Irregular migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands : aspirations and incorporation /

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Author / Creator:Meeteren, Masja van, author.
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
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ISBN:9789048523085
9048523087
9789048523092
9048523095
9789089646439
9089646434
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242).
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Summary:Proposing an empirically grounded theoretical critique of the dominant research practice that focuses on survival strategies, van Meeteren takes irregular migrants aspirations as a starting point of analysis. Drawing on intensive participant observation, as well as more than 200 in-depth interviews with irregular migrants and representatives of organisations working with them, she develops much-needed contextualised insights and sheds new light on earlier debates on this top-of the-agenda subject area.
Other form:Print version: Irregular migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2014] 9789089646439
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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.
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