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Irregular migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands : aspirations and incorporation / Masja van Meeteren.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: IMISCOE researchPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2014]Copyright date: �2014Description: 1 electronic resource (242 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048523085
  • 9048523087
  • 9789048523092
  • 9048523095
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Irregular migrants in Belgium and the NetherlandsDDC classification:
  • 940.5 22
LOC classification:
  • JV8149
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Irregular Migration as a Fact of Life -- 2. Beyond Victims and Communities -- 3. Studying Aspirations -- 4. Immigration Policies in Belgium and the Netherlands -- 5. Investment, Settlement and Legalisation Aspirations -- 6. Living Different Dreams (I) -- 7. Living Different Dreams (II) -- 8. Aspirations and Transnational Activities -- 9. Striving for a Better Position -- 10. Assessing a New Perspective -- Appendices -- References.
Summary: Proposing an empirically grounded theoretical critique of the dominant research practice that focuses on survival strategies, van Meeteren takes irregular migrants aspirations as a starting point of analysis. Drawing on intensive participant observation, as well as more than 200 in-depth interviews with irregular migrants and representatives of organisations working with them, she develops much-needed contextualised insights and sheds new light on earlier debates on this top-of the-agenda subject area.
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Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Irregular Migration as a Fact of Life -- 2. Beyond Victims and Communities -- 3. Studying Aspirations -- 4. Immigration Policies in Belgium and the Netherlands -- 5. Investment, Settlement and Legalisation Aspirations -- 6. Living Different Dreams (I) -- 7. Living Different Dreams (II) -- 8. Aspirations and Transnational Activities -- 9. Striving for a Better Position -- 10. Assessing a New Perspective -- Appendices -- References.

Proposing an empirically grounded theoretical critique of the dominant research practice that focuses on survival strategies, van Meeteren takes irregular migrants aspirations as a starting point of analysis. Drawing on intensive participant observation, as well as more than 200 in-depth interviews with irregular migrants and representatives of organisations working with them, she develops much-needed contextualised insights and sheds new light on earlier debates on this top-of the-agenda subject area.

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