Abstract
The paper presents and critically discusses the different types of comparison developed in migration studies with a special attention to European literature. It then identifies missing topics and issues to be covered by comparative research in the field by focussing on European and on North American research.
Highlights
In the current age of migration (Castles and Miller, 2009), research remains fragmented in diffferent ways
The fijirst line of fragmentation is between migration studies and post-migration studies
As migration and post-migration research has historically developed within the nation-state framework, comparative research has fijirst logically dealt with people present on the national territory of the receiving countries
Summary
In the current age of migration (Castles and Miller, 2009), research remains fragmented in diffferent ways. A part of the research community is interested in migration flows and movements and the other part deals more with migration stocks in the host societies as if there was a sharp analytical distinction between migration movements and migrant integration This traditional distinction between migration and post-migration studies is not always and everywhere as sharp as I have described, but it remains problematic. Comparative Migration Studies understands migration in a comprehensive way The contributions to this fijirst issue deal both with migration dynamics and with diffferent dimensions (social, economical, political and cultural dimensions including immigrant integration, assimilation, ethnicity formation and racism) of the post-migration situation. This is certainly an added value of the new journal. The focus of the second part will be on European and on North American research even though the comparative scope of the journal is much broader
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