The Transnationalized Social Question Migration and the Politics of Social Inequalities in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Faist, Professor of Sociology, Bielefeld University

Thomas Faist is Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University. His fields of interest are transnational relations, cross-border migration, citizenship, and social policy. His previous publications include Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces (2000), Dual Citizenship in Europe (2007), Beyond a Border: The Causes and Consequences of Contemporary Immigration (with Peter Kivisto, 2010), Diaspora and Transnationalism: Concepts, Theories and Methods (with Rainer Baubock, 2010), and Environmental Migration and Social Inequalities (with Robert McLehman and Jeanette Schade, 2016).

1. Introduction: Migration as the Transnationalized Social Question
Part I: Approaching the Transnationalized Social Question
2. The Social Question Then and Now: From Voice to Exit?
3. The Nexus of Cross-Border Migration and Social Inequalities
Part II: Social Inequalities in Social Protection
4. Social Rights and Social Standards in Cross-Border Migration
5. Migration, Social Protection, and the (Re)Production of inequalities in the European Union
6. Social Protection Among Small Groups in European Transnational Social Spaces
Part III: The Transnational Puzzle: The Politics Around the Social Question
7. Externalization in Cross-Border Migration
8. Immigration Countries: Internalizing the Social Question
9. Emigration: Development and Securitization in Global Nations
Part IV: Outlook
10. The Socio-Natural Question: The Future is the Present
11. No Alternative? The Public Role of Social Scientists in the Transnational Social Question