Pallab Majumder is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who has been practicing and researching in United Kingdom for last 21 years. He works as an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham and as a Consultant Psychiatrist at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Majumder has played many roles, including as a researcher, clinician, educator and leader during his professional career that spans over almost three decades. Amongst these he has been Training Programme Director of Child Psychiatry higher training for the East Midlands region; Medical Governor of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Clinical Director of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Perinatal Mental Health and Eating Disorder Services; Executive Committee Member of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Academic Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists; and Educational Supervisor, Mentor and Appraiser for other Psychiatrists. Along with a long list of research publications, book chapters, conference presentations, and keynote speeches, he has also published his first book on refugee children´s mental health a few years ago. Dr Majumder has won several research, educational, and mentoring awards and has been nominated for others. This is his second book which extends his decades´ long passion and cogitation in the field of forced migration and refugeedom, into the realm of the entire phenomenon of immigration.
This book delves deep into the mechanics of the phenomenon of immigration. It looks at all the different categories of populations that move out of their homeland for a variety of reasons –- refugees and asylum seekers, displaced populations, and economic immigrants. The book carries out a deconstruction of human immigration at a molecular level, approaching from a wider multitude of epistemological positions, examining through different lenses, including the evolutionary, spiritual, psychological, economic, and political perspectives. Finally, it endeavours to develop a unified theory of immigration with short- and long-term real-world implications of immigration at an expansive global and far-reaching temporal scale. The volume will be useful for students and researchers of migration, diaspora, psychology, sociology, mental health, public health, and public policy.
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Prologue
PART I
The concept of movement in animals and humans
1 Setting the scene: the premise of our enquiry
2 Migration in different species
3 Human migration
4 Refugees
5 Migration beyond seeking asylum: what kind of people migrate?
PART II
Resilience in the context of immigration
6 Strength to carry on: the general question of resilience
7 Hope is a good thing: perhaps the best of things
8 Good and evils of growing up too early
9 Out of life´s school of war: spotlight on a feature of resilience
PART III
The many epistemiological angles
10 The god solution: psychology of faith in migration
11 The known unknown: psychodynamic perspective
12 To those in whom love dwells: the attachment perspective
13 The bigger picture: systemic perspective
14 Money makes the world go round: perspective of the economist
15 The scary foreigners: political perspective
16 The great filter: developing a theory of immigration
17 The far-reaching implications: gazing into crystal ball?
Epilogue: charaibeti
Bibliography
Index
