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Conceiving and Researching Transnationalism
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A review of recent research across several disciplines not surprisingly finds a wide variety of descriptions surrounding meanings, processes, scales and methods concerning the notion of transnationalism as discussed by the authors, and several clusters or themes are suggested by way of disentangling the term.Abstract:
A review of recent research across several disciplines not surprisingly finds a wide variety of descriptions surrounding meanings, processes, scales and methods concerning the notion of 'transnationalism'. Here, several clusters or themes are suggested by way of disentangling the term. These include transnationalism as a social morphology, as a type of consciousness, as a mode of cultural reproduction, as an avenue of capital, as a site of political engagement, and as a reconstruction of 'place' or locality. These and other approaches to transnationalism are being explored in a newly commissioned ESRC research programme on Transnational Communities (see http:// www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk).read more
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Migration and Development: A Theoretical Perspective
Abstract: The debate on migration and development has swung back and forth like a pendulum, from developmentalist optimism in the 1950s and 1960s, to neo-Marxist pessimism over the 1970s and 1980s, towards more optimistic views in the 1990s and 2000s. This paper argues how such discursive shifts in the migration and development debate should be primarily seen as part of more general paradigm shifts in social and development theory. However, the classical opposition between pessimistic and optimistic views is challenged by empirical evidence pointing to the heterogeneity of migration impacts. By integrating and amending insights from the new economics of labor migration, livelihood perspectives in development studies and transnational perspectives in migration studies – which share several though as yet unobserved conceptual parallels – this paper elaborates the contours of a conceptual framework that simultaneously integrates agency and structure perspectives and is therefore able to account for the heterogeneous nature of migration-development interactions. The resulting perspective reveals the naivety of recent views celebrating migration as self-help development “from below”. These views are largely ideologically driven and shift the attention away from structural constraints and the vital role of states in shaping favorable conditions for positive development impacts of migration to occur.
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Transnationalism and identity
TL;DR: Transnationalism and identity are concepts that inherently call for juxtaposition as discussed by the authors, which is so because many peoples' transnational networks of exchange and participation are grounded upon some perception of common identity; conversely, the identities of numerous individuals and groups of people are negotiated within social worlds that span more than one place.
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International migration, remittances and development: myths and facts
TL;DR: In this article, the reciprocal migration - development relationship is examined through the discussion of seven migration'myths' and the key lies in encouraging circular migration instead of uselessly and harmfully trying to stop inevitable migration, immigration policies allowing for freer circulation can, besides increasing migration control, enhance the vital contribution of migrants to the development of their home countries.
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Transnational Migration: Bringing Gender In
TL;DR: In this article, the role of the state and the social imaginary in gendering transnational processes and experiences is examined and highlighted, and a discussion of how a gendered analysis of transnational migration can help bridge this particular research to other gendered processes under study that do not privilege migration is initiated.
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Towards a Sociology of Forced Migration and Social Transformation
TL;DR: Forced migration has become an integral part of North-South relationships and is closely linked to current processes of global social transformation, which makes it as important for sociologists to develop empirical research and analysis on forced migration as it is to include it in their theoretical understandings of contemporary society.
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The rise of the network society
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Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography
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