Immigrant Lives

Abstract

Abstract This volume focuses on processes, motivations, policies, and practices that influence international migration, the experiences of migrating and settling in a new country, and how these intertwined facets are influenced by intersectional factors and ecological systems and settings. Chapter contributions are by international and interdisciplinary scholars, academics, and researchers from Africa, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. This broad catchment area permitted the volume to examine and interrogate some immigration policies as well as undertake a timely capture of migration and transnational experiences from recent different migratory hotspots in some parts of the world. The volume also captures a broad spectrum of immigrant experiences not necessarily affected or pushed out of countries of origin by political turmoil but by other socioeconomic-cultural factors. Different vectors of social categories are interwoven and mutually reinforcing in migration experiences; the volume examines how transnationality, arising from migration, affects immigrants’ perceived pre- and post-migration expectations and lived experiences in varied spheres including family dynamics, access to services and programs, employment, coping with immigrant and refugee labels, and other related legal and policy-influenced spheres. The volume provides a holistic picture of migration and settlement processes as well as insight and debates on racialization, discrimination, social inequalities, and attendant global remedial processes including equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) approaches that appeal to a general academic audience, undergraduate and graduate students, migration scholars and researchers, policymakers, service providers, politicians, organizational development experts, lawmakers, and legal scholars.