Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States, 1994
This second chapter of Nations Unbound sets out the key theoretical premises that initiated the t... more This second chapter of Nations Unbound sets out the key theoretical premises that initiated the transnational framework for the study of migration. The framework (1) situated the concept and the migration pattern within a particular moment in the restructuring of capital; (2) offered a concept of transnational social field to explain how migrants reacted and reconstituted that moment by building social, political, familial, and economic networks across borders (3) critiqued bounded categories of social science that conflate territory, territory and identity ; and (4) highlight the ways in which transmigrants as they live their lives across borders engage in the nation-state building processes of two or more nation-states, simultaneously reinforcing and contesting categories of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Many subsequent scholars of transnational migration including Thomas Faist, Peter Koivisto, and Alejandro Portes seem to have overlooked this chapter or failed to cite it.
This is a rare and important work, a penetrating look at the profession of anthropology, a collec... more This is a rare and important work, a penetrating look at the profession of anthropology, a collective autoethnography of our discipline. Developed in sessions at the AAA meetings (1995) and the New York Academy of Sciences, its 27 chap-ters take stock of where we are and where ...
... use their own studies of migration from Haiti, St. Vincent, Grenada and the Philippines to th... more ... use their own studies of migration from Haiti, St. Vincent, Grenada and the Philippines to the United States to delineate some of the parameters of an ethnography of transnational migration and explore the reasons for and the implications of transnational migrations. ...
Title: Towards a transnational perspective on migration: race, class, ethnicity, and nationalism ... more Title: Towards a transnational perspective on migration: race, class, ethnicity, and nationalism reconsidered. POPLINE Document Number: 238791. Author(s): ...
Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States, 1994
This second chapter of Nations Unbound sets out the key theoretical premises that initiated the t... more This second chapter of Nations Unbound sets out the key theoretical premises that initiated the transnational framework for the study of migration. The framework (1) situated the concept and the migration pattern within a particular moment in the restructuring of capital; (2) offered a concept of transnational social field to explain how migrants reacted and reconstituted that moment by building social, political, familial, and economic networks across borders (3) critiqued bounded categories of social science that conflate territory, territory and identity ; and (4) highlight the ways in which transmigrants as they live their lives across borders engage in the nation-state building processes of two or more nation-states, simultaneously reinforcing and contesting categories of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Many subsequent scholars of transnational migration including Thomas Faist, Peter Koivisto, and Alejandro Portes seem to have overlooked this chapter or failed to cite it.
This is a rare and important work, a penetrating look at the profession of anthropology, a collec... more This is a rare and important work, a penetrating look at the profession of anthropology, a collective autoethnography of our discipline. Developed in sessions at the AAA meetings (1995) and the New York Academy of Sciences, its 27 chap-ters take stock of where we are and where ...
... use their own studies of migration from Haiti, St. Vincent, Grenada and the Philippines to th... more ... use their own studies of migration from Haiti, St. Vincent, Grenada and the Philippines to the United States to delineate some of the parameters of an ethnography of transnational migration and explore the reasons for and the implications of transnational migrations. ...
Title: Towards a transnational perspective on migration: race, class, ethnicity, and nationalism ... more Title: Towards a transnational perspective on migration: race, class, ethnicity, and nationalism reconsidered. POPLINE Document Number: 238791. Author(s): ...
684 I CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY and the European Community), the United States (among immigrants from ... more 684 I CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY and the European Community), the United States (among immigrants from Asia, the Caribbean, and Mex-ico), Asia (the Overseas Chinese, South Asians, Filipi-nos), African (the Senegalese and Maghrebian migrants to Europe), Latin ...
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