Hometown Transnationalism : Long Distance Villageness among Indian Punjabis and North African Berbers.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series .
- Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series .
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Methodological and Theoretical Outline -- 1 Selecting Groups: Moroccan Chleuhs, Algerian Kabyles and Indian Sikhs in Europe -- 2 Outline of a Structure and Agency to Hometown Transnationalism -- Part II: Transnationalism: An Emergent Process -- 3 Migration and the Village Lifeworld: Exploring the Ambivalence of the Migration Act -- 4 Hometown Organising and the Multipolarisation of Migrants' Lives -- Part III: State Policies and Immigrant Volunteering: The Developmentalist Turn -- 5 The Indian and North African Volunteer Sector in Europe -- 6 Migrant Organisations and the New Governance of Development -- Conclusion: Moving beyond the Postmodern Trap of Transnational Studies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.