Documenting Transnational Migration

Author : Richard T. Antoun†
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857455370

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Documenting Transnational Migration by Richard T. Antoun† Pdf

Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one Jordanian village to 17 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, emphasizes the resiliency of transnational migrants after long periods of absence, social encapsulation, and stress, and their ability to construct social networks and reinterpret traditions in such a way as to mix the old and the new in a scenario that incorporates both worlds. Focusing on the humanistic aspects of the migration experience, this book examines questions such as birth control, women's work, retention of tribal law, and the changing attitudes of migrants towards themselves, their families, their home communities, and their nation. It ends with placing transnational migration from Jordan in a cross-cultural perspective by comparing it with similar processes elsewhere, and critically reviews a number of theoretical perspectives that have been used to explain migration.

Author : Thomas Faist,Margit Fauser,Eveline Reisenauer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745664545

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Transnational Migration by Thomas Faist,Margit Fauser,Eveline Reisenauer Pdf

Increasing interconnections between nation-states across borders have rendered the transnational a key tool for understanding our world. It has made particularly strong contributions to immigration studies and holds great promise for deepening insights into international migration. This is the first book to provide an accessible yet rigorous overview of transnational migration, as experienced by family and kinship groups, networks of entrepreneurs, diasporas and immigrant associations. As well as defining the core concept, it explores the implications of transnational migration for immigrant integration and its relationship to assimilation. By examining its political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions, the authors capture the distinctive features of the new immigrant communities that have reshaped the ethno-cultural mix of receiving nations, including the US and Western Europe. Importantly, the book also examines the effects of transnationality on sending communities, viewing migrants as agents of political and economic development. This systematic and critical overview of transnational migration perfectly balances theoretical discussion with relevant examples and cases, making it an ideal book for upper-level students covering immigration and transnational relations on sociology, political science, and globalization courses.

Author : Boris Nieswand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136682018

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Theorising Transnational Migration by Boris Nieswand Pdf

Societal transformations have recently stimulated political debates and policies on the integration of migrants and minorities in most Western European countries. While transnational migration studies have documented migrants’ cross-border activities there have been few empirically grounded efforts to theorise these developments in the framework of integration and status theory. Based on a case study of Ghanaian migrants, this book seeks to understand integration processes and develops a theorem of the status paradox of migration which explores the interaction between migrants’ integration into the receiving country and the maintained inclusion into the sending society. It describes a characteristic problem for a large class of labour migrants from the global south who gain status in the sending countries by simultaneously losing it in the receiving countries of migration. This transnational dynamic of status attainment, which goes along with specifically national forms of status inconsistency, is what is called the status paradox of migration. By bringing together two modes of national status incorporation within one framework, the status paradox provides an innovative perspective on migration processes and demonstrates the usefulness of a transnationalist integration theory. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of migration, transnationalism, politics, sociology and anthropology.

Author : Sarah B. Horton,Josiah Heyman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012092

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Paper Trails by Sarah B. Horton,Josiah Heyman Pdf

Across the globe, states have long aimed to control the movement of people, identify their citizens, and restrict noncitizens' rights through official identification documents. Although states are now less likely to grant permanent legal status, they are increasingly issuing new temporary and provisional legal statuses to migrants. Meanwhile, the need for migrants to apply for frequent renewals subjects them to more intensive state surveillance. The contributors to Paper Trails examine how these new developments change migrants' relationship to state, local, and foreign bureaucracies. The contributors analyze, among other toics, immigration policies in the United Kingdom, the issuing of driver's licenses in Arizona and New Mexico, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and community know-your-rights campaigns. By demonstrating how migrants are inscribed into official bureaucratic systems through the issuance of identification documents, the contributors open up new ways to understand how states exert their power and how migrants must navigate new systems of governance. Contributors. Bridget Anderson, Deborah A. Boehm, Susan Bibler Coutin, Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, Sarah B. Horton, Josiah Heyman, Cecilia Menjívar, Juan Thomas Ordóñez, Doris Marie Provine, Nandita Sharma, Monica Varsanyi

Author : Helen Lee,Steve Tupai Francis
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781921536915

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Migration and Transnationalism by Helen Lee,Steve Tupai Francis Pdf

Pacific Islanders have engaged in transnational practices since their first settlement of the many islands in the region. As they moved beyond the Pacific and settled in nations such as New Zealand, the U.S. and Australia these practices intensified and over time have profoundly shaped both home and diasporic communities. This edited volume begins with a detailed account of this history and the key issues in Pacific migration and transnationalism today. The papers that follow present a range of case studies that maintain this focus on both historical and contemporary perspectives. Each of the contributors goes beyond a narrowly economic focus to present the human face of migration and transnationalism; exploring questions of cultural values and identity, transformations in kinship, intergenerational change and the impact on home communities. Pacific migration and transnationalism are addressed in this volume in the context of increasing globalisation and growing concerns about the future social, political and economic security of the Pacific region. As the case studies presented here show, the future of the Pacific depends in many ways on the ties diasporic Islanders maintain with their homelands.

Author : Boris Nieswand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780810439

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Theorising transnational migration by Boris Nieswand Pdf

Author : Catherine Gomes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811303326

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Siloed Diversity by Catherine Gomes Pdf

This book examines the experiences of transient migrants in the Asia-Pacific, and in so doing provides new ways of understanding diversity. By focusing on the transient destination hubs of Australia and Singapore, Catherine Gomes shifts our thinking about diversity for two disruptive reasons: the increasingly large and global transient flows of people and our everyday reliance on digital media. The unprecedented usage of digital media influences not only communication patterns and information-seeking behaviour, but has also led to the rapid evolution of the very nature of entertainment and news, and directly impacted on our documenting and mapping of self (e.g. posts of photographs, opinions and links on social media timelines). The book introduces readers to the concept of siloed diversity - a phenomenon which occurs when people rely on a hierarchy of identities developed while in transience to make connections and disconnections with others.

Author : Catherine Gomes,Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786605542

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Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific by Catherine Gomes,Brenda S. A. Yeoh Pdf

This edited collection interrogates the diversity of transnational migration experiences in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of digital ethnography in order to explore the transformative effects digital media plays in these experiences. While there has been work on the various ways in which internet communication technologies (ICTs) particularly mobile communication allows for various forms of connectivity between individuals and groups in this age of hyper (transnational) mobility, there is a scarcity on the way digital media presents challenges, creates agency and alters relationships within the broad umbrella of the transnational migration experience. The authors in this collection– who come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds across social, cultural, education and communication research – present cutting edge cross and trans disciplinary analyses of transnational migration where digital media becomes a creative, if not fundamental avenue, for migrants to develop new strategies for dealing with their cross-border mobilities.

Author : Robert Sata
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474453509

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Transnational Migration and Border-Making by Robert Sata Pdf

This book deals with the ongoing processes of migration and boundary-(re)making in Europe and other parts of the world.

Author : Alejandro Portes,Josh DeWind
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845455439

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Rethinking Migration by Alejandro Portes,Josh DeWind Pdf

Includes statistical tables.

Author : Ragnhild Sollund
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780522029

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Transnational Migration, Gender and Rights by Ragnhild Sollund Pdf

This book examines the vulnerability caused by migration, in particular, the vulnerability of women that may cause forced migration, and the ways in which this is dealt with by national authorities in affluent European states. It explores transnational migration, gender and human rights, migration regimes, and anti-trafficking efforts in Norway.

Author : Sarah S. Willen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124067336

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Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context by Sarah S. Willen Pdf

Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context explores both how and why the recent influx of approximately two hundred thousand non-Jewish migrants from dozens of countries across the globe has led state officials to declare in definitive terms that Israel "is not on immigration country" despite its unwavering commitment to welcoming unlimited-numbers of "homeward-bound" Jewish immigrants. The presence of labor migrants, along with smaller groups of asylum seekers and victims of trafficking in women, has dramatically transformed the local labor economy of Israel/Palestine and generated a wide array of complicated legal, policy-related, cultural, and ideological questions and dilemmas for the Israeli state, local municipalities, and civil society. This book is distinctive not only in its incisive comparisons between Israel and other "destination countries," but also in its multifaceted analysis of how the Israeli migration regime has shaped, constrained, and been challenged by the arrival of these unanticipated migrants. These original essays analyze the relationship between transnational migration processes and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the heterogeneity of state and civil society responses to migrants' presence; transnational migrants' precarious status within existing local ethnoscapes and social hierarchies; the challenges their presence poses to Israel's distinctive citizenship regime; and undocumented migrants' efforts to craft "inhabitable spaces of welcome" within a consistently ambivalent and, since 2002, aggressively xenophobic host state. Book jacket.

Author : Alejandro Portes,Patricia Fernández-Kelly
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782387350

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The State and the Grassroots by Alejandro Portes,Patricia Fernández-Kelly Pdf

Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Comparing eighteen of these grassroots organizations formed across the world, from India to Colombia to Vietnam to the Congo, researchers from the United States, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Spain focus their studies on the internal structure and activities of these organizations as they relate to developmental initiatives. The book outlines the principal positions in the migration and development debate and discusses the concept of transnationalism as a means of resolving these controversies.

Author : Md Mizanur Rahman,Tan Tai Yong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317484844

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International Migration and Development in South Asia by Md Mizanur Rahman,Tan Tai Yong Pdf

In migration studies, the nexus between migration and development in the global South has been meticulously debated. However, a unanimous resolution to this debate has not been found, due to the ever-changing nature of international migration. This book advances knowledge on the global debate on the migration-development relationship by documenting experiences in a number of countries in South Asia. Drawing on the experiences of global South Asians, this volume documents the impact of migration on the social, economic, and political fields in the broader context of development. It also presents a regional experience by looking into the migration-development nexus in the context of South Asia, and analyses the role South Asian migrants and diaspora communities play in the South Asian society. Contributions from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, anthropology, political science, international relations and economics, document the development implications of South Asian migration. Broad in scope in terms of contents, timeline of migration, and geographical coverage, the book presents empirically-based case studies involving India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Nepal and their emigrants living and working in different parts of the world. Going beyond reporting the impacts of migration on economic development by highlighting the implications of ‘social development’ on society, this book provides a fascinating contribution to the fields of Asian Development, Migration Studies and South Asian Studies.

Author : Pirkko Pitkänen,Mari Korpela,Mustafa Aksakal,Kerstin Schmidt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319612584

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Characteristics of Temporary Migration in European-Asian Transnational Social Spaces by Pirkko Pitkänen,Mari Korpela,Mustafa Aksakal,Kerstin Schmidt Pdf

This book focuses on the experiences of temporary movements between Asia and Europe from the perspective of migrants and mobile people. It raises important questions such as: Why do people migrate on a temporary basis and what does this actually mean? How are these trajectories shaped? What are the implications of temporary moves for migrants and non-migrants? And how are transnational ties and practices characterized in the context of temporary migration? By shedding light on the practices and experiences of individual migrants, the book provides useful insights into understanding the challenges arising in an increasingly interconnected and mobile world. The chapters indicate that temporary migratory movements are on the rise: on the one hand on a voluntary basis such as reflected in labour migration, lifestyle migration and international student mobility, and on the other hand in an involuntary way as expressed in different forms of forced migration. Either way, temporary migration has diverse political. legal, economic, social and cultural implications, including the emergence of novel transnational networks and practices. The book is based on the findings of the international research project Transnational Migration in Transition: Transformative Characteristics of Temporary Mobility of People (EURA-NET), funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for period 2014-2017.