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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797478603321

Titolo

The state and the grassroots : immigrant transnational organizations in four continents / / edited by Alejandro Portes and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-735-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Disciplina

337

Soggetti

Immigrants - Societies, etc

Immigrants - Cultural assimilation

Emigration and immigration - Social aspects

Transnationalism - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction - Immigration, Transnationalism, and Development: The State of the Question; Section I - Immigrant Organizations in the United States; Chapter 1 - Traversing Ancestral and New Homelands: Chinese Immigrant Transnational Organizations in the United States; Chapter 2 - Transnational Philanthropy of Urban Migrants: Colombian and Dominican Immigrant Organizations and Development; Chapter 3 - Tapping the Indian Diaspora for Indian Development

Chapter 4 - Partners in Organizing: Engagement between Migrants and the State in the Production of Mexican Hometown AssociationsChapter 5 - Navigating Uneven Development: The Dynamics of Fractured Transnationalism; Chapter 6 - Breaking Blocked Transnationalism: Intergenerational Change in Homeland Ties; Section II - Immigrant Organizations in Europe; Chapter 7 - Moroccan and Congolese Migrant Organizations in Belgium; Chapter 8 - Moroccans in France: Their Organizations and Activities Back Home

Chapter 9 - Transnational Activities of Immigrants in the Netherlands: Do Ghanaian, Moroccan, and Surinamese Diaspora Organizations



Enhance Development?Chapter 10 - Transnational Immigrant Organizations in Spain: Their Role in Development and Integration; Conclusion - Assimilation through Transnationalism: A Theoretical Synthesis; Appendix; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Comparing eighteen of these grassroots organizations formed across the world, from India to Colombia to Vietnam to the Congo, researchers from the United States, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Spain focus their studies on the internal structure and activities of these organizations as they relate to developmental initiatives. The book outlines the principal positions in the migration and develop