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Getting by in Europe's urban labour markets : Senegambian migrants' strategies for survival, documentation and mobility / Inge van Nieuwenhuyze.

A comparative study of how economic and political differences between Antwerp and Barcelona influence the life-course trajectories of Senegalese and Gambian migrants.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Nieuwenhuyze, Inge van
Other title:	Getting by in Europe's urban labor markets. Senegambian migrants' strategies for survival, documentation and mobility.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam, Netherlands : Amsterdam Univ. Press, ©2009.
Series:	IMISCOE dissertations.
Subjects:	Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects. Emigration and immigration > Social aspects. Barcelona (Spain) > Emigration and immigration > 21st century. Antwerp (Belgium) > Emigration and immigration > 21st century. Gambia > Emigration and immigration > 21st century. Senegal > Emigration and immigration > 21st century. Foreign workers > Spain > Barcelona. Foreign workers > Belgium > Antwerp. Labor market > Spain. Labor market > Belgium. Emigration and immigration. Foreign workers. Labor market. Belgium. Belgium > Antwerp. Gambia. Senegal. Spain. Spain > Barcelona.

Table of Contents:

Understanding labour migration trajectories
Embarking on an explanatory framework
Data collection : interviews and participant observation in a hidden population
How migration from Senegal and the Gambia became an institution
Survival strategies as an undocumented migrant
Documentation strategies as an undocumented migrant
Mobility strategies as a legal migrant
Conclusions
Appendices.