During the past decade, transnationalism has entered the lexicon of migration scholars. As
with other terms used in the study of immigration and ethnicity, this concept suffers from …

This review of research offers a synthesis and analysis of research studies that address
issues of language and literacy practices and learning in transnational contexts of migration …

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 …

In this paper I consider how the construction of migration as a problem poses both ethical
and epistemological challenges to migration scholars and how this is related to political and …

Mobility studies emerged from a postmodern moment in which global 'flows' of capital,
people and objects were increasingly noted and celebrated. Within this new scholarship …

Immigrants are the people who leave one country behind to settle down somewhere else. Or
so the dictionary contends. While citizens and sometimes even the scholars see the …

Diversity in Britain is not what it used to be. Some thirty years of government policies, social
service practices and public perceptions have been framed by a particular understanding of …

Methodological nationalism is understood as the assumption that the nation/state/society is
the natural social and political form of the modern world. We distinguish three modes of …

This article explores the social theory and consequent methodology that underpins studies
of transnational migration. First, we propose a social field approach to the study of migration …

" The Transnational Villagers is one of the finest empirical studies available of a
phenomenon that is commanding the attention of scholars and policymakers--the creation …