Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World

Vytis Čiubrinskas, Nina Glick Schiller (Herausgeber)

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298 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-938-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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 (Vyatus Magnus University, 2014), and a guest-edited special issue of Ethnologie francaise (2018).

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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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2025
Reihe/Serie	Worlds in Motion
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-938-1 / 1805399381
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-938-4 / 9781805399384
Zustand	Neuware