Format:
1 online resource (250 pages)
ISBN:
9789048523085
Series Statement:
IMISCOE Research Ser
Content:
This book surveys the many different ways in which irregular migrants settle and make a living in Belgium and the Netherlands. Offering an empirically grounded theoretical critique of the dominant research's focus on survival strategies, overreliance on comparisons of migrant communities, and overemphasis on structural explanations, Masja van Meeteren instead takes the aspirations of irregular migrants as her starting point, which opens up fascinating new questions about their lives and roles in their new home nations.
Content:
Cover -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Irregular Migration as a Fact of Life -- 1.1 Irregular migration as a common feature of Western economies -- 1.2 Studying the lives of irregular migrants -- 1.3 Irregular migrants: Who are they? -- 1.4 Incorporation, assimilation, integration -- 2. Beyond Victims and Communities -- Bringing in aspirations -- 2.1 Current research practice on incorporation -- 2.2 Common perspective focused on survival -- 2.3 Social mobility and incorporation -- 2.4 Comparative designs based on migration motives -- 2.5 Bringing aspirations in -- 3. Studying Aspirations -- 3.1 Grounded theory approach -- 3.2 Researching the lives of irregular migrants -- 3.3 Difficulties in studying irregular migrants -- 4. Immigration Policies in Belgium and the Netherlands -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 History -- 4.3 External control policies -- 4.4 Internal control policies -- 4.5 Legalisation -- 4.6 Research context: Belgium and the Netherlands -- 5. Investment, Settlement and Legalisation Aspirations -- 5.1 Three types of aspirations -- 5.2 Where do they come from? -- 5.3 Changing aspirations -- 5.4 Aspirations and strategies -- 5.5 From aspirations to incorporation -- 6. Living Different Dreams (I) -- Aspirations and functional incorporation -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Housing -- 6.3 Employment -- 6.4 Other sources of income and assistance -- 6.5 Changing aspirations -- 6.6 Aspirations and functional incorporation -- 7. Living Different Dreams (II) -- Aspirations and social incorporation -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Leisure time -- 7.3 Social contacts -- 7.4 Shifts in aspirations -- 7.5 Aspirations and social incorporation -- 8. Aspirations and Transnational Activities -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Economic transnational activities -- 8.3 Social transnational activities -- 8.4 Political transnational activities -- 8.5 Shifts in aspirations.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789089646439
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789089646439
Language:
English
