Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World

by Vytis Ciubrinskas Ciubrinskas (Editor), Nina Glick Schiller (Editor)

Overview

People who are “on the move” often occupy a state of betwixt and between, in which moral and economic value is subject to change. This enlightening and geographically wide-ranging reassessment of migrant moral economies, Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World delineates migrants’ reciprocity, responsibility and dignity, as they respond to and contest unequal political and economic power. In doing so, this volume examines the transformative potential of transnational mobility to create social networks and to sustain reciprocity capable of resisting contemporary authoritarian efforts to sacralize borders and dehumanize migrants.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781805399391
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	04/01/2025
Series:	Worlds in Motion , #15
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	298
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Vytis Čiubrinskas is Professor of Social Anthropology at Vytautas Magnus University and visiting Associate Professor at the School of Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology, at Southern Illinois University. He has published more than fifty articles and chapters on the politics of ethnic and national identity construction in relation to transnationalism, cultural heritage and social memory. His recent publications include; Returning-Remitting-Receiving. Social Remittances of Transnational (Re)migrants to Croatia, Lithuania, and Poland (LIT Verlag, 2023), Transnacionalizmas ir Nacionalinio Identiteto Fragmentacija (Vytautas Magnus University Press, Lithuania, 2014), and a guest-edited special issue of Ethnologie francaise (2018).

Nina Glick Schiller is a visiting scholar at the New School, an Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester and University of New Hampshire, a founding editor of Identities, and a co-editor of Anthropological Theory. Her eleven books and more than 100 articles and chapters provide comparative and historical perspectives on migration and city making, transnational processes and social relations, and process of dispossession and displacement, among others. Her co-authored books include Migrants and City Making (Duke University Press, 2018); Nations Unbound (Routledge 1994); and Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home (Duke University Press, 2001).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface: A Tribute to Jonathan Hill
David Sutton

Introducing the Moral of the Story: Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in Betwixt and Between
Vytis Ciubrinskas and Nina Glick Schiller
Available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from Research Council of Lithuania and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania, Contract No S-A-UEI-23-13 (2023-12-27).

Part I: Reframing Concepts of Time, Space, and Capital

Chapter 1. The Twilight of Transnational Migration Studies: Reframing Concepts of Time, Space, and Dispossession
Nina Glick Schiller

Part II: Embedding Reciprocity

Chapter 2. TheMoral Economy of Transnational Reciprocity: Lithuanian Return Migrants Between North America and Europa
Vytis Ciubrinskas

Chapter 3. Life ‘here’ and ‘there’ During Covid-19: (Im)mobilities and Transnational Social Ties for Romanians in London
Ana-Maria Cirstea

Part III: Migrating Women and Social Positioning

Chapter 4. Transnational Negotiation of Human Dignity: The Case of Polish Migrant Women Working as Cleaners and Care Givers in Chicago
Anna Horolets

Chapter 5. Beyond the ‘Strong’ and ‘Weak’ Ties Divide: Women’s Networks in Transnational Moral Economies
Marta Kindler

Part IV: Return and Remittances

Chapter 6. Social and Moral Remittances of Diaspora in Homeland Politics: Two Cases from Hungary
Nóra Kovács

Chapter 7. Are Transnationals ‘Real’ Agents of Change? An Exploration of how Returnees’ Transnationalism Relates to their Social Remitting
Violetta Parutis and Marta Buler

Part V: Crisis, Power, and Meaning

Chapter 8. Migration as Crisis: Morality, Epistemology, and Transnational Mobility
Roberto E. Barrios and Alfredo Danilo Rivera

Chapter 9. Building Transnational Social Networks in the Aftermath of the Crisis of the Venezuelan Nation-State
Jonathan D. Hill and Juan Luis Rodriguez

Afterword
Tricia Redeker-Hepner

Index