Date: 2018
Type: Book
Parallel lives revisited : Mediterranean guest workers and their families at work in the neighbourhood, 1960-1980
New York : Berghahn Books, 2018
DE BOCK, Jozefien, Parallel lives revisited : Mediterranean guest workers and their families at work in the neighbourhood, 1960-1980, New York : Berghahn Books, 2018
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/60124
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
Originally coined in 2001 in studies of racial tension in the United Kingdom, the concept of `parallel lives' has become familiar in analyses of socially isolated immigrant communities. Yet even just within Europe, migrant segregation is clearly not a new historical phenomenon. Combining careful historical research with over one hundred migrant interviews, Parallel Lives Revisited explores the lives of immigrants from six Mediterranean countries in postwar Ghent to provide a fascinating collective account of work and home life across two decades.
Table of Contents:
-- Postwar Mediterranean migration to the city of Ghent
-- Integration processes of immigrants in the local labour market and the workplace
-- Immigrant workers' relations with colleagues and employers
-- Integration processes of immigrants in the local housing market and the neighbourhood
-- Immigrants' social relations with neighbours
-- Quantitative appendix
-- List of interviews
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/60124
ISBN: 9781785337789; 9781785337796
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/29614
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2013