Hometown transnationalism [electronic resource] : long distance villageness among Indian Punjabis and North African Berbers / Thomas Lacroix.
Lacroix, Thomas., author.
2015
JV7590 .L33 2015eb
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Title Hometown transnationalism [electronic resource] : long distance villageness among Indian Punjabis and North African Berbers / Thomas Lacroix.
Author Lacroix, Thomas., author.
ISBN 9781137567215 (electronic book)
113756721X (electronic book)
9781137567208
1137567201
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number JV7590 .L33 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.8914/2104
Summary Collective remittances, that is to say development initiatives carried out by immigrant groups for the benefit of their place of origin, have been attracting growing attention from both academics and policy makers. Focusing on hometown organisations, this book analyses the social mechanics that are conducive to collective transnationalism.
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Series Migration, diasporas and citizenship.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Methodological and Theoretical Outline; 1 Selecting Groups: Moroccan Chleuhs, Algerian Kabyles and Indian Sikhs in Europe; 2 Outline of a Structure and Agency to Hometown Transnationalism; Part II: Transnationalism: An Emergent Process; 3 Migration and the Village Lifeworld: Exploring the Ambivalence of the Migration Act; 4 Hometown Organising and the Multipolarisation of Migrants' Lives; Part III: State Policies and Immigrant Volunteering: The Developmentalist Turn

5 The Indian and North African Volunteer Sector in Europe6 Migrant Organisations and the New Governance of Development; Conclusion: Moving beyond the Postmodern Trap of Transnational Studies; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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