Biography

• The volume is comprehensive in scope, with essays addressing migration issues in all global regions and exploring why this is a topic that continues to dominate nightly news and government policymakers’ agendas.
• Some essays include testimony from migrants and their children, providing first-person experiences with the hardships and problems prevalent in international migration.
• Each essay uses the same critical lens throughout the volume, lending it unique analytic consistency, and geared toward answering the same questions: under what conditions do migration flows increase, how and why are migration crises constructed, and what policies are created to address them.