Parallel Lives Revisited : : Mediterranean Guest Workers and their Families at Work and in the Neighbourhood, 1960-1980 / / Jozefien De Bock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Bock, Jozefien De,
• MitwirkendeR: Lucassen, Leo,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Foreword --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction. Parallel Lives and Segregation --; Chapter 1 Postwar Migration to the City of Ghent --; Chapter 2 Integration Processes of Immigrants in the Local Labour Market and the Workplace --; Chapter 3 Immigrant Workers’ Relations with Colleagues and Employers --; Chapter 4 Integration Processes of Immigrants in the Local Housing Market and the Neighbourhood --; Chapter 5 Immigrants’ Social Relations with Neighbours --; Conclusion --; Quantitative Appendix --; Interviews --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785337796; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785337796?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jozefien De Bock.

Originally coined in 2001 in a report on racial tensions in the United Kingdom, the concept of “parallel lives” has become familiar in the European discourse on immigrant integration. There, it refers to what is perceived as the segregation of immigrant populations from the rest of society. However, the historical roots of this presumed segregation are rarely the focus of discussion. Combining quantitative analysis, archival research, and over one hundred oral history interviews, Parallel Lives Revisited explores the lives of immigrants from six Mediterranean countries in a postwar Belgian city to provide a fascinating account of how their experiences of integration have changed at work and in their neighborhoods across two decades.