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Martin, Christopher. "Generations of migration : schooling, youth & transnationalism in the Philippines." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3471/.
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The Philippines is one of the world’s largest ‘sending communities’ for international labour migrants, with roughly 10% of the population ‘absent’ due to emigrations associated with permanent relocation or short-term contract work. Anthropologists studying Filipino migrations have often focussed on the migrants themselves, and particularly their experiences of diaspora and transnationalism in the present; this thesis instead looks at the perspectives of those who remain in the Philippines, particularly the children and young people who are affected by labour migration, and who often consider working overseas as part of their own futures. The thesis investigates children’s and young people’s social lives in the province of Batangas, exploring their labour practices, kinship relations and, most importantly, their education and schooling. Findings are based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in two educational institutions: a public secondary school in a small rural village, and a private vocational college in a larger ‘peri-urban’ town. Research was primarily conducted with children and young people who attended the school or college, as well as their teachers, families and communities. I argue that understandings of the purpose and practice of schooling have become thoroughly entwined with the transnational economies of labour migration and remittances. This process has generated or contributed to wide-ranging cultural vocabularies for talking about and acting on the future and the potential of young people, which encompass idioms pertaining to the moral value of children, concepts of movement and mobility, indebtedness across intergenerational relations, and the ‘domestication’ of external or foreign sources power. My conclusions contribute to anthropologies of childhood and youth, critical analysis of the articulation of schooling and labour, theories of global capitalism and transnationalism, and themes within the wider ethnographic study of the Philippines and Southeast Asia.
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Kusek, Weronika A. "The Construction and Development of Diasporic Networks by RecentPolish Migrants to London, UK." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1406713803.
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Obokata, Reiko. "Environmental Factors and Transnational Migration: A Case Study with Filipino Newcomers in Ottawa, Canada." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31831.
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A number of international documents, NGOs and scholars have predicted that due to global environmental/climate change, the increased frequency and intensity of phenomena such as natural disasters, flooding, sea-level rise, pollution, and drought will be felt particularly in less developed regions of the world, and may force millions of people to leave their homelands. Given the far-reaching humanitarian and security concerns that have arisen with regard to the issue of environmentally-motivated migration, there have been calls for more empirical work to investigate this phenomenon, and particularly with respect to international movement. This thesis project takes a qualitative approach to investigating how environmental conditions in the Philippines are influencing migration to Ottawa, Canada. Using semi-structured focus group and personal interviews, it contributes some of the first ever empirical research on the links between environment and international migration to Canada. In taking a qualitative approach, it focuses on the perceptions and experiences of migrants themselves, and suggests that an emphasis on personal agency should be privileged to a greater extent in the environmental migration field. Additionally, by conducting research from a “receiving” country in the Global North, this research separates itself from the majority of previous empirical work in its field which has primarily been conducted in environmentally marginal areas in the Global South. In so doing, it provides a novel perspective particular to the experiences of long-distance and more permanent migrants. The results show that environmental factors are not currently perceived as migration influences for Filipino newcomers in Ottawa, although environmental factors do interact with political and economic factors in complex ways to influence migration decisions. This paper utilizes a transnational lens to demonstrate that environmental conditions in the Philippines may not act as direct migration influences, but they do impact migrants and their families through the social fields that are created between the Philippines and Canada. Previous work has primarily investigated the environment as a “push” factor of migration, making the transnational perspective an important theoretical contribution for addressing links between environmental change and remittances, family separation, and agency and power in relation to (im)mobility.
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Vander, Meulen Jocelyn. "Citizenship and Diaspora Engagement: The Case of the Philippines." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34538.
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Current studies on international migration often focus on transnational processes and networks conducted across borders. While states increasingly engage with their overseas populations, their strategies are becoming ever more creative. As such, we see the development of state diaspora strategies emerging that aim to connect with diaspora to influence their economic, political, social and cultural activities. One particular state strategy that is receiving increasing attention is the strategy of extending dual citizenship to overseas populations in order to create national solidarity and to promote investment and remittances back home. While the existing literature is comprehensive, there is a significant lack of research that aims to determine if these strategies have a real influence over diaspora activities and performance. As such, this thesis aims to determine whether dual citizenship facilitates home engagement. Using a transnational perspective, this research explores the relationship between citizenship, diaspora and transnational engagements within the context of Philippines by conducting semi-structured interviews to better understand how individuals perceive and engage in the policies that are targeted towards them.
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Riccio, Bruno. "Senegalese transmigrants and the construction of immigration in Emilia-Romagna (Italy)." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302250.
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Zirh, Besim Can. "Transnationalism: A New Theoretical Frame And A New Analytical Tool In International Migration Studies." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606907/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyses the concept of transnationalism as a newly emerging approach in the field of international migration. This study aimed to try to understand the context of the emergence of this new approach in relation with changing global context. Additionally, this study also aimed to analyse functions of the concept of transnationalism as a new theoretical frame and a new analytical tool to generate an appropriate research agenda in order to study contemporary migratory phenomena.
This study has concluded that the concept of transnationalism can generate an appropriate approach and research agenda to understand contemporary migratory phenomena. In spite of the fact that transnationalism is not a well-established approach, transnational practices and relations of migrant communities in specific and contemporary migratory phenomena in general can be studied in the frame of this new concept.
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Robertson, Shanthi, and shanthi robertson@rmit edu au. "Negotiated Transnationality: Memberships, Mobilities and the Student-Turned-Migrant Experience." RMIT University. Design and Social Context, 2008. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090119.143830.
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This thesis is an exploratory study of the lives and experiences of international students who apply for and gain permanent residency (PR) after completing tertiary study in Australia. The thesis uses sociological theories and methods to focus on the ways that students-turned-migrants maintain transnational connections, and negotiate their memberships and sense of belonging across Australia and other countries. This research is important because there is negligible extant literature that connects the international study experience and the skilled migration experience as two steps in the same process. Furthermore, research that does address this phenomenon tends to look at students-turned-migrants as a 'policy problem', usually focusing on their labour market integration. In contrast, this thesis foregrounds this distinctive group of contemporary migrants' subjective experience of the migration process and their ongoing transnational connections. The research used cultural probes (packages of mixed media materials such as diaries, maps and disposable cameras, which participants used to document aspects of their lives) and in-depth interviews to provide a rich understanding of the multiplicity and breadth of participants' individual experiences, with various reflective representations of the individuals' narratives at the core of the study. The analysis covers two aspects of the student-turned-migrant experience: the acquisition of memberships, such as PR and citizenship, and the maintenance of mobilities, including virtual mobility through media and communications technology, and corporeal mobility through forms of travel such as return visits. The analysis reveals that students-turned-migrants undergo a distinct migration experience, characterised by three sequential gates of membership: their entrance as transient students, their acquisition of residency and their decisions about citizenship. Transnational consciousness diffuses their decision-making at each stage of this process, as they negotiate the memberships available to them as a means to balance their desires and obligations across home and host countries. The analysis reveals that student-turned-migrant choices and experiences are often affected by macro-political forces. Choices about citizenship are heavily influenced by global regimes of mobility and the media, and their acqu isition of residency is negotiated through the institutions and regulations of the immigration regime. The analysis also reveals that students-turned-migrants engage with a diverse range of transnational practices, many of which are closely grounded in the use of technology to maintain transnational connections. The findings reframe students-turned-migrants as more than just a policy problem, but rather as a unique group of contemporary migrants, with several key features that set them apart from previous waves of Australian migrants. While they are less integrated into established local ethnic communities, they maintain very strong connections overseas. They maintain regular contact through virtual mobilities and display a high propensity for return travel. They value mobility highly and display an acute awareness of both the advantages and challenges of sustaining mobile lives. The study of their experiences not only reveals a great deal about the nature of transnationality and mobility in an increasingly globalised world, but also suggests that if this type of migration continues in the future, it may have implications for Australia's patterns of cultural diversity and international integration.
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Gardner, Andrew M. "City of Strangers: The Transnational Indian Community in Manama, Bahrain." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1283%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.
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Vogiazides, Louisa. "Return migration, transnationalism and development : Social remittances of returnees from Sweden to Bosnia and Herzegovina." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77059.
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This thesis explores the effects of return migration on development through the case of returnees from Sweden to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Based on thirteen in-depth interviews and observation, it examines returnees’ ‘social remittances’, which consist of ideas, practices, and social capital (or social connections) that migrants bring to their countries of origin. The thesis adopts a transnational perspective highlighting returnees’ simultaneous connections in their host and home countries. It identifies various types of social remittance transfers such as ideas and practices in the areas of health, the environment and work, as well as social connections with investors, business partners, and political and academic actors in Sweden. One major finding is that returnees’ knowledge of the Swedish language, the market, work and business culture contribute to building trust with actors in Sweden, which facilitates trade and investment between the countries. The thesis also highlights a number of economic, political and personal constraints faced by returnees in their return process which, in turn, affect their capacity to transfer social remittances. It concludes that returnees can potentially contribute to development, but their contributions are largely conditioned by the existing social, economic, legal and political environment.
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Erciyes, Jade Cemre. "Return migration to the Caucasus : the Adyge-Abkhaz diaspora(s), transnationalism and life after return." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/48871/.
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This thesis investigates the dual transnationalism of ancestral return migrants, that is to say people “returning” to the territory where their ancestors had once migrated from. Dispersed from their homeland in the second half of the 19th century, the Adyge-Abkhaz diaspora has been involved in a variety of transnational practices in relation to their homeland in the Caucasus; and some, with considerable effort, have been settling there especially in the last two decades. The transnational involvement of this diaspora, most of whom live today in Turkey, is motivated by their search for belonging. Many who go back and forth between Turkey and the Caucasus are involved in transnational diaspora associations and take an active role in the formation of a transnational ethno-political-cultural environment for new generations growing up in the diaspora. The majority of those who have “return migrated” to their homeland in the Caucasus, in this study to two republics, Adygeya (an autonomous republic under the Russian Federation) and Abkhazia (a republic with contested independence), develop new transnational links to their diaspora communities in Turkey. This thesis is the product of a multi-sited, multi-method research project that combines theories related to transnationalism, diaspora and return, as well as migrant adaptation. Using life-history interviews, semi-structured interviews and participant observation, fieldwork for the research took place in rural diaspora settlements and urban diaspora organisations in Turkey as well as in the Caucasus, thereby enabling the researcher to study both ends of the migration route. Existing studies on ancestral return migration focus on pull and push factors, which hitherto have focused on sending and receiving countries separately. This thesis argues that their dual transnationalism, both in the diaspora (in Turkey) looking back towards the diasporic homeland, and after return looking back towards the diaspora, turns them into the “diaspora of their diaspora”.
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Hershberg, Rachel Masha. "Being Present when Forced to be Absent: Understanding Mayan Families' Cross-border Relationships and Separation Experiences." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:101498.
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Thesis advisor: Brinton LykesA growing number of families in the U.S. are of mixed-status with at least one undocumented relative who is threatened by deportation. Many also are simultaneously involved in cross-border or transnational families. Despite these challenging contexts,these families rarely are attended to in psychological research. This dissertation presents findings from research with nine intergenerational Maya Kiche transnational and mixed-status families who live across the United States and Guatemala. The study explored relationships within these families and how they are maintained in contexts of family separation as influenced by U.S. immigration and deportation systems. A grounded theory analysis of in-depth interviews with at least one U.S.-based undocumented migrant parent, and one Guatemala-based child and caregiver from each family was developed to better understand and characterize the ways in which diverse family members perceive and experience their family relationships and separations. The middle-range theory developed from this study is called "being present when forced to be absent." This theory describes the main strategies family members in Guatemala and the U.S. utilize to maintain relationships over time and across space, which include communication, remittances or financial support, and the provision of life advice or consejos. Findings suggest that while these strategies mitigate challenges experienced in transnational family relationships, families view contextual strains in Guatemala and the U.S. as continuing to influence their cross-border relationships and family processes. Finally, this study showed that families leverage an additional strategy identified as reconfiguring the transnational family, wherein they alter the transnational configuration of their family to confront challenges of family separation. This study shows that U.S.-based undocumented migrant parents and children and elected caregivers in Guatemala contribute to their transnational families in unique ways. It also supports previous research arguing that immigration and deportation policies violate the rights of families from the global south who migrate north to support their relatives in origin countries. Implications for comprehensive immigration reform and new directions for research in psychology with migrant and transnational families are discussed
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
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McDowell, Garrett Alexandrea. "Eating Potato Chips with Chopsticks: Nikkei Latin Americans Making Home, Shaping Family and Defining Selves." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/46251.
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This dissertation examines the effects of return migration on Nikkei (of Japanese descent) sending communities in the Soconusco Region (Acacoyagua), Chiapas, Mexico and Lima, Peru. Massive numbers of Nikkei Latin Americans have been returning to Japan in the last two decades filling a shortage in low-skill labor. The Nikkei mass exodus is indicative of the global economic pattern that has caught Latin American countries in a downward economic spiral resulting in joblessness and class polarization. For many, transnational migration is the only viable option for economic survival. This research illustrates how Nikkei are strategically making home, shaping family and defining selves through return migration. Nikkei Latin Americans (those who go and those who stay) approach return as Ganbatteando (doing one's best) embracing and making-their-own the Japanese concept of Ganbarimas. This study examines the local impacts of a global phenomenon broadening the traditional anthropological approach on spatially localized groups to address identity-formation as a discursive phenomenon situated in-between, across and outside, yet still connected to fixed or bounded locations or nations. I explore how Japanese in Latin America reconcile their Japanese roots with their embedded experience in their Latin American birthplace as well as their newest and current experiences in Japan to construct variable, changing and unique identities. Nikkei, situated in and creating a temporal and spatial borderzone are forming, reforming, and transforming home, family and identity as their local communities and marriage options, are depleted. By incorporating non-Nikkei-but-Nikkei-enthusiasts, Nikkei are sustaining and reinforcing endogamous marriage at a time when the emigration of large numbers of marriageable-aged Nikkei make that otherwise impossible. In this process, they are making intimate choices: reasserting ethnic strongholds in the homes of their choice, shifting and strategically broadening kinship and community boundaries, and at the same time more strictly regulating inclusion and exclusion. Nikkei are eating potato chips with chopsticks at the same time that non-Nikkei in Latin America are frying sushi.
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Sabir, sharif Abida. "LES MARIAGES TRANSNATIONAUX DES FAMILLES PAKISTANAISES IMMIGRÉES EN FRANCE." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016SACLV121/document.
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'Marrying back home' (« se marier au pays ») est une pratique internationale que l’on trouve couramment au sein de la diaspora pakistanaise. Cette étude entreprend de saisir le mécanisme de ces mariages transnationaux et comment les liens transnationaux sont maintenus, produits et reproduits par l'organisation de mariages entre les familles résidant en France et au Pakistan. Les données ont été recueillies en utilisant des méthodes de recherche qualitative. Comme le mariage est un enjeu qui concerne l’ensemble de la famille au Pakistan, il est apparu essentiel d’interviewer les époux, mais aussi leurs parents. Les deux familles en lien (celle de l'époux et celle de la mariée) en France et au Pakistan ont été interrogées afin de mettre à jour les logiques du mariage transnational. Le choix privilégié des époux se fait à l’intérieur des différents niveaux de la parenté au Punjab. Les éléments déterminants pour définir les critères de sélection consistent principalement dans des relations réciproques bien affermies, un respect de la tradition du mariage au sein des liens de parenté et une confiance dans les personnes proches afin d’amenuiser le risque d’anonymat. D’autres critères viennent au second rang comme l'éducation, l'âge, la moralité et les traits comportementaux. Lorsque l’ensemble de ces critères sont réunis, les deux générations négocient alors la mise en correspondance des conjoints potentiels en vue de la décision finale du mariage. Les exigences d’une telle correspondance sont liées au respect des obligations familiales, à la valeur accordée aux enfants, au jeu entre autorité, résistance à celle-ci et parenté, à l’histoire maritale de la famille, à la préservation des racines et à la confiance transnationale au sein de la fratrie. Bien que les mariages transnationaux pakistanais suivent les modèles traditionnels pour célébrer le mariage, l’émigration a toutefois introduit des modifications significatives vis-à-vis des règles en vigueur au Pakistan. Selon un processus semblable, la structure familiale et des ménages est en cours de transition en raison de la présence simultanée des deux familles dans chaque pays. Si les mariages transnationaux maintiennent les liens familiaux entre les deux pays en réaffirmant les valeurs culturelles liées au mariage, les modalités des relations entre hommes et femmes et entre générations évoluent néanmoins suivant les influences culturelles de la société d'accueil‘Marrying back home’ is one of the transnational practices demonstrated by Pakistani diaspora to maintain their links with their country of origin. This study is an attempt to understand what the mechanism of transnational marriages is and how transnational links are maintained, produced and reproduced by organizing marriages between families residing in France and Pakistan. Data were collected by employing qualitative research methods. As marriage is the collective affair of the family in Pakistan, it was considered essential to not only interview the spouses but their parents as well. Both corresponding families (the family of groom and the family of bride) in France and in Pakistan were interviewed to understand transnational marriage. The preferred pool of potential spouses is comprised of different layers of Punjabi kinship. Well maintained reciprocal relationships, cultural preferences to arrange marriages within kin, trust on acquaintances and to avoid the risk of anonymity were considered key determinants to define the primary spouse selection criteria. These determinants are supplemented by the complimentary criteria, including education, age, morality, and behavioral traits. Once primary and complimentary criteria are met, both generations (parents and their children) negotiate the adequacy of potential spouse to reach to the final decision of marriage. Family’s obligations, children’s capital, the interplay of authority, resistance and the kin, family’s marriage history, preserving the roots, and the transnational trust between the siblings determine the adequacy of a spouse as well as of the marriage. Though transnational Pakistani marriages follow the traditional patterns to celebrate marriage, nonetheless, migration has introduced some important alterations to different norms as practiced in Pakistan. In the similar vein, the family and household structure are undergoing transition due to their simultaneous presence between here and there. Transnational marriages maintain transnational links by inscribing the cultural values for family and marriage. However, the relationships across gender and generation are on the move by carrying the cultural influences from the host society
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Ramazani, Waza-Kongo Richard. "Globalisering och migration : En kvalitativ studie om hur fem migranter upplever migration och hur de identifierar sig i ett nytt land." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Etnologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-41084.
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In this globalized world, more and more people are moving for different reasons and immigrating to other countries. The overall aim of this study is to analyze five migrants` views on migration in this globalized world. The migrants in this study have for various reasons moved to Sweden. Four of these migrants are members of the Congolese association Kongo Moko. I want to compare the migrants´ views on globalization. To also understand how migrants from two different continents perceive globalization and migration. How do migrants view globalization as a phenomenon? What do they see as the advantages and disadvantages of globalization? How do they describe their own place of belonging in Sweden and in the world? What connection do they have to the "homeland"? The material of this study consists of qualitative interviews and observations. The results of this study show that the migrants have some issues with identifying them selft in the new country they moved to.
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Barber, Llana Marie. "Latino Migration and the New Global Cities: Transnationalism, Race, and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1388.
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Thesis advisor: Marilynn S. JohnsonThesis advisor: Davarian L. Baldwin
Drawing on urban history methodologies that re-frame "white flight" as a racialized struggle over metropolitan space and resources, this dissertation examines the transition of Lawrence, Massachusetts to New England's first Latino-majority city between 1945 and 2000. Although the population of this small, struggling mill city has never exceeded 100,000, it is not unique in its changing demographics; low-tier cities have become important nodal points in transnational networks in recent decades, as racialized patterns of urban disinvestment and gentrification encouraged a growing dispersal of Latinos from large cities like New York. While Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Cubans gradually began to arrive in Lawrence in the 1960s, tens of thousands of white residents were already leaving the city, moving (along with Lawrence's industrial and retail establishments) out to the suburbs. As a result of this flight, the city was suffering from substantial economic decline by the time Latino settlement accelerated in the 1980s. Not all of Lawrence's white population fled, however. Instead, many white Lawrencians fought to maintain control in the city and to discourage Latino settlement. I focus on two nights of rioting between white and Latino residents in 1984, as a spectacular example of the racialized contestations that accompanied the city's social and economic transformations. Although the political power and public presence of Latinos dramatically increased in the years after the riots, half a century of uneven metropolitan development had left Lawrence without the resources or political clout to successfully confront the city's pervasive poverty. Lawrence's history demonstrates the expansion of urban crisis during the 1980s, and its impact on Latino communities in the Northeast. The building of a Latino majority in Lawrence was not simply a demographic shift; rather it was an uphill struggle against a devastated economy and a resistant white population. The transformation of Lawrence in spite of these obstacles highlights the energy and commitment that Latinos have brought to U.S. cities in crisis during the second half of the twentieth century
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History
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Wolters, Rachel M. ""We Heard Canada Was a Free Country": African American Migration in the Great Plains, 1890-1911." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1483.
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This study uses a transnational lens to examine the migration of Black Americans from Oklahoma to Canada in the early 20th century. Although scholars have documented this movement, they have not fully explored the vital and durable transnational connections among African American immigrants themselves. The use of family histories, newspaper articles, and immigration files show how black migrants searched for land and equality in Canada and attempted to build all black communities. Encouraged by the promises of Canadian immigration recruiters, black migrants left their homes and Jim Crowism in Oklahoma to settle in a “free country” and to realize the goals of American citizenship in a foreign land. But, Canada wanted white—not black—American settlers and immigration officials closed to African Americans the once porous boundary between the U.S. and Canada. Canadian authorities recognized the power of transnational connections among black migrants in promoting migration and settlement and, ironically, by effectively sabotaging that network, they ensured that African Americans had to abandon their quest for equality and opportunity in Western Canada.
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Lee, Sohyun. "Las representaciones de la frontera y su imaginario en documentales femeninos." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193789.
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En los anos recientes se ha visto un incremento de documentales dentro de la produccion cultural hispana, reflejando vias alternativas de representar el entorno. Pero en contraste a la entusiasta produccion filmica, no se han hecho estudios concentrados sobre documentales, y menos de aquellos que tratan cuestiones de movilizaciones poblacionales a modo de estudio de espacios fisicos e imaginarios, producidos por mujeres. Esta tesis pretende otorgar la merecida atencion academica a los documentales relacionados al mundo hispano y con tematica de la frontera, producidos por mujeres, observando la sinergia que genera el enlace de elementos convencionalmente considerados perifericos como el genero documental, el genero femenino, y el espacio liminar de la frontera, tanto geopolÃtica como sociocultural. Para ello se exploran los rasgos formales y tematicos de seis documentales de mujeres sobre la frontera -tanto en su sentido simbolico como concreto. Tres de ellos surgen de la frontera geopolitica de EEUU y Mexico, y la otra mitad se enfoca en la representacion de las fronteras virtuales o socioculturales que plasman la Espana en la era de la globalizacion: Que suene la calle (2005) de Itzel Martinez, Cowboy del amor (2005) de Michele Ohayon y Maquilapolis (2006) de Vicky Funary y Sergio de la Torre, Extranjeras (2003) de Helena Taberna, El tren de la memoria (2005) de Marta Arribas y Ana Perez y Aguaviva (2006) de Adriadna Pujol. El analisis parte de la idea de conjugar la interseccion de tres lineas divisorias o fronteras: la linea que divide el genero documental de otros generos cinematograficos, la linea que divide el genero femenino del genero masculino (u otros), y la linea que divide una cultura de otra -o un pais- de otro. El encuentro de estos tres elementos constituye un centro fructifero de ideas alternativas de lo marginal, y se establece como espacio legitimo de rearticulacion de politicas de representacion. Las diferentes perspectivas sobre las dinamicas socioculturales que surgen de la (re)consideracion de los procesos de produccion y circulacion de estos textos culturales aportara a generar nuevos abordamientos de elaboracion y usos de politicas identitarias.
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Masterson, Araceli. "Producing Space and Cultural Cartographies: Ecuadorian Migrants in Madrid, Spain." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193982.
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Migrants' experiences in space open a window to better understand how global dynamics of capital play out culturally, and within the local. Departing from the conviction that spatiality is a key component in asserting human rights (Lefebvre 1991; Mitchell 2003; Massey 2000; Marston 2000), how do hegemonic definitions of citizenship and immigrant in Spain and Ecuador affect migrants' perception and experiences of, as well as responses to, Madrid's urban spaces? How do Ecuadorian migrants experience and (re)make the city locally through transnational practices? To answer these questions, I use a transdisciplinary approach to analyze the cultural expressions emanating from spaces in Madrid that hold special significance in Ecuadorian migrants' everyday lives.The objectives of this dissertation are: 1) to analyze how Ecuadorians' different levels participation in Madrid's urban spaces, and the municipality's response to these practices, dialogue with definitions of citizenship, and with migrants' place in Spain and Ecuador's configurations of nationhood; 2) to show the interrelation between the material realities of Ecuadorian migrants in Madrid, access to space, and cultural production (and consumption), focusing on the historical specificity of postcolonial relations between Spain and Ecuador; 3) to document how Ecuadorian migrants are actively engaged in the urban planning of Madrid and Quito, making both cities through local transnational practices (Michael Peter Smith 2001, 2002).Altogether, this work shows how migrants are active subjects in the urban initiatives of both Madrid and Quito. Their local experiences in Madrid challenge and participate in global agendas of what a `modern' city should be, and show how definitions of `public' spaces become a most valuable resource to affirm private interests over the global city. Addressing the entwinement between transnational processes and migrants' experiences of locality this work shows how urban processes manifest culturally on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Ghillani, Francesca. "Migrating bodies : the effects of transnational movement on women's bodily practices in later life." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bddae074-798e-490e-8079-85d9dfed9423.
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When approaching old age, women's bodies face functional, esthetical, and reproductive changes that can represent a source of discontinuity in their lives. Moreover, women are constantly exposed to the social pressure of compelling stereotypes regarding their body image and functionality: from media to medical pamphlets, the feminine body is subjected to deep social observation and regulation. Given that the relationship between ageing and the body is socially mediated, how does the encounter with a different culture have an impact on it? In this research, migration has been employed to analyse the cultural aspects of bodily practices. Migration can be described as an embodied experience, in which a body is first displaced and then emplaced in two social locations - the community of origin and the culture of destination - a circumstance known as transnationalism. Interviews were carried out with women aged between 59 and 74, divided in three groups: RESIDENTS: women who were born in an Italian village and had lived all their lives there; MIGRANTS: women who moved from the same village to London and are still living in England; RETURNED: migrants who moved back to the village permanently after living in London. Four dynamics were identified to regulate the interplay of ageing, bodily practices, and migration: (i) Assimilation: encountering and integrating with the new community; (ii) Acculturation: observing, learning, and sometimes adopting norms and values of the culture of destination; (iii) Acceptance: the binding agent between body and self during the recognition of ageing; (iv) Adjustment: the set of changes in their habits that women put in place in order to accommodate transformations in their bodies and maintain social inclusion. Moreover, a new conceptualization of transnationalism is proposed, which helps to frame how, after many years of negotiation between the culture of origin and the one of settlement, migrants disengage from social normativity, gaining an augmented sense of agency.
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Pozo-GutieÌrrez, Alicia. "Between assimilation and transnationalism : a socio-cultural case study of Spanish migration to Hampshire and Dorset (1950s-1970s)." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423380.
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Mihai, Tudor Petrut. "Romanian Transnationalism, Mobility and Integration in Sweden : Social Media Manifestations and Its Uses Among Migrants." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18449.
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With the research aim to analyze how the Romanian migrants residing in Sweden use social media for transnational, mobility and integration purposes, this thesis builds on previous transnationalism and social media literature to reach its key findings. Its theoretical field uses Vertovec’s takes on transnationalism along with Wolpert’s place utility theory in order to analyze the observational results. These results were acquired by doing observations of four Facebook groups over a one-month period to which representative discussions from a few group posts were added. Thus, on one hand, the results show that the observed Romanian Facebook groups serve as avenues for socializing, networking and help-seeking between the Romanian migrants in Sweden. Strong potential for the formation of personal connections based on the discussions had by the migrants is also found. On the other hand, this thesis finds that the groups also function as major pathways for the reproduction of Romanian political and cultural aspects within the migrant community, a process which is not obvious and not directly intended for these groups.
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Herlin, Cecilia. "Fakalakalaka : The impact of a Tongan notion of development in a contemporary transnational world." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Socialantropologi, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-2458.
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This paper aims to explore a Tongan notion of development –'fakalakalaka' – in light of Western notions of development. Two case studies of international development aid schemes illustrate the impact of Tongan development ideas in practice. Drawing on a number of ethnographers' work on Tonga, 'fakalakalaka' appears broader than the Western notion of development. The latter is characterised by influential ideals of controllability and industrialisation. The notion of development among Tongans, on the other hand, tends to be directed by an underlying persistence that, for instance, reflects Tongan core values regarding social organisation. The production of textile 'koloa', controlled by women, emerges as central to the accomplishment of this three-dimensional development notion of intertwined physical, mental and spiritual aspects. The importance attributed to this specific kind of textile has increased in recent years and found two additional roles, or development strategies, in Tongans' contemporary transnational world.
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Dunne, Nikki. "Who cares? : Indian nurses 'on the move' and how their transnational migration for care work shapes their multigenerational relationships of familial care over time." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31425.
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This thesis explores how migration for care work shapes Indian nurses' multigenerational relationships of familial care over time. Using qualitative research methods, it interrogates the intertwining of economic and non-economic factors underpinning the entry and continued participation of this group of women and men in the nursing field and international nursing labour markets. The thesis is broadly informed by a relational approach to care. More specifically, the thesis draws on feminist theories on care as a lens for analysing the migration of nurses from poorer regions to wealthier regions, as well as a transnational care framework to analyse the care relations that nurses maintain and sustain in the context of their migration. In paying attention to changes over the life course and participants' constructions of their future, a focus on the temporal adds to existing frameworks for theorising. Through an analysis of the nurses' personal accounts, this project examines the connections between undertaking the care of patients in British hospitals and nursing homes at the same time as caring for their own families, both in India and the UK. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with 25 Indian women and men working as nurses and carers in the UK, the thesis demonstrates how nurse migration is underpinned by 1) the structural and gendered inequalities that drive migration and caregiving, as well as 2) the moral values that sustain multigenerational care between family members that 3) change over time. Firstly, the thesis highlights how the socioeconomic conditions in India, the structural demands for nurses in the British health care system, gender and racial hierarchies within the nursing field, and the colonial relationship between India and the UK create the conditions that have enabled Indian nurses to enter the British labour market. This reveals how a complex array of intersecting policy contexts on labour, migration and healthcare shape the practices of reciprocal care in the nurses' resident and transnational families. The transnational care practices that emerge out of these contexts are entangled with the nurses' insertion into the global labour market. Secondly, the thesis reveals how multidirectional and asymmetrical reciprocal care relationships between nurses and their families also underpin this form of migration. The analysis finds that culturally informed values regarding care for family is a central factor in stimulating and reproducing nurse migration. The nurses' consistently present accounts of decision-making regarding past and imagined future migrations and work in terms of caregiving and care-receiving, with familial care duties and obligations frequently mapping onto the migration opportunities engendered by nursing. This care in turn circulates between different family members, in different locations, to differing degrees, over the life course. Lastly, by drawing attention to the changes that occur over personal, migration and family life courses, temporality is identified as a central dimension of nurse migration and transnational family life. Aspirations and hopes reveal the importance of imagined futures for reproducing nurse migration and transnational family care. Focusing on this complex intersection through the personal accounts of the nurses, I argue in this thesis that migration for care work both shapes and is shaped by multigenerational relationships of familial care over time. In doing so, the analysis draws attention to the mediating factors that impact upon the ways in which this care has been exchanged over time, paying special attention to (re)negotiations of childcare and eldercare over time. By focusing on the creative and innovative ways in which the nurses navigate the obstacles to caring for family in the context of migration, the thesis contributes to the growing body of literature that questions representations of victimhood often imposed on migrant women from the global south. Examining the family care dimension of nurse migration and its changes over the life course is essential for better understanding the broader dynamics of the overseas nursing workforce and the factors influencing their arrival, settlement or departure from the UK, as well as how family relationships shape and are shaped by international migration for care work. Overall, the thesis contributes to the empirical basis for a revaluing of care that takes place within and across borders.
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Karamehic-Oates, Adna. "Reconceptions of 'Home' and Identity within the Post-War Bosnian Diaspora in the United States." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83599.
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According to estimates by Bosnian authorities, there are two million Bosnians and their descendants living in diaspora, the highest number recorded since the end of the conflict in 1995. Most of these individuals are forced or involuntary migrants who fled the genocide and ethnic cleansing campaign of Serb nationalists who sought to destroy Bosnia as a historically multiethnic homeland in order to create ethnically homogeneous Serb territory. Over twenty years after the war, many of those that were displaced have not returned to their former homes and are unlikely to ever return.
This study contributes to deepening understanding of the challenges faced by those displaced as they struggle to rebuild their lives and future in a new context. It does so through a theory-based analysis of the notion of home and constructions of identity in diaspora following conflict, and the narratives of members of the Bosnian diaspora about their experiences of conflict and violence in the places they called home. The strategy of violence used by nationalist Serbs physically destroyed places and people's homes, but it also impacted long-existing social structures and relationships, transforming the images of those places. As a consequence, the dispersal itself and the causes behind it became a central element in displaced Bosnians' redefinition of home and identity, where the place of resettlement developed as the best place to be, a new home, based on a search for 'cool ground' and 'normal life.' Two processes have played critical roles in this reconceptualization. First is the expansion of the family network, allowing for a regeneration of family structures that were fragmented by conflict. Second is translocalism, referring to the community-specific ways individuals maintain attachments to their former home. The places of resettlement and their particularities influence these processes and activities, producing distinct conditions for a reconceptualized home.
The study's findings suggest that further research into translocalism as an enduring solution to the condition of displacement would be of benefit, as contemporary refugees from Syria and other places of conflict try to re-establish life outside of their home countries. The findings also provide a foundation for research on the children of refugees, specifically on how memory and trauma are being communicated and passed on to them by their parents.Ph. D.
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Madar, Hassan Abdi. "THE INTEGRATION ISSUES OF SOMALI IMMIGRANTS IN SWEDEN: Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21288.
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ABSTRACTThe purpose of this thesis is to examine the integration of the Somali immigrants in Sweden and to explore the factors that impede or help in the process. The study in particular aims at looking at how culture, identity and migration form immigrants’ integration experiences. It will further explore the communication barriers with, mainly; the government institutions from the perspective of Somalis and how removing these barriers could help improve the situation.The thesis also discusses the theories of transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, immigration, and integration in relation to communication for development and social behaviour change.Qualitative research methods have been selected to explore the experiences of the Somali immigrants integrate into the wider Swedish community through the use of semi-structured interviews. The Somali immigrants have good networks among themselves in Sweden, and with home country, however they do not manage to establish a good networking with the Swedish society. The outcome of this study implies that most immigrants feel that there are communication barriers in the way to a better integration. Through the use of qualitative research in semi-structured interviews with selected Somali immigrants from various backgrounds, the study shows that there are many issues that might help the community to integrate into Sweden and proposes some recommendations on how the situation could be improved.
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Adebesin, Brooklyn Sijuade. "Media, Migration and Integration : An analysis of the media practices of Nigerians in Stockholm Sweden." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-91012.
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This study deals with the issue of migrants and their use of media to facilitate integration and negotiate nostalgia, identity and other social factors that ensue during the analysis of six selected Nigerian migrants in Stockholm. By means of a two-step ethnographic approach the empirical material is obtained from documented media use logs and semi-structured interviews of six Nigerian informants in Stockholm. This study sets out to discover the social factors that influence or shape the media practices of Nigerian migrants; furthermore, to understand the concept of nostalgia, integration and more descriptive concept of media use from the perspective such as: the number of years the participants have lived in Sweden, gender and ethnicity. The results show the motivation behind the media use of participants with emphasis on how Nigerian migrants use media in terms of type of medium used and frequency of use. Additionally, results show how social factors such as: ethnicity, gender, education, work and the number of years lived in Sweden play a role in influencing the media practices of the selected Nigerian migrants in Stockholm while likewise exhibiting a difference in the media practices of participants who have lived in Sweden for the same number of years. In conclusion, results display how the in number of years lived in Sweden in addition to other individual factors played a role in the media use of the participants. The results also show how the participants use media to negotiate nostalgia and ethnic identities.
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Kandilige, Leander. "Transnationalism and the Ghanaian diaspora in the UK : regional inequalities and the developmental effects of remittances at the sub-national level." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:14aea414-7de0-444b-bf4d-2b13084a6ff0.
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This thesis presents a sub-national comparative analysis of the nexus between migration and development using the case of two disparate migrant communities (from the Upper East and Eastern regions of Ghana) in the UK. The aim is to examine how inherent socio-economic inequalities prior to emigration impact on emigrants’ migration patterns, experiences, transnational activities and, ultimately, development outcomes at the micro and meso levels in the sending country. I argue, in this thesis, that the focus by development economists and most migration researchers on national-level macro analysis, as well as ‘location specific’ or single-site sub-national analysis, of the centrality of remittances to the enhancement of development at ‘home’ masks important nuances that are revealed by a comparative sub-national analysis. This study uses a case study approach, whereby two migrant communities are investigated in detail within their pre-migration contexts. This allows for a deeper understanding of how transnational migration practices and/or processes are influenced by, and influence their context. It examines regional socio-economic inequalities and the interconnections between migration stage, spatial scales and local development. This is achieved through a fifteen-month fieldwork using multiple research methods (key-informant interviews, in-depth structured and semi-structured interviews, surveys, participant observation and library research) in order to corroborate and triangulate findings from different sources. The thesis takes a spatiotemporal perspective in the migration-development nexus debate. Respondents for this research include economic migrants and refugees/forced migrants. Among others, I conclude that globalisation and access to effective, yet relatively cheap, technological and communications facilities have bolstered individualistic migratory decision making thus reducing the centrality of the family or household as the unit of analysis in the causes and consequences of migration discourses. Overall, the thesis aims to contribute a new, broader, and more inclusive perspective to migration research by arguing that migration-development phenomena are better appreciated through a comprehensive approach that encompasses migrants and sending communities and underlines the relationship between the two within a sub-national context.
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Cosquer, Claire. "Expat' à Abu Dhabi : blanchité et construction du groupe national chez les migrant.e.s français.es." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018IEPP0040.
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Fondée sur une ethnographie combinant observation et entretiens, cette thèse analyse les expériences migratoires des résident·e·s français·es à Abu Dhabi. Nuançant le portrait d’« expatrié·e·s » fréquemment présenté·e·s comme hypermobiles, elle montre qu’elles et ils empruntent en fait des routes migratoires balisées. Ces routes sont notamment dessinées par la rencontre entre politiques émiriennes et État français transnational, dans un contexte de concurrences postcoloniales qui se traduisent par des stratégies de distanciation vis-à-vis du colonialisme britannique et de l’impérialisme étasunien. La construction du groupe national, encadrée par des institutions migratoires, se déploie dans la délimitation de frontières associant francité et blanchité, au travers des interactions tant avec les nationales et nationaux émirien·ne·s qu’avec d’autres groupes migrants. Si le rapport à la population majoritaire sud-asiatique est marqué par une mise à distance, toutefois perturbée par la fréquence de l’emploi domestique à demeure, le rapport aux citoyen·ne·s émirien·ne·s engage un trouble singulier dans l’ordre postcolonial. Les résident·e·s français·es font ainsi l’expérience d’une vulnérabilité limitée, mais anxiogène, vis-à-vis d’Émirien·ne·s perçu·e·s comme omnipotent·e·s. En cela, les migrations françaises à Abu Dhabi se révèlent le lieu d’une déstabilisation autant que d’une solidification de la blanchité. Mettant en lumière la façon dont ces reconfigurations blanches s’entrecroisent avec un régime de genre où se renforce l’hétéroconjugalité, la thèse apporte une contribution à l’analyse plurielle des rapports sociaux dans les migrations des Nords vers les SudsDrawing on ethnographic methods (participant observation and interviews), this research analyses the migratory experiences of French residents of Abu Dhabi – generally referred to as ‘expats’ rather than ‘migrants’. It describes their migratory paths, and explores how migration affects their social positions, relations, and representations. While these ‘expatriates’ have been described as ‘hypermobile,’ they actually proceed along marked trails. Their migratory routes are shaped by the encounter of Emirati public policies and the French transnational state, in a context where postcolonial competition involves complex distancing strategies vis-à-vis British colonialism and U.S. imperialism. While the construction of the national group is supported by those migratory institutions, it also delineates symbolic boundaries and blends Frenchness and whiteness, through interactions with Emirati nationals as well as with other migrant groups. Although there appears to be little contact with the majority, South-Asian population, this remoteness is complicated by the massive institutionalization of ‘live-in’ domestic services. Relations to national citizens trigger an interesting trouble in the postcolonial order: French residents experience a limited, albeit anxiety-ridden, vulnerability vis-à-vis omnipotent-reputed Emiratis. To that extent, French migrations to Abu Dhabi enact an ambivalent social theater where whiteness is both destabilized and solidified. Showing how the reconfigurations of whiteness intersect with a gender regime which bolsters heteroconjugality, this research contributes to the analysis of the plurality of power relations in North-South migrations
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Fesenmyer, Leslie E. "Relative distance : practices of relatedness among transnational Kenyan families." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:94e0e4af-50d2-4ed3-a527-b2cb33402d48.
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In this thesis I examine familial dynamics and relations between Kenyan migrants in London and their non-migrant kin remaining in Kenya. Two transnational family configurations predominate: younger migrants and their non-migrant parents and siblings, and older transnational couples (migrant wives and non-migrant husbands). If migration is understood as a morally-laden social process, then how migrant and non-migrant kin engage with the distance(s) between them become the grounds on which what it means to be related is expressed and negotiated. Distance emerges not only as geographic and physical, but also as socially generated by the actions and inactions of kin. I argue that the emplacement of kin in different contexts post-migration, particularly younger migrants within a nascent Pentecostal community in London, mediates transnational kin relations. The thesis challenges a predominant strand of research on transnational families, which contends that migration disrupts kin relations and contributes to the commodification of love and care. Moreover, the focus on transnational Kenyan families fills a gap in African diaspora research that has largely focused on migrants from West Africa and issues of identity, diaspora politics, and development, while also addressing themes in African anthropology, such as, intergenerational reciprocity, social reproduction, and change.
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Benarrosh-Orsoni, Norah. "Des maisonnées transnationales : une migration rom dans ses routes, lieux et objets entre la Roumanie et la France." Thesis, Paris 10, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA100088.
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Cette thèse analyse l’expérience migratoire de familles roms roumaines installées en banlieue parisienne. Pour ces Roms, la matérialisation la plus visible de la réussite sociale réside dans la construction d’une maison indépendante dans leur village d’origine. Ce travail est né d’une longue enquête de terrain en France, en Roumanie et sur la route avec ces familles roms, au cours de laquelle je me suis intéressée aux multiples aspects matériels de la vie en migration. Je montre, d’une part, comment les membres de ce groupe parviennent à donner une cohérence au double ancrage qu’ils maintiennent entre la Roumanie et la France, tout en entretenant des liens de parenté forts, malgré la distance qui sépare souvent les membres d’une même famille. En analysant ce premier aspect, je montre, d’autre part, que ces migrants s’organisent en véritables maisonnées transnationales, reconfigurations familiales originales qui permettent aux membres du foyer dispersé de maintenir une dépendance réciproque et ce faisant, d’optimiser les bénéfices nécessaires à la concrétisation des projets immobiliers. Ceux-ci, qu’ils soient modestes ou impressionnants, permettent en retour de signifier aux yeux du groupe, par une action sur l’environnement matériel, la volonté de chacun de continuer à s’élever sur l’échelle socialeThis work analyses the migratory experience of Romanian Roma families who settled down in the Parisian suburbs. The most visible materialisation of social success lies for them in the building of a new and independent house in their home village. The research is based on a long fieldwork carried out in France, in Romania and on the road with the Roma families, during which I focused on the numerous material aspects of life in migration. On the one hand, I show how members of this group developed a kind of double rootedness between Romania and France, how these attaches are kept coherent in their minds, as they also work keep-up with kinship relationships, when parents are most often scattered in several countries. While investigating this first aspect, I demonstrate, on the other hand, that these migrants structure themselves in genuine transnational households, this original family setup keeping its members interdependent and thus, allowing them to gather the money needed for the building projects. Whether being modest or impressive, these in turn enable their owners to state loud, in the eyes of the group, and through an action on the material environment, their intention to keep climbing the social ladder
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Jacobsen, Malene H. "UNSETTLING REFUGE: SYRIAN REFUGEES’ ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN DENMARK." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/62.
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This doctoral dissertation examines the lived experiences of refuge in Denmark from the perspectives of Syrian refugees. Situated within feminist political geography, it moves beyond examining geopolitics merely from the perspective of the law, the state, and policy makers. Instead, it seeks to grasp the ways in which geopolitics are encountered, experienced, and negotiated on the ground – by the people who are most affected by state policies and practices. It draws on more than ten months of ethnographic fieldwork in Denmark with Syrian refugees, including semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and participant observations, as well as interviews with state and non-state actors providing assistance to Syrian refugees in Jordan. This dissertation brings insights from feminist political geography into conversation with those from critical refugee studies, border studies, geographies of law, and postcolonial studies in order to unsettle core ideas and terms of reference surrounding what refuge is and how it is practiced.
This dissertation makes three distinct but closely related arguments. First, focusing on family reunification of refugees and how this form of protection became a target in the Danish state’s efforts to prevent refugee immigration, I argue that the geopolitics of refuge needs to be examined in a way that includes but also moves beyond the actual territorial border line as well as the legal border (i.e. the moment a person obtains protection and legal status). Second, through an examination of Syrian refugees’ everyday encounters with the Danish state, I draw attention to the disjunctures between idealized notions of refuge with its ostensible ‘humanitarian’ ethos and the practical articulations of refuge as manifested in the everyday lived experiences of refugees. This is what I term lived refuge. I argue, however, that the dissonances between idealized and actually existing refuge point to the persistent presence of governance within refuge, rather than a lack or an absence of ‘true’ humanitarianism - i.e. a promise of freedom, betterment, and prospect that did not fully materialize. Instead, the state practices, which refugees are subject to within refuge, are enabled and normalized through the asymmetrical relationships between the state and the refugee. Third, calling attention to how Syrian refugees experience, articulate and locate war, I trouble prevailing geographical imaginations of “Europe” and Denmark as spaces of peace, safety, and prosperity. Drawing on Syrians’ experiences of war, I argue that attending to everyday experiences of war in refuge prompts a re-articulation of where war is, what counts as war, and who decides.
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Grochowska, Marta. "Ökonomische, soziale und räumliche Folgen der saisonalen Arbeitsmigration im Herkunftsgebiet : am Beispiel der Region Konin (Polen)." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/4964/.
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Die vorliegende Arbeit basiert auf Forschungen in den Jahren 2007-2009. Sie betrachtet die saisonale Arbeitsmigration aus der polnischen Region Konin, wo die Arbeitsmigration aus ökonomischen Gründen, wie auch in ähnlich strukturierten Gebieten Polens, eine lange Tradition hat, die bis ins 19. Jahrhundert zurückgeht. Sie wird die saisonale Migration ins Ausland mit den ökonomischen, sozialen und räumlichen Auswirkungen aus der Perspektive des Einzelnen und seiner unmittelbaren Umgebung, aber auch der Gesellschaft und Herkunftsgebiet der Migranten betrachtet.Mobility for economic reasons is treated in science primarily from the perspective of permanent resettlement. However, other varieties of migration are more and more often studied. This paper deals with the seasonal migration for economic reasons, which is an important area of migration undertaken for economic reasons. Seasonal migration, which leads to crossing the country borders, in the literature is called the Transnational Migration. Unlike international migration, which is usually connected with a permanent settling in the target area, the concept of Transnational migration describes the situation, in which migrants return to their place of origin and do not give it up as their main residence, but every time they travel to another country to get employed. As a research area of this work, the Konin region was chosen, because - in comparison with other regions in Poland - the phenomenon of a very high level of seasonal migration was observed there. Seasonal labor migration is a long tradition that goes back to 19. century here and in other Polish regions with similar structure. From the results of conducted in 2007−2009 research, some general facts can be drawn. Due to the seasonal work abroad, a seasonal migrant can increase their and their family’s standard of living. If the cost of living in the place of seasonal work is higher than in the place of origin, the profit of such visits is obviously higher if the family of a seasonal worker remains in the place of origin. This leads to the geographic division bet389 ween the place of working and place of permanent residence. Higher wages can be determined at the level of benefits to both personal and societal level. On the other hand, both forprofit workers and society in dealing with this phenomenon, costs cannot be ignored. This paper considers the pros and cons of seasonal paid work, both from the perspective of individuals and their surroundings, and the consequences for society and region of origin of the employee. This paper is considering economic, social and spatial consequences, each time at the macro and micro levels. The study was based primarily on interviews with several respondents and experts in the subject of Polish and German migrations for profit.
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Arikan, Burcak. "Assyrian Transnational Politics: Activism From Europe Towards Homeland." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612893/index.pdf.
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ARIKAN BURÇAK Department of International Relations Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sabine Strasser January 2011, 105 pages This thesis examines the transnational political practices Assyrian diaspora undertakes in Europe to generate a positive change in the minority rights of Assyrians in Turkey. Based on inductive reading of existing literature on transnational migration and transnational politics and my own research I conducted in the form of expert interviews in Germany, Sweden and in Turkey with transmigrants and the representatives of Assyrian organisations I discuss the reasons, the contexts and the actual transnational political practices Assyrians undertake in Europe. The thesis argues that Assyrian transnational political practices intensified 2000 onwards after Assyrian community have developed a self representation of their emigration experience and have been through an identity building process in Europe which is referred to as &ldquo
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in this study. The thesis considers Mor Gabriel Case, which started to be seen in 2008 in Turkey, awakening a milestone in the fresh history of transnational political activism of this community
since the solidarity and transnational political networking towards this case are unprecedented in the Assyrian diaspora&rsquo
s half century of history in Europe. By focusing on the activities carried out with regards to this case, the study lastly attempts to reveal the inner tensions vested within the transnational political network and argues for further critical examination of the complex relations among Assyrian diaspora, the place of origin and the receiving countries.
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Spano, Elisabetta. "Living transnational : citizenship, identity and home among South African former immigrants and refugees in Botswana since 1957." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/15744.
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This thesis analyses how South African former immigrants and refugees in Botswana have established transnational connections between their country of origin and their country of migration since 1957. The thesis develops across two main and overlapping strands: transnationalism and citizenship. Considering transnationalism, it argues that the migrants that have crossed the border from South Africa to Botswana (economic immigrants, refugees and freedom fighters) have established multi-layered transnational connections that stretch from their personal identity to the economic and political fields. These connections are contextualised within the broader labour migration movement in southern Africa and the anti-apartheid struggle. Furthermore, these links have allowed migrants to create a sense of community in solidarity with the struggle against white minority rule and to create spaces to set their survival strategies in order for them to decide, among a range of opportunities, what was most convenient to them. In this way, Botswana’s role as a transit corridor for refugees assumed different social meanings: a route to the northern territories of the continent, a temporary solution, a permanent settlement, a passage to return to South Africa for trained saboteurs. Considering citizenship, the thesis shows that South African migrants have conceptualised citizenship taking into account their transnational links but also Botswana’s processes of nation-building and citizenship construction. Migrants’ understanding of citizenship not always reflects Botswana’s official discourse. Because of this, migrants’ process of integration intertwined with their ways to cope with perceptions of discrimination and exclusion that have emerged in Botswana as a result of the nation-building process that privileges the eight Tswana tribes over minorities and naturalised citizens. This thesis is based on original research which drew on a number of methods including archival research and oral histories. It is also interdisciplinary in focus, drawing mostly on literature from sociology, history and migration studies, but also anthropology, geography and international relations. It thus contributes to debates on transnationalism, on citizenship in Botswana and on the country’s role in the South African liberation struggle.
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Cruz, Maria Helena Amador Rodrigues. "Famílias transnacionais e circulação de cuidados uma etnografia da migração filipina em Macau e Portugal." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/16157.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em AntropologiaA migração filipina é tida como um dos casos-tipo na origem do conceito de transnacionalismo, cerca de 10% da população filipina trabalhava e/ou residia fora do país, espalhada por 200 países ou territórios. Esta investigação pretende abordar a circulação de cuidados em famílias filipinas cujas vidas quotidianas se constroem entre a terra de origem, Macau e Portugal, tendo sido orientada pela seguinte questão central: como é que, em situação de dispersão territorial dos seus membros, as famílias transnacionais filipinas reconfiguram laços e sentimentos de família e criam redes de circulação de cuidados entre as Filipinas, Macau e Portugal? O enfoque foi colocado nas famílias e no seu contexto histórico e cultural específico, procurando compreender os significados construídos pelas famílias filipinas na sua interpretação da realidade. A pesquisa seguiu uma abordagem qualitativa, tendo como método de investigação a etnografia. O terreno decorreu em Lisboa (Portugal) e em Macau (RP China), seguindo a pesquisa etnográfica multisituada.
Filipino migration is considered one of the standard cases in which the concept of transnationalism originated, about 10% of the Filipino population worked and / or resided abroad, spread over 200 countries or territories. This research intends to approach the circulation of care in Filipino families whose daily lives are built between the land of origin, Macau and Portugal, having been guided by the following central question: how, in a situation of territorial dispersion of its members, do the Philippine transnational families reconfigure ties and family feelings and create care circulation networks between the Philippines, Macau and Portugal? The focus was placed on families and their specific historical and cultural context, seeking to understand the meanings built by Filipino families in their interpretation of reality. The research followed a qualitative approach, having as research method the ethnography. The field was held in Lisbon (Portugal) and Macao (PR China), following the multi-sited ethnographic research.
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Kang, Ting-Yu. "Transnationalism and the Internet : the case of London-based Chinese professionals." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6a624f16-9a59-48fb-9340-f82ae091470d.
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This thesis examines the role of internet use in migrants’ participation in, and articulation of, rising Chinese modernity. It explores the ways in which transnational subjectivity is produced through this process. It investigates how migrants’ various uses of the internet construct and make sense of their connections with China. It demonstrates a new generation of subjectivity among Chinese transnationals that is tech-savvy, modern and triumphal – a subjectivity embedded in the exchange between the (macro) political economy of China’s rise and the (micro) everyday practices surrounding the internet. This is an ethnographic study focusing on an emerging population within the broader Chinese diaspora; that is, mainland Chinese professionals who migrated for higher education and professional training in recent years as a result of China’s reform and economic power. This study locates its enquiries in three offline-grounded institutions – ethnic organisations, states and families. These institutions pre-date the internet but increasingly turn to the technology for transnational and local connections. Regarding Chinese organisations, utilising the internet to build co-ethnic sociality is read as a symbolic practice that signals the users’ belonging to a technologically-advanced, mobile and wealthy sector within the broader idea of the Chinese community. On the role of the state, internet use provides new modes of migrants’ access to China’s state-led development projects, thus opening up new spaces for the state’s disciplinary power to be exercised. This digital governance is enabled by a discourse of Chinese triumphalism constructed by both the state and the migrants. Regarding families, the digitalisation of the gendered division of labour in transnational families provides evidence of the segmented nature of China’s digital modernity and disrupts the triumphal portrait of transnational modernity constructed among the elite-stratum migrants. Overall, this study develops a dialogue between two literatures. On the one hand, it adds to diasporic internet studies by introducing an offline-grounded, geographically-informed approach and by bringing transnational modernity into its research agenda. On the other hand, it draws on Nonini and Ong’s (1997) theorisation of Chinese transnationalism as alternative modernity and further adds to this theorisation with a focus on internet technology and a discussion of the impacts of China’s rise. It contributes to human geography by revisiting a key concept in this discipline – transnationalism – with a discussion of the interweaving impacts of information technology and the geopolitical shift of China’s rising modernity.
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Thomàs, Vanrell Caterina. "Cruzar los Pirineos en momentos de incertidumbre : las redes transnacionales en los desafíos profesionales de jóvenes españoles en Toulouse." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOU20058/document.
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Cette thèse porte sur un phénomène actuel d'intérêt social et sociologique, influencé par la crise économique et financière mondiale, qui a débuté en 2008. La recherche vise à identifier les stratégies de réalisation du projet migratoire temporaire construit sur la base de critères de carrière professionnelle (passée, présente et future) de la population espagnole récemment installée à Toulouse (France). En résumé, les stratégies d'organisation du processus de mobilité sont le produit d'une succession de situations d'interaction, qui contribuent à construire et à activer une série d'informations utiles qui permettent d'accéder à des ressources concrètes pour trouver un emploi et résider dans un nouveau contexte.Le processus de mobilité explique la diversité des formes d'insertion sociale, l'accès à l'âge adulte et la stabilisation relationnelle de la population. Ces stratégies relationnelles transnationales sont en constante construction et transformation, en tant que processus impliqué dans les interactions et les milieux sociaux auxquels les personnes participent, sans oublier le contexte structurel rencontré par ces personnes. Ainsi, les liens interpersonnels transnationaux nous permettent de discerner l'émergence d'espaces collectifs de partage et de groupes sociaux qui expliquent les structures de sociabilité et de soutien social. La présence d'individus dans des groupes transnationaux forme leurs réseaux personnels et affecte la stabilisation relationnelle de ces personnes dans leurs lieux de résidence.Cet ensemble d'influences réciproques entre réseaux personnels plus ou moins stabilisés, les relations identifiées dans le stade initial de la migration et l'interaction entre les relations personnelles qui génèrent des collectifs de sociabilité transnationale, contribuent à l'explication des phénomènes d'expatriation et de migration de travail abordés dans cette thèseThis thesis deals with a current phenomenon of social and sociological interest, influenced by the global economic and financial crisis, which began in 2008. The research aims to identify strategies for the implementation of the temporary migration project based on career criteria (past, present and future) of the Spanish population recently settled in Toulouse (France). In summary, strategies to organize the mobility process are the product of a succession of transnational interaction situations which help to construct and activate useful information that provides access to concrete resources to find employment and reside in a new context.The mobility process explains the diversity of forms of social integration, access to adulthood and the relational stabilization of the population. These transnational relational strategies are constantly being constructed and transformed, as a process involved in the interactions and social environments in which people participate, not to mention the structural context encountered by these people. Thus, transnational interpersonal links allow us to discern the emergence of collective spaces for sharing and social groups that explain the structures of sociability and social support. The presence of individuals in transnational groups leads to the formation of personal networks and affects the relational stabilization in their places of residence.This set of reciprocal influences between more or less stabilized personal networks, the relationships identified in the initial stages of migration and the interaction between personal relationships that generate transnational sociability collectives contribute to the explanation of expatriation phenomena and work migration covered in this thesis
Esta tesis se centra en un fenómeno actual de interés social y sociológico, influenciado por la crisis económica y financiera, que comenzó en 2008. La investigación tiene como objetivo identificar las estrategias de realización de proyectos de migración temporal construidos sobre la base de criterios de carrera profesional (pasada, presente y futura) de la población española instalada recientemente en Toulouse (Francia). En resumen, las estrategias de organización del proceso de movilidad son el producto de una sucesión de situaciones de interacción que contribuyen a construir y activar una serie de informaciones útiles que permitan el acceso a recursos específicos para conseguir un empleo y establecerse en un nuevo contexto de residencia.El proceso de movilidad explica la diversidad de formas de inclusión social, el acceso a la edad adulta y la estabilización relacional de la población. Estas estrategias relacionales transnacionales están en constante construcción y transformación como un proceso involucrado en las interacciones sociales y los entornos en los que participan las personas, así como el contexto estructural al que se enfrentan estas personas. Por lo tanto, las relaciones interpersonales transnacionales nos permiten discernir la aparición de espacios colectivos de intercambio y de grupos sociales que explican las estructuras de sociabilidad y de apoyo social. La presencia de individuos en grupos transnacionales da forma a sus redes personales y afecta a la estabilización relacional de estas personas en sus lugares de residencia.Este conjunto de influencias recíprocas entre redes personales más o menos estabilizadas, relaciones identificadas en la etapa inicial de la migración y la interacción entre las relaciones personales que generan colectivos de sociabilidad transnacional, contribuyen a la explicación de los fenómenos de expatriación y a la migración laboral discutidos en esta tesis
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Andersson, Sköld Lisa. "Livet med gränsen : Norsk närvaros påverkan på gränskommunen Strömstad." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Culture and Communication, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11259.
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Gränsers betydelse har både suddats ut och aktualiseras i och med en ökad grad av globalisering och mobilitet. Den svensk-norska gränsen har i stora drag legat fast i nästan 350 år och under tiden har kulturella och nationella identiteter skapats. Genom sitt läge vid riksgränsen påverkas Strömstad av nationella händelser på ett helt annat sätt än Sverige i stort samtidigt som det även finns ett starkt inflytande från en annan stats nationella politik.
Syftet med studien har varit att undersöka den norska närvarons påverkan på Strömstad ur ett socialt och kulturellt perspektiv. Det första man ser är effekter av ekonomisk art då Strömstad toppar listor för både turism och handel, men i förlängningen ser vi även en påverkan i hur strömstadsborna ser på sig själva och sin kommun.
Increasing globalization and mobility has reduced as well as enhanced the significance of borders. The Swedish-Norwegian border has barely changed in the last 350 years. During this time both national and cultural identities have been created. Strömstad’s location at the national border creates a situation where it is affected by national events in a different way than most of Sweden and at the same time Strömstad is strongly influenced by the national politics of another state.
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the Norwegian presence on Strömstad from a social and cultural perspective. Most noticeable are the effects in the financial sector; however effects can also be seen in the way the borderers see themselves as well as their community.
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Lolicato, Andrea. "Movilidad transnacional y movimientos sociales: las organizaciones solidarias de argentinos en Roma y Barcelona." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/38878.
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Los procesos de movilidad transnacional de los individuos representan un elemento dinamizador de las instancias conflictivas articuladas “desde abajo” por los movimientos sociales. Los colectivos de solidaridad política transnacional alimentan la afirmación de estrategias de lucha inéditas que cuestionan el confinar dentro de los territorios de los Estados-nación las reivindicaciones locales. Las organizaciones de solidaridad transnacional de argentinos en Roma y Barcelona actúan en este marco estratégico. Esta tesis doctoral presenta los resultados de una etnografía multisituada en Roma, Barcelona y Buenos Aires. Analizando las acciones políticas con las que dichas organizaciones argentinas respaldan las demandas de los movimientos sociales de Argentina, se ha estudiado el entramado relacional generado por la creación de este campo social transnacional y las dinámicas correspondientes de adscripción y (re)producción identitaria en las sociedades de recepción, caracterizadas por un complejo “diálogo” entre los planteamientos políticos y los estatus de exiliado y migrante.Transnational mobility of people in the global scale represents a catalyst for the social movements demands articulated “from below”. Transnational advocacy groups carry out strategies that overcome the national boundaries both in global conflicts and local demands. The transnational advocacy organizations of Argentines living in Rome and Barcelona work in this strategic framework. This thesis presents the results of an ethnographical work situated in Rome, Barcelona and Buenos Aires. We studied the advocacy action of argentine organizations in Rome and Barcelona supporting the demands of social movements in the country of origin. Here we examine the relations network generated by their “transnational social fields” and analyze the (re)production of identity in the receiving societies as a result of an interaction between political meanings and exile/migrant status.
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Larsen, Esben Enghave. "Familiar Flavors : Sensorial Experiences of Familiarity and Transnational Food Practices Amongst International Students." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-169399.
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The thesis takes a reflexive feminist and sensory approach in examining the transnational practices and feelings of cultural familiarity that embody international student migrants, as well as the spatial and social implications of shared kitchen environments. Empirically, the research is based in participatory cook- and eat-along interviews, and a focus group dinner session with six student participants, situating both the researcher and the participants within the sensorial realm of food practices during the fieldwork. The thesis discusses the compromises and negotiations that food practices undergo through material accessibility, geographical knowledges and expectations in crosscultural interactions, causing reconstructions and reinterpretations of daily routines and transnational feelings. Further, the thesis engages reflexively with the embodied situatedness of the researcher and its influence on the results produced throughout the research process. The research highlight the importance of a reflexive approach in sensorial research and emphasize how the sensorial perspective on mundane everyday practices contribute to an in-depth understanding of the lived experiences of migrants. The research findings in relation to the methodological approach, suggest benefits in further fieldwork with an interactive approach of cooking and eating simultaneously to the reflexive interview interaction.
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Lopez, Pedersen Maria Erliza. "Beyond the Cultural Horizon- A study on Transnationalism, Cultural Citizenship, and Media." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21604.
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In many cases, the need to survive has been the reason for many individuals to leave their country and to start anew in a foreign land. Indeed, migration has played its role as one of the solutions to struggle against poverty among many migrants. Nevertheless, migration can also be an excellent way to improve or develop one’s linguistic, professional and cultural competencies. And one way of doing this is to be part of the au pair cultural exchange program. The interest to be an au pair as well as the interest to have an au pair has been the subject of colorful debates in Denmark, and pushing politicians to make an action due to reports of abuse by many host families. Where the au pair program will end up is still a question hanging up in the air. This study is about the journey of many young and educated Filipino migrants who have decided to embark on the au pair expedition. The theme is anchored on deprofessionalization and deskilling. Transnationalism, civic culture and cultural citizenship, and media are the central theories of the study. Feedback from the participants indicates that there is a need to shift the discussion and focus. It is also important that the au pairs’ knowledge and skills are recognized. The study recommends further research on how participatory communication can be utilized or applied to engage all the stakeholders: au pairs, host family, social organizations, sending and receiving countries, and mass media, in finding long term solutions. The ‘cultural exchange or cheap labor’ argument must not be ignored; however, debates should not be limited to this alone. Most of the au pairs are educated. Recognition of such qualifications must be done to create a new arena for discussions. Oftentimes, many au pairs themselves do not see this side of their background as something valuable. From a communication for development perspective, behaviour change- the au pairs should not see themselves as domestic workers, but as educated migrants, and this must be promoted and advocated, so that au pairs and members of the host society can acknowledge this unknown aspect of these unsung migrants. They are education migrants; it is only right and logical that the au pairs are supported to enhance their qualifications. Deprofessionalization and deskilling must be avoided.
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Hatton, Joshua Paul. "How and why did MARS facilitate migration control? : understanding the implication of migration and refugee studies (MARS) with the restriction of human mobility by UK state agencies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fd66b181-747d-4551-b6d2-8bf30741b835.
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This thesis makes two related arguments regarding the academic field of migration and refugee studies (MARS) and the control of migration by UK state agencies. The first, and more empirical one, is that the former facilitated the latter: the field’s members provided symbolic, technical, and pedagogic assistance to two non-departmental public bodies in controlling migration. The second, and more theoretical, argument of this thesis is that MARS facilitated migration control because of culture, power, and structure. It is through the field’s implication in the coercion of its human subjects by UK state agencies that MARS academics a) answered their calling, b) assisted class rule as ideologists, and c) separated sacred and profane by policing endogamy. The introduction describes the existing literature on the relationship between MARS and migration control. The consensus is that the former facilitated the latter. However, these studies fail to provide detailed accounts of the ways in which it did so. Chapter One defines the elements of my more empirical argument: MARS and migration control. An historical narrative outlines the institutional development of the field since its beginnings in the early 1980s. Then a new model for understanding migration control – i.e., migrant CODAR – is described. Chapter Two uses this model to trace the actor network through which MARS academics facilitated the restriction of their human subjects’ mobility by the UK state agencies of the Advisory Panel on Country Information and the Migration Advisory Committee. Chapters Three, Four, and Five use Weberian, Marxist, and Durkheimian anthropological approaches (respectively) to explain the implication of MARS and migration control that is described in Chapters One and Two. Finally, the conclusion of the thesis discusses its contributions to both more particular (i.e., the literature surveyed in the introduction on MARS and migration control) and more general (i.e., anthropology) scholarly fields.
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Lam, Ka Ian. "No (wo)man is an island, entire of itself:a comparative study of Cape Verdean and Filipina migrant women." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12784.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos AfricanosA migração tem ganho novos significados e expressões nas últimas décadas. Cabo Verde e as Filipinas possuem diásporas grandes em relação à sua população. Este estudo tenta aproximar dois mundos e olhar para fenómenos semelhantes num quadro maior. Este trabalho aborda as migrações femininas contemporâneas caboverdiana e filipina numa perspetiva comparativa. Segue uma orientação transnational e adota o enquadramento analítico transnacional. Problematiza a associação entre mulheres migrantes e a incapacidade de efetivamente negociar laços antigos e formar relações novas. É objetivo deste estudo investigar como as mulheres migrantes caboverdianas e filipinas vivem, definem, e negoceiam os seus relacionamentos com pessoas e lugares, dada a configuração transnacional da migração contemporânea. Nele argumento que elas reavaliam as suas relações e se apropriam delas seguindo ideias e critérios específicos resultantes das suas experiências migratórias. O meu estudo sugere que as mulheres migrantes são sujeitas histórica, social e culturalmente situadas, capazes de cultivar vínculos significativos. Elas não só possuem a capacidade de desenvolver relações significativas, mas estão também aptas a navegar um mar de identidades e pertenças múltiplas e sobrepostas.
Migration has gained new expressions and acquired new meanings in recent decades. Cape Verde and the Philippines have large diasporas in relation to their population. This study attempts to bring two worlds closer and view similar phenomena in a wider context. It explores contemporary Cape Verdean and Filipina female migrations in a comparative perspective. It is a transnational-oriented research guided by the analytical framework of transnationalism. It problematizes the association between migrant women and the inability to effectively manage old ties and form new bonds. It is my objective to discuss how Cape Verdean and Filipina migrant women live, define and negotiate their relationships with people and places, given the transnational configuration of contemporary migration. I argue that they reassess and appropriate these relationships with reference to distinct ideas and criteria resulting from their migratory experiences. My study suggests that migrant women are historically, socially and culturally situated subjects. Not only do they share the capacity to forge meaningful relationships, but they also navigate through a sea of multiple and overlapping identities and belongings.
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Alkarp, Lars Jesper. "Establishing a Culture of Migration : The Spatial, Economic, and Social Planning of Philippine-Korean Labour Migration." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-343257.
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Since the second half of the 20th century the Philippines have supplied the world with migrant workers. Today, almost one tenth of the population is residing abroad. Labour migration has become an important source of revenue to both state and private actors through remittances, for the Philippines, and a source of cheap labour battling labour shortage, in the receiving countries. Today, the global labour market is a distinct and important part of what we call globalisation. This is portrayed in this thesis through the lens of Philippine-Korean labour migration. The purpose of this thesis is to illustrate the emergence of migrants as a commodity for export, the institutionalised creation of migrants, the normalisation of labour migration, and containment of migrants through legal and spatial constraints, in Manila and in Seoul. This thesis look at the ways in which labour migration, as an economic policy, is internalised and transformed into a culture of migration. I argue that the effects of a culture of migration is felt not just by the labour migrants themselves, but also by their families and by the Philippines as a whole. As such, the reliance on remittances as a source of income has transformed domestic and global infrastructures as well as norms and social behaviour. Moreover, this thesis aims to add to the discussion on migration and remittances by exploring social dimensions and consequences of the globalisation of the labour market.
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Gueye, Cina. "Activités invisibles et compétitions dans la ville africaine contemporaine : migration chinoise et reconfiguration économique à Dakar." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2032.
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Notre thèse s’intéresse particulièrement aux répercussions des modes d’inscription économiques des entrepreneurs chinois sur la recomposition des équilibres internes du marché du travail invisible à Dakar, incarné par des acteurs économiques accumulant les écarts aux normes majoritaires dans un environnement urbain marqué par la lutte des différents acteurs en présence pour l’appropriation des territoires et des ressources offertes par la ville. Notre ambition est de rendre compte des régimes de concurrence, de coopération, des luttes pour l’espace et les ressources offertes par la ville, des logiques de distanciation entre acteurs évoluant sur des segments concurrents. Dans cette perspective, nous avons opté pour une approche multi-site impliquant divers acteurs de la compétition urbaine : commerçants de rue sénégalais, cordonniers, pour apprécier les différentes postures d’acteurs de l’économie invisible face à la recomposition de l’équilibre interne de leurs segments d’activités. L’accent mis sur la reconfiguration du marché du travail invisible induit par cette coprésence dans cette recherche de type ethnographique interroge les rapports de domination, de résistance, mais aussi d’adaptation qui rythment le jeu des acteurs dans l’espace urbain où se construisent de nouveaux dispositifs commerciaux entre tensions et compromisOur thesis is particularly interested in the impact of economic modes inscriptions of Chinese entrepreneurs on the of internal balances recomposition of the invisible job market, incarnated by economic actors accumulating the differences to the majority standards in an urban environment characterized by the struggle of the different actors involved in the appropriation of land and resources offered by the city.Our goal is to realize competition regimes, cooperation, fights for space and resources offered by the city, distancing logic between actors working on competing segments. In this perspective, we opted for a multi-site approach involving various urban competition actors: Senegalese street traders, shoemakers, to appreciate the different postures of the actor’s invisible economy facing to the recomposition of the internal balance of their business segments.The emphasis on the reconfiguration of the invisible job market induced by the co-presence in this type of ethnographical research examines the domination reports, resistors, but also adaptations that punctuate the actors in the urban area where is building new trade arrangements between tension and compromise
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Sechehaye, Hélène. "Des Gnawa à Bruxelles aux Gnawa de Bruxelles. : Analyse de pratiques musicales relocalisées." Thesis, Lyon, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LYSES015.
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Les Gnawa sont une communauté confrérique issue de la présence subsaharienne au Maroc. Ils sont connus pour leur rituel nocturne de transes, la līla, mais aussi pour leur activité musicale publique. Cette thèse s’intéresse aux pratiques musicales des Gnawa à Bruxelles. En effet, la communauté des Maroxellois est l’une des plus importantes de la capitale et les Gnawa en sont devenus l’une des voix audibles.Cette thèse porte sur les mouvements des répertoires, des praticiens et praticiennes et de leurs instruments. Ces circulations sont, d’une part, à l’origine de l’émergence de la pratique gnawa. D’autre part, elles sont constitutives de l’identité contemporaine des Gnawa à la fois dans leur processus d’initiation par la ǧōla et dans la construction de leur carrière professionnelle. Au Maroc, chaque région possède un style « ancien », qui a petit à petit été remplacé par un style moderne globalisé. À Bruxelles, alors que le répertoire du luth guembri est souvent interprété dans sa version globalisée, le répertoire au tambour reste très attaché à son côté tangérois. S’appuyant sur des analyses musico-chorégraphiques, cette thèse examine comment et pourquoi les identités musicales régionales sont parfois mises en avant, parfois reléguées au second plan.Nourrie par un travail de terrain de plusieurs années, cette recherche prend en compte des données de type historique, ethnomusicologique, anthropologique et sociologique. Les activités gnawa à Bruxelles sont envisagées à la fois dans une perspective transnationale, rattachées à des pratiques globalisées de par le monde mais aussi ancrées dans une localité bruxelloise spécifique qui leur fait prendre une trajectoire uniqueThe Gnawa are a brotherhood community resulting from the sub-Saharan presence in Morocco. They are known for their nocturnal ritual of trances, the līla, but also for their public musical activity. This thesis focuses on the musical practices of the Gnawa in Brussels. Indeed, the community of Maroxellois is one of the most important in the capital and the Gnawa have become one of its audible voices.This thesis focuses on the movements of the repertoires, the practitioners and their instruments. These movements are, on the one hand, at the origin of the emergence of the Gnawa practice. On the other hand, they are constitutive of the contemporary identity of the Gnawa both in their process of initiation through ǧōla and in the construction of their professional career. In Morocco, each region has an "ancient" style, which has gradually been replaced by a modern globalized style. In Brussels, while the repertoire of the guembri lute is often performed in its globalized version, the drum repertoire remains very attached to its Tangier side. Based on musico-choreographic analyses, this thesis examines how and why regional musical identities are sometimes highlighted, sometimes relegated to the background.This research is based on several years of fieldwork and takes into account historical, ethnomusicological, anthropological and sociological data. Gnawa activities in Brussels are considered both from a transnational perspective, linked to globalized practices around the world, but also anchored in a specific Brussels locality that gives them a unique trajectory
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Ferbrache, Fiona. "Transnational spaces within the European Union : the geographies of British migrants in France." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/454.
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Tensions exist in the way that the European Union is conceptualised. How do we reconcile the persistence of a Europe of fragmented nation-states and the European integration project based on the principle of free movement? This duality is indicative of different geographical visions: between space defined as places and space defined as unifying flows. While places tend to be associated with fixed territories and borders, it is argued that complex global flows and connections may disrupt such notions. Addressing these theoretical tensions, this thesis examines transnational frameworks for discussing the reconfiguration of borders and spaces within the European Union. The aim of this research is to explore the extent to which European Union citizens, with freedom of movement, experience mobility between member states in a frictionless manner. The thesis adopts a “bottom-up” approach of migrants’ experiences and perceptions of internal borders, as barriers or opportunities to their movement and settlement. This is illustrated through the case of Britons resident in France. The thesis draws on data generated through qualitative methods, including fifty-three in-depth interviews undertaken in an ethnographic setting. The case study demonstrates how a frictionless European space does not exist for ordinary European Union citizens, for a variety of political, legal, economic and socio-cultural reasons. The analysis reveals how Britons recreate (national) state borders, by adapting to French politico-legal structures, and identifying boundaries between “us” and “them”. The thesis also identifies how transnational spaces are created through immigrants’ social networks. By exploring the everyday lives of intra-EU migrants, the thesis contributes to literature on British migrants in France, and provides an original contribution to studies of EU integration, focused on ordinary citizens on the move.
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Costa, Felizardo Tchiengo Bartolomeu [UNESP]. "Um pé lá, outro cá: as reinvenções subjetivas dos imigrantes transnacionais angolanos no Brasil." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/142809.
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O presente trabalho tem por objetivo, examinar os modos de subjetivação construídos por meio da migração, particularmente orientados pela perspectiva do transnacionalismo, a qual, fundamentalmente, procura focalizar os efeitos que as práticas dos imigrantes transnacionais produzem no nível da subjetividade dos sujeitos transmigrantes. O fenômeno do transnacionalismo não é um fenômeno novo, contudo, ganha visibilidade em virtude das facilidades oferecidas pelas tecnologias de informação, seguidas de outras importantes transformações ocorridas nas sociedades industriais e pós-industriais e, neste sentido, ele representa um campo novo de pesquisa, que trata de uma diversidade de atividades e comunidades que transpõe as fronteiras nacionais. Transmigrantes são, portanto, pessoas que vivem praticamente duas vidas: falam duas línguas, possuem casas em dois países e constroem seu cotidiano por meio de contatos transnacionais regulares. Tais atividades abarcam uma grande diversidade de ações (econômicas, políticas e socioculturais). A proposta metodológica deste estudo está respaldada na etnografia crítica, apoiada nas epistemologias pós-coloniais. O trabalho de campo consistiu em uma imersão no quotidiano da comunidade diaspórica angolana em São Paulo, de modo a acompanhar de perto as experiências da mesma, adentrar na convivência e estabelecer relações junto dos restantes membros, participando de diversas atividades realizadas pelos imigrantes. Também foram realizadas entrevistas como procedimento de suporte às observações, oferecendo, em muitos casos, elementos complementares às observações efetuadas no cotidiano. As principais conclusões deste trabalho resumem-se nas seguintes ideias: o fenômeno da imigração e a experiência da transnacionalidade, atualmente, são favorecidos pelas novas possibilidades de comunicação, propiciadas pelas tecnologias contemporâneas; a transmigração suscita a emergência de novas dinâmicas no processo de subjetivação dos imigrantes, que precisam ser mais bem compreendidos no campo da Psicologia, em suas articulações. Por fim, reivindica-se a criação de uma categoria de análise do fenômeno da transnacionalidade à luz da Psicologia, aqui designada por campo psicossocial transnacional.
The aim of this work is to examine the Immigrant subjectivity, particularly driven by the prospect of transnationalism which fundamentally seeks to focus the effects of the practices of transnational immigrants produce to the transmigrant subjectivity. Transnationalism is not a new phenomenon, however, gains visibility through the facilities offered by technology, followed by other important transformations in industrial and post-industrial society. In this sense it is a new field of research, which deals with a variety of activities and communities that spans national borders. Transmigrants are therefore people who practically live two lives: speak two languages, have homes in both countries and build their daily lives through regular transnational contacts. These activities cover a wide range of actions (economic, political and socio-cultural). The methodology of this work is supported in critical ethnography, and postcolonial epistemologies. Fieldwork consisted of an immersion in the daily life of the Angolan community in Brasil, São Paulo, in order to closely monitor the experiences of the same, enter the coexistence and establish relationships with the other members, participating in various activities carried out by immigrants. We conducted some interviews to support the observations we made, that give us complementary elements to of daily life. The main conclusions are summarized in the following ideas: the phenomenon of immigration and the experience of transnationality are currently favored by the new possibilities of communication afforded by contemporary technologies; transmigration raise the emergence of new dynamics in the immigrants subjective process that can help us to be better understood in the field of psychology the phenomenon in the area of affectivity and beyond. Finally we claim the creation of a new category for analysis of the nature of transnational phenomenon in the light of psychology, that we call transnational psychosocial field.
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Baraldi, Camila Bibiana Freitas. "Migrações internacionais, Direitos Humanos e cidadania sul-americana: o prisma do Brasil e da integração sul-americana." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/101/101131/tde-08102014-171457/.
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As migrações internacionais contemporâneas, ditas globais, têm sido tratadas como um problema ao qual as políticas migratórias dos Estados nacionais precisam dar uma solução. O enfoque desta tese busca desvelar a politização da construção dessas políticas em torno do conceito da irregularidade migratória e das transformações decorrentes da atual dinâmica transnacional das migrações, associada às subjetividades dos migrantes como prática política de transformação da cidadania nacional. Diante desse quadro os discursos patrocinados pelas Organizações Internacionais em torno da ideia de gestão das migrações se mostram nada transformadores em razão de seu caráter tecnocrático. No Brasil, os discursos referentes a uma política migratória baseada nos direitos humanos são predominantes, mas ainda não concretizados. Através de entrevistas com atores governamentais brasileiros busca-se aprofundar a análise sobre esta diretriz diante da amplitude das transformações que requer. Conclui-se que a cidadania sul-americana em construção, a partir do Acordo de Residência do Mercosul, tem características do que poderia vir a ser uma cidadania fundada no paradigma da mobilidade.International migration has been considered a problem to be solved by national states\' national migration policies. The study aims at revealing the political aspects arising as a result of policy development around the concept of migration irregularity and of the changes arising on the transnational dynamics of migration associated with the immigrants` subjectivity as a political practice of citizenship transformation. The analysis has shown that the migration management discourse coming from the international organizations proves to be insufficient to any transformation due its technocratic features. In Brazil, even though the prevailing migratory policy discourse is based on human rights, policy implementation has yet to take place. Through interviews with Brazilian governmental actors it was intended to further the analysis on this directive due to the meaningful changes it requires. Conclusion reveal that the South American citizenship built upon the implementation of the Mercosur Residency Agreement presents some features of citizenship grounded on the mobility paradigm.
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Fischer, Carolin. "Relations and agency in a transnational context : the Afghan diaspora and its engagements for change in Afghanistan." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:77d0ecf1-5f8d-4ad7-a5fa-1a5378c90940.
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This thesis is about the lives and civic engagements of Afghans in Germany and the UK. It shows how Afghans living in these two countries relate to Afghanistan, and to what extent they engage in transnational action aimed at promoting change there. In particular, it explores the emergence of diasporic communities and how members exercise agency as development actors in Afghanistan. The research rests on a qualitative case study conducted among Afghan populations in Germany and the UK. Semi-structured interviews and participant observation were primary methods of data collection. Relational sociology is used to capture emerging social identities, patterns of social organisation and forms of social engagement. A first notable finding is that Afghan populations abroad are fractured and cannot be seen as a united diaspora. People tend to coalesce in narrowly defined subgroups rather than under a shared national identity. Second, Afghanistan remains a crucial reference point, notwithstanding fragmented social organisation. Home country attachments tend to be tied to a desire for change and development in the country. Third, despite these shared concerns, transnational engagements are typically carried out by small groups and directed towards confined social spheres. Although people may take action in the name of an imagined Afghan community or an imaginary Afghanistan, this imagined community does not provide a basis for social mobilisation. Thus Afghans do not act as a cohesive diaspora. Fourth, transnational engagements are often a response to the specificities of the social environments in which people are embedded, notably their host countries. The findings show that a relational approach can specify how different dimensions of people’s social identities drive social action and are shaped in interaction with various elements of their social context. Such an actor-centred perspective helps to improve our understanding of how members of diasporas come to engage with their countries of origin.