Parallel lives revisited : Mediterranean guest workers and their families at work in the neighbourhood, 1960-1980 / Jozefien de Bock

By:

Bock, Jozefien de [author]

Publication details: New York ; Berghahn Books, 2018.Description: xi, 206 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9781785337789

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DDC classification:

23 331.6218220493142 B631P

Contents:

Postwar Mediterranean migration to the city of Ghent -- Integration processes of immigrants in the local labour market and the workplace -- Immigrant workers' relations with colleagues and employers -- Integration processes of immigrants in the local housing market and the neighbourhood -- Immigrants' social relations with neighbours -- Quantitative appendix -- List of interviews.

Summary: Originally coined in 2001 in studies of racial tension in the United Kingdom, the concept of `parallel lives' has become familiar in analyses of socially isolated immigrant communities. Yet even just within Europe, migrant segregation is clearly not a new historical phenomenon. Combining careful historical research with over one hundred migrant interviews, Parallel Lives Revisited explores the lives of immigrants from six Mediterranean countries in postwar Ghent to provide a fascinating collective account of work and home life across two decades.

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Postwar Mediterranean migration to the city of Ghent --
Integration processes of immigrants in the local labour market and the workplace --
Immigrant workers' relations with colleagues and employers --
Integration processes of immigrants in the local housing market and the neighbourhood --
Immigrants' social relations with neighbours --
Quantitative appendix --
List of interviews.

Originally coined in 2001 in studies of racial tension in the United Kingdom, the concept of `parallel lives' has become familiar in analyses of socially isolated immigrant communities. Yet even just within Europe, migrant segregation is clearly not a new historical phenomenon. Combining careful historical research with over one hundred migrant interviews, Parallel Lives Revisited explores the lives of immigrants from six Mediterranean countries in postwar Ghent to provide a fascinating collective account of work and home life across two decades.

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