Contents: Preface; Introduction: socio-cultural attitudes to migration and the academic disposition of migration studies, Suman Gupta. Part I Europe: Open borders: the case against immigration controls, Teresa Hayter; Economic migrant or hyphenated British? Writing about difference in London's East End, John Eade; Outsourcing and migrational anxieties in discourse perspectives, Tope Omoníyi; Economic satisfaction and nostalgic laments: the language of Bulgarian economic migrants after 1989 in websites and electronic fora, Zhivko Ivanov; The immigrating Russian: the Bulgarian case, Irina Chongarova. Part II Africa: The transformative effect of transfer originating from migration on local Moroccan socio-economic dynamics, Taoufik Agoumy; 'Economic martyrs': 2 perspectives on 'lahrig', Taieb Belghazi; The cultural consequence of economic migration from Nigeria to the West, Efurosibina Adegbija; From homeland to hopeland? Economic globalization and Ogoni migration in the 1990s, Cyril I. Obi; Migrancy and Thabo Mbeki's African renaissance, David Johnson. Part III Asia: Emigration and sociocultural change in Iran, Taghi Azadarmaki and Mehri Bahar; Imaginary migrations in contemporary Chinese public culture, Yue Daiyun; Media representations in India of the Indian diaspora in UK and US, Subarno Chattarji; Globalizing Hunduism, Hinduizing India: the paradoxical purposes of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Tapan Basu; Negotiating the shifting boundaries of nativeness and modernity in immigrant South Asian women's clothes, Vinay Bahl; Index.