Contemporary European Emigration: Situating Integration in New Destinations

ISBN-13: 9781032174495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 176 str.

Brigitte Suter; Lisa Åkesson

Opis

This book focuses on European emigration, asking why they leave the continent, how they chose their destination, and how they experience their migrant life. Delving into accounts of social integration and transnational and local connectivity, the book provides enticing insights into how Europeans see themselves in the world.

Spis treści

1. Introduction, Brigitte Suter and Lisa Åkesson








2. Hybridity and hegemony: The integration of Portuguese migrants in Luanda and Maputo, Lisa Åkesson











3. Locally embedded cosmopolitans: Young Europeans crafting their own space in Singapore and Tokyo, Helena Hof











4. (Dis)Integrated women: Self-Other representations in the contemporary Italian migration to Morocco, Maria Giovanna Cassa











5. Pathways of integration of young French of Maghrebi background in Montreal, Jérémy Mandin











6. When Europeans move to Morocco ‘for Love’: Navigating legislative and religious boundaries in a Muslim context, Catherine Therrien











7. Unravelling the integration paradox: The uprooting and home-making of Euro-Maghrebi minorities across racial formations, Jaafar Alloul











8. Diverse encounters: European migrants’ contact zones in China, Aldina Camenisch and Brigitte Suter

O autorze

Brigitte Suter is senior researcher and lecturer in International Migration and Ethnic Relations at the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) at Malmö University in Sweden. She has been researching a wide range of migration-related topics and has profound experience in qualitative, interpretative research methods. Her research interests include (im)mobility, social networks, the transformative potential of migration, ethnography, the mobility of highly skilled migrants in the global economy, as well as the role of norms and values in the field of migration and integration. Her latest publications include ‘Migration as Adventure: Swedish Corporate Families’ Experience of Liminality in Shanghai’, Journal of Transient Migration, 2019.

Lisa Åkesson is Professor in Social Anthropology at the Department of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. She leads several projects on the recent Portuguese migration to Angola and Mozambique, which focus on postcolonial identities, power relations and transfer of knowledge. In addition, she has carried out research on Cape Verdean migration, exploring transnational families, remittances and relationships, return migration and cultural meanings of migration. She is the author of ‘Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola: Migrants or Masters?’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and she has published in a number of journals, including Ethnos, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Global Networks and Geopolitics.