Global Change and Human Mobility

This book demonstrates the benefits of applying a new interdisciplinary approach that combines global change and human mobility. The term "globility" was coined in the year 2000 when the commission with the same name was created by the International Geographical Union with the purpose of theorizing about and asserting the concept of human mobility. First the book offers theoretical reviews of human mobility. Then it proceeds to study patterns of mobility in today's world as it faces new challenges in migration policies (including border controls, management of refugee movements, social initiatives to empower unauthorized immigrants), the integration issue, environmental hazards, and so on. The response to these diverse challenges reveals an increasing fluidity of human mobility and new forms of engagement of people on the move. Readers will obtain a better understanding of current human mobility from a large number of regions and from different thematic perspectives.

Auteur
Josefina Domínguez-MujicaProfessor of Human Geography at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)Chairperson of the International Geographical Commission on Global Change and Human Mobility

Contenu

Human Mobility: An Issue of Multidisciplinary Research.- Elusive Migration Systems: Shifting from transnationalism to transregionalism.- Migration and Borders: Empirical Patterns and Theoretical Implications in the Case of Spain.- Challenges Facing Refugee Women: A Critical Review.- Immigration Policies and Integration Models in Canada.- Conflicting Approaches and Converging Trends.- Latin American Migration, Residential Patterns and Social Cohesion in Argentina Cities.- The Integration of Immigrants in France. -Economic and Geographical Approach.- "Young and small" Thai immigration into Czechia: Wives of Czechs versus migrant workers.- Labor Mobility to the Promised Land: Hungarian Migrants' Experiences in the United Kingdom.- Accompanying the Stranger in a Context of Political Impasse and Constraints: New Sanctuary Movement Philadelphia.- Going Abroad to Get Ahead: The Emigration of Spanish Young Adults during the Financial Crisis (2008-2013).- New "Guest workers" from Spain? Exploring Migration to Germany in the Context of Economic and Societal Change.- Student on the Move. Academic Career and Life Transitions of Foreign PhD Students in Barcelona (Spain).- International Mobility of Brazilian Students to Portugal: The Role of the Brazilian Government and University Strategies in Portugal.-Globalizing Rural Areas. - International Migrants in Rural Germany.- Causal relationships between economic dynamics and migration: Romania as case study.- The Human Mobility as Strategy Facing the Volcanic Risks: The case of Ilha do Fogo (Cape Verde).