Nations Unbound

Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States

Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller, Cristina Szanton Blanc (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

356 Seiten

1993
Gordon & Breach Science Publishers SA (Verlag)
978-2-88124-630-2 (ISBN)

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This work examines the increasing trend in transnationalism. Through ethnographic studies of immigrant populations from St Vincent, Grenada, Haiti and the Philippines to the United States, it aims to demonstrate that transnationalism challenges the concepts of citizenship and nationhood.

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.

Linda Basch is director. National Council for Research on Women. Nina Glick Schiller is associate professor of anthropology, University of New Hampshire and academic editor of the Journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Cristina Szanton Blanc is senior research associate at the Southern Asian Institute, International Affairs Columbia University and author of the Gordon and Breach title Urban Children in Distress: Global Predicaments and Innovative Strategies (1994).

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.11.1993
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	2-88124-630-3 / 2881246303
ISBN-13	978-2-88124-630-2 / 9782881246302
Zustand	Neuware