Contemporary European emigration : situating integration in new destinations / edited by Brigitte Suter and Lisa Åkesson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Suter, Brigitte, 1977- editor.

Åkesson, Lisa, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge studies in development, mobilities, and migration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europeans--Cultural assimilation--Foreign countries.

Europeans.

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.

Immigrants.

Europeans--Cultural assimilation.

Foreign countries.

Europe--Emigration and immigration.

Europe.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 163 pages).

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Brigitte Suter is senior researcher and lecturer in International Migration and Ethnic Relations at the Malm Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) at Malm University in Sweden. She has been researching a wide range of migration-related topics and has profound experience in qualitative, interpretative research methods. Her research interests include (im)mobility, social networks, the transformative potential of migration, ethnography, the mobility of highly skilled migrants in the global economy, as well as the role of norms and values in the field of migration and integration. Her latest publications include Migration as Adventure: Swedish Corporate Families Experience of Liminality in Shanghai, Journal of Transient Migration, 2019. Lisa kesson is Professor in Social Anthropology at the Department of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. She leads several projects on the recent Portuguese migration to Angola and Mozambique, which focus on postcolonial identities, power relations and transfer of knowledge. In addition, she has carried out research on Cape Verdean migration, exploring transnational families, remittances and relationships, return migration and cultural meanings of migration. She is the author of Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola: Migrants or Masters? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and she has published in a number of journals, including Ethnos, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Global Networks and Geopolitics.

Contents:

Introduction / Brigitte Suter, Lisa Åkesson

Hegemony and hybridity : the integration of Portuguese migrants in Luanda and Maputo / Lisa Åkesson

Locally embedded cosmopolitans? : young Europeans crafting their own space in Singapore and Tokyo / Helena Hof

(Dis)Integrated women-self-other representations in the contemporary Italian migration to Morocco / Maria Giovanna Cassa

Pathways of integration of young French of Maghrebi background in Montreal / Jérémy Mandin

When Europeans move to Morocco "for love" : navigating legislative and religious boundaries in a Muslim context / Catherine Therrien

Unravelling the integration paradox : the uprooting and home-making of Euro-Maghrebi minorities across racial formations / Jaafar Alloul

Diverse encounters : European migrants' contact zones in China / Aldina Camenisch, Brigitte Suter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 13, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Contemporary European emigration.

ISBN:

9780429202018

0429202016

9780429517549

0429517548

9780429514111

0429514115

9780429510687

0429510683

Publisher Number:

40029882990

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Restricted for use by site license.