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21 - Immigration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2020

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Ewa Morawska
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Peter Kivisto
Peter Kivisto
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Augustana College, Illinois
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Three issues have attracted the most theoretical attention in social science studies of immigration: mechanisms of trans-border population movements; contributing/hindering circumstances and the resulting varieties of adaptation to the host society; and finally the relevance of transnational engagements. This essay presents the claims of the major theories of these phenomena, and offers general assessments of their strengths and weaknesses.

Adaptation, immigration, integration, migratory mechanisms, transnationalism

Ewa Morawska is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex.She is the author of 10 books and over 250 articles devoted to different aspects of past and present international migration in Europe and North America.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory , pp. 433 - 455
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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