Morawska, Ewa (2008) The Economic Adaptation of Past and Present Immigrants: Lessons from a Comparative-Historical Approach. In: Citizenship and Immigrant Incorporation: Comparative Perspectives on North America and Western Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29-55. ISBN 9780230600133
Morawska, Ewa (2008) The Economic Adaptation of Past and Present Immigrants: Lessons from a Comparative-Historical Approach. In: Citizenship and Immigrant Incorporation: Comparative Perspectives on North America and Western Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29-55. ISBN 9780230600133
Morawska, Ewa (2008) The Economic Adaptation of Past and Present Immigrants: Lessons from a Comparative-Historical Approach. In: Citizenship and Immigrant Incorporation: Comparative Perspectives on North America and Western Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29-55. ISBN 9780230600133
Abstract
The essay comparatively examines the contexts and mechanisms of the economic integration of turn-of-the-twentieth-century and contemporary immigrants in the United States. The explanatory strategy used in this assessment falls in-between two strategies of sociohistorical enquiry specified John Hall (1999), namely, particularizing reconstruction of specific histories and generalizing contrast-oriented comparison. The configuration of circumstances shaping immigrants’ economic integration considered in this investigation includes conditions at four levels: (i)the positioning of sender and receiver societies in the global economy and geopolitics; (ii)the dynamics of the economy, immigration policies, and civic culture of the receiver society; (iii)immigrants’ local communities (surrounding and intragroup); and (iv)immigrants’ individual characteristics.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology, Department of |
Depositing User: | Jim Jamieson |
Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2011 13:50 |
Last Modified: | 13 Jan 2012 10:52 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1790 |