ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Structural Functionalism, Petite Bourgeoisie, Transnationalism
Document Summary
Readings transnationalism - a new analytic framework for understanding migration by g. schiller, Reference: schiller, g. , basch, n. g. , & szanton-blanc, l. (1992). Annals of the new york academy of sciences, 645, 1-24. Our earlier conceptions of immigrant and migrant no longer suffice. Now, a new kind of migrating population is emerging, composed of those whose networks, activities and patterns of life encompass both their host and home societies. Their lives cut across national boundaries and bring two societies into a single social field. As these examples show, transnational migrants arrive in their new country of residence with certain practices and concepts constructed at home. They belong to certain more or less politicized populations and hold particular class affiliations. They then engage in complex activities across national borders that create, shape and potentially transform their identities in ways that we will begin to explore in this paper and in these conference proceedings.
