Linking transnational migrants and transnationalism

✍ Scribed by Darren P. Smith; Adrian J. Bailey

• Book ID: 105361067
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 42 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1544-8444
• DOI: 10.1002/psp.342

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This paper introduces a special issue on transnational migrants. It provides a brief discussion of the need to rethink ways of conceptualising the links between transnational migrants and transnationalism. In doing so, we point to some recent work by population and social and cultural geographers which provides a valuable exemplar for reconfiguring conceptualisations of migration, migrancy and difference. This introductory paper, and the other papers selected for this special issue, contribute to the debate of problematising the meaning of transnational migrants, and the processes by which transnationalism is increasingly forming multidimensional spaces, reproduced by complex networks, circuits and flows of people, commodities and socio‐cultural exchanges. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.