Research Catalog

Title

Immigration and social systems : collected essays of Michael Bommes / edited by Christina Boswell and Gianni D'Amato.

Author

Bommes, Michael

Publication

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2012]

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Details

Additional Authors

• D'Amato, Gianni
• Boswell, Christina

Description

231 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This posthumous collection brings together a selection of [Michael Bommes's] most important work on immigration and the welefare state, immigrant integration, discrimination, irregular migrations, migrant networks and migration policy research."-- page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

IMISCOE research

Uniform Title

IMISCOE research.

Subject

• Welfare state
• Immigrants > Services for > Europe
• Europe > Emigration and immigration > Government policy
• Europe > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects

Thesis (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Migration in modern society -- 2. National welfare state, biography and migration: Labour migrants, ethnic Germans and the re-ascription of welfare state membership -- 3. Systems theory and the `ethnic inequality' of migrant workers -- 4. Welfare systems and migrant minorities: The cultural dimension of social policies and its discriminatory potential -- 5. Transnationalism or assimilation? -- 6. `Integration takes place locally': On the restructuring of local integration policy -- 7. Illegal migration in modern society: Consequences and problems of national European migration policies -- 8. General and specific characteristics of networks / Veronika Tacke -- 9. National paradigms of migration research / Dietrich Thranhardt.

ISBN

• 9789089644534
• 9089644539

OCLC

• 810113429
• SCSB-11750359

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library