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Informationen zum Autor Jens Schneider is an anthropologist and has worked extensively on ethnic and national identities in different parts of the world. He is coordinator of the TIES project – a major comparative study on second generation integration in various European countries – and also works as project coordinator in a community centre in Hamburg, Germany. Maurice Crul is a political scientist and educational sociologist at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. For many years he has worked on the educational careers of immigrant children, being involved in several comparative studies with as much a cross-European as a transatlantic perspective. He is the main initiator and coordinator of the TIES project. Zusammenfassung This book discusses the current theories of migrant integration and assimilation, particularly those focused on second-generation migrants. It was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Selected Contents: 1. New insights into assimilation and integration theory Jens Schneider and Maurice Crul (Universiteit van Amsterdam) 2. The Complexities and Confusions of Segmented Assimilation Alex Stepick and Carol Dutton Stepick (Florida International University) 3. Segmented Assimilation Revisited: Types of Acculturation and Socioeconomic Mobility in Young Adulthood Mary C. Waters and Van Tran (Harvard University), Philip Kasinitz and John Mollenkopf (City University of New York) 4. What Happens After Segmented Assimilation? An Exploration of Intermarriage and ‘Mixed Race’ Young People in Britain Miri Song (University of Kent) 5. Segmented assimilation and cross-national comparative research on the integration of immigrants and their children Hans Vermeulen (Universiteit van Amsterdam) 6. Integrating via networks: foreigners and others Michael Eve (University of Eastern Piedmont) 7. Comparative Integration Context Theory: Participation and Belonging in New Diverse European Cities Maurice Crul and Jens Schneider (Universiteit van Amsterdam) ...
