Immigration and social systems : collected essays of Michael Bommes / edited by Christina Boswell and Gianni D'Amato.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Bommes, Michael, author.

Contributor:

Boswell, Christina, editor.

D'Amato, Gianni, editor.

Series:

IMISCOE research.

IMISCOE research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state.

Immigrants--Services for--Europe.

Immigrants.

Europe--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Europe.

Europe--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 migrant networks. In Bommes, the academy lost a scholar with penetrating analyses of migration, the welfare state and social systems where the two interact. By completing his last project, Boswell and D'Amato have done scholarship a lasting service. A major contribution to public debate and a tribute to a very great man. Randall Hansen, University of Toronto

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Foreword / Penninx, Rinus

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 / Tacke, Veronika

9. National paradigms of migration research / Thränhardt, Dietrich

References

Other IMISCOE titles

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jan 2021).

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)

ISBN:

1-003-69782-8

1-04-079442-4

1-283-69843-9

90-485-1729-X

9781003697824

OCLC:

817896365