Author : Giuseppe Sciortino
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1839105461
Adeptly navigating one of the most pressing issues on the current global agenda, this topical Research Handbook provides a comprehensive and research-based exploration of the sociology of migration. As well as highlighting the field’s achievements and current challenges, it explores key concepts used in current research, methods employed, and the spheres and contexts in which migrants participate.
Author : Rolf Becker
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 14,78 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Education
ISBN : 1788110420
Presenting original contributions from the key experts in the field, the Research Handbook on the Sociology of Education explores the major theoretical, methodological, empirical and political challenges and pressing social questions facing education in current times.
Author : Norbert F. Schneider
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1788975545
Exploring how family life has radically changed in recent decades, this comprehensive Research Handbook tracks the latest developments and trends in scholarly work on the family. With a particular focus on the European context, it addresses current debates and offers insights into key topics including: the division of housework, family forms and living arrangements, intergenerational relationships, partner choice, divorce and fertility behaviour.
Author : Jacqueline Bhabha
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786433702
The scope and complexity of child migration have only recently emerged as a critical factors in global migration. This volume assembles for the first time a richly interdisciplinary body of work, drawing on contributions from renowned scholars, eminent practitioners and prominent civil society advocates from across the globe and from a wide range of different mobility contexts. Their invaluable pedagogical tools and research documents demonstrate the urgency and breadth of this important new aspect of international human mobility in our global age.
Author : Manzo, Gianluca
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789906857
Providing an up-to-date portrait of the concepts and methods of analytical sociology, this pivotal Research Handbook traces the historical evolution of the field, utilising key research examples to illustrate its core principles. It investigates how analytical sociology engages with other approaches such as analytical philosophy, structural individualism, social stratification research, complexity science, pragmatism, and critical realism, exploring the foundations of the topic as well as its major explanatory mechanisms and methods.
Author : McAuliffe, Marie
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1839100613
This forward-looking Research Handbook showcases cutting-edge research on the relationship between international migration and digital technology. It sheds new light on the interlinkages between digitalisation and migration patterns and processes globally, capturing the latest research technologies and data sources. Featuring international migration in all facets from the migration of tech sector specialists through to refugee displacement, leading contributors offer strategic insights into the future of migration and mobility.
Author : William L. Allen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 2024-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1800378033
In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition, William Allen and Carlos Vargas-Silva bring together a diverse range of experts to explore the latest research methods in migration studies, taking stock of major changes that have been salient for migration research—as well as the social sciences more broadly—in the last decade. Spanning a variety of different methodologies, this second edition of the Handbook of Research Methods in Migration provides practical guidance on designing, completing, and communicating migration research, considering diverse audiences including migrants themselves. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Author : Marco Giugni
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1789903130
Taking an integrated approach, this unique Handbook places the terms ‘citizenship’ and ‘migration’ on an equal footing, examining how they are related to each other, both conceptually and empirically.
Author : Robin Cohen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
A collection of articles dating from 1976 to 1992, organized in sections on migrant labor, international labor migration, women migrants, enclaves and labor markets, effects of return migration, migration and social structure, refugees and displaced persons, the brain drain, migration in Asia, and the effects of migration on the state system. Specific topics include labor migration in the Arab Gulf states, the impact of male labor migration on women in Botswana, and the migration of talent in India. Of interest to sociologists nd migration scholars. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jeffrey H. Cohen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1789903467
Capturing the important place and power role that culture plays in the decision-making process of migration, this Handbook looks at human movement outside of a vacuum; taking into account the impact of family relationships, access to resources, and security and insecurity at both the points of origin and destination.
