Migrants Or Expatriates? - Americans in Europe

"While overseas Americans are often seen as short-term corporate transferees or backpackers, there are also many Americans - estimates range from 2 to 7 million - living overseas. This book explores the case of longer-term overseas Americans - migrants -in France, Germany and the UK. What has led them to leave the United States? How does their integration in Europe proceed? This book explores both of these questions in depth, while also examining the case of American political engagement in the United States. The book draws on almost 900 survey responses and over 100 in-depth interviews carried out in Berlin, Paris and London"--

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Profiles 3. The Accidental Migrant 4. Socio-Economic Transnationalism and Integration 5. Identity 6. Political Transnationalism and Political Engagement 7. Activism in their Own Interest 8. Conclusion

About the author

Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels is the Director of the MA in International Migration, University of Kent at Brussels, Belgium.

Summary

This book examines the migration, integration and transnational activity of overseas Americans – American migrants – in France, Germany and the UK. It examines the reasons for their migration, introduces the concept of 'accidental migrant' and explores the question of overseas Americans' integration and identity formation.

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, A. Klekowski Von Koppenfels, Amanda Klekowski Von Koppenfels, Kenneth A Loparo, Kenneth A. Loparo
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.2014
• EAN: 9780230296961
• ISBN: 978-0-230-29696-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship; Migration, Diasporas and Citiz; Migration, Diasporas and Citiz; Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Political sociology; Migration, B, Ethnic Studies, Social Inequality, Social Policy, Political Sociology, Social & ethical issues, Politics & government, Migration, immigration & emigration, Ethnicity, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social groups and identities, Social Structure, Central / national / federal government policies, Emigration and immigration, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Ethnicity Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Constitutional Law, Constitutional & administrative law: general, Human Migration, Constitutional and administrative law: general