Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration

Edited by Albert Kraler, Eleonore Kofman, Martin Kohli and Camille Schmoll

Spring 2012
Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 978 90 8964 285 1
Paperback 404 pages €49.95

Fifteen chapters offer new perspectives on the diversity of family-related migration and the family forms and practices that result. The authors represent a mix of specialisations, and make use of a range of methodological approaches. They question – and sometimes counter – the simplistic assumptions about migrants often heard in public discourse, while acknowledging the state’s role in shaping family-related migration and migrants’ lives.

Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market: Bonding and Bridging Social Capital

By Bram Lancee

Spring 2012
Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 978 90 8964 357 5
Paperback 192 pages €34.50

Taking the Netherlands and Germany as case studies, author Bram Lancee discusses two forms of social capital that may work to increase immigrants’ employment opportunities, income and occupational status, thus reducing their unemployment. New insights into the concepts of ‘bonding’ and ‘bridging’ arise through quantitative research methods using longitudinal and cross-sectional data. Lancee reveals that although bonding allows immigrants to get by, bridging enables them to get ahead.

The winner of the IMISCOE Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award 2011 is Dr. Justus Uitermark from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Dr. Uitermark obtained his PhD in 2010 from the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Entitled Dynamics of Power in Dutch Integration Politics, Dr. Uitermark’s dissertation was selected for first place by the IMISCOE Award Committee in consultation with a panel of expert external referees. Of the 12 award applications submitted from prestigious institutes across Europe, the jury deemed four worthy of placement on a short list. Yet from these, Dr. Uitermark’s work stood out.