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346 Migration and Quality of Life. Part I

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
OB 23 (Faculty of Economics)

RC55 Social Indicators (host committee)
RC31 Sociology of Migration
Session Organizer:
David BARTRAM, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Chair:
David BARTRAM, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
346.1
Migration as self-sacrifice – For (whose) greater good? On the (dis)placement of well-being in the narratives of immigrant care workers in Italy (Oral Presentation)
Paolo BOCCAGNI, University of Trento, Italy

346.2
Migrants' pursuit of happiness: The impacts of adaptation, social comparison, and relative deprivation on subjective well-being using German panel data (Oral Presentation)
Silvia Maja MELZER, University Bielefeld , Germany

346.3
A view from the origin: Examining happiness through a relative deprivation lens (Oral Presentation)
Heather EDELBLUTE, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Sergio CHÁVEZ, Rice University, USA; Ted MOUW, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

346.4
Remit or reunify? U.S. immigrant parents, remittances, and the sponsorship of children (Oral Presentation)
Guillermina JASSO, New York University, USA; Mark ROSENZWEIG, Yale University, USA

346.5
Migration, integration and quality of life in Germany (Oral Presentation)
Heinz-Herbert NOLL, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany; Stefan WEICK, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany

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