Home-Land is the second book in a new series with Bristol University Press, titled Global Migration and Social Change. The series aims to offer a platform for new scholarship in migration and refugee studies that explores under-researched topics and/or looks at old ones through novel perspectives and methods.

The idea for this new book series took shape in 2016, as Europe was coming to terms with a peak in unauthorised sea crossings at its southern borders. Meanwhile, US president Donald Trump was pledging the construction of an ‘impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful wall’ along the US-Mexico border, the UK was voting to leave the European Union in a referendum in which anti-immigration sentiments played a major role, and hundreds of people were displaced across the world as a result of new and old conflicts.

Against that background, we envisaged a series of broad questions and perspectives for the series which, among the others, would cast light on the politics and geopolitics of migration; examine the drivers and dynamics of human mobility in an interconnected world; explore migration-driven sociodemographic changes from intersectional and interdisciplinary perspectives; engage with anti-immigration and racist politics; analyse the accommodation of, and resistance to, diversity in rapidly changing societies; and investigate the relationship between immigration enforcement and citizenship.

We set out to showcase research that looks at the UK, Europe and beyond to understand the broader dynamics of global migration, exile and social change. We want to publish research monographs and edited collections informed by a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods that challenge disciplinary boundaries and established knowledge on human mobility and raise novel questions and connections on the relationship between mobility and social change.

We are open to in-depth ethnographic and qualitative case studies, international comparative analyses, and everything between. We also welcome contributions that address the dynamics of migration, exile and social change at different scales (municipal, national, regional, global and so on), and which pay attention to different intersections of race, ethnicity, class, gender and age.

Rachel Humphris’ ethnography of domestic spaces and everyday bordering is an excellent fit for the series. The book builds an intimate and fine-grained portrait of the encounters between citizens and the British state.