The Immigrant Organising Process
The Immigrant Organising Process

Author: Floris Vermeulen

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9053568751

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Annotation. This study focuses on the emergence and persistence of immigrant organisations in host societies. The relevance of immigrant organisations for both the host society and the immigrants themselves has been effectively demonstrated in many different studies. However, the question why immigrant organisations emerge and why they often persist over a long period is not adequately answered. In this study a comparative approach is used to reveal the structural determinants of the immigrant organising process. Different theoretical perspectives are combined (immigration model, social movement theory and the organisational ecology model). It is this combination of models, which has not yet been done by other scholars, which determines the value of this study and the contribution to a better understanding of the immigrant organising process. A comparative method is used, analysing Turkish organisations in Amsterdam and Berlin and Surinamese organisations in Amsterdam (1960-2000), to explain the way in which the three explanatory models can be combined in one coherent explanation. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789053568750. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.

Post-Colonial Immigrants and Identity Formations in the Netherlands
Post-Colonial Immigrants and Identity Formations in the Netherlands

Author: Ulbe Bosma

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9089644547

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In this book Ulbe Bosma explores the experience of immigrants in the Netherlands over sixty years and three generations. Looking at migrants from all countries, Bosma teases out how their ethnic identities are informed by Dutch culture, and how these immigrant identities evolve over time.“Fascinating, comprehensive, and historically grounded, this essential volume reveals how the colonial past continues to shape multicultural Dutch society. . . . It is an important counterpart to work on France, Britain, and Portugal.”—Andrea Smith, Lafayette College

Organising Immigrants' Integration
Organising Immigrants' Integration

Author: Andreas Diedrich

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-06-09

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 3031268210

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This collection of field studies offers novel insights into the issues of migration and integration of immigrants. The focus of the chapters is on actions, processes, and complexity of organising practices, in contrast to more policy-oriented works. The contributors address vital questions: How is the labour market integration of refugees and other immigrants being organised in practice? What ideas of integration give rise to, and are promoted by contemporary integration initiatives? And what are the effects of these integration initiatives – on immigrants’ lives, and on their labour market integration in terms of diversity, gender, and power relations? With contributions highlighting the importance of coordination and collaboration for the successful organising of integration, this book should be of interest to researchers and advanced students from the fields of management and organisation studies, public administration and management, migration and integration studies, sociology, cultural studies and science and technology studies. It should also interest professionals and policymakers working with integration who face the challenges described here in their daily work.

Welfare Activities by New Religious Actors
Welfare Activities by New Religious Actors

Author: Elisa Banfi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-13

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 3319620967

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This book offers a comparative examination of Islamic welfare activities across urban areas in both Switzerland and Italy, in order to address general issues relating to the welfare engagement of Islamic organisations in Europe. Welfare Activities by New Religious Actors describes how Islamic organisations have been coordinated and structured in Geneva, Milan, Rome, and Zurich; four cities not yet analysed in the literature on Islamic welfare. It also explores the institutional opportunities and constraints that are able to influence forms of social religious activities at the local and international level, by bringing together two research fields that seldom speak to each other: social network analysis and political opportunity theory. This book will appeal to scholars of Sociology, Anthropology and Religious Studies dealing with the social and political inclusion of Muslims in Europe and the social activities of Islamic organisations in Western countries.

Stories and Reflections of Immigrant Activists in Europe
Stories and Reflections of Immigrant Activists in Europe

Author: Dita Vogel

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9783631584224

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This book shares the stories and reflections of 40 foreign-born activists in different European states. The immigrants vividly report on their paths into active participation in the societies in which they live. They reflect on their own role as links and mediators between different groups, as role models and door openers for newcomers and young second-generation immigrants, and as admonishers and advocates. The stories encompass unique experiences of special persons, but they also illustrate general challenges for the integration of immigrants in Europe. All those who are interested in migration and integration issues should find the book interesting and inspiring reading. In addition, adult educators may find real-life examples for their workshops and courses. Careful introductions and complementary information-boxes support this purpose.

Turkish Immigrants in Western Europe and North America
Turkish Immigrants in Western Europe and North America

Author: Sebnem Koser Akcapar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1135754233

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Public and even scholarly debates usually focus on the integration problems of Muslim immigrants at the cost of overlooking the role of the growing number of migrant organizations in establishing a crucial link among immigrants themselves, as well as between them and their countries of origin and residence. This book aims to fill a gap in the vast literature on migration from Turkey by contributing the neglected aspect of civic and political participation of Turkish immigrants. It brings together a number of scholars who carried out extensive research on the associational culture of Turkish immigrants living in different countries in Europe and North America. In order to understand the diversity and dynamics within Turkish migrant communities living in these parts of the world yet maintaining transnational ties, this book offers a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to migrant organizations in general and civic participation and political mobilization of Turkish immigrants in particular. This book was published as a special issue in Turkish Studies.

Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany
Organizing Muslims and Integrating Islam in Germany

Author: Kerstin Rosenow-Williams

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-10-19

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 9004230556

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Kerstin Rosenow-Williams analyzes the challenges faced by Islamic organizations in Germany since the beginning of the 21st century, providing original empirical insights based on a sociological research perspective.

The Turkish-American Conundrum
The Turkish-American Conundrum

Author: Belma Ötüş Baskett

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-03-15

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1527531465

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This collection of essays discusses various aspects of the experiences of Turkish immigrants in the United States, and of US expatriates in Turkey. It explores the predicament of the Turkish-American element on US soil, in a manner paralleling already existent disciplines such as Italian-American Studies and German-American Studies, and assembles disparate research on the subject. As such, it will serve to herald in print the launching of a new paradigm, Turkish-American Studies. The volume fits within transnational American Studies, but also develops its own approach, which is what constitutes its novelty.