Transnational urbanism revisited

Smith, Michael Peter

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“…As Smith (2005): 237) argues, the national state mediates migration because it is 'a repository of language, national cultures and state-centred projects' (p237). Here we focus on three national 'projects' that shape migration-knowledge transactions: immigration policies, employment policies, and the national innovation system.…”

Section: National (B)mentioning

confidence: 99%

International labour migration and tacit knowledge transactions: a multi‐level perspective

Williams

2006

Global Networks

109

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There has been limited research on the role of international migration in the transfer of tacit knowledge, as opposed to skills and capital. In part, this results from lack of engagement between research on migration and that on knowledge and learning, even in debates concerning the relative importance of distanciated versus localised knowledge transfers. However, positioning international migration in relation to the literature on knowledge management opens up new perspectives on its role in the overall transfer of knowledge in the economy. Starting from the premise that all tacit knowledge transactions are socially situated, this paper sets out a multi-level approach to understanding the role of migrants in knowledge exchanges. The national, the urban and the firm constitute key levels in this analysis, although these are understood as inter-folded rather than as discrete sites of analysis.3

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Section: National (B)mentioning

confidence: 99%

International labour migration and tacit knowledge transactions: a multi‐level perspective

Williams

2006

Global Networks

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“…All these scholars have agreed that transnationalism is a complex and multi-dimensional field. Some of the previous studies focused on transnational migrations and the sociological analysis of transnational communities (Itzigsohn, Cabral, Medina, & Vazquez, 1999;Levitt, 2001;Schiller et al, 1995;Voigt-Graf, 2004); transnational corporations and economic networks (Dicken, Forsgren, & Malmberg, 1994;Yeung, Liu, & Dicken, 2006); transnational urban politics and social movements (Conradson & Latham, 2005;Guarnizo, 2003;Smith, 2005); and the significance of newly emerging transnational cultural forms (Appadurai, 1996;Hannerz, 1996).…”

Section: Understanding Bordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coğrafya Ve Sinir

Görentaş¹

2018

Marmara Coğrafya Dergisi

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There has been an increasing interest in borders from a variety of disciplines. This paper scrutinizes an extensive range of literature in the border studies. Initially, it draws a conceptual framework that clarifies how to approach and study borders. Later, it identifies constantly evolving concerns in the border studies from a historical perspective. It provides valuable insights into how to understand this continually progressing research area. It argues that borders are not just about producing a bounded space but also producing a social collectiveness. Bordering is an on-going process through which socio-spatial homogenisations and differentiations occur. Borders inform individual and collective identities; they shape and are shaped by collective and individual consciousness. Borders, by definition, are about creating and taking sides, which construct many more associated dichotomies: inside-outside; we-they; inclusion-exclusion; and us-the other. The process of imagining the existence of 'other' is crucial in creating borders. The paper also argues that there is a need to move beyond many dichotomies in border studies: symbolic or material; real or imaginary; barriers or zones of cultural encounters; top-down or bottom-up; and frontiers or multiple sites. This paper provides an important insight into this constantly evolving research area. Keywords: Geography, Border, Bordering, Border StudiesÖzet Sınırlar, birçok disiplin için giderek artan ilgi çekici araştırma alanları olmuşlardır. Bu çalışma, sınır çalışmaları alanındaki mevcut literatürü kapsamlı bir şekilde analiz etmektedir. İlk olarak, sınırların bir araştırma alanı olarak nasıl anlaşılması ve çalışılması gerektiğini netleştirecek bir kavramsal çerçeve oluşturulacaktır. Ardından, tarihsel bir perspektiften sınır çalışmalarının sürekli değişen ve gelişen ilgi alanları değerlendirilecektir. Bu makale, sürekli gelişerek ilerleyen bu araştırma alanının daha iyi anlaşılmasına yardımcı olacak değerlendirmeler sunmaktadır. Sınırlar, sadece bir mekanın hudutlarının oluşturulmasıyla ilgili değil, aynı zamanda toplumsal bir birlikteliğin meydana getirilmesiyle de ilgilidirler. Bu yüzden, sınır kurumu, sosyo-mekansal homojenleşme ve farklılaşmanın oluşturulduğu sürekli devam eden bir süreç olarak görülmelidirler. Bireysel ve kolektif kimlik oluşturulmasında sınır önemli bir yere sahiptir. Döngüsel bir şekilde, sınırlar bireysel ve kolektif bilinçleri şekillendirmekte ve bu bilinçler tarafından şekillenmektedirler. Tanım itibariyle sınır, taraflar oluşturma ve bu taraflardan birine ait olmakla alakalıdır; bu yüzden beraberinde bir

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“…This draws on the concept of 'transnational social spaces', developed since the 1990s (e.g. Faist, 1998;Jackson, Crang and Dwyer, 2004;Smith, 2005;Collyer and King, 2015). Synthesising scholarship on the topic, Levitt and Jaworsky (2007, pp.131-132) define 'transnational social spaces' as 'arenas' that are multi-layered and multi-sited, including not just the home and host countries but other sites around the world that connect migrants to their conationals and coreligionists.…”

Section: Transnational Social Spaces Of Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Living the Chilean dream? Bolivian migrants’ incorporation in the space of economic citizenship

Ryburn

2016

Geoforum

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As with most contexts of South-South migration, the Bolivian-Chilean case remains severely under-researched. Responding to this paucity of research, this paper addresses Bolivian migrants' inclusions in and exclusions from economic citizenship in Chile. Conceptually, the paper calls for a holistic and spatially aware approach to comprehending migration and citizenship, proposing the overarching conceptual framework of interacting transnational social spaces of citizenship representing its legal, political, social, and economic dimensions. It then focuses particularly on the transnational social space of economic citizenship, using this conceptual approach as a means to bring into better dialogue research on the migrant division of labour, precarious employment, lab our exploitation, financial exclusion, and migrant citizenship practices. The analytical potential of the conceptual framework is explored through examining the specific geographies of the Bolivian-Chilean space of economic citizenship to reveal the reality of what is increasingly being referred to as the 'Chilean dream'. Drawing on nine months of multisited ethnography and 76 semi-structured interviews, the paper addresses migrants' economic situation in Bolivia before examining their changes in circumstances following migration to Chile, looking particular at the migrant labour niches of wholesale clothing retail, agriculture, and domestic labour. It explores the structural factors leading to economic marginalisation in Bolivia and labour exploitation in Chile. Additionally, it analyses the practices in which migrants may engage to challenge their exclusion from economic citizenship, and the role that migrant organisations play in encouraging, and at times constraining, such practices.

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Transnational urbanism revisited

Cited by 218 publications

References 7 publications

International labour migration and tacit knowledge transactions: a multi‐level perspective

International labour migration and tacit knowledge transactions: a multi‐level perspective

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Living the Chilean dream? Bolivian migrants’ incorporation in the space of economic citizenship

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