Overview
- This open access book has unprecedented detail on life-course methodologies in surveying second-generation immigrants
- Includes revealing case studies with analysis of the difficulties faced in empirical research, and how they were overcome
- Features material and analysis from a variety of national and disciplinary perspectives
- Detailed linkage of methodological and theoretical quest?
Part of the book series: Life Course Research and Social Policies (LCRS, volume 7)
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About this book
This open access wide-ranging collation of papers examines a host of issues in studying second-generation immigrants, their life courses, and their relations with older generations. Tightly focused on methodological aspects, both quantitative and qualitative, the volume features the work of authors from numerous countries, from differing disciplines, and approaches. A key addition in a corpus of literature which has until now been restricted to studying the childhood, adolescence and youth of the children of immigrants, the material includes analysis of longitudinal and transnational efforts to address challenges such as defining the population to be studied, and the difficulties of follow-up research that spans both time and geographic space. In addition to perceptive reviews of extant literature, chapters also detail work in surveying the children of immigrants in Europe, the USA, and elsewhere. Authors address key questions such as the complexities of surveying each generation infamilies where parents have migrated and left children in their country of origin, and the epistemological advances in methodology which now challenge assumptions based on the Westphalian nation-state paradigm. The book is in part an outgrowth of temporal factors (immigrants’ children are now reaching adulthood in more significant numbers), but also reflects the added sophistication and sensitivity of social science surveys. In linking theoretical and methodological factors, it shows just how much the study of these second generations, and their families, can be enriched by evolving methodologies.This book is open access under a CC BY license
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Comparison as Key Methodological Tool and Challenging Perspective in the Study of the Children of Migrants
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Life Course Perspective and Mixed-Methods Approaches in the Study of Children of Migrants
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The Biography and the Identity of Immigrant Descendants as a Negotiation Process
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Transnational Approach and Children of Migrants: Beyond Methodological Nationalism
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Reviews
“This is the best book we have about the methodology to conduct research on the second generation or the children of immigrants and their integration in the countries they reside. Claudio Bolzman, Laura Bernardi and Jean-Marie Le Goff have convened a large number of renowned scholars from different countries to reflect on the life course perspective, the use of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods and the transnational approach.” (Professor Rafael Alarcón Acosta, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origins
Book Subtitle: A Methodological Overview
Editors: Claudio Bolzman, Laura Bernardi, Jean-Marie Le Goff
Series Title: Life Course Research and Social Policies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1141-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1139-3Published: 10 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1497-4Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1141-6Published: 25 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2211-7776
Series E-ISSN: 2211-7784
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 287
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Demography, Family, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging