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  • Spatial Mobility, Migration, and Living Arrangements

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book brings together ten original empirical works focusing on the influence of various types of spatial mobility – be it international or national– on partnership, family and work life. The contributions cover a range of important topics which focus on understanding how spatial mobility is related to familial relationships and life course transitions. The volume offers new insights by ... Read more

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  • A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Over the last four decades the sociological life course approach with its focus on the interplay of structure and agency over time life course perspective has become an important research perspective in the social sciences. Yet, while it has successfully been applied to almost all fields of social inquiry it is much less used in research studying migrant populations and their integration patterns. ... Read more

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    Becoming European in the EU

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