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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141427603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-69843-9

90-485-1729-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

IMISCOE research

Altri autori (Persone)

BoswellChristina

D'AmatoGianni

Disciplina

304.8/4

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration

Assimilation (Sociology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Foreword / Penninx, Rinus -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Migration in modern society -- 2. National welfare state, biography and migration -- 3. Systems theory and the 'ethnic inequality' of migrant workers -- 4. Welfare systems and migrant minorities -- 5. Transnationalism or assimilation? -- 6. 'Integration takes place locally' -- 7. Illegal migration in modern society -- 8. General and specific characteristics of networks / Tacke, Veronika -- 9. National paradigms of migration research / Thränhardt, Dietrich -- References -- Other IMISCOE titles

Sommario/riassunto

Michael Bommes (1954-2010) was one the most brilliant and original scholars of migration studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This posthumously published collection brings together a selection of his most important essays on immigration, transnationalism, irregular migration, and migrant networks. In Bommes, the academy lost a scholar with penetrating analyses of migration, the welfare state and social systems where the two interact. By completing his last project, Boswell and D'Amato have done scholarship a lasting service. A major contribution to public debate and a tribute to a very great man. Randall Hansen, University of Toronto