Abstract
In this contribution we present an internationally comparative project entitled “New (educational) migration as a family project and as a challenge for two different educational systems: Germany and Canada”. In particular, we focus on the research design and its methodological challenges, as well as on our questions with regard to the living conditions and experiences of newly immigrated families and their (school-age) children in two different migration societies. Between 2014 and 2018, research data were collected in Canada and Germany through biographical interviews with 31 families who left Greece after 2008 in the wake of the so-called financial crisis. In contrast to the dominant (media) discourse, we approach this phenomenon of “(new) migration from Greece” as a “family project”. Furthermore, we discuss family migration as a neglected research topic. Based on our research practice and initial findings, we outline the necessity of the connection between internationally comparative educational migration and family research.
This chapter is a reprint of a contribution by the two authors, which was first published in German in 2018 under the title “Neue Migration nach Deutschland und Kanada als Bildungsmigration. Zur Notwendigkeit und den Herausforderungen einer international vergleichenden Migrations- und Familienforschung” [New Migration to Germany and Canada as an educational migration. Concerning the need and the challenges of an international comparative migration and family research] in the following anthology: Dewitz, N./Terhart, H./Massumi, M. (Eds.): Neuzuwanderung und Bildung. Eine interdisziplinäre Perspektive auf Übergänge in das deutsche Bildungssystem [New immigration and education. An interdisciplinary perspective on transitions into the German educational system]. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.
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See also, for example, Maria Rigoutsou’s article on newly immigrated families in Germany in the Kathimerini newspaper’s Kappa magazine, 16th March 2013.
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On the challenges of narrative interviews with children and adolescents, see Ecarius and Köbel (2012).
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On multilingualism in research praxis in Quebec, see Henkelmann 2012.
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Panagiotopoulou, J.A., Rosen, L. (2019). New Migration to Germany and Canada as Educational Migration: The Necessity and Challenges of International Comparative Migration and Family Research. In: Panagiotopoulou, J., Rosen, L., Kirsch, C., Chatzidaki, A. (eds) 'New' Migration of Families from Greece to Europe and Canada. Inklusion und Bildung in Migrationsgesellschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25521-3_6
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