Migration Studies
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About the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies
With today’s overabundance of information, and misinformation, students and researchers alike can be overwhelmed when trying to identify what’s trustworthy, what’s up-to-date, and what’s accurate.
Oxford University Press will launch the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies to meet this challenge. We will publish long-form, peer-reviewed overview articles covering migration and migrants’ experiences, including article subjects such as climate migration, migration and literature, deportation, immigrant activism, xenophobia, guest workers, refugees, gender and migration, and international adoption, among many other topics.
Find information about the scholars who will shape the content of this exciting new resource.
The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies is part of the online Oxford Research Encyclopedias (OREs). OREs are dynamic digital encyclopedias which are continuously updated by a community of leading scholars and researchers.
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Editorial Board
Editor in Chief
MADDALENA MARINARI
Maddalena Marinari is Professor of History at Gustavus Adolphus College. She is the author of Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization Against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965 (2020) and articles on immigration restriction, U.S. immigration policy, and immigrant mobilization in the Journal of Policy History, the Journal of American Ethnic History, and the Social Science History Journal. She has co-edited three volumes on different aspects of US immigration history in the twentieth century and a special issue of the Journal of American History on the immigration restriction acts of the 1920s. She is also one of the scholars who created the #ImmigrationSyllabus, an online tool for anyone interested in understanding the history behind current debates on immigration, and of Immigrants in COVID America, a curated collection of resources that chronicles the impact of the pandemic on migrant and refugee communities in the United States. Professor Marinari is currently president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.
Editorial Board
ANNA MAZURKIEWICZ
Anna Mazurkiewicz, historian (PhD habil.), Deputy Dean at the Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk in Poland, and first Chair of the International Border Studies Center at the UG. Author of four monographs on East Central Europe in American Cold War politics. Recipient of the Willi Paul Adams Award, for the best book on American history published in a language other than English (Organization of American Historians, 2019). Editor of five volumes on migrations resulting from international cooperation. Recipient of numerous research grants and awards by European and American institutions, including Kościuszko Foundation Scholarships and Fulbright Senior Award at the Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, USA. She teaches contemporary history, American history, migration, and diaspora courses. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6599-2755.
UZMA QURAISHI
Uzma Quraishi is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. She specializes in transnational U.S. history, immigration, and Cold War foreign relations. She is the author of Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War (UNC Press, 2020).
VIOLET JOHNSON
LAURA MADOKORO
Laura Madokoro is an award-winning historian and Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University, traditional Algonquin territory, Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War (Harvard, 2016) and Sanctuary in Pieces: Two Hundred Years of Flight, Fugitivity and Resistance in a North American City (McGill - Queen's University Press, 2024) as well as numerous articles on the history of migration, race, humanitarianism, and settler colonialism.
YUKAKO OTORI
Yukako Otori is an associate professor in the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, Japan. Her book manuscript is tentatively titled Americans by Design: Childhood and Citizenship at the US Border, 1870s-1920s.
ELLIOTT YOUNG
Elliott Young is Professor in the History Department at Lewis and Clark College. Professor Young is the author of Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System (Oxford, 2021), Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through WWII (UNC, 2014), and Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border (Duke 2004), as well as co-editor of Continental Crossroads: Remapping US-Mexico Borderlands History (Duke, 2004). He is co-founder of the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, the Migration Scholar Collaborative (MiSC) and the Migration and Asylum Lab (MAL) at Stanford University. He has also provided expert witness testimony for over 600 asylum cases. In addition to his scholarship, Professor Young’s opinion essays have appeared in the Washington Post, Time, the Houston Chronicle and the Oregonian.
Letter from the Editor in Chief
I am beyond thrilled to welcome readers to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia (ORE) of Migration Studies, an entirely online, digital research encyclopedia that will ultimately cover the subject of Migration globally. Migration is emerging as one of the defining phenomena of the twenty-first century. By all reasonable predictions, world migration will increase substantially over the next century. Over the coming decades, millions of people will be trying to leave places they have lived their entire lives to relocate to places like the United States, Germany, Australia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and other rich, industrialized countries in search of safety, more opportunities, and a better life. Like in the past, many will leave because of political upheavals, economic disruptions, and persecution, but more and more people will also leave because of the new dramatic changes in the world’s climate. These changes in global mobility are unfolding as many countries, even traditional receiving nations, are rethinking their relationship with immigrants, immigration, and multiculturalism.
To date, these two competing developments lack a framework that allows academics, practitioners, and educated readers to understand how they intersect and affect our world today. This encyclopedia seeks to serve as a powerful tool to understand the origins, impact, and evolution of these developments on a global scale. It also hopes to equip readers with an interdisciplinary understanding of migration at the local, national, and global levels. Readers will learn about these phenomena in a global framework, allowing them to see similarities and differences across borders. This approach demystifies many of the current assumptions about global migrations. For example, many continue to believe that most migrants leave for destinations in the West. At the time of this writing in December 2024, Saudi Arabia has the third-highest number of immigrants, while the United Arab Emirates is the sixth.
Migration Studies is not a self-contained discipline, and its scope of inquiry is changing rapidly: the field might accurately be understood as a set of overlapping and loosely aligned interests, concerns, and methodologies that follow different research paths within established disciplines such as anthropology, economics, ethnic studies, history, international relations, law, sociology, and others. This encyclopedia reflects this rich and diverse field and draws from professional academics in different fields, independent as well as faculty members, at institutions around the world. The ORE of Migration Studies will be a dynamic and continually evolving encyclopedia focused on world migration through time and space, presenting cutting-edge scholarship, and illustrating fascinating aspects of world migration. The goal is to create a comprehensive, accessible, and dynamic encyclopedia on Migration Studies that can serve as a model for encyclopedias in the new digital age. As such, it will include references to visual and primary source materials that will help readers grasp the complexities of the people’s mobility around the world.
In short, the ORE of Migration Studies intends to be the single best-used resource available to all students of migration studies in and outside of academia. It also hopes to inspire new research questions and foster informed conversations about this critical element of contemporary history.
Maddalena Marinari
Editor-in-Chief
