A Century of Transnationalism: Immigrants and Their Homeland Connections

by Nancy L. Green (Editor), Roger Waldinger (Editor), Houda Asal (Contribution by), Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard (Contribution by), Caroline Douki (Contribution by)

Overview

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, A Century of Transnationalism 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 shape the linkages between home and destination, including conditions in the society of immigration, policies of the state of emigration, and geopolitics worldwide. Contributors: Houda Asal, Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard, Caroline Douki, David FitzGerald, Nancy L. Green, Madeline Y. Hsu, Thomas Lacroix, Tony Michels, Victor Pereira, Mônica Raisa Schpun, and Roger Waldinger

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252098864
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	08/15/2016
Series:	Studies of World Migrations
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Nancy L. Green is a professor of history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She is a coeditor of Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation and author of The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941. Roger Waldinger is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCLA. He is editor of Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America and author of The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants, and Their Homelands.

Table of Contents

Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction by Roger Waldinger and Nancy L. Green Part I. The State and Transnationalism 1. The “Return Politics” of a Sending Country: The Italian Case, 1880s–1914 by Caroline Douki 2. Portuguese Migrants and Portugal: Elite Discourse and Transnational Practices by Victor Pere 3. Japanese Brazilians (1908–2013): Transnationalism amid Violence, Social Mobility, and Crisis 4. 150 Years of Transborder Politics: Mexico and Mexicans Abroad by David FitzGerald 5. Transnationalism and the Emergence of the Modern Chinese State: National Rejuvenation and the Ascendance of Foreign-Educated Files (Liuxuesheng) by Madeline Y. Hsu Part II. Immigrants and the Periodization of Transnationalism 6. Transnationalism, States’ Influence, and the Political Mobilizations of the Arab Minority in Canada by Houda Asal 7. Toward a History of American Jews and the Russian Revolutionary Movement by Tony Michels 8. Periodizing Indian Organizational Transnationalism in the United Kingdom by Thomas Lacroix 9. Transnationalism and Migration in the Colonial and Postcolonial Context: Emigrants from the Souf Area (Algeria) to Nanterre (France) (1950 - 2000) by Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaleard Contributors Index

Editorial Reviews

"In exploring migrants' cross-border connections over time, this collection of insightful and highly readable essays offers fresh perspectives and fascinating historical analysis on a topic central to the study of immigration. An indispensable guide to understanding the dynamics involved in transnational ties that will be a highly valued resource for students and scholars alike."—Nancy Foner, coauthor of Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe


"This volume, edited by two of the foremost scholars in the field, infuses migration studies with sorely needed historical perspective, conceptual clarity, and theoretical depth by treating the transnational not as a mantra but as actual social spaces/processes that can be understood empirically and historically."—Jose C. Moya, author of Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930
 


"Immigrant men and women shape and maintain transnational, often locally embedded linkages, and statesmen utilize or frame such connectivity. Both sides engage each other to achieve familial and statewide goals, economic, political, and emotional ones. The authors masterfully weave specific analyses into a long endured perspective of transcultural relations."—Dirk Hoerder, author of Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium

"A Century of Transnationalism is a thoughtful and useful addition to research on migration and diaspora studies. It explores the diversity of over a century of migration experiences while highlighting shared migration factors: the tug-of-war of loyalties between home and host culture and the push-pull forces of assimilation versus alienation."—Review 31

"Nancy Green and Roger Waldinger have assembled an excellent collection of rich empirical studies framed by their insightful introduction. The result constitutes a major contribution to a critical, historically-grounded, and state-centered perspective on transnationalism. This is essential reading for migration scholars."—Peter Kivisto, Augustana College

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