Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States

Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States
ISBN-10
0203347005
ISBN-13
9780203347003
Series
Nations Unbound
Category
Social Science
Pages
360
Language
English
Published
1994-02-10
Publisher
Psychology Press
Authors
Nina Glick Schiller, Linda Basch, Christina Szanton Blanc

Description

Nations Unbound is a pioneering study of an increasing trend in migration-transnationalism. Immigrants are no longer rooted in one location. By building transnational social networks, economic alliances and political ideologies, they are able to cross the geographic and cultural boundaries of both their countries of origin and of settlement. Through ethnographic studies of immigrant populations, the authors demonstrate that transnationalism is something other than expanded nationalism. By placing immigrants in a limbo between settler and visitor, transnationalism challenges the concepts of citizenship and of nationhood itself.

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