Hometown Transnationalism : Long Distance Villageness among Indian Punjabis and North African Berbers / / by Thomas Lacroix
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| Autore: |
Lacroix Thomas
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| Titolo: |
Hometown Transnationalism : Long Distance Villageness among Indian Punjabis and North African Berbers / / by Thomas Lacroix
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.8914/2104 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social policy |
| Emigration and immigration | |
| Sociology | |
| Ethnology—Europe | |
| Social structure | |
| Equality | |
| Social service | |
| Social Policy | |
| Migration | |
| Sociology, general | |
| European Culture | |
| Social Structure, Social Inequality | |
| Social Work and Community Development | |
| Soggetto geografico: | India Emigration and immigration Social aspects |
| Africa, North Emigration and immigration Social aspects | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hometown Transnationalism |
| ISBN: | 1-137-56721-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910253337303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship, . 2662-2602