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International Migration and the Social Sciences

Confronting National Experiences in Australia, France and Germany

  • Ellie Vasta
  • Vasoodeven Vuddamalay
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-vii
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  2. Difficult Comparisons: Social Science and Migration in Three National Societies
    Vasoodeven Vuddamalay, Ellie Vasta
    Pages 1-12
  3. Migration and Migration Research in Australia
    Ellie Vasta
    Pages 13-78
  4. Migration and Migration Research in France
    Vasoodeven Vuddamalay, Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
    Pages 79-142
  5. Migration and Migration Research in Germany
    Michael Bommes
    Pages 143-221
  6. Framing International Migration: from National Models to Transnational Critique
    Stephen Castles, Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
    Pages 222-251
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 252-265
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About this book

Introduction

How have Australia, France and Germany engaged with immigration and ethnic diversity? Are there national stereotypes that have blocked effective policy-making and exacerbated conflicts? This book looks at the role of the social sciences in national discourses of migration and how scholars can explain how migration is shaping global society.

Keywords

conflict immigration migration Policy social science

Editors and affiliations

  • Ellie Vasta
    • 1
  • Vasoodeven Vuddamalay
    • 2
  1. 1.ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)University of OxfordUK
  2. 2.Urban Studies InstituteEvry UniversitySouth ParisFrance

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