Abstract
King, a geographer committed to interdisciplinary research, provides the book with a concluding essay that elaborates on the theoretical and methodological insights into the study of migration and space, on the aspects related to mapping and on the highlights of each chapter. The conclusion also assesses the overall contribution of the book to the study of migration as a spatio-temporal phenomenon. The conclusion shows that the book historicises migration in its diverse forms and in a variety of spatio-temporal contexts. The book speaks to a global audience of migration researchers and students who are fascinated by the study of human migration and its connections to a whole range of broader processes such as globalisation, inequality, geopolitics, multiculturalism, ethnicity and identity.
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King, “Geography and Migration Studies: Retrospect and Prospect,” 134–153.
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Tufte, Envisioning Information, 97.
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Although a third dimension, such as altitude, or even time, can be incorporated via various symbols and graphical elaborations.
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Akerman and Karrow, Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, 2.
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Cohen, The Cambridge Survey of World Migration, 8.
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Favell, Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines (2nd and 3rd ed.).
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Massey’s work consists of: Massey, “A Global Sense of Place,” 24–29. & Massey, Space, Place, and Gender. & Massey, The Conceptualization of Place, 46–77.
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Gabaccia, Time and Temporality in Migration Studies, 37–66.
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But see Cwerner, “The Times of Migration,” 7–36.
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Lulle et al., “And then Came Brexit: Experiences and Plans of Young EU Migrants in the London Region,” 1–11.
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King et al., “A Migrant’s Story: From Albania to Athens,” 159–175.
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King, “On Geography, Cartography and the Fourth Language,” 42–56.
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See Collyer and King, “Narrating Europe’s Migration and Refugee ‘Crisis’” 1–12. & Crawley, “Managing the Unmanageable? Understanding the Response to Europe’s Migration Crisis,” 13–23.
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See, for instance, Levitt, Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display. & Levitt, “Understanding Immigration Through Icons, Images, and Institutions: The Politics and Poetics of Putting the Globe on Display,” 272–288. & Sutherland, “Leaving and Longing: Migration Museums as Nation-Building Sites,” 118–133.
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Lohman et al., Museums, the Media and Refugees: Stories of Crisis, Control and Compassion.
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Margaret Pearce, “Framing the Days: Place and Narrative in Cartography,” 17–32.
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Apter, Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability, 101.
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Stephen Castles, “Understanding Global Migration: A Social Transformation Perspective,” 1565–1586.
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Cf. Winichakul, Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation.
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Kenya was one of the few sub-Saharan African countries to experience land reform—a double process of reassignment of ‘white’-owned land and the consolidation of scattered holdings. I wrote about this 40 years ago in my book on land reform throughout the world (King 1977: 329–355).
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Jay says little about the Algerian Jews’ relationship with the much larger community of pieds-noirs who relocated to France from Algeria at the same time. According to one author, once in France, the Algerian Jews ‘kept their distance’ from the other pieds-noirs, emphasising both their Frenchness and their Jewishness and seeing themselves rejoining ‘the history and future of the Jews’ in the European Jewish diaspora (Cohen 2003: 134, 136).
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Andrea Smith, Europe’s Invisible Migrants.
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Perhaps a closer parallel would be the East African Asians, who, when the British East African colonies gained independence, chose to onward-migrate to Britain rather than ‘return’ to India whence their ancestors had migrated several generations earlier (see Bhachu 1985).
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King, “The Mediterranean: Europe’s Rio Grande,” 109–134.
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Gilroy, The Black Atlantic.
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King, “Across the Sea and Over the Mountains: Documenting Albanian Migration,” 283–309.
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Lulle, “Meanings of Independence and Manifestations of Neoliberal Nationalism During the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Central and Eastern Europe,” 89–100.
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Harvey, “The Right to the City,” 23–40.
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Hall, “Who Needs Identity?”, 1–17.
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Lefebvre, The Production of Space.
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Cf. Brickell and Datta, Translocal Geographies: Spaces, Places, Connections.
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King, R. (2019). A Geographer’s Perspective on Migration, Identity and Space. In: Linhard, T., Parsons, T.H. (eds) Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77956-0_14
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