Immigration and Social Systems: Collected Essays of Michael Bommes (IMISCOE Research)

Boswell, Christina & D'Amato, Gianni (edited by)

ISBN 10: 9089644539 / ISBN 13: 9789089644534

Published by Amsterdam University Press, 2012

About this Item

235 x 155 mm. 242 pp. Pictorial card covers. Curling covers. Very lightly dulled at spine. Spine not creased.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Immigration and Social Systems: Collected Essays of Michael Bommes (IMISCOE Research)
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9089644539
• ISBN 13: 9789089644534
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Politics, Philosophy, Economics

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Synopsis

Michael Bommes was one of the most brilliant and original migration studies scholars of our time. This posthumous collection brings together a selection of his most important work on immigration, integration, transnationalism, irregular migration and migrant networks. Each essay provides a rigorous and compelling critique of mainstream accounts, building on Bommes' distinctive systems theoretic approach. It will be required reading for all theoretically minded scholars and advanced students of migration studies.

About the Author

Christina Boswell is Professor of Politics, Deputy Dean of Research, College of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Edinburgh.