The Sociological Life Course Approach and Research on Migration and Integration

• Published in: A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration pp. 1 - 26
• Main Authors: Wingens, Matthias, de Valk, Helga, Windzio, Michael, Aybek, Can
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 07.06.2011
• Subjects: Host Society; Integration Issue; Labour Market; Life Domain; Societal Structure

Over the last four decades the life course perspective has become an important and fruitful approach in the social sciences. Some of its proponents even claim that the life course approach today is the pre-eminent theoretical orientation and new core research paradigm in social science (Elder et al....