This open access wide-ranging collation of papers examines a host of issues in studying second-generation immigrants, their life courses, and their relations with older generations. Tightly focused on methodological aspects, both quantitative and qualitative, the volume features the work of authors from numerous countries, from differing disciplines, and approaches. A key addition in a corpus of literature which has until now been restricted to studying the childhood, adolescence and youth of the children of immigrants, the material includes analysis of longitudinal and transnational efforts to address challenges such as defining the population to be studied, and the difficulties of follow-up research that spans both time and geographic space. In addition to perceptive reviews of extant literature, chapters also detail work in surveying the children of immigrants in Europe, the USA, and elsewhere. Authors address key questions such as the complexities of surveying each generation in families where parents have migrated and left children in their country of origin, and the epistemological advances in methodology which now challenge assumptions based on the Westphalian nation-state paradigm. The book is in part an outgrowth of temporal factors (immigrants children are now reaching adulthood in more significant numbers), but also reflects the added sophistication and sensitivity of social science surveys. In linking theoretical and methodological factors, it shows just how much the study of these second generations, and their families, can be enriched by evolving methodologies.?
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1: Introduction: Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and
Origin: Claudio Bolzman, Laura Bernardi, Jean-Marie Le Goff.- Part I:
Comparison as Key Methodological Tool ad Challenging Perspective in Study of
the Children of Migrants: 2: Damned of you do, Damned if you dont: The
Challenges of Including and Comparing the Children of Immigrants in European
Survey Data: Laurence Lessard-Philips, Silvia Galandini, Helge de Valk,
Rosita Fibbi.- 3: Risk Factors of Labor-Market Insertion for Children of
Immigrants in Switzerland: Andrés Guarin and Emmanuel Rousseaux.- 4: The
Presence of a Third Person in Face-to-Face Interviews with Immigrants
Descendants: Patterns, Determinants and Effects: Nadja Milewski and Danny
Otto.- Part II: Life Course Perspective and Mixed-Methods Approaches in the
Study of Children of Migrants.- 5: Analyzing Second-Generation Trajectories
from a Life Course Approach: What Mixed Methods can Offer: Ingrid Tucci.- 6:
Intergenerational Relationships in Migrant Families. Theoretical and
Methodological Issues: Claudine Attias-Donfut and Joanne Cook.- 7: Using a
Cohort Survey to Track the Entry into Adult Life of Young People from
Immigrant Backgrounds: Emmanuelle Santelli.- 8: Combining in-depth
Biographical Interviews with the LIVES History Calendar in Studying the Life
Course of Children of Immigrants: Andrés Gomensoro and Raśl Burgos Paredes.-
9: Participatory Qualitative Methodology: a promising Pathway for the Study
of Intergenerational Relations within Migrant Families: Michčle Vatz
Laaroussi.- Part III The Biography and the Identity of Immigrant Descendants
as a Negotiation Process.- 10: Studying Second-Generation Transitions into
Adulthood in Switzerland: a Biographical Approach: Eva Mey.- 11: National
Identity and the Integration of the Children of Immigrants: Rosa Aparicio and
Andrés Tornos.- Part IV Transnational Approach and Children of Migrants:
Beyond Methodological Nationalism.- 12: Beyond Home and Return: Negotiating
Religious Identity across Time and Space Through the Prism of the American
Experience: Peggy Levitt, Kristen Lucken, Melissa Barnett.- 13: Following
People, Visiting Places, and Reconstructuring Networks. Researching the
Spanish Second Generation in Switzerland: Marina Richter and Michael
Nollert.- 14: Mapping Transnational Networks of Care from a Multi-Actor and
Multi-sited Perspective: Valentina Mazzucato, Ernestina Dankyi, Miranda
Poeze.- 15 Index.
