Nations unbound : transnational projects, postcolonial predicaments, and deterritorialized nation-states

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Nations unbound : transnational projects, postcolonial predicaments, and deterritorialized nation-states

[by] Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller, [and] Cristina Szanton Blanc

Gordon and Breach, c1994

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-329) and index

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: hardcover ISBN 9782881246074

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Transnational Projects
  • Chapter 2 Theoretical Premises
  • Chapter 3 The Making of West Indian Transmigrant Populations
  • Chapter 4 Hegemony, Transnational Practices, and the Multiple Identities of Vincentian and Grenadian Transmigrants
  • Chapter 5 The Establishment of Haitian Transnational Social Fields
  • Chapter 6 Not What We Had In Mind
  • Chapter 7 Different Settings, Same Outcome
  • Chapter 8 There's No Place Like Home
Volume

: softcover ISBN 9782881246302

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Chapter ONETransnationalProjects: -- A New Perspective -- Chapter TWOTheoretical Premises. -- Chapter THREEThe Making of West Indian -- Transmigrant Populations: -- Examples from St. Vincent -- and Grenada -- Chapter FOURHegemony, Transnational Practices, -- and the Multiple Identities of Vincentian and Grenadian Transmigrants -- Chapter FIVEThe Establishment of Haitian -- Transnational Social Fields . -- Chapter SIXNot What We Had in Mind: -- Hegemonic Agendas, Haitian Transnational Practices, and Emergent Identities -- Chapter SEVENDifferent Settings, Same Outcome: -- Transnationalism as a Global Process -- Chapter EIGHTThere's No Place Like Home -- References. -- Index.

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