Organised around the themes of methodological considerations and interdisciplinary approaches, the experiences of migrants as researchers and interaction between practitioners, policy-makers and academics, Migration Across Boundaries discusses the realities of the discourses that surround international migration, examining the proper role of academia in bringing together a range of stakeholders to formulate dialogic approaches to understanding migration.

Parvati Nair is Director of the United Nations University institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility and Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She is the author of A Different Light: The Photography of Sebastião Salgado, of Rumbo al norte: inmigración y movimientos culturales entre el Magreb y España and of Configuring Community: Theories, Narratives and Practices of Community Identities in Contemporary Spain, and co-editor of Gender and Spanish Cinema and Hispanic and Lusophone Women Filmmakers: Critical Discourses and Cinematic Practices. She is also the Principal Editor of Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture.

Tendayi Bloom is Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility.