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- This open access book contains cross-generational comparative qualitative research with migrants and their minor children
- Provides qualitative research on the intergenerational transmission of identity, integration and transnational ties
- Explains identity, integration and transnational ties through the concepts of agency, capital and power
- Adds to limited research on children and migration and the ‘second-generation’ minors
- Consists of the first full-length comparative study of the Albanian ‘second generation’
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: IMISCOE Research Series (IMIS)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Departing from the traditional focus on the adult children of settled migrants and the main immigration countries of continental North-Western Europe, this study centres on Southern Europe and Great Britain and a very recently settled immigrant group. The result is an illuminating early look at a second generation “in-the-making”. Indeed, the findings provide ample grounds for pragmatic and forward-looking policy to enable these migrant-origin youngsters, and others like them, to more fully attain their potential.
The book ends with a call to reassess the term “second generation” as it is currently used in policy and scholarly works. Children of migrants seldom see themselves as a particular and homogeneous group with ethnicity as an intrinsic identifying quality. More importantly, they make use of all the limited resources at their disposal, and view their integration processes through broader geographies – showing sometimes a cosmopolitan orientation, but also using localized reference points, such as the school, city, or urban neighbourhood.
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Zana Vathi's multi-sited ethnography is a must-read for scholars interested in ‘second generation migrants’. She compares the integration pathways of Albanian migrants and their descendants across three cities – London, Thessaloniki and Florence. The result is an original and theoretically stimulating book which sheds new light on this debate.
Janine Dahinden, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Authors and Affiliations
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Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom
Zana Vathi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World
Book Subtitle: Albanian Migrants and Their Children in Europe
Authors: Zana Vathi
Series Title: IMISCOE Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13024-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-13023-1Published: 02 June 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36635-7Published: 29 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-13024-8Published: 18 May 2015
Series ISSN: 2364-4087
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4095
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 216
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Sociology, general