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Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins

A Methodological Overview

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Editors:
  1. Claudio Bolzman

    1. 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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  2. Laura Bernardi

    1. National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES - Overcoming Vulnerability: Life course perspectives (NCCR Lives), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  3. Jean-Marie Le Goff

    1. National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES - Overcoming Vulnerability: Life course perspectives (NCCR Lives), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  • 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?

Part of the book series: Life Course Research and Social Policies (LCRS, volume 7)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Situating Children of Migrants Across Borders and Origins

    • Claudio Bolzman, Laura Bernardi, Jean-Marie Le Goff
    Pages 1-21Open Access
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  3. Comparison as Key Methodological Tool and Challenging Perspective in the Study of the Children of Migrants

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: The Challenges of Including and Comparing the Children of Immigrants in European Survey Data

      • Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Silvia Galandini, Helga de Valk, Rosita Fibbi
      Pages 25-53Open Access
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    3. Risk Factors of Labor-Market Insertion for Children of Immigrants in Switzerland

      • Andrés Guarin, Emmanuel Rousseaux
      Pages 55-75Open Access
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    4. The Presence of a Third Person in Face-to-Face Interviews with Immigrant Descendants: Patterns, Determinants, and Effects

      • Nadja Milewski, Danny Otto
      Pages 77-96Open Access
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  4. Life Course Perspective and Mixed-Methods Approaches in the Study of Children of Migrants

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Analyzing Second-Generation Trajectories from a Life Course Approach: What Mixed Methods Can Offer

      • Ingrid Tucci
      Pages 99-113Open Access
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    3. Intergenerational Relationships in Migrant Families. Theoretical and Methodological Issues

      • Claudine Attias-Donfut, Joanne Cook
      Pages 115-133Open Access
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    4. Using a Cohort Survey to Track the Entry into Adult Life of Young People from Immigrant Backgrounds

      • Emmanuelle Santelli
      Pages 135-149Open Access
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    5. Combining In-Depth Biographical Interviews with the LIVES History Calendar in Studying the Life Course of Children of Immigrants

      • Andrés Gomensoro, Raúl Burgos Paredes
      Pages 151-171Open Access
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    6. Participatory Qualitative Methodology: A Promising Pathway for the Study of Intergenerational Relations Within Migrant Families

      • Michèle Vatz Laaroussi
      Pages 173-194Open Access
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  5. The Biography and the Identity of Immigrant Descendants as a Negotiation Process

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. Studying Second-Generation Transitions into Adulthood in Switzerland: A Biographical Approach

      • Eva Mey
      Pages 197-213Open Access
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    3. National Identity and the Integration of the Children of Immigrants

      • Rosa Aparicio, Andrés Tornos
      Pages 215-230Open Access
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  6. Transnational Approach and Children of Migrants: Beyond Methodological Nationalism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231
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    2. Beyond Home and Return: Negotiating Religious Identity Across Time and Space Through the Prism of the American Experience

      • Peggy Levitt, Kristen Lucken, Melissa Barnett
      Pages 233-249Open Access
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    3. Following People, Visiting Places, and Reconstructing Networks. Researching the Spanish Second Generation in Switzerland

      • Marina Richter, Michael Nollert
      Pages 251-268Open Access
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    4. Mapping Transnational Networks of Care from a Multi-actor and Multi-sited Perspective

      • Valentina Mazzucato, Ernestina Dankyi, Miranda Poeze
      Pages 269-284Open Access
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  7. Back Matter

    Pages 285-287
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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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES - Overcoming Vulnerabilty: Life course perspectives (NCCR LIVES), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Genève, Switzerland

    Claudio Bolzman

  • National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES - Overcoming Vulnerability: Life course perspectives (NCCR Lives), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Laura Bernardi, Jean-Marie Le Goff

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins

  • Book Subtitle: A Methodological Overview

  • Editors: Claudio Bolzman, Laura Bernardi, Jean-Marie Le Goff

  • Series Title: Life Course Research and Social Policies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1141-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1139-3Published: 10 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1497-4Published: 23 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1141-6Published: 25 October 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2211-7776

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-7784

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 287

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Migration, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Demography, Family, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

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