1st Edition
Theorising Transnational Migration The Status Paradox of Migration
By Boris Nieswand
Copyright 2011
212 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Societal transformations have recently stimulated political debates and policies on the integration of migrants and minorities in most Western European countries. While transnational migration studies have documented migrants’ cross-border activities there have been few empirically grounded efforts to theorise these developments in the framework of integration and status theory.
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Introduction 1. Migration and Society 2. Ghana and its Migrants 3. Processes of Localisation 4. Processes of Transnationalisation 5. The Status Paradox of Migration. Conclusion
Biography
Boris Nieswand is a social anthropologist and sociologist. He currently works as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen (Germany). He has published on transnational migration, charismatic Christianity, the construction of diaspora and ethnography.
