Chapter 1. Introduction: Mediterranean Migration Studies: a research agenda for the coming years.- Part I: Geo-political Mediterranean Relations.- Chapter 2. Looking at the EU-Turkey Deal: The Implications for Migrants in Greece and Turkey.- Chapter 3. Hindering democracy through migration policies? An analysis of EU external migration policies impacts on the democratization of Morocco.- Chapter 4. Migration across the Mediterranean: Shaping Italy-Libya relations over time.- Chapter 5. (Im-)Mobility Partnerships: Challenges to EU Democracy Promotion through Mobility in the Mediterranean.- Chapter 6. The migration initiatives encouraged by the Local and Regional Networks and their effects in the Euromed cooperation.- Part II: Governance, Politics and Policies.- Chapter 7. Migrants and Refugees in the Mediterranean Cities: Reception, regulation and actors. Tunisia case study.- Chapter 8. Media, Public Opinion and Migration Policies in Euro-Mediterranean Countries: The Case of France.-Chapter 9. Gendered Asylum in the Black Mediterranean: Two Nigerian Women’s Experiences of Reception in Italy.- Chapter 10. Activists Escaping Lebanon: Disruption, Burnout, and Disengagement.- Chapter 11. Ecologies of exclusion and inclusion in the Mediterranean: Seeking refuge in Lebanon.- Part III: Taxonomies of Motion and Drivers.- Chapter 12. Root Causes of Irregular Migration in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of Afghans and Syrians.- Chapter 13. Mobilities Among Marginalized Youth in Morocco: Precariousness, Agency and Networks.- Chapter 14. The continuity of migration drivers: A historical perspective on Spanish social transformations.- Chapter 15.: Capturing Irregular Migrations through a Macro-Sociological Lens: The harga process in twelve steps from North Africa to Europe.- Part IV: History, Cities and Social Transformations.- Chapter 16. Connecting places, connecting to place: the use of ICTs for imagining, narrating and exploring the Mediterranean city.- Chapter 17. The fenced off cities of Ceuta and Melilla: Mediterranean nodes of migrant (im)mobility.- Chapter 18. Mediterranean migrations and cities with their cultural histories and imaginaries: the case of Marseille.- Chapter 19. Infrastructure development and environmental change – a case study of forced (im)mobility in Mhamid oasis (Southern Morocco).- Part V: Economy and Labor Markets.- Chapter 20. The Political Economy of Egyptian Migration to Europe in the 2020s.- Chapter 21.  The institutional channeling of transnational economic mobilization in three Moroccan regions.- Chapter 22. ‘No man’s land’: Reflecting on and theorizing migrant labour in the Mediterranean agriculture.- Chapter 23. Transnational Migrant Entrepreneurship Policies in the Maghreb Countries: Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.- Chapter 24. Concluding remarks: Applying Med-Thinking proviso to set a research agenda on Mediterranean migrations.

This open access Regional Reader describes population movement circulating within the Mediterranean area, for any reason or from any region, be them European, African, Asian or originating from any of the Mediterranean shores. It showcases a plurality of approaches to and applications of Mediterranean migration, contributing to a regional approach to migration, thereby defending this regional approach by scaling Mediterranean migration issues. This book covers a large set of questions related to the migration research agenda, such as: market and economy, politics and policies, super-diversity and intersectionality, media, society, welfare and the environment through five main parts:  Geo-political Mediterranean Relations, Governance, Policies and Politics, Mobility drivers and Agency, Cities, History and Social Transformations, and Economy and Labour Markets. This Regional Reader provides an interesting read to scholars, researchers, but also policy makers and civil society organizations’ high representatives, international foundations and institutions interested in linking the Mediterranean and migration.

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