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UNINA9910823816703321 |
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Autore |
Nieswand Boris. |
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Titolo |
Theorising transnational migration : the status paradox of migration / / Boris Nieswand |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-68201-5 |
1-283-64358-8 |
0-203-81043-0 |
1-136-68202-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (213 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge research in transnationalism ; ; 22 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Immigrants - Cultural assimilation |
Immigrants - Social conditions |
Transnationalism |
Emigration and immigration - Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Migration and society -- Ghana and its migrants -- Processes of localisation -- Processes of transnationalisation -- The status paradox of migration. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Societal transformations have recently stimulated political debates and policies on the integration of migrants and minorities in most Western European countries. While transnational migration studies have documented migrants' cross-border activities there have been few empirically grounded efforts to theorise these developments in the framework of integration and status theory.Based on a case study of Ghanaian migrants, this book seeks to understand integration processes and develops a theorem of the status paradox of migration which explores the interaction between migrants' integr |
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