Can I read Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World: Albanian Migrants and Their Children in Europe (IMISCOE Research Series) on EtoBox?

Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World: Albanian Migrants and Their Children in Europe (IMISCOE Research Series) by Zana Vathi is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World: Albanian Migrants and Their Children in Europe (IMISCOE Research Series) about?

This open access book draws on award-winning cross-generational research comparing the complex and life-changing processes of settlement among Albanian migrants and their adolescent children in three European cities: London (UK), Thessaloniki (Greece), and Florence (Italy). Building on key concepts from the social sciences and migration studies, such as identity, integration and transnationalism, the author links these with emerging theoretical notions, such as mobility, translocality and cosmopolitanism. Ethnic identities, transnational ties and integration pathways of the youngsters and adults are compared, focusing on intergenerational transmission in particular and recognizing mobility as an inherent characteristic of contemporary lives.  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

Who reads Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World: Albanian Migrants and Their Children in Europe (IMISCOE Research Series)?

Author

Zana Vathi

Publisher

Springer International Publishing, Cham

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319130248

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Science, Social Science