In co-operation with the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) the IMISCOE Network has created four distinct IMISCOE book series: Research, Reports, Dissertations and Training. More
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- The Position of the Turkish and Moroccan Second Generation in Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Maurice Crul and Liesbeth Heering, Eds - Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective
Marlou Schrover, Joanne van der Leun, Leo Lucassen, Chris Quispel (Eds.) - Getting by in Europe’s Urban Labour Markets: Senegambian Migrants’ Strategies for Survival, Documentation and Mobility
Inge Van Nieuwenhuyze - L'Imaginaire du Complot: Discours d'Extrême Droite en France et aux Etats-Unis [Conspiracy Rhetoric: Far Right Speeches in France and the United States]
Jérôme Jamin - Understanding South Asian Residential Preferences in Glasgow
Jennifer Leigh McGarrigle - The Family in Question: Immigrant and Ethnic Minorities in Multicultural Europe
Ralph Grillo, Ed. - International Migration in Europe: New Trends, New Methods of Analysis
Corrado Bonifazi, Marek Okólski, Jeannette Schoorl, Patrick Simon, Eds - My Name is Not Natasha: How Albanian Women in France Use Trafficking to Overcome Social Exclusion (1998-2001)
John Davies - Modes of Migration Regulation and Control in Europe
Jeroen Doomernik, Michael Jandl, Eds. - Statistics and reality: concepts and measurements of migration in Europe
Heinz Fassmann, Ursula Reeger, Wiebke Sievers, Eds. - Practising Citizenship and Heterogeneous Nationhood: Naturalisations in Swiss Municipalities
Marc Helbling - Immigrant Associations, Integration and Identity: Angolan, Brazilian and Eastern European Communities in Portugal
João Sardinha - Identity processes and dynamics in multi-ethnic Europe
Charles Westin, Ed. - Migration and Irregular Work in Austria
Michael Jandl, Christina Hollomey, Sandra Gendera, Anna Stepien, Veronika Bilger - Sri Lankan Housemaids in Lebanon: Symbolic Violence and Everyday Resistance
Nayla Moukarbel
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Migrants and markets. Perspectives from Economics and the Other Social Sciences, 
(2008) Holger Kolb and Henrik Egbert (eds), IMISCOE Research Series. Amsterdam: AUP. This volume contains eleven case studies that aim at overcoming the artificial barrier between economics and migration research by either applying the economic method to migratory phenomena, utilising economic theories in order to explain migratory patterns or by regarding the structure and development of markets as constitutive for the shaping of stocks and flows of migrants.
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Paradoxes of social capital. A multi-generational study of Moroccans in 
London, (2008) Myriam Cherti, IMISCOE Dissertation Series. Amsterdam: AUP. Paradoxes of Social Capital critically examines the robustness of social capital theory as an analytical tool in explaining the various ‘integration’ patterns amongst Moroccans in London. The book also considers how structural factors impact on the ways in which Moroccans – across generations – sustain, access and use social capital at the levels of family, ethnic community, migrant associations and schools.
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| 2007 |
Secularism or Democracy? Associational Governance of Religious Divers
ity, Veit Bader (2007). IMISCOE Research. Amsterdam: AUP . This book offers an original, comprehensive conceptual, theoretical and practical approach to problems of governing religious diversity. It's multi-disciplinary perspective combines moral and political philosophy, constitutional law, history, the sociology and anthropology of religions and comparative institutionalism.
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Citizenship Policies in the New Europe, Rainer Bauböck, Bernhard Perchinig & Wiebke 
Sievers (eds) (2007). IMISCOE Research. Amsterdam: AUP. In May 2004 ten new Member States joined the European Union. This enlargement has greatly increased the diversity of historic experiences and contemporary conceptions of statehood, nation-building and citizenship within the Union. Citizenship Policies in the New Europe complements two volumes on Acquisition and Loss of Nationality published earlier in the same series and that present comparative analyses of citizenship regulations in the fifteen old Member States.
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Innovative Concepts for Alternative Migration Policies: Ten Innovative Approaches to 
the Challenges of Migration in the 21st Century, Michael Jandl (ed) (2007). IMISCOE Reports. Amsterdam: AUP. The papers in this edited volume are the results of a joint ICMPD/IMISCOE workshop on Innovative Concepts for Alternative Migration Policies, with the participation of migration researchers, policymakers and representatives of international organisations. Based on the strengths of the combined ideas presented in these ten short papers by their authors, eight basic principles for the design of innovative migration policy approaches are developed and presented.
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Navigating Borders. An Inside Perspective into the Process of Human Smuggli
ng, Ilse van Liempt (2007). IMISCOE Dissertations. Amsterdam: AUP.This book provides an inside perspective into human smuggling processes. Drawing on biographical interviews with smuggled migrants in the Netherlands, the author shows that the underlying causes, the way the journey evolves, as well as the outcome of smuggling processes may differ considerably.
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Dynamic Entrepreneurship. First and second-generation immigrant entrepreneurs in 
Dutch cities, Katja Rušinovic (2006). IMISCOE Dissertations. Amsterdam: AUP.
This study presents one of the first explicit comparisons between first and second-generation self-employed immigrants and provides a vivid, longitudinal view of first and second-generation immigrant entrepreneurs, their incorporation into Dutch society, their businesses and business development(s).
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The dynamics of international migration and settlement in Europe. A State of t
he Art, Rinus Penninx, Maria Berger and Karen Kraal (eds) (2006). IMISCOE Research. Amsterdam: AUP. This publication gives an overview of the state of research of IMISCOE members on migration, integration and social cohesion and sketches lines for future research in this field.
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Paths of integration. Migrants in Western Europe (1880-2004)
Lucassen, L., D. Feldman and J. Oltmer (eds) (2006). IMISCOE Research. Amsterdam: AUP. In this publication, various authors try to approach some burning questions related to migration and integration. Why do some migrants integrate quickly, while others become long term minorities? What is the role of the state in the settlement process?
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Acquisition and Loss of Nationality. Volume 1: Comparative Analyses Policies 
and Trends in 15 European Countries, Rainer Bauböck, Eva Ersböll, Kees Groenendijk, Harald Waldrauch (eds) (2006). IMISCOE Research. Amsterdam: AUP. This is the most comprehensive comparative study of the legal status of nationality so far and it will become an indispensable source of reference for further research.
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Acquisition and Loss of Nationality. Volume 2: Country Analyses Policies and Trends in 
15 European Countries, Rainer Bauböck, Eva Ersböll, Kees Groenendijk, Harald Waldrauch (eds) (2006). IMISCOE Research. Amsterdam: AUP. This study presents detailed studies of each country’s nationality laws, their historical background and current provisions. It is a companion to volume 1 which contains comparative analyses.
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Migration and citizenship. Legal status, rights and political participation
Bauboeck, R
ainer (ed) (2006). IMISCOE Reports. Amsterdam: AUP. This book is a collaborative effort that provides an overview of current theories and empirical research on citizenship in European countries of migration. By taking a migration perspective the authors highlight the boundaries of citizenship and political control over entry and exit as well as the fact that foreign residents remain deprived of core rights of political participation in most countries.
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Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity. Second-Generation Greek-Americans Return
'Home', Anastasia Christou (2006). IMISCOE Dissertations. Amsterdam: AUP.
This book explores the phenomenon of ‘return migration’ in Greece through the settlement and identification processes of second-generation Greek-American returning migrants
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Globalisation, migration and socio-economic change in contemporary Greece. 
Processes of social incorporation of Albanian and Bulgarian immigrants in Thessaloniki, Panos Hatziprokopiou (2006). IMISCOE Dissertations. Amsterdam: AUP. This publication explores the complex set of processes that determine the incorporation patterns of migrants from Balkan countries in Greece.
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The immigrant organizing process. Turkish organizations in Amsterdam and 
Berlin and Surinamese organizations in Amsterdam 1960-2000, Floris Vermeulen (2006). IMISCOE Dissertations. Amsterdam: AUP. This study focuses on the emergence and persistence of immigrant organisations in host societies. It provides a theoretical model for researching the organising process of immigrants in host societies.
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An IMISCOE editorial committee has been established to coordinate the process of reviewing all manuscripts for these series, thereby guarding the excellence of our network.
