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Nations Unbound is a pioneering study of an increasing trend in migration-transnationalism. Immigrants are no longer rooted in one location. By building transnational social networks, economic alliances and political ideologies, they are able to cross the geographic and cultural boundaries of both their countries of origin and of settlement. Through ethnographic studies of immigrant populations, the authors demonstrate that transnationalism is something other than expanded nationalism. By placing immigrants in a limbo between settler and visitor, transnationalism challenges the concepts of citizenship and of nationhood itself.
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Ch. 1 | Transnational Projects: A New Perspective | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Theoretical Issues | 21 |
| Ch. 3 | The Making of West Indian Transmigrant Populations: Examples from St. Vincent and Grenada | 49 |
| Ch. 4 | Hegemony, Transnational Practices, and the Multiple Identities of Vincentians and Grenadian Transmigrants | 95 |
| Ch. 5 | The Establishment of Haitian Transnational Social Fields | 145 |
| Ch. 6 | Not What We Had in Mind: Hegemonic Agendas, Haitian Transnational Practices, and Emergent Identities | 181 |
| Ch. 7 | Different Settings, Same Outcome: Transnationalism as a Global Process | 225 |
| Ch. 8 | There's No Place Like Home | 267 |
| References | 293 | |
| Index | 331 |
Overview
Nations Unbound is a pioneering study of an increasing trend in migration-transnationalism. Immigrants are no longer rooted in one location. By building transnational social networks, economic alliances and political ideologies, they are able to cross the geographic and cultural boundaries of both their countries of origin and of settlement. Through ethnographic studies of immigrant populations, the authors demonstrate that transnationalism is something other than expanded nationalism. By placing immigrants in a ...