Jozefien de Bock

Parallel Lives Revisited

Mediterranean Guest Workers and their Families at Work and in the Neighbourhood, 1960-1980

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally coined in 2001 in a report on racial tensions in the United Kingdom, the concept of "parallel lives" has become familiar in the European discourse on immigrant integration. There, it refers to what is perceived as the segregation of immigrant populations from the rest of society. However, the historical roots of this presumed segregation are rarely the focus of discussion. Combining quantitative analysis, archival research, and over one hundred oral history interviews, Parallel Lives Revisited explores the lives of immigrants from six Mediterranean countries in a postwar Belgian city to provide a fascinating account of how their experiences of integration have changed at work and in their neighborhoods across two decades.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781785337789
• ISBN-10: 1785337785
• Artikelnr.: 49021629

Autorenporträt

Jozefien De Bock is currently a Fulbright postdoctoral scholar at Clemson University, studying workplace desegregation and race relations in the US South. She has published her work in such journals as the Journal of Belgian History, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Leo Lucassen
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Postwar Migration to the City of Ghent
Chapter 2. Integration Processes of Immigrants in the Local Labour Market
and the Workplace
Chapter 3. Immigrant Workers' Relations with Colleagues and Employers
Chapter 4. Integration Processes of Immigrants in the Local Housing Market
and the Neighbourhood
Chapter 5. Immigrants' Social Relations with Neighbours
Conclusion
Quantitative appendix
List of interviews
Bibliography
Index