Overview
- Provides a transatlantic comparative perspective
- Provides an interdisciplinary dialogue on immigrant vulnerability and resilience
- Analyses the effects of the global recession on mobile populations from Latin America
- Covers analysis at the micro, meso and macro levels on international migration studies
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Migration (IPMI, volume 11)
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This book explores how the current sustained economic slow-down in North America and Europe has increased immigrant vulnerability in the labor market and in their daily lives. It details the ways this global recession has affected the immigrants themselves, their identities, as well as their countries of origin. The book presents an interdisciplinary dialogue as well as offer a transatlantic comparative perspective. It first focuses on the immediate effects of the Great Recession on immigrants’ employment. Next, it connects the experience of immigrants in the labor market with their experiences in the social arena in receiving societies. Coverage also explores the effects of the economic downturn on transnational practices, remittances and return of Latin American migrants to their countries of origin.
This volume will be of great interest to faculty and graduate students who are interested in international migration studies from the fields of sociology, economics, anthropology, geography, political sciences, and other social sciences. It will also be of interest to professionals and policy makers working on international migration policy and the general public interested on the topic.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Effects of the Great Recession on Latin American Immigrant Labor
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Understanding Immigrant Adaptation in Difficult Times
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Linking the Effects of the Great Recession in Destination and Origin Countries
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Immigrant Vulnerability and Resilience
Book Subtitle: Comparative Perspectives on Latin American Immigrants During the Great Recession
Editors: María Aysa-Lastra, Lorenzo Cachón
Series Title: International Perspectives on Migration
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14797-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14796-3Published: 10 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34876-6Published: 05 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14797-0Published: 31 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2214-9805
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9813
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 272
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Population Economics, Social Structure, Social Inequality