Thomas Faist

Mexican-Americans in the United States and Turks in Germany in the 1980's

Social Citizenship and the Transition from School to Work Among Immigrant Minorities

The book connects a detailed empirical analysis of quantitative and qualitative data in an interpretation of social citizenship and theories of immigrant incorporation in labour markets that consider public policies and labour market structures, on the one hand and the resources of the immigrants themselves, such as schooling, job networks and immigrant entrepreneurship, on the other hand. It concludes with an innovative proposal of a guaranteed income for school leavers.

Young Turks in Germany and Mexican Americans in the United States

Social Citizenship for Whom?

Anna Amelina

Devrimsel D. Nergiz

This volume establishes a new agenda for approaches to migration research and the corresponding methodologies. A wide range of international contributors focus on the question of how to overcome the so-called 'methodological nationalism' within empirical studies on migration. They address two main challenges: how to contextualize the empirical research field; and how to deal with national and ethnic categorizations within the empirical studies. Methodologies on the Move outlines, first of all, a new epistemological basis for migration research, which is pinpointing the relational concept of space. Second, building on the multi-sited method of ethnography, it provides detailed insights into novel qualitative and quantitative research designs. Third, it presents innovative data collection methods on geographic and virtual mobility, and on cross-border social practices. This volume transcends the early criticisms of 'methodological nationalism' in migration research and suggests both general methodological lines as well as helpful tools for empirical analysis. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research

Methodologies on the Move

Peter Kivisto

The most up-to-date analysis of today's immigration issues. As the authors state in Chapter 1, "the movement of people across national borders represents one of the most vivid dramas of social reality in the contemporary world." This comparative text examines contemporary immigration across the globe, focusing on 20 major nations. Key features include: * comprehensive coverage of topics not covered in other texts * a global portrait of contemporary immigration, including a demographic overview of today's cross-border movers * critical assessments of the achievements of the field to date * encourages students to rethink traditional views about the distinction between citizen and alien

The Causes and Consequences of Contemporary Immigration

Beyond a Border

In an age of terrorism and securitized immigration, dual citizenship is of central theoretical and political concern. The contributors to this timely volume examine policies regarding dual citizenship across Europe, covering a wide spectrum of countries. The case studies explore the negotiated character and boundaries of political membership and the fundamental beliefs and arguments within distinct political cultures and institutional settings which have shaped debates and policies on citizenship. The analyses explore the similarities and differences in the politics of dual citizenship, to identify the dominant terms of public debates within and across selected immigration and emigration states in Europe. The research demonstrates that policies on dual citizenship are not simply explained by different concepts of nationhood. Instead, concepts of societal integration, which may well be contested in a given polity, are extremely influential.

From Nationhood to Societal Integration

Dual Citizenship in Europe

A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses and theories that have arisen in recent years, and looks toward future scholarship in the field. Offers an analytical assessment of the various thematic discourses and provides guidance in pulling together those discrete themes into a larger, more comprehensive framework Identifies the four broadly conceived themes that shape the many discourses on contemporary citizenship – inclusion, erosion, withdrawal, and expansion Includes a thorough introduction to the subject

Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects

Citizenship

Rainer Bauböck

Diaspora & transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic & political discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly overlap today. Such inflation of meanings goes hand in hand with a danger of essentialising collective identities. This book analyses this topic.

Concepts, Theories and Methods

Diaspora and Transnationalism

Margit Fauser

This book examines current policy discussions around the migration-development nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism through a transnational lens, placing the current re-discovery of migrants as agents of development nexus into theoretical and historical perspective.

A Transnational Perspective

The Migration-Development Nexus

International Labour Office

International Institute for Labour Studies. Decent Work Research Programme

Explores how transstate groups and associations interact with states and markets in migrant-induced flows of financial remittances, knowledge, political ideas and interests across state borders. Discusses if and how migrant organizations and groups have been complementary or incompatible with state and market principles, using the examples of small kinship groups, village associations, networks of businesspersons, epistemic communities, and diasporas. Touches on the implications for further research and argues that the concept of transstate social spaces, that is, spaces "in between" the local and the global, but also between states, can be used as an instrument to shed light on the dilemmas of border-crossing democracy and citizenship.

Thomas Faist

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