Migration and Organized Civil Society : Rethinking National Policy

English

Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science Ser.

ISBN: 0415691982

EAN: 9780415691987

Category: Political Science / General/Social Science / Emigration & Immigration/

Publisher: Routledge

Release Date: 02/01/2011

Synopsis: Migrant organizations are of vital importance for incorporating their clientele into the societies of arrival, but the empirical and theoretical knowledge of the cross-border character of migrant organizations remains incomplete. This book focuses on the differing roles that transnational migrant organizations play in international migration and in social, cultural and political integration of migrants. It is clear that migrant transnationalism challenges the governance of nation-states on the local and national levels. The result of an ECPR joint session, this book systematically and empirically analyses the relations between immigrant organisations and the state, drawing on research conducted in Belgium, England, Germany, Holland, Poland and Portugal. Offering an opportunity for comparative analysis, expert contributors in the field examine why migrants and their organizations engage in different forms of border crossing activities and how various political systems influence and are influenced by these forms of engagement. Migration and Organized Civil Societywill be of strong interest to students and researchers of politics, political sociology, social movements and civil society, governance of interest organizations, migration studies, transnationalism and Diaspora studies.

Migration and Organized Civil Society : Rethinking National Policy

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Width: 0.62 inches

Length: 0.93 inches

Weight: 0.0 oz

Pages: 248