The book examines ways in which migration presents potentially creative challenges to the study of divided societies.

It was published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics.

1. Migration and Divided Societies 2. Borders of Understanding: Re-making Frontiers in the Russian-Norwegian Contact Zone 3. 'Immigrants Don't Ask for Self-government': How Multiculturalism is (De)legitimized in Multinational Societies 4. Counting as Citizens: Recognition of the Nubians in the 2009 Kenyan Census 5. Reversing Segregation? The Property Restitution Process in Post-war Bosnia 6. Migration, Ethnonationalist Destinations and Social Divisions: Non-Jewish Immigrants in Israel 7. Fractures, Foreigners and Fitting In: Exploring Attitudes towards Immigration and Integration in 'Post-Conflict' Northern Ireland

Chris Gilligan is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of Scotland and is Reviews Editor for the journal Ethnopolitics. He has edited collections on the peace process in Northern Ireland, and on migration.

Susan Ball is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British Civilisation at the University of Paris 8, France. Susan has undertaken research in the U.K. and France on socio-economic and ethnic segregation, discrimination and integration, and urban policy and real estate investment.