Transnational Return and Social Change (eBook, ePUB)

Hierarchies, Identities and Ideas
Redaktion: Anghel, Remus Gabriel; Boccagni, Paolo; Fauser, Margit

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the past years, in a general context featured by anti-migration discourses in immigration countries, sustained economic growth in countries of origin and mobility between migrants' countries of origin and destination, research on return migration started flourishing.

Return has long been considered the end of a migration cycle. Today, returnees' continued transnational ties, practices and resources have become increasingly visible. 'Transnational Return and Social Change' joins what is now a growing field of research and suggests new ways to understand the dynamics of return migration and the social changes that come along. It pays tribute to the meso-level impacts that follow the practices and resources migrant returnees mobilize across borders. It argues for the need to study the dynamics and impact of return migration by involving also more mundane forms of change, arguing that everyday processes and small-scale changes are as important as the macro-transformations for understanding the societal impact of migration.

This volume thus inquires about the consequences of return for local communities, organizations, social networks and groups, focussing on the changes in social hierarchies, collective identities and cultural capital, norms and knowledge. It presents case studies of migration flows that connect Germany to Turkey, Romania and Ghana, the United Kingdom to Poland, multiple Western countries to Latvia as well as inner-African movements. Against this background, the book contributes new insights into the transnational dynamics of return migration and their societal impact in pluralized societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785270963
• Artikelnr.: 57386070

Autorenporträt

Remus Gabriel Anghel is senior researcher at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities and member of the Doctoral School in Political and Communication Sciences at the Babe¿-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania. Margit Fauser is senior research and principal investigator at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany. Her main research fi elds are transnational migration, localities and cities, citizenship, borders and social inequalities. Paolo Boccagni is associate professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy. He is also the principal investigator of the ERC StG project HOMInG - the home-migration nexus (2016-2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Meso-Level Approach to Linking Transnational Return and Social Change
Margit Fauser and Remus G. Anghel; When the Poor Migrate and Return: Class and Status Repositioning among Roma Transnational Returnees
Remus G. Anghel; Minority Institutions
German Transnational Return Migration and Social Change in Transylvania
Ovidiu Oltean; Returns of Failure: Involuntary Return Migration and Social Change in Ghana
Leander Kandilige and Geraldine A. Adiku; Religion
Return Migration and Change in an Emigration Country
Anatolie Cöciug; Diverse Return Mobilities and Evolving Identities among Returnees in Latvia
Aija Lulle
Zaiga Krisjane and Andris Bauls; 'Be the Change': Action Strategies and Implicit Knowledge in Transnational Return Migration
Claudia Olivier-Mensah; Polish Returnees' Livelihood Strategies
Social Remittances and Influence on Communities of Origin
Anne White; Translocal 'Return'
Social Change and the Value of Transcultural Capital: Second-Generation Turkish Germans in Antalya
Nilay Kilinç and Russell King; Afterword 3x3: Key Contributions
Emerging Questions and Ways Ahead After 'Transnational Return and Social Change'
Paolo Boccagni; Index.