1st Edition
Getting by in Europe's Urban Labour Markets Senegambian Migrants' Strategies for Survival, Documentation and Mobility
By Inge Van Nieuwenhuyze
Copyright 2009
236 Pages
by
Routledge
This book examines two major social changes experienced by European cities in the last two decades: post-industrial economic restructuring and new immigration flows. The link between both has been extensively discussed throughout a variety of theoretical approaches and in numerous descriptive contributions. Adding to those studies, this research focuses on three elements of migratory experience... Read more
List of tables and figures, Abbreviations and terms, 1 Understanding labour migration trajectories, 2 Embarking on an explanatory framework, 3 Data collection: Interviews and participant observation in a hidden population, 4 How migration from Senegal and the Gambia became an institution, 5 Survival strategies as an undocumented migrant, 6 Documentation strategies as an undocumented migrant, 7 Mobility strategies as a legal migrant, 8 Conclusions, Appendix A Topic list for questionnaire, Appendix B List of key informants, Appendix C Letter, Notes, References, Abstract
Biography
Inge Van Nieuwenhuyze studied sociology, international relations and urban geography and obtained her PhD from King’s College London in 2007. She is affiliated with the University of Antwerp and currently works as a policy advisor for the diversity services of the City of Antwerp.
