Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 645)

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Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 645)

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Anthropologists have increasingly noted that immigrants live their lives across borders and maintain close ties to home, even when their countries of origin and settlement are geographically distant. Forging links at a variety of levels--familial, economic, social, organizational, religious, and political--these immigrants maintain a high level of involvement in both their home and host societies. To describe this new way of life, some social scientists have begun to use the term "transnational." In this volume, a noted group of researchers explores the implications of this new gl...

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0801860881, 9780801860881

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