1st Edition
Immigration and Social Systems Collected Essays of Michael Bommes
234 Pages
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Routledge
Michael Bommes was one of the most brilliant and original migration studies scholars of our time. This posthumous collection brings together a selection of his most important work on immigration, integration, transnationalism, irregular migration and migrant networks. Each essay provides a rigorous and compelling critique of mainstream accounts, building on Bommes’ distinctive systems theoretic... Read more
Foreword, Preface, Introduction, 1 Migration in modern society, 2 National welfare state, biography and migration Labour migrants, ethnic Germans and the re-ascription of welfare state membership, 3 Systems theory and the ‘ethnic inequality’ of migrant workers, 4 Welfare systems and migrant minorities The cultural dimension of social policies and its discriminatory potential, 5 Transnationalism or assimilation?, 6 ‘Integration takes place locally’ On the restructuring of local integration policy, 7 Illegal migration in modern society Consequences and problems of national European migration policies, 8 General and specific characteristics of networks (with Veronika Tacke), 9 National paradigms of migration research(with Dietrich Thränhardt), References, Consequence and problem of national European migration policies.
Biography
Christina Boswell is Professor of Politics, Deputy Dean of Research, College of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Edinburgh.
