Migration, Security, and Citizenship in the Middle East ─ New Perspectives

This volume examines the implications of migration into and from the Middle East with a particular focus on the significance of migration movements, policy reactions, and questions concerning human rights, governance, and citizenship in relation to policy making processes. The contributors cover different yet interrelated fields of migration research, presenting new perspectives on migration and security in the Middle East and showing the ways in which recent developments challenge our traditional interpretations of migration. They also discuss how migratory movements in the Middle East raise new questions related to human rights, governance, and citizenship, which demonstrate that lack of representation and political inclusion – already a systemic problem in the Middle East – is even more relevant with respect to migrant populations.

Peter Seeberg is Associate Professor and Director of Studies at Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark. He is also Director of the DJUCO-project, an academic cooperation project with universities in Jordan funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has published on the EU and the Middle East, Arab nationalism, migration and security issues, and ethnic minorities in Europe and especially Denmark.

Zaid Eyadat is Dean of the School of International Studies and Political Science at the University of Jordan. A political scientist and human rights professor with over ten years of experience researching the democratization of the Middle East within the framework of game theory, he is an expert on Middle East politics. His current research focuses on human rights, conflict management and resolution, Islamic politics, and democratization and politics in the Middle East. Through his work with the Jordanian government and a number of NGOs, he has contributed extensively to the analysis and advancement of Middle East politics within a comparative and international framework.