GEOG 2210 Lecture Notes - Transnationalism, Post-Structuralism, Nationstates
Document Summary
Transnational scholarship is suspicious of the way immigrants are defined and classified. >> definitions and classifications revolve largely around concept of nation-state. >> nation-state is important concept in defining terms of immigrants, but in era of globalization, must be considered in light of nation-states participating in global economic and political practices. Transnationalism questions the conceptual and political usefulness of these definitions and classifications of immigrants. >> classifications are too rigid (e. g. either refugee or immigrant?) >> rigidity does not reflect nuances in why people migrate, etc. Transmigrants able to set-up complex lives in two communities. Emergence of institutions and political relations in transnational communities transmigrant vs circulator. >> circulator: calls sending country home, new country as temporary place of residence (although spends most of their time there) >> transmigrant: both countries are home -- have equal connection to both. Transnationalism remoulding conceptions of: gender, race, ethnicity, and nation.
