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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- A Continent Moving West? EU Enlargement and Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe
Richard Black, Godfried Engbersen, Marek Okólski, Cristina Pantîru, Eds. - Beyond Dutch Borders: Transnational Politics among Colonial Migrants, Guest Workers and the Second Generation
Liza Mügge (née Nell) - Born Entrepreneurs? Immigrant Self-Employment in Spain
Nahikari Irastorza - Diaspora and Transnationalism. Concepts, Theories and Methods
Rainer Bauböck, Thomas Faist, Eds. - Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration
Albert Kraler, Eleonore Kofman, Martin Kohli, Camille Schmoll, Eds.
- Identity processes and dynamics in multi-ethnic Europe
Charles Westin, José Bastos, Janine Dahinden, Pedro Góis, Eds. - Migration in a Globalised World: New Research Issues and Prospects
Cédric Audebert, Mohamed Kamel Doraï, Eds. - Research-Policy Dialogues on Immigrant Integration: The Dutch Research-Policy Nexus in Comparative Perspective
Peter Scholten - The Russian Second Generation in Tallinn and Kohtla-Järve: The TIES Study in Estonia
Raivo Vetik and Jelena Helemäe. (Eds). - The Creolisation of London Kinship. Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003
Elaine Bauer
- Migratory Policymaking in Europe: The Dynamics of Actors and Contexts in Past and Present
Rinus Penninx, Maren Borkert, Eds. Rinus Penninx, Maren Borkert, Eds.
First forthcoming title in the Textbooks Series
- Selected Studies in International Migration and Immigrant Incorporation
Marco Martiniello, Jan Rath, Eds.
| 2009 |
Immigrant Associations, Integration and Identity: Angolan, Brazilian and Easte
rn European Communities in Portugal, (2009) João Sardinha, Amsterdam: IMISCOE-AUP Dissertation Series This book sheds light on the integration processes and identity patterns of Angolan, Brazilian and Eastern European communities in Portugal. It examines the privileged position that immigrant organisations hold as interlocutors between the communities they represent and various social service mechanisms operating at national and local levels. Through the collection of ethnographic data and the realisation of 110 interviews with community insiders and middlemen, culled over a year’s time, João Sardinha provides insight into how the three groups are perceived by their respective associations and representatives. Following up on the rich data is a discussion of strategies of coping with integration and identity in the host society and reflections on Portuguese social and community services and institutions.
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Understanding Processes of Ethnic Concentration and Dispersal
. South Asian Residential Preferences in Glasgow, (2009) Jennifer Leigh McGarrigle, Amsterdam: IMISCOE-AUP Dissertation Series.
Questions surrounding ‘race’ as a spatial divider have come to the forefront of the political agenda, compelling us to revisit the debate on residential segregation. Drawing on the spatial analysis of changing dynamics in the ethnic geography of Greater Glasgow and qualitative research on the residential preferences of 40 South Asian households, this book enhances our understanding of settlement in the city. Understanding Processes of Ethnic Concentration and Dispersal documents new residential patterns, including South Asian suburbanisation in traditionally ‘white’ areas. Processes underlying both the changes and signs of sustained ethnic concentration are shown to be dynamic and complex. They encompass elements of choice, constraint and negotiations between the two, while also revealing a remarkable array of differentials such as class, status, education, age and culture.
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Equal Opportunities and Ethnic Inequality in European Labour Markets: Discrimination, Gender and Policies of Diversity, (2009) Karen Kraal, Judith Roosblad and John Wrench 
(Eds), Amsterdam: IMISCOE-AUP Series The need to analyse labour market mechanisms in post-industrial Western societies is urgent. Despite laws and policy measures being developed at the European, national and local levels, job-seeking immigrants and ethnic minorities still suffer unequal access and ethnic discrimination. This volume endeavours to understand why. Four chapters dealing with discrimination, gender, equity policies and diversity management present a lively discussion of the current scientific debate. Besides providing empirical evidence, the authors recommend methods for conducting further research in the field and evaluate the actual effects of discrimination-combating policies. One conclusion is that systematic analysis of the labour market and its subsequent equity policies must be supported by hard data, such as statistics. With its state-of-the-art scope and unique thematic exploration, this volume transfers knowledge from social science studies to a more operational realm.
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Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands. 
(2009) Arjan Leerkes, Amsterdam: IMISCOE-AUP Dissertation Series Making illegal residence unattractive is a way for Western governments to limit migration from non-Western countries. Focusing on Dutch neighbourhoods with substantial levels of unauthorised migrants, Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands examines how restrictive immigration policy influences immigrant crime and perceived neighborhood security. Salient questions arise. To what extent, and under which conditions, do illegal residence and illegal migration impact public safety? Does having illegal residence status influence how people observe or break the law and other social rules? Answers to these issues begin surfacing in this rich combination of quantitative information, comprising police figures and surveys on victimisation, and qualitative sources, including interviews at the Dutch Aliens Custody and urban field research.
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Breaking Down Anonymity: Digital Surveillance of Irregular Migrants in Germany and the
Netherlands, (2009) Dennis Broeders, Amsterdam: IMISCOE-AUP Dissertation Series Through surveillance, EU member states aim to exclude irregular migrants from societal institutions, thereby discouraging their stay or deporting those who are apprehended. Identification has therefore become key. Breaking Down Anonymity shows how digital surveillance is becoming a prime instrument of identification and exclusion policies towards irregular migrants. The study charts policy developments in Germany and the Netherlands. It analyses both countries’ labour market controls as well as their detention and expulsion practices. Also examined is the development of several new EU migration databases. Spanning the Continent, these information systems create a new European Union frontier – one that is digital, biometric and ever-strengthening.
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Citizenship Policies in the New Europe, Expanded and Updated Edition, (20
09) Rainer Bauböck, Bernhard Perchinig, Wiebke Sievers, Eds., Amsterdam: IMISCOE-AUP Research Series. The two most recent EU enlargements in May 2004 and in January 2007 have 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 describes the citizenship laws in each of the twelve new countries as well as in the accession states Croatia and Turkey and analyses their historical background. Citizenship Policies in the New Europe complements two volumes on Acquisition and Loss of Nationality in the fifteen old Member States published in the same series in 2006.
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Citizenship in the Arab World.
Kin, Religion and Nation-State, (2009) Gianluca P. 
Parolin, IMISCOE Research Series, Amsterdam: IMISCOE The book is the fruit of five years of on-site research on citizenship in the Arab world. It takes a broad legal perspective to the multifaceted reality of nationality and citizenship. The methodology employed builds on the interdisciplinary approach of comparative legal studies, and brings in theories, concepts and insights from anthropology, political science, Arab and Islamic studies, linguistics and sociology. The work relies on a broad range of Western and Arab references, and all sources and documents were directly accessed in their original languages; this is particularly relevant for Arab legislation.
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L'imaginaire du complot.
Discours d'extrême droite en France et aux Etats-Unis, 
(2009), Jérôme Jamin, IMISCOE Dissertation Series, Amsterdam: IMISCOE This book explores the importance of conspiracy rhetoric within populist and far right speeches in Europe and the United States. It shows how a “New World Order” plot give to populist and far right parties an opportunity to develop a rhetoric based on the rescue of democracy despite their obvious rejection of the values and principles which set up democracy.
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'My Name Is Not Natasha' How Albanian Women in France Use Trafficking to 
Overcome Social Exclusion (1998-2001), (2009) John Davies, IMISCOE Dissertation Series, Amsterdam: IMISCOE This book challenges every common presumption that exists about the trafficking of women for the sex trade. It is a detailed account of an entire population of trafficked Albanian women whose varied experiences, including selling sex on the streets of France, clearly demonstrate how much the present discourse about trafficked women is misplaced and inadequate. The book clearly shows how peripheral involvement in sex work was to the real agenda of the women involved. Most of the women described in this book were not making economic decisions to escape desperate poverty nor were they the uneducated naïve entrapped into sexual slavery. The women’s success in transiting trafficking to achieve their own goals without the assistance of any outside agency is a testimony to their resilience and resolve.
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Sri Lankan Housemaids in Lebanon. A Case of 'Symbolic Violence' and 'E
veryday Forms of Resistance', (2009) Nayla Moukarbel, IMISCOE Dissertation Series, Amsterdam: IMISCOE Unraveled in this book are the real dynamics at stake in the Madame/housemaid relationship. While cases of extreme physical abuse by the Lebanese women who hire housemaids – Madames – are an exception, what has become normalised are more insidious patterns of domination used to control each and every aspect of their employees’ lives. For their part, Sri Lankan housemaids are not merely passive victims. Away from direct provocation and first-hand repercussions, they try to deflect what Pierre Bourdieu has called ‘symbolic violence’. These attempts at ‘everyday forms of resistance’, as defined by James Scott, can help loosen their employers’ grip. .
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Statistics and Reality. Concepts and Measurements of Migration in Europe, 
(2009) Heinz Fassmann, Ursula Reeger, Wiebke Sievers, IMISCOE Reports Series, Amsterdam: IMISCOE In the last decade, there has been a distinct trend towards a worldwide harmonisation of migration statistics, chiefly pushed by international bodies and organisations that need comparative data. Statistics and Reality shows that these attempts have as yet not been very successful. It provides an accessible account of the history of migration measurement in Europe and analyses the current conceptualisations of migration and data gathering procedures in twelve European countries in the context of their migration histories. Based on this analysis, the authors provide a critical insight into the migrant stocks and flows in their countries.
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Getting by in Europe's Urban Labour Markets. Senegambian Migrants' Strategies 
for Survival, Documentation and Mobility , (2009) Inge Van Nieuwenhuyze, IMISCOE Dissertation Series, Amsterdam: AUP This book examines two major social changes experienced by European cities in the last two decades: post-industrial economic restructuring and new immigration flows. The link between both has been extensively discussed throughout a variety of theoretical approaches and in numerous descriptive contributions. Adding to those studies, this research focuses on three elements of migratory experience that have been relatively neglected thus far: a dynamic view of changes over time, the influence of national welfare and legislation frameworks, and the importance of support mechanisms outside the labour market. The material underpinning the arguments is the qualitative life-course analysis of 81 in-depth interviews with Senegambian migrants living in Antwerp and Barcelona.
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| 2008 |
Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical perspective, (2008) Marlou Schrover, Joanne van der Leun, Leo Lucassen, Chris Quispel, IMISCOE Research Series, Amsterdam
: AUP Two issues come to the fore in current debates on migration: illegal migration and the role of gender in migration. This study combines the two subjects and views the migration scholarship through the lens of the gender perspective, investigating definitions of citizenship and the differences in mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion for men and women. The study produces a comprehensive account of illegal migration in Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, Mexico, Malaysia, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East over the nineteenth- and the twentieth centuries.
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Migration and Irregular Work in Austria. A Case Study of the Structure and Dynamics o
f Irregular Foreign Employment in Europe at the Beginning of the 21st Century, (2008) Michael Jandl, Christina Hollomey, Sandra Gendera, Anna Stepien, Veronika Bilger, IMISCOE Reports Series
This meticulously researched study of irregular migrant work in Austria holds many broader lessons for countries all over Europe. The book derives many of its fascinating insights from systematic in-depth interviews with migrants themselves. The authors demonstrate that it is no longer enough to divide the world of foreign employment into “legal” and “illegal” work. Instead, over the past few years, particularly in the context of progressive EU-enlargement in Europe, new manifestations of “irregular migrant work” have evolved. Moreover, the authors convincingly argue that irregular migrant work is based on both supply and demand, and is therefore unlikely to fade away in the foreseeable future.
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The Position of the Turkish and Moroccan Second Generation in Amsterdam and Rotterdam
. The TIES Study in the Netherlands
(2008) Maurice Crul and Liesbeth Heering, IMISCOE Research Series, Amsterdam: AUP The second generation of Turkish and Moroccan origins in the Netherlands is coming of age. As the launch publication of The Integration of the European Second Generation, also known as the TIES project, this book presents groundbreaking research carried out in 2006 and 2007 among Dutch-born children of immigrants living in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The volume describes the unique challenges and opportunities that the second generation faces.
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Modes of Migration Regulation and Control in Europe (2008) Jeroen Doomernik and Michael Jandl (eds.) IMISCOE Reports Series, Am
sterdam: AUP This book draws the reader into the complex, often contradictory world of migration regulation. It covers the range of different policy approaches aiming to control migration in Europe – or, more precisely, the entry and residence of non-EU citizens in EU countries. The framework of this ably edited volume reveals that there are common tendencies and new policy convergences across the EU, and they are brought about less by design than by universal concerns.
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The Familiy in Question. 
Immigrant and Ethnic Minorities in Multicultural Europe (2008) Ralph Grillo (ed) IMISCOE Research Series, Amsterdam: AUP The family lives of immigrants and settled ethnic minority populations have become central to arguments about the rights and wrongs of ways of living in multicultural societies. They have given rise to an intense, often acrimonious, debate about cultural difference and its limits. The Family in Question explores the various debates in a series of case studies focusing on immigrant and minority ethnic families in Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and for comparative purposes Australia.
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International Migration in Europe
. New Trends and New Methods of Analysis (2008) Corrado Bonifazi, Marek Okolski, Jeannette Schoorl and Patrick Simon (eds.) IMISCOe Research, Amsterdam: AUP Over the last twenty years, societies are more and more becoming aware of the arrival of new immigrants and the subsequent problems that may be ushered in by integration processes. This book addresses such issues of contemporary concern in fifteen chapters that explore international migration’s various dimensions through multiple disciplinary perspectives. In particular, this volume analyses new forms of migration, the evolution of regional patterns, the intergenerational process of integration and the use of special survey techniques in migration studies.
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Practising Citizenship and Heterogeneous Nationhood. Naturalisations in
Swiss Municipalities, (2008), Marc Helbling, IMISCOE Dissertation Series, Amsterdam: AUP. Switzerland likely has the most particular naturalization system in the world. Whereas in most countries citizenship attribution is regulated at the central level of the state, in Switzerland each municipality is accorded the right to decide who can become a Swiss citizen. This book aims at exploring naturalization processes from a comparative perspective and to explain why some municipalities pursue more restrictive citizenship policies than others.
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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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| 2006 |
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.
