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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.editor | Bolzman, Claudio | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-19T07:00:43Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2019-03-19T07:00:43Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-94-024-1141-6 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/55147 | - |
| dc.description | Immigration is a substantive part of twentieth-century European history. Some countries, such as France and Switzerland, became popular destinations for immigrants at the beginning of the last century. Economically based migration of guest workers has become highly relevant in many other Western European countries (Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc.) since the end of World War II (Piore 1979). The fall of the Berlin Wall, the extension of the European Community to Eastern European countries in the context of economic globalization on the one hand, and the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East on the other hand, accelerated both economic immigration and the arrivals of refugees at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The sociologist Abdelmalek Sayad underlined the fact that even temporary migration necessarily becomes permanent migration: “There is no immigration, even supposedly for work and work alone (…) that does not transform into family migration (or) migration for settlement” (1991:19, our translation). Migrants’ settlement comes along with marriages and children; these children may immigrate with their parents or be born in the host country, and they compose the second generation. Unlike their parents, the children of migrants are socialized in the host country and are exposed to its social institutions starting at early ages; as time goes by, they go to school, enter the labor market, get married, and become parents themselves. Although a growing number of studies have been devoted to the children of migrants, the methodological challenges related to research on these populations still remain implicit, as they are quite unexplored. Therefore, this volume on the children of migrants is intended to clarify the methodological issues that researchers face in producing and to analyzing relevant empirical data on the life courses and living situations of the children of migrants. Although the cases presented in these chapters are drawn mainly from European contexts, the insights gained are relevant in other areas of the world. The quality of scientific data is central for the elaboration of informed social and integration policies at the international, national, regional, and local levels. | - |
| dc.language | en | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer | en_US |
| dc.subject | Origins | en_US |
| dc.title | Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | Population Studies | |
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