Theorising Transnational Migration

Author : Boris Nieswand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Boris Nieswand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780810439

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Author : Thomas Faist,Margit Fauser,Eveline Reisenauer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Rainer Bauböck,Thomas Faist
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789089642387

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Diaspora and Transnationalism by Rainer Bauböck,Thomas Faist Pdf

Diaspora & transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic & political discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly overlap today. Such inflation of meanings goes hand in hand with a danger of essentialising collective identities. This book analyses this topic.

Author : Ludger Pries
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015042788086

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Migration and Transnational Social Spaces by Ludger Pries Pdf

Although globalisation brings work to (some) places all over the world, the growing international mobility of workers (and refugees) will be one of the strongest social and political challenges at the end of this century. At the same time and in part originated by globalisation and transnational migration, there is emerging a qualitative new social reality of 'transnational social spaces' built by pluri-locally spanned social institutions, life trajectories and the biographical projects in specific institutional settings and material infrastructures. This volume presents conceptual frameworks and empirical studies of transnational migration processes and the emergence of pluri-social transnational social spaces.

Author : Shibao Guo,Srabani Maitra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000057904

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Decolonising Lifelong Learning in the Age of Transnational Migration by Shibao Guo,Srabani Maitra Pdf

Decolonising Lifelong Learning in the Age of Transnational Migration examines how colonialism has shaped migration and migrants’ transnational learning experiences. With the development of modern transportation and advanced communication technologies, migration has shifted from international to transnational, characterised by the multiple and circular migration across transnational spaces of migrants who maintain close contact with their country of origin. The book interrogates the colonial assumptions and Eurocentric tendencies influencing the current ideological moorings of lifelong learning theories, policies, and practices in the age of transnational migration. It calls for an approach to lifelong learning that aims to decolonise the ideological underpinnings of colonial relations of rule, especially in terms of its racialised privileging of ‘whiteness’ and Eurocentrism as normative processes of knowledge accumulation. This volume cover a wide range of topics, including: • Theorising decolonisation in lifelong learning and transnational migration • Decolonising racism, sexism, and settler colonialism • Decolonising knowledge production and recognition • Decolonising the life course • Decolonising lifelong learning policies • Decolonising pedagogic and curricular approaches to lifelong learning Overall, the chapters represent the collective efforts of the contributors in attempting to decolonise lifelong learning in the age of transnational migration. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Lifelong Education.

Author : Michael Peter Smith,Luis Eduardo Guarnizo
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412840376

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Transnationalism from Below by Michael Peter Smith,Luis Eduardo Guarnizo Pdf

Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourse on transnationalism. A core theme hi this debate is the penetration of national cultures and political systems by global and local driving forces. The nation-state is seen as weakened by transnational capital, global media, and emergent supranational political institutions. It also faces the decentering local resistances of the informal economy, ethnic nationalism, and grass-roots activism. "Transnationalism From Below "brings together a rich combination of theoretical and grounded studies of transnational processes and practices, discussing both their positive and negative aspects. The editors examine the scope and limits of transnationalism. The volume is divided into four parts: "Theorizing Transnationalism"; "Transnational Economic and Political Agency"; "Constructing Transnational Localities"; and "Transnational Practices and Cultural Reinscription." Contriburtors include Andre C. Drainville, Josephine Smart, Alan Smart, Minna Nyberg S0rensen, George Fouron, Nina Glick Schiller, Luin Goldring, Sarah J. Mahler, Linda Miller Matthei, Louisa Schein, David A. Smith, and Robert C. Smith. Moving easily between micro and macro analyses, this book expands the boundaries of the current scholarship on transnationalism, locates new forms of transnational agency, and poses provocative questions that challenge prevailing interpretations of globalization. "Transnationalism From Below "is a pioneering collection that will make a significant addition to the libraries of anthropologists, sociologists, international relations specialists, urban planners, political scientists, and policymakers.

Author : Pirkko Pitkänen,Ahmet Içduygu,Deniz Sert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400739680

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Migration and Transformation: by Pirkko Pitkänen,Ahmet Içduygu,Deniz Sert Pdf

People’s transnational ties and activities are acquiring ever greater importance and topicality in today’s world. The focus of this book lies in the complex and multi-level processes of migrant transnationalism in four transnational spaces: India-UK, Morocco-France and Turkey-Germany and Estonia-Finland. The main question is, how people’s activities across national borders emerge, function, and change, and how are they related to the processes of governance in increasingly complex and interconnected world? The book is based on the findings of a three-year research project TRANS-NET which brough together internationally acknowledged experts from Europe, Asia and Africa. As no single discipline could investigate all the components of the topic in question, the project adopted a multi-disciplinary approach: among the contributors, there are sociologists, policy analysts, political scientists, social and cultural anthropologists, educational scientists, and economists. The chapters show that people’s transnational linkages and migration across national boundaries entail manifold political, economic, social, cultural and educational implications. Although political-social-economic-educational transformations fostered by migrant transnationalism constitute the main topic of the book, the starting assumption is that the large-scale institutional and actor-centred patterns of transformation come about through a constellation of parallel processes.

Author : Nina Glick Schiller,Linda Green Basch,Cristina Szanton Blanc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X002166067

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Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration by Nina Glick Schiller,Linda Green Basch,Cristina Szanton Blanc Pdf

This work comprising 15 papers develops a broad understanding of the emerging transnational experience of current immigrants to the United States, compares the patterns of transnationalism of different migrating populations, and re-examines current cconceptualisations of race, ethnicity, nationalism, class and gender.

Author : Garth Stahl,Yang Zhao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000888713

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Migratory Men by Garth Stahl,Yang Zhao Pdf

Foregrounding the ways in which men experience transnational migration, Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities considers how we conceptualise and theorise mobile men in a global context. Bringing together studies from around the world (e.g. Australia, Pakistan, Tunisia, Zimbabwe and Italy), this collection foregrounds how the transnational migratory experience profoundly reshapes men’s complex identity practices. Specifically, the collection highlights how transnational migratory aspirations and experiences often lead men to reimagine local patterns of masculinity and/or reaffirm prescriptive gender roles as they encounter new spaces/places. In presenting interdisciplinary research, the international scholars consider the powerful roles of economics, politics and social class in shaping masculinities. Furthermore, the contributors emphasise how men affectively and agentically experience migration and how interaction with new spaces/places can often lead to negotiations between disempowerment and empowerment. As such, this collection will appeal to both non-academic readers who share transnational migratory aspirations and experiences and academic readers across the social sciences with interests in gender and sexuality, migration and diaspora, transnationalism and contemporary masculinities. Chapters 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Author : Banu Özkazanç-Pan
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529204599

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Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work by Banu Özkazanç-Pan Pdf

In an increasingly globalized world, mobility is a new defining feature of our lives, livelihoods and work experiences. This book is a first in utilising transnational migration studies as a new theoretical framework in management and organization studies. Ozkazanc-Pan presents a much-needed new concept for understanding people, work and organizations in a world on the move while attending to growing inequality associated with work in changing societies.

Author : Alexandria Innes,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032240598

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Colonial Citizenship and Everyday Transnationalism by Alexandria Innes,Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

This book uncovers the contradictions and convergences of racism, decolonisation, migration and living international relations that were shaped by the shift from colonialism to postcolonialism and from nationalism to transnationalism between the 1950s and the present. It takes up the story of Nicholaos Charalambou Kanaris, a colonial migrant to the UK from Cyprus, as a reflection on how the everyday lives of minor figures offer an unexplored window into international relations. The research uncovers and offers insight into the complexities and messiness of everyday life and of (trans)national identities as they are lived and have been lived at the heart of imperial, colonial and postcolonial systems and processes. The innovative methodological approach adopts memoirs gathered through a series of life-narrative interviews and is guided by theories of minor transnationalism that look to foreground horizontal relations between minor figures. Various themes of international relations are examined through the lens of Nicholaos' story and his family life, including colonialism, geopolitics, citizenship, security, migration and transnationalism. Examining how these themes play out in everyday life permits his practice and lived experience to theorise the international politics of colonialism, migration and citizenship. This book argues that Politics and International Relations can benefit from a transnational approach and offers a method of theory-in-practice for exploring the everyday experience of transnationalism, through the methodology of life-narrative and memoir.

Author : Hubert J. M. Hermans,Thorsten Gieser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139502993

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Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory by Hubert J. M. Hermans,Thorsten Gieser Pdf

In a boundary-crossing and globalizing world, the personal and social positions in self and identity become increasingly dense, heterogeneous and even conflicting. In this handbook scholars of different disciplines, nations and cultures (East and West) bring together their views and applications of dialogical self theory in such a way that deeper commonalities are brought to the surface. As a 'bridging theory', dialogical self theory reveals unexpected links between a broad variety of phenomena, such as self and identity problems in education and psychotherapy, multicultural identities, child-rearing practices, adult development, consumer behaviour, the use of the internet and the value of silence. Researchers and practitioners present different methods of investigation, both qualitative and quantitative, and also highlight applications of dialogical self theory.

Author : Catherine Gomes,Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Philip Crang,Claire Dwyer,Peter Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134523993

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Transnational Spaces by Philip Crang,Claire Dwyer,Peter Jackson Pdf

Social relations in our globalising world are increasingly stretched out across the borders of two or more nation-states. Yet, despite the growing academic interest in transnational economic networks, political movements and cultural forms, too little attention has been paid to the transformations of space that these processes both reflect and reproduce. Transnational Spaces takes a innovative perspective, looking at transnationalism as a social space that can be occupied by a wide range of actors, not all of whom are themselves directly connected to transnational migrant communities.