ISBN:
9789048512669
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (358 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
IMISCOE Research
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Diaspora and transnationalism
DDC:
301.07207
Keywords:
Intercultural communication
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Emigration and immigration
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Transnationalism
;
Social sciences
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Electronic books
;
Transnationalism
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Internationale Migration
;
Transnationale Politik
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
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