IMISCOE Research
Surveying Ethnic Minorities and Immigrant Populations: Methodological Challenges and Research Strategies
1st Edition
Edited
By Mónica Méndez, Joan Font
April 18, 2013
What are the special problems involved in surveying immigrant populations and ethnic minorities? How can we ensure adequate representation of these growing groups in general population surveys? This book is the first to address these challenges in a systematic way. Experiences from eight Western ...
Post-Colonial Immigrants and Identity Formations in the Netherlands
1st Edition
By Ulbe Bosma
September 11, 2012
This book explores the Dutch post-colonial migrant experience within the context of a wider European debate. Over 60 years and three generations of migration history is presented, while also surveying an impressive body of post-colonial literature, much of which has never reached an international ...
The European Second Generation Compared: Does the Integration Context Matter?
1st Edition
By Maurice Crul, Jens Schneider, Frans Lelie
August 28, 2012
Integration of newcomers is a foremost challenge for contemporary Europe. The ‘second generation’ – children born of immigrant parentage – is crucial in this process, for they constitute a growing and increasingly vocal segment of the metropolitan youth. This book offers an unprecedented look at ...
Immigration and Social Systems: Collected Essays of Michael Bommes
1st Edition
Edited
By Gianni D'Amato, Christina Boswell
August 21, 2012
Michael Bommes was one of the most brilliant and original migration studies scholars of our time. This posthumous collection brings together a selection of his most important work on immigration, integration, transnationalism, irregular migration and migrant networks. Each essay provides a rigorous...
Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration
1st Edition
Edited
By Albert Kraler, Camille Schmoll, Eleonore Kofman, Martin Kohli
April 04, 2012
Family-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the family dimensions of international migration. At the same time, strands of research on family ...
Citizenship Policies in the New Europe: Expanded and Updated Edition
1st Edition
Edited
By Rainer Bauböck, Bernhard Perchinig, Wiebke Sievers
August 03, 2009
The two most recent EU enlargements in May 2004 and in January 2007 have greatly increased the diversity of historic experiences and contemporary conceptions of statehood, nation-building and citizenship within the Union. How did newly formed states determine who would become their citizens? How do...
Acquisition and Loss of Nationality|Volume 2: Country Analyses: Policies and Trends in 15 European Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Rainer Bauböck, Kees Groenendijk, Eva Ersbøll, Harald Waldrauch
August 28, 2006
Nationality and citizenship have been subjects of stormy policy debates in many EU countries in recent years. Concerns over the integration of immigrants, but also attempts to forge links with emigrants, have led to changes in the laws regulating loss and acquisition of nationality and citizenship....