The past two decades have witnessed a sea change in migration scholarship. Most scholars
now recognize that many contemporary migrants and their predecessors maintain various …

This article reviews, synthesizes, and extends the theoretical underpinnings of existing
research on state-diaspora relations, highlighting the fragmented, case-study oriented and a …

This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and
practices of home among migrants. Home is usually perceived as what placidly lies in the …

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives, suffering,
and resistance of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. Seth Holmes, an …

This book seeks to provide a critical introduction to the under-theorized concept of
Glocalization. While the term has been slowly diffused into social-scientific vocabulary, to …

Hasta hace poco, las luchas por la justicia tenían lugar con el trasfondo de un marco que se
daba por supuesto: el Estado territorialmente delimitado. Con esta imagen" westfaliana" del …

Why do governments form institutions devoted to emigrants and their descendants in the
diaspora? Such institutions have become a regular feature of political life in many parts of …

Until recently, struggles for justice proceeded against the background of a taken-for-granted
frame: the bounded territorial state. With that" Westphalian" picture of political space …

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 …