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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.
List of contents
Introduction 1 Immigrant Incorporation Studies in Europe: An Introduction Marco Martiniello and Jan Rath Theoretical Perspectives 2 Citizenship Theories and Migration Thomas Faist and Peter Kivisto 3 Assimilation Richard Alba and Victor Nee 4 Multicultural Models John Eade and Paul Ruspini 5 Race, Racism and Class John Solomos Immigrant Incorporation in Action 6. Challenges in the Education of Migrant Children: Creating opportunities for new citizens Martha Montero-Sieburth 7. How to understand the incorporation of immigrants in European labour markets Michael Samers 8 Immigrant entrepreneurship Robert Kloosterman and Jan Rath 9 Immigrants' political incorporation Irene Bloemraad and Floris Vermeulen 10 Health Milena Chimienti, David Ingleby and Sandro Cattacin 11 Religion Valerie Amiraux 12 From others to artists? Immigrant and ethnic minority art Wiebke Sievers Regulation of Immigrant Incorporation 13 Welfare states and incorporation strategies Patrick Ireland 14 Between national and local integration policies Han Entzinger and Peter Scholten Epilogue Beyond Immigrant Integration Debates and Policies: A European Union Multicultural Citizenship? Marco Martiniello
About the author
Jan Rath is professor or urban sociology and associated with the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) and the Center for urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
Marco Martiniello is research director of the National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS) and Director of the Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) at the University of Liege, Belgium.