Getting by in Europe's urban labor markets : Senegambian migrants' strategies for survival, documentation and mobility / Inge Van Nieuwenhuyze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nieuwenhuyze, Inge van.

Series:

IMISCOE dissertations.

IMISCOE dissertations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers--Europe.

Foreign workers.

Senegambians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A comparative study of how economic and political differences between Antwerp and Barcelona influence the life-course trajectories of Senegalese and Gambian migrants.

Contents:

Table of contents; List of tables and figures; Abbreviations and terms; 1 Understanding labour migration trajectories; 2 Embarking on an explanatory framework; 3 Data collection: Interviews and participant observation in a hidden population; 4 How migration from Senegal and the Gambia became an institution; 5 Survival strategies as an undocumented migrant; 6 Documentation strategies as an undocumented migrant; 7 Mobility strategies as a legal migrant; 8 Conclusions; Appendix A Topic list for questionnaire; Appendix B List of key informants; Appendix C Letter; Notes; References; Abstract

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical refrences and index.

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ISBN:

1-003-69665-1

1-04-078600-6

1-282-06793-1

9786612067938

90-485-0635-2

9781003696650

OCLC:

437106850

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5117/9789089640505