Theorising transnational migration : the status paradox of migration / / Boris Nieswand
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (213 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 304.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Immigrants - Cultural assimilation |
| Immigrants - Social conditions | |
| Transnationalism | |
| Emigration and immigration - Social aspects | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Migration and society -- Ghana and its migrants -- Processes of localisation -- Processes of transnationalisation -- The status paradox of migration. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Theorising transnational migration |
| ISBN: | 1-136-68201-5 |
| 1-283-64358-8 | |
| 0-203-81043-0 | |
| 1-136-68202-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823816703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Transnationalism. . -Routledge research in transnationalism ; ; 22.