Irregular Migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands : Aspirations and Incorporation /
Masja van Meeteren.
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Frontmatter -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Irregular Migration as a Fact of Life -- 2. Beyond Victims and Communities -- 3. Studying Aspirations -- 4. Immigration Policies in Belgium and the Netherlands -- 5. Investment, Settlement and Legalisation Aspirations -- 6. Living Different Dreams (I) -- 7. Living Different Dreams (II) -- 8. Aspirations and Transnational Activities -- 9. Striving for a Better Position -- 10. Assessing a New Perspective -- Appendices -- References.
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Proposing an empirically grounded theoretical critique of the dominant research practice that focuses on survival strategies, van Meeteren takes irregular migrants aspirations as a starting point of analysis. Drawing on intensive participant observation, as well as more than 200 in-depth interviews with irregular migrants and representatives of organisations working with them, she develops much-needed contextualised insights and sheds new light on earlier debates on this top-of the-agenda subject area.
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Immigrants. Emigration and immigration. SOCIAL SCIENCE--General. HISTORY--Western.--Europe Migration, immigration and emigration. Social issues and processes. Society and culture: general. Society and social sciences. Immigration clandestine--Pays-Bas. Immigration clandestine--Belgique. Illegal immigration--Netherlands. Illegal immigration--Belgium. Noncitizens--Netherlands. Noncitizens--Belgium. Immigrants--Netherlands. Immigrants--Belgium.
Netherlands. Belgium. Pays-Bas--Émigration et immigration. Netherlands--Emigration and immigration. Belgium--Emigration and immigration.