A Companion to Marsilius of Padua

Review "Among the studies that analyse the motives and consequences of leaving the home country or the adjustment or possible marginality in the receiving country due to economic and social reasons, this work adds an interesting axis of language to the factors in both situations. [...] I find this book definitely useful in Latin American Studies and in any academic programs that concentrate on encounters between two or more cultures." - Sarri Vuorisalo-Tiitinen, in: The Nordic Journal of Migration Research (NJMR), 3(2) (2013), 110-111 Product Description ############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################### From the Back Cover This book presents the results of a research on the integration of second generation migrants in Catalonia. Drawing on in-depth biographical interviews, we demonstrate the link between language and social mobility. Language is a particularly important social issue in Catalonia. A bilingual region in northeast Spain, Catalonia has been receiving foreign migration for several decades. Nowadays, some of the children of those migrants are entering the labor market. For many migrant families, providing social mobility for their children was one of their main goals. What effects does bilingualism have on the social trajectories of migrant children? Is Catalan important for social mobility? The book answers these questions focusing on the fate of three migrant communities: Argentineans, Colombians and Moroccans. Amado Alarc n (PhD Sociology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2002) is Associate Profesor of Sociology at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). He has published widely in the field of sociology of migration, sociology of work and enterprise and sociolinguistics. Luis Garz n (PhD Sociology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2006) is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the GRIAL (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Latin America) at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He has published several papers on the labour market insertion of Latin American migrants. About the Author Amado Alarcón (PhD Sociology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2002) is Associate Profesor of Sociology at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). He has published widely in the field of sociology of migration, sociology of work and enterprise and sociolinguistics.Luis Garzón (PhD Sociology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2006) is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the GRIAL (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Latin America) at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He has published several papers on the labour market insertion of Latin American migrants.