A Century of Transnationalism: Immigrants and Their Homeland Connections
Nancy L Green and Roger Waldinger
Abstract
The burgeoning literature on immigrant transnationalism is one of the academic success stories of our times. Yet having reminded scholars that migrants, in leaving home for a new life abroad, inevitably tie place of origin and destination together, scholars of transnationalism have also insisted that today's cross-border connections are unprecedented. This collection of articles by sociologically minded historians and historically minded sociologists highlights both the long-term persistence and the continuing instability of home country connections. Encompassing societies of origin and destin ... More
The burgeoning literature on immigrant transnationalism is one of the academic success stories of our times. Yet having reminded scholars that migrants, in leaving home for a new life abroad, inevitably tie place of origin and destination together, scholars of transnationalism have also insisted that today's cross-border connections are unprecedented. This collection of articles by sociologically minded historians and historically minded sociologists highlights both the long-term persistence and the continuing instability of home country connections. Encompassing societies of origin and destination from around the world, the book shows that while population movements across states recurrently produce homeland ties, those connections have varied across contexts and from one historical period to another, changing in unpredictable ways. Any number of factors can shape the linkages between home and destination, including conditions in the society of immigration, policies of the state of emigration, and geopolitics worldwide.
Keywords:
home country,
connections,
population movements,
homeland,
destination,
immigration,
emigration,
geopolitics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780252040443 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: April 2017 |
DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252040443.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Nancy L Green, editor
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Roger Waldinger, editor
University of California, Los Angeles
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