Contents: Introduction to the Handbook of Human Mobility and Migration: Human mobility as hallmark of our age xii Ettore Recchi and Mirna Safi PART I RETHINKING 1 Is Homo sapiens a growingly mobile species (in the very long run)? 2 Massimo Livi Bacci 2 Have migrants become a distinct category in social stratification research? 12 Mirna Safi 3 Are migrants a select population? 34 Mathieu Ichou 4 Is there an end to mobility? Circular and onward migrants 53 Louise Caron 5 Are international and internal migration distinct phenomena? 70 Marine Haddad and Haley McAvay PART II MAPPING 6 How global is international mobility? 94 Emanuel Deutschmann and Ettore Recchi 7 Are high-speed rail and airplane mobilities socially stratified? 113 Yoann Demoli and Frédéric Dobruszkes 8 Where, when and why are students internationally mobile? 128 Christof Van Mol, Joep Cleven and Benjamin Mulvey 9 Child migration: who, where, when, why? 148 Chiara Galli 10 International retirement migration: who, why, where and when? 163 Russell King 11 Public opinion on immigration: is it converging globally or regionally? 182 James Dennison and Alina Vrânceanu PART III GOVERNING 12 Visas and border infrastructures: what makes them tighter or looser? 203 Fabian Gülzau and Steffen Mau 13 Does the forced/voluntary dichotomy really influence migration governance? 221 Hélène Thiollet, Ferruccio Pastore and Camille Schmoll 14 Free movement regimes: is the EU experience exportable? 241 Rainer Bauböck 15 Transnationality mobility and welfare rights: are they compatible? 256 Maurizio Ferrera and Anna Kyriazi Index

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