Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World : Albanian Migrants and Their Children in Europe.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vathi, Zana.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2015.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:IMISCOE Research Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Chapter-1
  • Introduction
  • 1.1 Contextualizing and Theorizing Cross-Generational Migration Research
  • 1.1.1 Identity, Integration and Transnational Ties
  • 1.1.2 Theories on the Integration of the Second Generation
  • 1.1.3 The European Second Generation
  • 1.1.4 The Albanian Second Generation
  • 1.1.5 Moving Back and Forth Between Theory and Data
  • 1.2 Introducing the Field Sites: Immigration Politics and Ethnic Relations
  • 1.2.1 Britain
  • 1.2.1.1 London
  • 1.2.2 Greece
  • 1.2.2.1 Thessaloniki
  • 1.2.3 Italy
  • 1.2.3.1 Florence
  • 1.3 Research Design and Methods
  • 1.4 Book Outline
  • Chapter-2
  • Identities of the First and Second Generation: The Role of Ethnicity
  • 2.1 Identity and Ethnicity
  • 2.2 Introduction to Albanian Identity
  • 2.3 The First Generation
  • 2.3.1 Migrant Identity
  • 2.3.2 The Parental Identity
  • 2.3.3 Gender
  • 2.3.4 Religious Identity
  • 2.3.5 The Role of Ethnicity
  • 2.4 The Second Generation
  • 2.4.1 Teenagers and Young People
  • 2.4.2 Gender
  • 2.4.3 Religious Identity
  • 2.4.4 The Role of Ethnicity
  • 2.5 Conclusions
  • Chapter-3
  • Integration: National, City and Local Perspectives
  • 3.1 Reviewing Integration: Philosophical, Theoretical and Methodological Aspects
  • 3.2 The First Generation
  • 3.2.1 Structural Integration
  • 3.2.1.1 Regularization and Interaction with Institutions
  • 3.2.1.2 Integration in the Labour Market
  • 3.2.2 Social Integration
  • 3.2.2.1 History of Immigration and Impact on Social Integration
  • 3.2.2.2 Cultural Similarity and Difference
  • 3.2.3 Immigrant and Ethnic Organizations
  • 3.2.4 Gender
  • 3.2.5 Discrimination
  • 3.3 The Second Generation
  • 3.3.1 Structural Integration
  • 3.3.1.1 Educational Experience and Performance
  • 3.3.1.2 Future Employment Plans and Transition to the Labour Market.
  • 3.3.1.3 Attitudes Towards Citizenship
  • 3.3.1.4 References to the City and Locality
  • 3.3.2 Socialization and Integration
  • 3.3.2.1 Social Integration in Schools
  • 3.3.2.2 The Role of the Peer Group
  • 3.3.2.3 Immigrant and Ethnic Organizations
  • 3.3.3 Discrimination
  • 3.4 Conclusions
  • Chapter-4
  • Transnational Ties and Attitudes Towards Return
  • 4.1 Theorizing Transnational Ties Beyond the Nation-State
  • 4.2 The First Generation
  • 4.2.1 Return Visits
  • 4.2.2 Transnational Ties Through Technology
  • 4.2.3 Remittances
  • 4.2.4 Attitudes Towards Return
  • 4.3 The Second Generation
  • 4.3.1 Return Visits
  • 4.3.2 Transnational Ties Through Technologies
  • 4.3.3 Attitudes Towards Return
  • 4.4 Conclusions
  • Chapter-5
  • Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity, Integration and Transnational Ties
  • 5.1 Intergenerational Transmission in the Context of Migration: The State of the Art
  • 5.2 Intergenerational Transmission of Identity
  • 5.2.1 Transmitting 'Albanianness'
  • 5.2.2 Language
  • 5.2.3 Ethnicity at a Micro-Level: The Family
  • 5.2.4 Lifestyle Values and Cross-Generation Tensions
  • 5.2.5 Migrant Identity and the Communist Past
  • 5.3 Intergenerational Transmission of Integration
  • 5.3.1 Parents' Settlement and its Impact on Children's Integration
  • 5.3.2 Transmission of the Migration Project
  • 5.4 Intergenerational Transmission of Transnational Ties
  • 5.4.1 General Patterns
  • 5.4.2 Intergenerational Transmission of Attitudes Towards Visits
  • 5.4.3 Intergenerational Transmission of Attitudes Towards Return
  • 5.5 Conclusions
  • Chapter-6
  • A Cross-generational Assessment of Identification, Integration and Transnational Ties
  • 6.1 Links Between Identity, Integration and Transnational Ties
  • 6.2 Ethnic Identity
  • 6.3 Integration
  • 6.4 Transnational Ties
  • 6.5 Intergenerational Transmission.
  • 6.6 Re-interpreting Integration: Agency, Capital and Power
  • References
  • Index.