Immigration and Social Systems : : Collected Essays of Michael Bommes / / ed. by Gianni D'Amato, Christina Boswell.

Michael Bommes (1954-2010) was one the most brilliant and original scholars of migration studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This posthumously published collection brings together a selection of his most important essays on immigration, transnationalism, irregular migration, and mig...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2013]
©2012
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:IMISCOE Research
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Physical Description:1 online resource (242 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Migration in modern society
  • 2. National welfare state, biography and migration
  • 3. Systems theory and the 'ethnic inequality' of migrant workers
  • 4. Welfare systems and migrant minorities
  • 5. Transnationalism or assimilation?
  • 6. 'Integration takes place locally'
  • 7. Illegal migration in modern society
  • 8. General and specific characteristics of networks
  • 9. National paradigms of migration research
  • References
  • Other IMISCOE titles