People who are “on the move” often occupy a state of betwixt and between, in which moral and economic value is subject to change. This enlightening and geographically wide-ranging reassessment of migrant moral economies, Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World delineates migrants’ reciprocity, responsibility and dignity, as they respond to and contest unequal political and economic power. In doing so, this volume examines the transformative potential of transnational mobility to create social networks and to sustain reciprocity capable of resisting contemporary authoritarian efforts to sacralize borders and dehumanize migrants.
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List of Illustrations Preface: A Tribute to Jonathan Hill David Sutton Introducing the Moral of the Story: Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in Betwixt and Between Vytis Ciubrinskas and Nina Glick Schiller Part I: Reframing Concepts of Time, Space, and Capital Chapter 1. The Twilight of Transnational Migration Studies: Reframing Concepts of Time, Space, and Dispossession Nina Glick Schiller Part II: Embedding Reciprocity Chapter 2. TheMoral Economy of Transnational Reciprocity: Lithuanian Return Migrants Between North America and Europa Vytis Ciubrinskas Chapter 3. Life ‘here’ and ‘there’ During Covid-19: (Im)mobilities and Transnational Social Ties for Romanians in London Ana-Maria Cirstea Part III: Migrating Women and Social Positioning Chapter 4. Transnational Negotiation of Human Dignity: The Case of Polish Migrant Women Working as Cleaners and Care Givers in Chicago Anna Horolets Chapter 5. Beyond the ‘Strong’ and ‘Weak’ Ties Divide: Women’s Networks in Transnational Moral Economies Marta Kindler Part IV: Return and Remittances Chapter 6. Social and Moral Remittances of Diaspora in Homeland Politics: Two Cases from Hungary Nóra Kovács Chapter 7. Are Transnationals ‘Real’ Agents of Change? An Exploration of how Returnees’ Transnationalism Relates to their Social Remitting Violetta Parutis and Marta Buler Part V: Crisis, Power, and Meaning Chapter 8. Migration as Crisis: Morality, Epistemology, and Transnational Mobility Roberto E. Barrios and Alfredo Danilo Rivera Chapter 9. Building Transnational Social Networks in the Aftermath of the Crisis of the Venezuelan Nation-State Jonathan D. Hill and Juan Luis Rodriguez Afterword Tricia Redeker-Hepner Index
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ISBN
9781805399384
Publisert
2025-04-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
298

Biographical note

Vytis Čiubrinskas is Professor of Social Anthropology at Vytautas Magnus University and visiting Associate Professor at the School of Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology, at Southern Illinois University. He has published more than fifty articles and chapters on the politics of ethnic and national identity construction in relation to transnationalism, cultural heritage and social memory. His recent publications include; Returning-Remitting-Receiving. Social Remittances of Transnational (Re)migrants to Croatia, Lithuania, and Poland (LIT Verlag, 2023), Transnacionalizmas ir Nacionalinio Identiteto Fragmentacija (Vytautas Magnus University Press, Lithuania, 2014), and a guest-edited special issue of Ethnologie francaise (2018).