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dc.contributor.advisorFindlay, Allan M.
dc.contributor.advisorGeddes, A. (Alistair)
dc.contributor.authorMacpherson, Robert Allan
dc.coverage.spatialxx, 305 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-05T13:09:27Z
dc.date.available2015-10-05T13:09:27Z
dc.date.issued2015-11-30
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/7598
dc.description.abstractIn many immigrant-receiving countries, the increased rate and diversification of immigration has placed immigrant integration high on academic and political agendas. Immigrant integration must also be understood within increasingly complex contexts due to the global recession and new geographies of immigrant settlement. The aim of this thesis is to deepen understanding of immigrant integration processes during the recession by using Sweden as an empirical lens. Using Swedish register data, this thesis examines the registered population during the recent economic boom and bust to explore how the recession may have resulted in differential labour market and migration outcomes between immigrants and natives. The first empirical chapter highlights how long-term processes have produced a spatial, immigrant division of labour that results in differential risks of unemployment during the recession. The second empirical chapter examines internal migration to show that although cyclical patterns of the economy offer some explanation of the differences in experiences between immigrant and natives, long-term, deeper processes are more important in understanding geographies of immigrant integration. The final empirical chapter examines a recent immigrant cohort to show that labour market entry is by no means uniform across time, space and immigrant origin. Conceptually, the thesis shows that existing theories of immigrant integration processes during recessions are underdeveloped and that processes taking place across other temporal and spatial scales offer deeper explanation for the differential outcomes between immigrants and natives. The thesis also reveals what is knowable from register data and how such data allows future research to present a more holistic picture of how various forms of immigrant integration play out across time (economic cycles, lifecourse, generations) and across space (urban, rural areas, old and new immigrant destinations). This methodological contribution is significant given that social scientists are currently evaluating the relative merits of population censuses versus administrative register data.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subjectImmigrationen_US
dc.subjectIntegrationen_US
dc.subjectRecessionen_US
dc.subjectLabour marketsen_US
dc.subjectInternal migrationen_US
dc.subjectSwedenen_US
dc.subjectRegister dataen_US
dc.subject.lccHV6342.M7
dc.subject.lcshImmigrants--Cultural assimilationen_US
dc.subject.lcshImmigrants--Sweden--Case studiesen_US
dc.subject.lcshLabor marketen_US
dc.titleImmigrant integration and the global recession : a case study using Swedish register dataen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorEconomic and Social Research Council (ESRC)en_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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