Featuring forty-six essays written by leading international and multidisciplinary scholars, this new edition showcases evolving research and theorizing around refugees and forced migrants, new migration paths through Central Asia and the Middle East, the condition of statelessness and South to South migration. New chapters also address immigrant labor and entrepreneurship, skilled migration, ethnic succession, contract labor and informal economies. Uniquely among texts in the subject area, the provides a six-chapter compendium of methodologies for studying international migration and its impacts. Written in a clear and direct style, this offers a contemporary integrated resource for students and scholars from the perspectives of social science, humanities, journalism and other disciplines.