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This chapter presents the three main fields of research that inform the author’s research over the last twenty years: international migration, migrant political participation and diaspora contributions to peace and conflict in homelands. In addition, the book adopts a gendered and intersectional approach, seeking to highlight differences in the experiences of men and women from different social backgrounds and with varied motivations to migrate. Bermudez has focused her investigation on contemporary Colombian migration to Europe: Spain, the United Kingdom and Belgium. These three contexts of reception, together with the time span over which Colombian flows there have evolved, provide for an interesting background. Both the conceptual and empirical focus of the book represent a fresh research subject.
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The webpage of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) offers detailed information on the nature of modern wars and armed conflicts: http://www.sipri.org/, data accessed17 March 2015.
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Bermudez, A. (2016). Introduction. In: International Migration, Transnational Politics and Conflict. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53197-1_1
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