Studying the tensions of transnational engagement : From the nuclear family to the world-wide web

Summary, in English

The aim of this special issue of JEMS is to explore the inherent contradictions and tensions of transnational engagement and reveal how these are played out at different levels, intersecting with other social markers based on gender, class, ethnicity, etc. While transnational engagements span territories and transcend spatial fixation, they might also provide stabilised identities for those involved, as diasporic imaginaries temporarily 'fix' subjectivities in a world of flux. This fundamental tension creates other concrete tensions at various levels, as struggles emerge over the right to draw new boundaries and to define and 'fix' transnational communities. Many of the individual migrants who defy borders are severely restricted with respect to other types of mobility, creating yet more tension between mobility and immobility. The stories in this collection of papers are about the ways in which these tensions are fought out and resolved in the creation of diaspora communities and transnational identities. They show, through concrete ethnographies, how these tensions materialise in a number of different ways, as conflicts are transnationalised and diasporas claimed, reclaimed and disclaimed.

• Författare: Simon Turner
• Publiceringsår: 2008-09
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 1049-1056
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
• Volym: 34
• Avvikelse: 7
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691830802230323
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Routledge
• Ämne: Social Anthropology
• Nyckelord: Belonging; Citizenship; Diaspora; Gender; Globalisation; Recognition
• Aktiv: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1369-183X