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A Sociology of ImmigrationLooking Beyond the Host Country: Immigrants’ Transnational Engagements

A Sociology of Immigration: Looking Beyond the Host Country: Immigrants’ Transnational Engagements [Next to the mechanisms of international migration and patterns of incorporation to the receiver society, immigrants’ involvement in their home countries has been the third main issue informing the agenda of present-day social science studies of immigration. This subject was already addressed in a comparative assessment of the major similarities and differences of turn-of-the-twentieth-century and contemporary American immigrants’ transnational engagements. Here I consider more closely the different kinds of immigrant transnationalism as identified in the subject literature and, next, comparatively examine the structure-agency mechanisms of transnational involvements of members of the eight groups in our sample, and the forms of their coexistence with immigrants’ specific modes of integration into the host society. In the last section of the chapter I identify the main areas of the impact of actor-immigrants’ transnational engagements in their homelands on the local- and, when relevant, national-level societal structures of these countries.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Sociology of ImmigrationLooking Beyond the Host Country: Immigrants’ Transnational Engagements

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
ISBN
978-1-349-30882-8
Pages
152 –183
DOI
10.1057/9780230240872_6
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Next to the mechanisms of international migration and patterns of incorporation to the receiver society, immigrants’ involvement in their home countries has been the third main issue informing the agenda of present-day social science studies of immigration. This subject was already addressed in a comparative assessment of the major similarities and differences of turn-of-the-twentieth-century and contemporary American immigrants’ transnational engagements. Here I consider more closely the different kinds of immigrant transnationalism as identified in the subject literature and, next, comparatively examine the structure-agency mechanisms of transnational involvements of members of the eight groups in our sample, and the forms of their coexistence with immigrants’ specific modes of integration into the host society. In the last section of the chapter I identify the main areas of the impact of actor-immigrants’ transnational engagements in their homelands on the local- and, when relevant, national-level societal structures of these countries.]

Published: Nov 28, 2015

Keywords: Host Country; Home Country; Immigrant Woman; Mexican Immigrant; Korean Immigrant

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