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Theorising transnational migration : the status paradox of migration / Boris Nieswand.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nieswand, Boris, author.
- Series:
- Transnationalism. Routledge research in transnationalism ; 22.
- Routledge research in transnationalism ; 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--Social conditions.
- Transnationalism.
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, c2011.
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Societal transformations have recently stimulated political debates and policies on the integration of migrants and minorities in most Western European countries. While transnational migration studies have documented migrants' cross-border activities there have been few empirically grounded efforts to theorise these developments in the framework of integration and status theory.Based on a case study of Ghanaian migrants, this book seeks to understand integration processes and develops a theorem of the status paradox of migration which explores the interaction between migrants' integr
- Contents:
- Migration and society
- Ghana and its migrants
- Processes of localisation
- Processes of transnationalisation
- The status paradox of migration.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-68201-5
- 1-283-64358-8
- 0-203-81043-0
- 1-136-68202-3
- 9780203810439
- OCLC:
- 813844826
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