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Abstract
The Age of Migration has been uniquely successful as a student text on international migration, not only filling a niche but defining the field. This review article documents the evolution of the five editions of the book in terms of its core structure and enlarging scope. In a more critical vein, I note some omissions and potential shortcomings, while acknowledging the subjectivity of my perspective. More attention could have been given to the mobilities paradigm, transnationalism, internal and return migration, and quantitative analyses. Nevertheless, this book has done more than any other to ensure that the academic study of migration now occupies a central place in the social sciences.
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Notes
1. For example, Boyle, Halfacree, and Robinson (Citation1998), Brettell and Hollifield (Citation2008), Cohen and Sirkeci (Citation2011), Martiniello and Rath (Citation2012) and Samers (Citation2010).
2. These include undergraduate courses on Contemporary European Migration and Understanding Global Migration, and the MA course Theories and Typologies of Migration.
3. In the fourth and fifth editions there is an attempt to match the size of the arrow heads of the flows to the scale of migration.
4. For examples of the cultural reading of migration, see the books by Cohen and Sirkeci (Citation2011) and Hoerder (Citation2002), and papers by Fielding (Citation1992) and Levitt (Citation2012).
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Russell King
RUSSELL KING is Professor of Geography at the University of Sussex and Visiting Professor in Migration Studies at Malmö University.
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