Documenting Transnational Migration: Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America: 25 (New Directions in Anthropology, 25) - Hardcover

Antoun, Richard T

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ISBN 10: 184545037X ISBN 13: 9781845450373

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2014

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"This book provides very rich material on long-term experiences of Arab migrants abroad and contributes to the literature on migration and Arab disasporas." - JRAI

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Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one Jordanian village to 17 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, emphasizes the resiliency of transnational migrants after long periods of absence, social encapsulation, and stress, and their ability to construct social networks and reinterpret traditions in such a way as to mix the old and the new in a scenario that incorporates both worlds. Focusing on the humanistic aspects of the migration experience, this book examines questions such as birth control, women's work, retention of tribal law, and the changing attitudes of migrants towards themselves, their families, their home communities, and their nation. It ends with placing transnational migration from Jordan in a cross-cultural perspective by comparing it with similar processes elsewhere, and critically reviews a number of theoretical perspectives that have been used to explain migration.

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• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 184545037X
• ISBN 13: 9781845450373
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 338