Human geographers, and collaborators in cognate disciplines, have taken the lead in
critiquing a wave of optimistic thinking about the relationship between migration and …

Scholars of transnationalism have argued that migrants create transnational social fields or
spaces that connect their place of origin to destination areas. Despite the centrality that …

In Migrants and City-Making Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of
migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and …

Diaspora and transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic as well as political
discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly …

Migration studies have focused attention on ethnic institutions in global and gateway cities.
This ethnic lens distorts migration scholarship, reinforces methodological nationalism, and …

Questioning the units of analysis of contemporary migration theory—the nation-state, the
ethnic group, and the transnational community—that structure discussions of migration and …

The most up-to-date analysis of today's immigration issues As the authors state in Chapter
1,“the movement of people across national borders represents one of the most vivid dramas …

This article bridges diaspora studies and diplomacy studies by proposing the concept of
'diaspora diplomacy', which considers the components of diplomacy and the changing …

Geographical research into migrants' use of transnational space has contributed towards the
materialization of a purely metaphorical construct. A largely separate literature on borders …

This book argues that the last four decades have seen profound and important changes in
the nature and social location of religion, and that those changes are best understood when …