Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration: Cross-Border Lives

Author:   Susanne Wessendorf ,  Dr. Anne J. Kershen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781409440154


Pages:   190
Publication Date:   28 March 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration represents the first comprehensive study of second-generation transnationalism, exploring the manner in which the children of migrants grow up amid travel back and forth between the country of origin and the country of immigration, while at the same time forming social attachments locally with people of other origins. Presenting rich empirical data gathered among second-generation Italians in Switzerland and southern Italy, and drawing on studies undertaken in other parts of Europe and in North America and Australia, this book investigates why as adults, members of the second generation maintain diverging transnational relations, with some sharing their parents' transnational ties and fostering social relations with co-ethnics, whilst others distance themselves from co-ethnics and rarely visit their country of origin. Yet others decide to relocate to their country of origin, a phenomenon the book conceptualizes as 'roots migration'. A rigorous exploration of the complex interplay of political, cultural and socio-economic factors in shaping the intergenerational reproduction of transnational ties, Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and geographers, with interests in migration and ethnicity, and the interrelationship of transnationalism and integration in immigration societies.

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Author:   Susanne Wessendorf ,  Dr. Anne J. Kershen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9781409440154


ISBN 10:   140944015
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   28 March 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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'Full of wonderfully rich and absorbing material, this well-written ethnographic study of second-generation Italians in Switzerland and southern Italy provides important insights into how and why the adult children of migrants maintain ties with their parents' country of origin - a topic that is central to our understanding of contemporary immigration.' Nancy Foner, Hunter College and City University of New York, USA 'This book is a welcome addition to theory building and ethnographic literature about the second generation . Aptly deploying concepts of transnational social fields, ways of belonging and home making, Wessendorf traces migrant networks beyond ethnically defined activities and identities. By abandoning an ethnic lens she provides a multi-sited description of how people of migrant backgrounds form social relations in villages of Italy and urban Switzerland.' Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester, UK


"'Full of wonderfully rich and absorbing material, this well-written ethnographic study of second-generation Italians in Switzerland and southern Italy provides important insights into how and why the adult children of migrants maintain ties with their parents' country of origin - a topic that is central to our understanding of contemporary immigration.' Nancy Foner, Hunter College and City University of New York, USA 'This book is a welcome addition to theory building and ethnographic literature about the ""second generation"". Aptly deploying concepts of transnational social fields, ways of belonging and home making, Wessendorf traces migrant networks beyond ethnically defined activities and identities. By abandoning an ethnic lens she provides a multi-sited description of how people of migrant backgrounds form social relations in villages of Italy and urban Switzerland.' Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester, UK"


'Full of wonderfully rich and absorbing material, this well-written ethnographic study of second-generation Italians in Switzerland and southern Italy provides important insights into how and why the adult children of migrants maintain ties with their parents' country of origin - a topic that is central to our understanding of contemporary immigration.' Nancy Foner, Hunter College and City University of New York, USA'This book is a welcome addition to theory building and ethnographic literature about the second generation . Aptly deploying concepts of transnational social fields, ways of belonging and home making, Wessendorf traces migrant networks beyond ethnically defined activities and identities. By abandoning an ethnic lens she provides a multi-sited description of how people of migrant backgrounds form social relations in villages of Italy and urban Switzerland.'Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester, UK


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Susanne Wessendorf is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany, and co-editor of The Multiculturalism Backlash: European Discourses, Policies and Practices.

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