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Asian migrants and European labour markets : patterns and processes of immigrant labour market insertion in Europe
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ISBN: 1281158135 9786611158132 020301605X 0415365023 0415645972 1134217463 9780203016053 9780415365024 9781134217465 9781134217410 1134217412 9781134217458 1134217455 9780415645973 Year: 2005 Volume: 7 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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In an era of globalization and demographic transition international migration has become an important issue for European governments. The past decades have seen an increasing and diversifying flow of migrants from different parts of the world, including many from South, Southeast and East Asia. It has become apparent that in several European countries the demand for workers in certain sectors of the labour market is increasing and that Asia has become the source for these workers.This collection explores the phenomenon of Asian immigration in Europe, particularly focusing on the ways


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Mobility and cultural authority in contemporary China
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ISBN: 9780295990163 9780295990156 0295990163 0295990155 0295800348 9780295800349 Year: 2010 Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press,


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Identity in crossroad civilisations : ethnicity, nationalism and globalism in Asia
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ISBN: 9089641270 9786612401817 1282401815 9048510511 9789048510511 9789089641274 9781282401815 6612401818 9790000000000 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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Based on multi-disciplinary studies conducted in Asia (India, Bhutan, China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, New Zealand), this volume on Identity in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia demonstrates how identity is defined, negotiated and conceptualised in response to increasing globalisation in the region. Asian expressions of identity reflect, in many ways, their adaptability to the changing economic, political and social climates and at the same time question Samuel Huntington's popular yet controversial thesis on the clash of civilisations. This book also en

The ethics of mobilities : rethinking place, exclusion, freedom and environment
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ISBN: 0754672832 9786611834029 1281834025 0754688151 1317033787 1317033795 9780754688150 9780754672838 9781315616186 9781317033776 9781317033783 9781138253421 1315616181 Year: 2008 Publisher: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,

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With this book the international academic discourse on mobility is taken a step further, through the intertwined perspectives of different social sciences, engineering and the humanities. The Ethics of Mobilities builds upon the recent interest in social surveillance, widening the theme to encompass a broad scale of questions, ranging from freedom and escape to social exclusion and control, thus raising important questions of ethics, identity and metaphysics.


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New mobilities regimes in art and social sciences
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ISBN: 1409450929 1409450937 1317088328 1317088336 9781409450931 9781306169677 1306169674 9781409450924 9781409471714 1409471713 9781409450924 9781315598000 9781317088318 9781317088325 9781138269262 1315598000 9781317088332 Year: 2013 Publisher: Farnham ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate,

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New Mobilities Regimes analyses how global mobilities are changing the world of today and the role of political and economic power. Bringing together essays by leading scholars and social scientists, including John Urry, Mimi Sheller and Bülent Diken with the work of well-known artists and art theorists such as Jordan Crandall, Ursula Bieman, Gülsün Karamustafa and Dan Perjovschi this book is a unique document of the cross-disciplinary mobility and power discourse. The specific design, integrating the text and art elements to create a singular dialogue makes for an exciting intellectual and ae


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Hope and uncertainty in contemporary African migration
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ISBN: 9781138961210 1138961213 9781315659916 9781317335467 1315659913 1317335481 Year: 2017 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that hope offers a unique prism for analyzing the social imaginaries and aspirations which underpin migration in situations of uncertainty, deepening inequality, and delimited access to global circuits of legal mobility. The volume takes departure in a mobility paradox that characterizes contemporary migration. Whereas people all over the world are exposed to widening sets of meaning of the good life elsewhere, an increasing number of people in the Global South have little or no access to authorized modes of international migration. This book examines how African migrants respond to this situation. Focusing on hope, it explores migrants’ temporal and spatial horizons of expectation and possibility and how these horizons link to mobility practices. Such analysis is pertinent as precarious life conditions and increasingly restrictive regimes of mobility characterize the lives of many Africans, while migration continues to constitute important livelihood strategies and to be seen as pathways of improvement. Whereas involuntary immobility is one consequence, another is the emergence and consolidation of new destinations emerging in the Global South. The volume examines this development through empirically grounded and theoretically rich case studies in migrants’ countries of origin, zones of transit, and in new and established destinations in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Latin America and China. It thereby offers an original perspective on linkages between migration, hope, and immobility, ranging from migration aspirations to return.


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Born entrepreneurs? : immigrant self-employment in Spain
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ISBN: 9089642439 9786612985324 9048512816 1282985329 9789048512812 9789089642431 9781282985322 6612985321 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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Are immigrants more enterprising than natives in Spain? How successful are migrant entrepreneurs compared to those who start businesses in their country of birth? With the growth of migration worldwide, questions such as these are garnering the attention of economists, policymakers and scholars. Born Entrepreneurs? asks how foreignness affects an immigrant's ability to launch and to grow a successful business. It also explores the economic and social benefits that immigrants might derive from self-employment and the unique factors at play in so-called ethnic and immigrant entrepreneurship.

Work and migration : life and livelihoods in a globalizing world
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ISBN: 0415263727 0203281322 1134503067 1280105623 020316623X 9780415263726 9780203166239 9781134503018 9781134503056 9781134503063 1134503059 Year: 2002 Volume: 4 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Using case studies from those who have moved either transnationally or within their own country, international contributions offer various definitions of what it means to make a living on the move.


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Migration in a globalised world : new research issues and prospects
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ISBN: 9789089641571 9789048510986 9048510988 9781282634107 1282634100 9786612634109 9089641572 6612634103 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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The last two decades have witnessed sweeping changes in the composition, orientation and dynamics of international migration. While it's no surprise these transformations affect societies of origin and settlement, we still seek to understand how and why they carry with them certain social challenges. Migration in a Globalised World shines a light. Ten chapters astutely present theoretical and empirical insights by experts in the fields of international migration and social cohesion, transnationalisation, the migration-development nexus and the ever-blurring categories of refugee and asylum seeker. With its broad thematic scope and lively dialogue between French, Anglo-Saxon and Northern European academic traditions, this volume offers a major new perspective to further research and, potentially, to improve the quality of life in a globalised world. Migration in a Globalised World bevat theoretische reflecties op en empirische inzichten in migratie in een globaliserende wereld. Bij sociale wetenschappers dringt langzamerhand het besef door dat migratie, integratie, veranderingen in transnationale betrekkingen en sociaaleconomische ontwikkelingen nauw met elkaar verweven processen zijn. De bundel verkent deze samenhang en doet een suggestie voor een nieuw analytisch kader voor migratieonderzoek op basis van vier hoofdlijnen: migratie en sociale cohesie; internatiomotivatie nalisering en een transnationale benadering; het migratieontwikkelingsmodel; en het vervagen van de scheidslijn tussen vluchtelingen en asielzoekers. Dit is de eerste studie die de vele academische tradities binnen migratieonderzoek samenbrengt aan de hand van een dergelijke brede thematische aanpak.

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