Introduction: Global Spaces/Local Places: Transnationalism, Diaspora, and the Meaning of Home

Reconsidering acculturation in dietary change research among Latino immigrants: challenging the preconditions of US migration

“…I propose that researchers use a transnational approach (Appadurai 1996; Ong 1999; Morawska 2003; Brettell 2010) to examine dietary changes because multiple modernities exist across global communities and Latino immigrants are able to reenact everyday cultural practices across borders. I examine dietary changes through a transnational perspective by drawing from a larger exploratory study examining the lay health practice of comiendo bien , or eating well (Martinez 2010), among a diverse group of Latino immigrant families living in San Francisco.…”

In the path of heroes: second-generation Tamil-Canadians after the LTTE

“…Its aim was to explore how Tamil-Canadian youth reimagined the project of Tamil independence in a transnational social field framed by the new realities of post-LTTE Sri Lanka and by intolerance to imported conflict in Canada. While the notion of transnationalism that emerged from the study of migrant experiences in the context of globalisation (see, for example, Portes, Guarnizo, and Landolt 1999;Nonini 2002) may seem to be distinct from the phenomenon of Diaspora, more recently there has been a recognition of a convergence between the politics of displacement on the one hand and transnational social fields on the other in which the assumed teleology of the cultural assimilation of second-generation immigrants has been questioned (Brettell 2006;Levitt 2009). Second-generation Tamil-Canadians appear to have embraced Tamil transnational politics with an alacrity that seems to exceed that of their parents, although they have also modified LTTE narratives and ideological categories to fit their own location in the Canadian Diaspora.…”

Sociedade, espaço e fluxos: reflexões sobre processos transnacionais

“…A concretização desses desejos pressupõe, em muitos casos, mobilidades e mudanças de geografia, temporárias ou de natureza mais definitiva, como é o caso, respectivamente, das deslocações turísticas e migratórias. Quando se discutem mobilidades, fronteiras e a produção de configurações sociais que transcendem a escala nacional e resultam de fluxos que vinculam diferentes espaços, há uma clara tendência para privilegiar as migrações como principal referência (Brettell, 2006;Castles, 2005;Conway e Potter, 2009;Levitt e Jaworsky, 2007). Isso acontece provavelmente por se tratar de um tipo de mobilidade menos efêmero que o turismo e as demais formas de nomadismo, supondo-se que as migrações tenham implicações mais profundas e sustentadas na produção de transnacionalismos.…”