Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)

Anthropologists have increasingly noted that immigrants live their lives across borders and maintain close ties to home, even when their countries of origin and settlement are geographically distant. Forging links at a variety of levels--familial, economic, social, organizational, religious, and political--these immigrants maintain a high level of involvement in both their home and host societies. To describe this new way of life, some social scientists have begun to use the term "transnational." In this volume, a noted group of researchers explores the implications of this new global phenomenon.The authors begin by linking the emergence of transnationalism to changes in the global economy, especially the extensive penetration of capital into the third world. They suggest the transnational lives of contemporary migrants call into question the bounded conceptualizations of race, class, ethnicity, and nationalism which pervade both social science and popular thinking. They then discuss the construction of migrants' transnational identity, exploring transformations of class practices and racial categories, as well the restructuring of women's and men's lives in the deployment of cultural capital. Finally, they examine the relationship between transnational populations and nation states as well as the challenge posed to nationalism by the existence of these transnational populations.Contributors: Lambros Comitas, Nina Glick Schiller, Linda Basch, Cristina Blanc-Szanton, Roger Rouse, Johanna Lessinger, Eurenia Georges, Carolle Charles, Aihwa Ong, Bela Feldman-Bianco, Rosina Wiltshire, Karen Richman, Barry Goldberg, Delmos Jones, Palmira Rios, Gerald Sider, Constance R. Sutton, and Antonio Lauria-Perricelli.

Politics & Social Sciences

SCHILLER, NINA GLICK

BASCH, LINDA

Social Sciences

New York Academy of Sciences

Blanc-Szanton, Cristina

Sociology

<p>Nations Unbound is a pioneering study of an increasing trend in migration-transnationalism. Immigrants are no longer rooted in one location. By building transnational social networks, economic alliances and political ideologies, they are able to cross the geographic and cultural boundaries of both their countries of origin and of settlement. Through ethnographic studies of immigrant populations, the authors demonstrate that transnationalism is something other than expanded nationalism. By placing immigrants in a limbo between settler and visitor, transnationalism challenges the concepts of citizenship and of nationhood itself.</p>

Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States

Glick Schiller, Nina

Szanton Blanc, Cristina

Routledge

Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States

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