Nations Unbound

Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-states

Author: Linda Green Basch
Secondary Author: Nina Glick Schiller
ISBN: 9782881246302

Nations Unbound is a pioneering study of an increasing trend in migration-transnationalism. Immigrants are no longer rooted in one location. By building transnational social networks, economic alliances and political ideologies, they are able to cross the geographic and cultural boundaries of both their countries of origin and of settlement. Through ethnographic studies of immigrant populations, the authors demonstrate that transnationalism is something other than expanded nationalism. By placing immigrants in a limbo between settler and visitor, transnationalism challenges the concepts of citizenship and of nationhood itself.

Publisher: Gordon and Breach
Publish Date: 1994

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This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Central & South America (CSAM))