Editors: Yaojun Li (University of Manchester, UK) and Anthony Heath (University of Oxford, UK)
Deadline for Abstracts: 31 May 2016
Submission of Full Papers: 25 to 31 August 2016
Publication of the Issue: December 2016
Information: In the era of globalisation and rapid socio-economic-technical development that facilitates cheap and easy transportation, international migration, especially that from developing to developed countries, has been taking place for decades on a massive scale since the end of the Second World War and is most likely to continue in the years to come, given the ageing population in the developed countries and the wars and chaos in many parts of the developing countries in the world. The scale of migration has changed the demographic landscapes in many developed countries. This influx is affecting not only the demographic composition but all aspects of socio-economic-cultural-political lives in the countries concerned.
How well do the migrants fare in the destination societies, how well or poorly integrated they are into the socio-economic fabrics of the host societies—especially for the second and higher generations—is an enduring sociological concern which has substantial impacts not only for the migrants and their children, but for the socio-economic stability and prosperity of the host countries, for social policies, and for the future dynamics of democratic institutions. The recent refugee crises in Europe and the reactions to the new influxes of immigrants by politicians, media and ordinary citizens of the countries concerned provide a most telling story about the issues at stake and bring the debates on international migration and ethnic integration to a much more salient relief than was the case in previous times.