The Immigrant Organising Process - Softcover

Vermeulen, Floris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9053568751 ISBN 13: 9789053568750

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This study focuses on the emergence and persistence of immigrant organisations in host societies. The relevance of immigrant organisations for both the host society and the immigrants themselves has been effectively demonstrated in many different studies. However, the question why immigrant organisations emerge and why they often persist over a long period is not adequately answered. In this study a comparative approach is used to reveal the structural determinants of the immigrant organising process. Different theoretical perspectives are combined (immigration model, social movement theory and the organisational ecology model) It is this combination of models, which has not yet been done by other scholars, which determines the value of this study and the contribution to a better understanding of the immigrant organising process. A comparative method is used, analysing Turkish organisations in Amsterdam and Berlin and Surinamese organisations in Amsterdam (1960-2000) to explain the way in which the three explanatory models can be combined in one coherent explanation.

About this title

About the Author:

Floris Vermeulen is a researcher at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) Political Science Department, University of Amsterdam.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9053568751
• ISBN 13: 9789053568750
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192