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Parallel lives revisited : Mediterranean guest workers and their families at work in the neighbourhood, 1960-1980 / Jozefien De Bock.
Lippincott Library HD8378.5.M43 .B63 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bock, Jozefien de, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign workers, Mediterranean--Belgium--Ghent--Social conditions--20th century.
- Foreign workers, Mediterranean.
- Immigrants--Belgium--Ghent--Social conditions--20th century.
- Immigrants.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Belgium--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects--20th century.
- Belgium.
- Mediterranean Region--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects--20th century.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Ghent (Belgium)--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.
- Ghent (Belgium).
- Ghent (Belgium)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Foreign workers, Mediterranean--Interviews.
- Belgium--Ghent.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- Originally coined in 2001 in studies of racial tension in the United Kingdom, the concept of `parallel lives' has become familiar in analyses of socially isolated immigrant communities. Yet even just within Europe, migrant segregation is clearly not a new historical phenomenon. Combining careful historical research with over one hundred migrant interviews, Parallel Lives Revisited explores the lives of immigrants from six Mediterranean countries in postwar Ghent to provide a fascinating collective account of work and home life across two decades.
- Contents:
- Postwar Mediterranean migration to the city of Ghent
- Integration processes of immigrants in the local labour market and the workplace
- Immigrant workers' relations with colleagues and employers
- Integration processes of immigrants in the local housing market and the neighbourhood
- Immigrants' social relations with neighbours
- Quantitative appendix
- List of interviews.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bock, Jozefien de, author. Parallel lives revisited
- ISBN:
- 9781785337789
- 1785337785
- OCLC:
- 993769422
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