national and transnational must be re-conceptualized in terms of the social boundaries approach. In sum, the article exemplifies how migration studies on social hierarchies profit from under-standing ‘space’ as a distinct set of categorical distinctions powerful in social practice.

Transnational social spaces are multidimensional in terms of the socio-spatial categories – that is, local, global, and national – and different actors and institutions involved. Recent developments in transnational methodology argue for a thorough reflection on the challenges of methodological nationalism, essentialism, and researchers' positionality. Therefore, in designing and conducting transnational research, reflections on methodological challenges become a crucial step. Yet, as these challenges often remain to be discussed on a methodological level, their implementation still needs to be set out clearly to be useful for empirical research in transnational social spaces such as on social protection. For that reason, we discuss transnational research designs as well as different methods of data collection and analysis. We argue for a multisited and mixed-method research design, which includes the emigration and the immigration countries, as well as the involvement of research teams located across borders. Thereby, a combination of perspectives between emigration and immigration countries in transnational social spaces can be achieved.

In analyzing current methodologies of transnational migration research, the article proposes to incorporate the cultural access into transnational methodology. Referring to the ideas of Andreas RECKWITZ, Ulf HANNERZ and Homi BHABHA it defines "culture" as a discursive and sense-making activity that guides respective social practices. This perspective allows defining transnational formations such as cross-border networks, families, organizations and diasporas as entities that are continuously confronted with interference of cultural orders. Moreover, the article develops a methodological proposal that facilitates research on actor's strategies, which deal with a variety of cultural scripts. First, this proposal suggests including the multi-sited ethnography in the procedure of data collection. This would enable to avoid methodological nationalism in designing transnational units of analysis. Second, the proposal suggests incorporating scientific hermeneutics within the procedure of data interpretation. In particular, it argues that scientific hermeneutics enables to observe the plurality of meaning patterns within actor's meaning horizons. Third, the methodological proposal suggests organizing the research work in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary organized scientific teams in order to increase the extent of research reflexivity. This modification provides a possibility to observe complex cultural dynamics and their effects on the cross-border social practices.

Während die klassischen Migrationstheorien internationale Migrations­ ströme als einmalige Wanderungsereignisse beschreiben und kulturelle Anpassungsprozesse der einwanderer an die " Mehrheitsgesellschaft " untersuchen, wird hier gefragt, wie Prozesse der Assimilation und Akkulturation jenseits des konzeptionellen Rahmens des nationalstaatlichen Containers analysiert werden können. dabei wird auf die Theorien der transnationalen Räume zurückgegriffen, die Migration als einen zirkulären Prozess definieren, der Sende-und Empfän­ gerkontexte von Migration dauerhaft miteinander verbindet. Zum einen eröffnet diese Perspektive die Möglichkeit, " strukturelle Assimilation " als simultane multiple Zugangsmöglichkeiten (Inklu­ sionen) der Individuen zu identischen gesellschaftlichen Institutionen an unterschiedlichen natio­ nalstaatlichen Standorten zu analysieren. Zum anderen können aus diesem Blickwinkel kulturelle Anpassungsprozesse von Migranten untersucht werden, die mit gleichzeitiger Aufrechterhaltung kultureller " Fremdheit " einhergehen.

Zusammenfassung: Dieser Beitrag schlägt die Erweiterung der Biographieforschung um die soziale Netz-werkanalyse (SNA) vor. Wir plädieren dafür, biographische Narrationen nicht isoliert von interpersonellen Beziehungen zu betrachten. Die egozentrierte Netzwerkanalyse, eine Spielart der sozialen Netzwerkanalyse, gibt uns das methodische Instrumenta-rium an die Hand, interpersonelle Beziehungen der Biograph*innen mit zu berück-sichtigen und für die Kontextualisierung biographischer Narrative zu nutzen. Eine kombinierte Anwendung der egozentrierten Netzwerkanalyse und biographischer Ver-fahren wird am Beispiel einer empirischen Studie zur transnationalen Migration zwi-schen der Türkei und Deutschland illustriert.