Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World : : Albanian Migrants and Their Children in Europe.

• Superior document: IMISCOE Research Series
• Author: Vathi, Zana.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2015.; Ã2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Preface
• Contents
• Chapter-1
• Introduction
• 1.1 Contextualizing and Theorizing Cross-Generational Migration Research
• 1.1.1 Identity, Integration and Transnational Ties
• 1.1.2 Theories on the Integration of the Second Generation
• 1.1.3 The European Second Generation
• 1.1.4 The Albanian Second Generation
• 1.1.5 Moving Back and Forth Between Theory and Data
• 1.2 Introducing the Field Sites: Immigration Politics and Ethnic Relations
• 1.2.1 Britain
• 1.2.1.1 London
• 1.2.2 Greece
• 1.2.2.1 Thessaloniki
• 1.2.3 Italy
• 1.2.3.1 Florence
• 1.3 Research Design and Methods
• 1.4 Book Outline
• Chapter-2
• Identities of the First and Second Generation: The Role of Ethnicity
• 2.1 Identity and Ethnicity
• 2.2 Introduction to Albanian Identity
• 2.3 The First Generation
• 2.3.1 Migrant Identity
• 2.3.2 The Parental Identity
• 2.3.3 Gender
• 2.3.4 Religious Identity
• 2.3.5 The Role of Ethnicity
• 2.4 The Second Generation
• 2.4.1 Teenagers and Young People
• 2.4.2 Gender
• 2.4.3 Religious Identity
• 2.4.4 The Role of Ethnicity
• 2.5 Conclusions
• Chapter-3
• Integration: National, City and Local Perspectives
• 3.1 Reviewing Integration: Philosophical, Theoretical and Methodological Aspects
• 3.2 The First Generation
• 3.2.1 Structural Integration
• 3.2.1.1 Regularization and Interaction with Institutions
• 3.2.1.2 Integration in the Labour Market
• 3.2.2 Social Integration
• 3.2.2.1 History of Immigration and Impact on Social Integration
• 3.2.2.2 Cultural Similarity and Difference
• 3.2.3 Immigrant and Ethnic Organizations
• 3.2.4 Gender
• 3.2.5 Discrimination
• 3.3 The Second Generation
• 3.3.1 Structural Integration
• 3.3.1.1 Educational Experience and Performance
• 3.3.1.2 Future Employment Plans and Transition to the Labour Market.
• 3.3.1.3 Attitudes Towards Citizenship
• 3.3.1.4 References to the City and Locality
• 3.3.2 Socialization and Integration
• 3.3.2.1 Social Integration in Schools
• 3.3.2.2 The Role of the Peer Group
• 3.3.2.3 Immigrant and Ethnic Organizations
• 3.3.3 Discrimination
• 3.4 Conclusions
• Chapter-4
• Transnational Ties and Attitudes Towards Return
• 4.1 Theorizing Transnational Ties Beyond the Nation-State
• 4.2 The First Generation
• 4.2.1 Return Visits
• 4.2.2 Transnational Ties Through Technology
• 4.2.3 Remittances
• 4.2.4 Attitudes Towards Return
• 4.3 The Second Generation
• 4.3.1 Return Visits
• 4.3.2 Transnational Ties Through Technologies
• 4.3.3 Attitudes Towards Return
• 4.4 Conclusions
• Chapter-5
• Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity, Integration and Transnational Ties
• 5.1 Intergenerational Transmission in the Context of Migration: The State of the Art
• 5.2 Intergenerational Transmission of Identity
• 5.2.1 Transmitting 'Albanianness'
• 5.2.2 Language
• 5.2.3 Ethnicity at a Micro-Level: The Family
• 5.2.4 Lifestyle Values and Cross-Generation Tensions
• 5.2.5 Migrant Identity and the Communist Past
• 5.3 Intergenerational Transmission of Integration
• 5.3.1 Parents' Settlement and its Impact on Children's Integration
• 5.3.2 Transmission of the Migration Project
• 5.4 Intergenerational Transmission of Transnational Ties
• 5.4.1 General Patterns
• 5.4.2 Intergenerational Transmission of Attitudes Towards Visits
• 5.4.3 Intergenerational Transmission of Attitudes Towards Return
• 5.5 Conclusions
• Chapter-6
• A Cross-generational Assessment of Identification, Integration and Transnational Ties
• 6.1 Links Between Identity, Integration and Transnational Ties
• 6.2 Ethnic Identity
• 6.3 Integration
• 6.4 Transnational Ties
• 6.5 Intergenerational Transmission.
• 6.6 Re-interpreting Integration: Agency, Capital and Power
• References
• Index.