The introduction offers an overview to migration studies, comparing and contrasting different
disciplinary approaches—what they have in common and where they differ. The chapter …

Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western
countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are …

ABSTRACT A demographic transition to greater ethno-racial diversity, the product in part of
large-scale immigration over decades, will create challenges and opportunities for Western …

In comparing different countries, studies often seek to account for the success of immigrant
integration, or lack of it, in a small number of “grand ideas,” such as nationally specific …

The goal of successfully incorporating ethnic minorities represents a decisive challenge for
modern societies. However, migratory background continues to negatively affect the life …

Socio-economic disadvantaged students are not equally vulnerable: some of them are
defined as 'resilient'students because they are able to 'beat the odds' and achieve positive …

Much like the United States, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive
immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an …

Why is it that children of immigrants often outdo their ethnic majority peers in educational
aspirations yet struggle to keep pace with their achievements? This article advances the …

International migration always has been a core concern of sociology in the United States
and it has become central to the global discipline. The dominant US approach of studying …

A compilation of Adrian Favell's innovative and agenda-setting essays which, since the late
1990s, have charted the emergence of new migration patterns and politics in Europe …