This book focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international, and transnational variants, drawing on ethnographies from across the globe to show that our understanding of migration is broadened and advanced when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the social consequences and asymmetries of 21st-century global capitalism.

1. Migration, Political Economy and Ethnography Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem Part I: Perspectives 2. Panoptics of Political Economy: Anthropology and Migration Winnie Lem 3. Migration and Development Without Methodological Nationalism: Towards Global Perspectives on Migration Nina Glick Schiller 4. Theorizing Transnational Movement in the Current Conjuncture: Examples from/of/in the Asia Pacific Donald M. Nonini Part II: Cases 5. With Crossings In My Mind: Trinidad's Multiple Migration Flows, Policy and Agency Belinda Leach 6. Selecting, Competing, and Performing as ‘Ideal Migrants’: Mexican and Jamaican Farmworkers in Canada Janet McLaughlin 7. In Search of Hope: Mobility and Citizenships on the Canadian Frontier Lindsay Bell 8. Constructing a "Perfect" Wall: Race, Class, and Citizenship in U.S.–Mexico Border Policing Josiah McC. Heyman 9. The Aftermath of a Rape Case: The Politics of Migrants´ Unequal Incorporation in Neo-Liberal Times Bela Feldman-Bianco 10. Gender, Migration and Rural-Urban Relations in Postsocialist China Yan Hairong 11. "Value Plus Plus": Housewifization and History in Philippine Care Migration Pauline Gardiner Barber and Catherine Bryan 12. Migration, Political Economy and Beyond Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem