Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins
Overview
- Editors:
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Claudio Bolzman
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National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES - Overcoming Vulnerabilty: Life course perspectives (NCCR LIVES), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Genève, Switzerland
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Laura Bernardi
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National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES - Overcoming Vulnerability: Life course perspectives (NCCR Lives), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Jean-Marie Le Goff
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National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES - Overcoming Vulnerability: Life course perspectives (NCCR Lives), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- This open access book has unprecedented detail on life-course methodologies in surveying second-generation immigrants
- Includes revealing case studies with analysis of the difficulties faced in empirical research, and how they were overcome
- Features material and analysis from a variety of national and disciplinary perspectives
- Detailed linkage of methodological and theoretical quest?
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-viii
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- Claudio Bolzman, Laura Bernardi, Jean-Marie Le Goff
Pages 1-21Open Access
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Comparison as Key Methodological Tool and Challenging Perspective in the Study of the Children of Migrants
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- Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Silvia Galandini, Helga de Valk, Rosita Fibbi
Pages 25-53Open Access
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- Andrés Guarin, Emmanuel Rousseaux
Pages 55-75Open Access
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- Nadja Milewski, Danny Otto
Pages 77-96Open Access
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Life Course Perspective and Mixed-Methods Approaches in the Study of Children of Migrants
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- Claudine Attias-Donfut, Joanne Cook
Pages 115-133Open Access
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- Andrés Gomensoro, Raúl Burgos Paredes
Pages 151-171Open Access
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The Biography and the Identity of Immigrant Descendants as a Negotiation Process
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Front Matter
Pages 195-195
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- Rosa Aparicio, Andrés Tornos
Pages 215-230Open Access
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Transnational Approach and Children of Migrants: Beyond Methodological Nationalism
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Front Matter
Pages 231-231
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- Peggy Levitt, Kristen Lucken, Melissa Barnett
Pages 233-249Open Access
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- Marina Richter, Michael Nollert
Pages 251-268Open Access
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- Valentina Mazzucato, Ernestina Dankyi, Miranda Poeze
Pages 269-284Open Access
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Back Matter
Pages 285-287
About this book
This open access wide-ranging collation of papers examines a host of issues in studying second-generation immigrants, their life courses, and their relations with older generations. Tightly focused on methodological aspects, both quantitative and qualitative, the volume features the work of authors from numerous countries, from differing disciplines, and approaches. A key addition in a corpus of literature which has until now been restricted to studying the childhood, adolescence and youth of the children of immigrants, the material includes analysis of longitudinal and transnational efforts to address challenges such as defining the population to be studied, and the difficulties of follow-up research that spans both time and geographic space. In addition to perceptive reviews of extant literature, chapters also detail work in surveying the children of immigrants in Europe, the USA, and elsewhere. Authors address key questions such as the complexities of surveying each generation infamilies where parents have migrated and left children in their country of origin, and the epistemological advances in methodology which now challenge assumptions based on the Westphalian nation-state paradigm. The book is in part an outgrowth of temporal factors (immigrants’ children are now reaching adulthood in more significant numbers), but also reflects the added sophistication and sensitivity of social science surveys. In linking theoretical and methodological factors, it shows just how much the study of these second generations, and their families, can be enriched by evolving methodologies.This book is open access under a CC BY license
Reviews
“This is the best book we have about the methodology to conduct research on the second generation or the children of immigrants and their integration in the countries they reside. Claudio Bolzman, Laura Bernardi and Jean-Marie Le Goff have convened a large number of renowned scholars from different countries to reflect on the life course perspective, the use of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods and the transnational approach.” (Professor Rafael Alarcón Acosta, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte)