| | | Introduction by Michael Bommes and Ewa Morawska | | 1 |
| 1 | | Migration and population in German historical thought : some critical reflections by Josef Ehmer | | 19 |
| 2 | | Integration nations : the nation-state and research on immigrants in Western Europe by Adrian Favell | | 41 |
| 3 | | The anthropology of transnational communities and the reframing of immigration research in California : the Mixtec case by Michael Kearney | | 69 |
| 4 | | Gender and migration research by Leslie Page Moch | | 95 |
| 5 | | Political science and comparative immigration politics by Gary P. Freeman | | 111 |
| 6 | | World society and migrations : challenges to theoretical concepts of political sociology by Jost Halfmann | | 129 |
| 7 | | Law and politics and migration research : on the potential and limits of interdisciplinarity by Roland Bank and Dirk Lehmkuhl | | 155 |
| 8 | | Interdisciplinarity in migration research : on the relation between sociology and linguistics by Michael Bommes and Utz Maas | | 179 |
| 9 | | The sociology and history of immigration : reflections of a practitioner by Ewa Morawska | | 203 |
| 10 | | National frames in migration research : the tacit political agenda by Sandra Lavenex | | 243 |
| 11 | | Migration research and European integration : the construction and institutionalization of problems of Europe by Andrew Geddes | | 265 |
| | | Conclusion by Michael Bommes and Ewa Morawska | | 281 |