Irregular migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands : aspirations and incorporation /
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| Author / Creator: | Meeteren, Masja van, author. |
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2014] ©2014 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (242 pages)) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | IMISCOE research IMISCOE research. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11236725 |
| Summary: | In Irregular Migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands, Masja van Meeteren studies the different ways in which irregular migrants live in Belgium and the Netherlands. The book offers an empirically grounded theoretical critique of the dominant research practice that focuses on 'survival strategies', relies on comparisons of migrant communities and overemphasizes structural explanations. Instead, Irregular Migrants takes irregular migrants´ aspirations as a starting point of analysis. Based on this innovative research approach, key questions are answered regarding the lives of irregular migrants. How can we understand their patterns of economic and social incorporation, the transnational activities they engage in, and the significance of different forms of capital? Drawing on intensive participant observation, as well as more than two hundred in-depth interviews with irregular migrants and representatives of organizations that are involved with them, Irregular Migrants develops much-needed contextualized insights. As such, it sheds new light on previous research findings and various deadlocked scholarly debates on irregular migrants in Western societies. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (242 pages)) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242). |
| ISBN: | 9789048523085 9048523087 9789048523092 9048523095 9789089646439 9089646434 9790000000000 |
| Access: | Open Access |