Editing Human migration (section)

=== Sociology ===
{{main|Sociology of immigration}}A number of social scientists have examined immigration from a [[Sociology|sociological]] perspective, paying particular attention to how immigration affects and is affected by, matters of [[Race (human categorisation)|race]] and [[Ethnic group|ethnicity]], as well as [[social structure]]. They have produced three main sociological perspectives:
* [[symbolic interactionism]], which aims to understand migration via face-to-face interactions on a micro-level
* [[social conflict theory]], which examines migration through the prism of competition for [[Power (social and political)|power]] and [[resource]]s
* [[structural functionalism]] (based on the ideas of [[Émile Durkheim]]), which examines the role of migration in fulfilling certain functions within each society, such as the decrease of [[Anomie|despair and aimlessness]] and the consolidation of [[social network]]s

In the 21st century, as attention has shifted away from countries of destination, sociologists have attempted to understand how [[transnationalism]] allows us to understand the interplay between migrants, their countries of destination, and their countries of origins.<ref>{{Cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=sBJTOhDpauQC&q=schiller+basch&pg=PT5 |title=Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States|last1= Basch |first1=Linda |last2=Schiller|first2= Nina Glick|last3= Blanc|first3= Christina Szanton|date= 2005|publisher= Routledge |isbn=978-1135307035 |language=en}}</ref> In this framework, work on social remittances by [[Peggy Levitt]] and others has led to a stronger conceptualisation of how migrants affect socio-political processes in their countries of origin.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Levitt |first=Peggy |date=1998 |title=Social Remittances: Migration Driven Local-Level Forms of Cultural Diffusion|jstor= 2547666 |journal=The International Migration Review |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=926–948 |doi=10.2307/2547666 |pmid=12294302}}
</ref> Much work also takes place in the field of [[Social integration|integration]] of migrants into destination-societies.<ref>
For example:
{{cite book
 | last1 = Hack-Polay
 | first1 = Dieu
 | year = 2013
 | title = Reframing Migrant Integration
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fwEvDAAAQBAJ
 | location = Kibworth, Leicestershire
 | publisher = Book Guild Publishing
 | publication-date = 2016
 | isbn = 978-1911320319
 | access-date = 12 January 2020
}}
</ref>