Focusing mainly on the European experience including Eastern Europe, this important volume offers an advanced introduction to immigrant incorporation studies from a historical, empirical and theoretical perspective. Beyond incorporation theories, renowned scholars in the field explore incorporation in action in different fields, policy issues and normative dimensions.
- Contents
- Chapter Abstracts
- 1. An Introduction to International Migration Studies: European Perspectives / Marco Martiniello and Jan Rath
- Part I. Theoretical Perspectives
- 2. Beyond 'Push-Pull' : The Economic Approach to Modelling Migration / Dragos Radu and Thomas Straubhaar
- 3. Historical-Structural Models of International Migration / Ewa Morawska
- 4. Social Networks and International Migration / Monica Boyd and Joanne Nowak
- 5. Transnational Migration / Eva Østergaard-Nielsen
- 6. Jus Sanguinis and Jus Soli: Aspects of Ethnic Migration and Immigration Policies in EU States / Efthia Voutira
- 7. Migration and Social Transformation / Stephen Castles
- Part II: Types of Migration
- 8. Guest Worker Migration in Post-War Europe (1946 - 1974): An Analytical Appraisal / Ahmet Akgündüz
- 9. Skilled Migration in Europe and Beyond: Recent Developments and Theoretical Considerations / Aimee Kuvik
- 10. Environmental Migration / François Gemenne
- 11. Student Migration / Russell King and Allan Findlay
- 12. Sunset Migration / Russell King
- 13. Undocumented Migration: An Explanatory Framework / Joanne van der Leun and Maria Ilies
- Part III: Regulation of Migration
- 14. Whither EU Immigration After the Lisbon Treaty? / Elspeth Guild
- 15. The Regulation of Undocumented Migration / Giuseppe Sciortino
- About the Authors