Re‐reading citizenship and the transnational practices of immigrants

Labelle, Micheline; Midy, Franklin

doi:10.1080/1369183x.1999.9976682

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“…Against this context of both capital hypermobility and cultural change, governments are actively re-assessing the terms and conditions of membership in their democracies (Labelle and Midy, 1999). Nations of origin and destination are cognisant of, for example, a global labour market for skilled and unskilled labour (Salt, 1992), and have reacted with a slate of measures that have the effect of facilitating transnationalism.…”

Section: Daily Life In Transnational Communitiesmentioning

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“…Indeed, Wrench and Solomos (1993), Richmond (1994) and Koser and Lutz (1998) are amongst those who point to the resurgence of racist and xenophobic responses to immigration as signal features of the new migration. With attention to how identities are constructed and maintained across borders, transnationalism gives purchase on the highly ambivalent reception many immigrants now receive (Baubock, 1994;Glick Schiller et al, 1995;Labelle and Midy, 1999). Likewise, an ability to discuss local, national and globalscale processes means that transnationalism supports analyses of the internationalisation of political campaigning (Portes, 1996), the rise of remittance economies, and the growing complexity of ethnic enterprises (Friedman, 1998).…”

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confidence: 96%

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Turning transnational: notes on the theorisation of international migration

Bailey

2001

International Journal of Population Geography

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This paper takes stock of transnational perspectives on international migration. Transnationalism concerns itself with social processes that are both rooted in, and transcend, nations. While more generally referring to complex economic, cultural and political relations, I focus on scholarship that describes how migrants contribute to the daily life of emerging transnational communities. I argue that poststructural readings of transnationalism have opened the way for accounts of international migration under globalisation. However, key questions of migrant agency and hybridity remain under-theorised. The paper concludes with a discussion of the potential of postcolonial theorisations of international migration.

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Section: Daily Life In Transnational Communitiesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Turning transnational: notes on the theorisation of international migration

Bailey

2001

International Journal of Population Geography

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“…L'ouverture observée au Québec envers cette population faciliterait la mobilisation de la frange intellectuelle à l'intérieur de la population haïtienne exilée dans la province, chose inexistante aux États-Unis. L'importance des pratiques transnationales exercées par les Haïtiens au Québec, et en particulier le volume qu'a atteint l'envoi d'argent à Haïti, permet de visualiser un processus de redéfinition de la relation entre citoyenneté et nationalité (Labelle et Midy 1999 (Owusu 1998). …”

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Pratiques familiales transnationales

Arsenault

2009

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Résumé Pratiques familiales transnationales : le cas des réfugiés colombiens au Québec Une recherche doctorale a été réalisée afin de cerner les pratiques transnationales des réfugiés Colombiens établis au Québec. Pour ce faire, des réfugiés ont été rencontrés à Montréal, Québec, Trois-Rivières et Sherbrooke ainsi que des membres de leur parenté à Bogota, Medellin et Cartagena. L’analyse effectuée démontre que, une fois installés au Québec, la famille, nucléaire ou élargie, devient l’élément d’attraction le plus fort et le plus fréquemment évoqué par les participants pour le maintien de liens avec la Colombie. La communication avec les membres de la famille restés en Colombie semble effectivement très importante pour la majorité des interlocuteurs. Cette analyse nous permet également d’affirmer que, pour une proportion importante des réfugiés rencontrés, l’attachement à l’égard de la Colombie est en réalité un attachement résolument tourné vers la famille et non pas vers la Colombie en tant que pays avec ses modes de vie, ses cultures, son histoire, son territoire et ses autres caractéristiques.

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“…This example appears to follow the path of the Chinese diaspora characterized by its cultural, regional, ethnic diversity within the same national reference (Chan Kwok Bun, 1999). Haiti on the one hand, and against discrimination and unemployment of second generation youth in Canada or the United States, on the other (Labelle and Midy, 1999). In Europe the Kurdish movement, which finds a legitimacy within the framework of European supranational institutions such as European Court of Human Rights, seeks recognition in receiving countries as well as in Turkey.…”

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Settlement, Transnational Communities and Citizenship

Kastoryano¹

2000

Int Social Sci J

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International migration has given rise to emerging communities which may be described as 'transnational'. This term refers to communities made up of individuals or groups, settled in different national societies, sharing common interests and references -territorial, religious, linguistic -and using transnational networks to consolidate solidarity beyond national boundaries (Faist, 1998).The emergence of transnational communities is a 'global phenomenon', principally concerning post-colonial immigration. Immigrants are involved in networks based on economic interests, cultural exchanges, social relations and political affiliations. Their action is de-territorialised. Transnational communities may thus be considered as a new kind of migrant community. Clearly, migrants have always lived in more than one setting, at least for one or two generations, maintaining ties with a real or imagined community in the state of origin (Anderson, 1983). But in the recent years they have also taken into account "the context of globalisation and economic uncertainty that facilitates the construction of social relations that transcend national borders" (Rivera-Salgado, 1999). Increasing mobility and the development of communication have contributed to such relations, and create a transnational space of economic, cultural and political participation.The emergence of transnational communities is also a post-national phenomenon. That is, emigration took place after the age of nationalism, and the immigrants involved in constructing transnational communities do not refer to a 'mythical' (quote and quote rather to mythical territorial state, but come from and refer to a territorialised nation-state. In some cases, such as Turkey, the state of origin is centralised with unified national and political culture. In other cases, such as India or China, it has a federal structure maintaining cultural and political heterogeneity. In all cases, it is the chosen identity -linguistic, religious, regional -that constitutes a basis for transnational organisation.Transnational organisation allows the immigrant populations to escape national policies, and generates a new space of socialisation for immigrants involved in building networks beyond national borders (Appadurai, 1996;Gupta and Ferguson, 1997, Hannertz, 1996). The cultural and political specificities of national societies (host and home) are combined with emerging multilevel and multinational activities in a new space beyond territorially delimited nationstates, inevitably questioning the link between territory and nation-state. Moreover,

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Re‐reading citizenship and the transnational practices of immigrants

Cited by 30 publications

References 17 publications

Turning transnational: notes on the theorisation of international migration

Turning transnational: notes on the theorisation of international migration

Pratiques familiales transnationales

Settlement, Transnational Communities and Citizenship

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