Abstract
In contrast to the Austrian discourse on integration in the 1970s and 1980s, when socially marginalised strata of the domestic population were at the centre of attention, in the 1990s the focus of political and media debates around the concept of integration shifted to a problematisation of ‘cultural differences’ of foreign workers. In academic research, too, theoretical approaches to immigration and integration diversified, but many of them still approach the topic from the perspective of the nation-state and majority society. Although some attempts of discussing migration and integration processes from a life course perspective exist (primarily in the US-American context, e.g. Portes and Rumbaut 2001), much of the existing literature pays hardly any attention to the complex interplay between individual action, prior life history and structural embedding.
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For details, see http://www.limits.zsi.at/.
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For more information on the project see http://www.zsi.at/de/projekte/abgeschlossen/326.html.
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Alba and Nee use the term assimilation, which is common in the US-American academic discourse and does not mean the complete adaptation of the immigrants to the majority society.
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An employment sequence is the succession of employment states during the individual migration course.
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For a detailed description of the methodological approach, see SiM final report, p. 29 (http://www.zsi.at/attach/3Endbericht_SiM.pdf).
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However, the fact that this research project can only reflect the view of those immigrants who could and wanted to be interviewed must also be taken into account. Those who no longer live in Austria and who have abandoned their migration project could not be interviewed.
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Latcheva, R., Herzog-Punzenberger, B. (2011). Integration Trajectories: A Mixed Method Approach. In: Wingens, M., Windzio, M., de Valk, H., Aybek, C. (eds) A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1545-5_6
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