Floris Vermeulen (2006). The immigrant organizing process. Turkish organizations in Amsterdam and Berlin and Surinamese organizations in Amsterdam 1960-2000. IMISCOE Dissertations. Amsterdam: AUP
This study focuses on the emergence and persistence of immigrant organisations in host societies.
Description
The relevance of immigrant organisations for both the host
society and the immigrants themselves has been effectively
demonstrated in many different studies. However, the question why
immigrant organisations emerge and why they often persist over a
long period is not adequately answered.
In this study a comparative approach is used to reveal the
structural determinants of the immigrant organising process.
Different theoretical perspectives are combined (immigration model,
social movement theory and the organisational ecology model).
It is this combination of models, which has not yet been done by
other scholars, which determines the value of this study andthe
contribution to a better understanding of the immigrant organising
process.
Background information
This title is published in the IMISCOE-AUP Book Series. In co-operation with the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) the IMISCOE Network has created five IMISCOEbook series.
Methodology
A comparative method is used, analysing Turkish organisations in Amsterdam and Berlin and Surinamese organisations in Amsterdam (1960-2000), to explain the way in which the three explanatory models can be combined in one coherent explanation.
Contact info
IMISCOE Network of Excellence
Karen Kraal
Project finished
2006
Researcher
Floris Vermeulen is a researcher at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES), Political Science Department, University of Amsterdam.