The State and the Grassroots

Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents
Herausgeber: Portes, Alejandro; Fernández-Kelly, Patricia

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Produktbeschreibung

First study of immigrant organizations conducted in the U.S. and Europe. First comparative study of immigrant organizations conducted with the same research methodology. First study to focus explicitly on the relation between immigrant organizations and development in sending countries. First comparative theory of immigrant transnationalism and development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781785334405
• ISBN-10: 1785334409
• Artikelnr.: 45232621

Autorenporträt

Patricia Fernández-Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Research Associate of the Office for Population Research at Princeton University. Her most recent book is The Hero's Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State (Princeton University Press 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Section I: Immigrant Organizations in a Comparative Perspective
Introduction: Immigration, Transnationalism, and Development: The State of
the Question
Alejandro Portes
Section II: Immigrant Organizations in the United States
Chapter 1. Traversing Ancestral and New Homelands: Chinese
Immigrant-Transnational Organizations in the United States
Min Zhou and Rennie Lee
Chapter 2. Transnational Philanthropy of Urban Migrants: Colombian and
Dominican Immigrant Organizations and Development
Cristina Escobar
Chapter 3. Tapping the Indian Diaspora for Indian Development
Rina Agarwala
Chapter 4. Partners in Organizing: Engagement between Migrants and the
State in the Production of Mexican Hometown Associations
Natasha Iskander
Chapter 5. Navigating Uneven Development: The Dynamics of Fractured
Transnationalism
Margarita Rodríguez
Chapter 6. Breaking Blocked Transnationalism: Intergenerational Change in
Homeland Ties
Jennifer Huynh and Jessica Yiu
Section III: Immigrant Organizations in Europe
Chapter 7. Moroccan and Congolese Migrant Organizations in Belgium
Marie Godin, Barbara Herman, Andrea Rea, and Rebecca Thys
Chapter 8. Moroccans in France: Their Organizations and Activities Back
Home
Thomas Lacroix and Antoine Dumont
Chapter 9. Transnational Activities of Immigrants in the Netherlands: Do
Ghanaian, Moroccan, and Surinamese Diaspora Organizations Enhance
Development?
Gery Nijenhuis and Annelies Zoomers
Chapter 10. Transnational Immigrant Organizations in Spain: Their Role in
Development and Integration
Héctor Cebolla Boado and Ana López-Sala
Conclusion: Assimilation through Transnationalism: A Theoretical Synthesis
Patricia Fernández-Kelly