Transnational Activities and Immigrant Integration in Germany Concurrent or Competitive Processes? /

• Main Author: Schunck, Reinhard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: International Perspectives on Migration, 8
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Statistics.; Sociology.; Emigration and immigration.; Social Sciences.; Migration.; Sociology, general.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.

This book investigates both the causes and effects of transnational activities among immigrants in relation to their integration into the receiving society. It uses large scale, representative data about first and second generation immigrants in Germany. It develops a formal theoretical model, which...

Table of Contents:

• 1: Introduction
• 2: Immigrant Integration
• 3: Transnationalism
• 4: A Theory of Immigrant Integration and Transnational Activities
• 5: Methods
• 6: Transnational Activities and Immigrant Integration in Germany
• 7: Determinants of Transnational Involvement
• 8: Consequences of Transnational Involvement
• 9: Conclusion
• Appendix.