Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Messer, Michi (Editor), Schroeder, Renee (Editor), Wodak, Ruth (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Emigration and immigration.; Social Sciences.; Migration.

In contemporary Europe and beyond, the concept of “migration” has acquired multiple distinct meanings. The range of reactions to migrants depends on the country of origin, their “symbolic capital” (education, professional background, language skills) as well as on aspects of gender, religion, cultur...

Table of Contents:

• I Interdisciplinary Approaches: Theories and Methodologies
• II Peer Relations among Immigrant Adolescents: Methodological Challenges and Key Findings
• III Migration, Identity and Belonging
• IV Ego Documents Entered Migration History
• V Debating Migrations
• VI Diffusion and Spread in the Natural Sciences and Beyond
• VII Media Representations of Migrants and Migration
• VIII Migration and the Genes.