Translocality: Concepts, applications and emerging research perspectives

C Greiner, P Sakdapolrak - Geography compass, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The employment of translocality as a research perspective is currently gaining momentum. A
growing number of scholars from different research traditions concerned with the dynamics …

Following migrant trajectories: The im/mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans en route to the European Union

J Schapendonk, G Steel - Annals of the Association of American …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
We use two trajectory ethnographies that follow the migration processes of Sudanese and
Nigerians heading for the European Union across space and time, to explore how the main …

Introduction: translocal development, development corridors and development chains

A Zoomers, G Westen - International Development …, 2011 - liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
This paper offers an introduction to this Special Issue of International Development Planning
Review. It uses the concepts of translocal development, development corridors and …

Structuring the emotional landscape of climate change migration: Towards climate mobilities in geography

L Parsons - Progress in Human Geography, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The literature on climate migration is increasingly concerned with linking the natural-
environmental and socio-cultural dimensions of risk response. However, the epistemological …

Resilient family meshwork. Thai–German migrations, translocal ties, and their impact on social resilience

SA Peth, P Sakdapolrak - Geoforum, 2020 - Elsevier
Social resilience becomes particularly apparent in difficult times. In many rural regions
people face multiple insecurities ranging from environmental change to losses of income …

Subsistence migration: Smallholder food security and the maintenance of agriculture through mobility in Nicaragua

L Carte, C Radel, B Schmook - The Geographical Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Research on Central American migration has revealed the importance of journeys to the
global North for rural sending communities. The outcomes of south–south journeys to …

Multi-activity, multi-locality and small-town development in Cameroon, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania

G Steel, T Birch-Thomsen, I Cottyn, EA Lazaro… - The European Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
This paper deals with the impact of livelihood diversification through multi-activity and multi-
locality on small-town development in Cameroon, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania. Based on …

“It doesn't make me any less A boriginal”: The complex politics of translocal place‐making for I ndigenous tertiary student migrants

D Harris, S Prout Quicke - Population, Space and Place, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Indigenous migratory practices have never been comfortably explained using deterministic
theories of migration. In this paper, we argue that translocalism offers new hopeful …

Responsibility, mobility, and power: translocal carework negotiations of Nicaraguan families

N Winters - International Migration Review, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Recently, carework has emerged as a key area for exploring the gendered connections
between migrants and their families “home,” providing insight into family-level …

Tourism, mobile livelihoods and 'disorderly'development in the Colca Valley, Peru

S Bidwell, WE Murray - Tourism Geographies, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Debates about tourism and rural development in Latin America commonly represent
peasant or indigenous populations as socially cohesive but economically unsophisticated …