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Migrants in Europe The Role of Family, Labor, and Politics

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Edited by Hans Christian Buechler and Judith Maria Buechler

ISBN: 0-313-23236-9

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-23236-7

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327 pages, bibliog.

Greenwood Press

Publication: 10/20/1987

List Price: $162.95 (UK Sterling Price: £95.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Series Title: Contributions in Family Studies

Series Number: 12

Description: Although studies have been made of individual aspects of the problem, this volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of both the theoretical issues and the scope and variety of present-day migratory movements in Europe, together with their historical antecedents. In his introduction, Hans Buechler reviews significant previous research and outlines the theoretical framework of the present volume. The primary focus of the chapters that follow is the experience of migrants and of household members who remain at home, analyzed within the total context of migration in both host and sender countries. The effects of migration on family economy and kin relationships are examined in detail. Among the issues explored are economic decision-making processes in migrant households, the implications of migration for family landholding, ties between migrants and family left behind, and kin, friendship, and neighborhood networks. Other topics considered are the working and social environment experienced by migrants; labor policies and restrictions relating to employment, work permits, and workers' families; and the problems connected with returning home. The final section, a bibliographic essay by Judith-Maria Buechler, helps to put the various individual contributions in a wider perspective.

Table of Contents:

Figures and Tables
Introduction by Hans Christian Buechler
Work, Labor, and Their Recompenses: Portugese Life Strategies Involving "Migration" by Anthony Leeds
Working-Class Portugese Families in a French Provincial Town: Adaptive Strategies by Collette Callier Boisvert
In the Aftermath of Colonization: Black African Immigrants in France by Jacques Barou
Yugoslav Migration Process and Employment in Western Europe: A Historical Perspective by Joel Martin Halpern
Turkish Migrant Workers in the Federal Republic of Germany: A Case Study by A. Ersan Yucel
Family and Migration in Andalusia by David D. Gregory and Jose Cazorla
Factory and Community in a West German Immigrant Neighborhood by Ann H.L.Sontz
A Day in the Life of a Single Spanish Woman in West Germany by Charity Goodman
Spanish Galician Migration to Switzerland: Demographic Processes and Family Dynamics by Hans Christian Buechler
Return Migration to Rural Ireland by George Gmelch
A Review--Guest, Intruder, Settler, Ethnic Minority or Citizen: The Sense and Nonsense of Border by Judith-Maria Buechler
Author Index
Subject Index

LC Card Number: 86-25722

LCC Class: JV7590

Dewey Class: 304.8


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