Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (358 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9789048512669
Series Statement:
IMISCOE Research
Content:
Table of contents; Preface; Ch 1. Diaspora and transnationalism: What kind of dance partners?; Ch 2. Diasporas, transnational spaces and communities; Ch 3. The dynamics of migrants' transnational formations: Between mobility and locality; Ch 4. Instrumentalising diasporas for development: International and European policy discourses; Ch 5. Interrogating diaspora: Power and conflict in Peruvian migration; Ch 6. A global perspective on transnational migration: Theorising migration without methodological nationalism
Content:
Ch 7. Bridging the divide: Towards a comparative framework for understanding kin state and migrant-sending state diaspora politicsCh 8. Diasporas and international politics: Utilising the universalistic creed of liberalism for particularistic and nationalist purposes; Ch 9. Diaspora, migration and transnationalism: Insights from the study of second-generation 'returnees'; Ch 10. Private, public or both? On the scope and impact of transnationalism in immigrants' everyday lives; Ch 11. Operationalising transnational migrant networks through a simultaneous matched sample methodology
Content:
Ch 12. Transnational research collaboration: An approach to the study of co-publications between overseas Chinese scientists and their mainland colleaguesCh 13. The internet as a means of studying transnationalism and diaspora; Ch 14. Transnational links and practices of migrants' organisations in Spain; Ch 15. Cold constellations and hot identities: Political theory questions about transnationalism and diaspora; Bibliography; List of contributors
Content:
Diaspora and transnationalism have become popular concepts in academic as well as political discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly overlap in today's usage. There is a conflation of meanings that goes hand in hand with a danger of reifying collective identities. The authors of this much-needed volume choose instead to analyse diaspora and transnationalism as research perspectives rather than as characteristics of particular social groups. The contributions focus on conceptual uses, theoretical challenges and methodological innovations in the s
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789089642387
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Diaspora and transnationalism Amsterdam : Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2010 ISBN 9089642382
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789089642387
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
,
Ethnology
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Internationale Migration
;
Transnationale Politik
;
Electronic books
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URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=564066
Author information:
Bauböck, Rainer 1953-
Author information:
Faist, Thomas 1959-
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