Theorising transnational migration : the status paradox of migration

Theorising transnational migration : the status paradox of migration / Boris Nieswand.

Societal transformations have recently stimulated political debates and policies on the integration of migrants and minorities in most Western European countries. While transnational migration studies have documented migrants' cross-border activities there have been few empirically grounded eff...

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Main Author: Nieswand, Boris
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, ©2011.
Series:Transnationalism. Routledge research in transnationalism ; 22.
Subjects:
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation.
Immigrants > Social conditions.
Transnationalism.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation
Immigrants > Social conditions
Transnationalism
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Summary:Societal transformations have recently stimulated political debates and policies on the integration of migrants and minorities in most Western European countries. While transnational migration studies have documented migrants' cross-border activities there have been few empirically grounded efforts to theorise these developments in the framework of integration and status theory.Based on a case study of Ghanaian migrants, this book seeks to understand integration processes and develops a theorem of the status paradox of migration which explores the interaction between migrants' integr.
Physical Description:1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780203810439
0203810430
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1136682023
1283643588
9781283643580
6613956082
9786613956088
9781136681974
1136681973
9781136682018
1136682015
9780415853118
0415853117
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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