Premigration Legacies and Immigrant Social Mobility
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Author_Mies Van Niekerk
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Product details
- ISBN 9780739104316
- Weight: 576g
- Dimensions: 158 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Premigration Legacies and Immigrant Social Mobility, anthropologist Mies van Niekerk examines the social and economic trajectories of two groups that have immigrated from the Caribbean Basin to the Netherlands: the Afro-Surinamese and the Indo-Surinamese. Drawing on a wide variety of sources including family histories, participant observation, and surveys of educational and employment outcomes, Dr. van Niekerk compares the experiences of two groups who share a sending country, Surinam, and a receiving country, the Netherlands, but who are ethnically quite different. The work is both a focused case study of the Surinamese migration and a comparative work that contributes to the debate about the relevance of 'structural' and 'cultural' factors for the social mobility of immigrant groups.
Mies van Niekerk is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies.
