Immigration and Social Systems: Collected Essays of Michael Bommes

by Christina Boswell (Editor), Gianni D'Amato (Editor)

Overview

Michael Bommes (1954-2010) was one the most brilliant and original scholars of migration studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This posthumously published collection brings together a selection of his most important essays on immigration, transnationalism, irregular migration, and migrant networks.

“In Bommes, the academy lost a scholar with penetrating analyses of migration, the welfare state and social systems where the two interact. By completing his last project, Boswell and D’Amato have done scholarship a lasting service. A major contribution to public debate and a tribute to a very great man.”—Randall Hansen, University of Toronto

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789089644534
Publisher:	Amsterdam University Press
Publication date:	08/15/2013
Series:	Amsterdam University Press - IMISCOE Research Series
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Christina Boswell is professor of politics and deputy dean of research in the College of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. Gianni D’Amato is professor at the University of Neuchâtel and director of the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies.

Table of Contents

Foreword Rinus Penninx 7

Preface Christina Boswell Gianni D'Amato 9

Introduction Christina Boswell Gianni D'Amato 11

1 Migration in modern society 19

2 National welfare state, biography and migration: Labour migrants, ethnic Germans and the re-ascription of welfare state membership 37

3 Systems theory and the 'ethnic inequality' of migrant workers 59

4 Welfare systems and migrant minorities: The cultural dimension of social policies and its discriminatory potential 83

5 Transnationalism or assimilation? 107

6 'Integration takes place locally': On the restructuring of local integration policy 125

7 Illegal migration in modem society: Consequences and problems of national European migration policies 157

8 General and specific characteristics of networks (with Veronika Tacke) 177

9 National paradigms of migration research (with Dietrich Thranhardt) 201

References 233