A Century of Transnationalism: Immigrants and Their Homeland Connections(Studies of World Migrations)

This collection of articles by sociologically minded historians and historically minded sociologists highlights both the long-term persistence and the continuing instability of home country connections. Encompassing societies of origin and destination from around the world, A Century of Transnationalism shows that while population movements across states recurrently produce homeland ties, those connections have varied across contexts and from one historical period to another, changing in unpredictable ways. Any number of factors shape the linkages between home and destination, including conditions in the society of immigration, policies of the state of emigration, and geopolitics worldwide. Contributors: Houda Asal, Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard, Caroline Douki, David FitzGerald, Nancy L. Green, Madeline Y. Hsu, Thomas Lacroix, Tony Michels, Victor Pereira, Mônica Raisa Schpun, and Roger Waldinger

Table of Contents:
CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Roger Waldinger and Nancy L. GreenPart I. The State and Transnationalism1. The "Return Politics" of a Sending Country: The Italian Case, 1880s–1914 by Caroline Douki2. Portuguese Migrants and Portugal: Elite Discourse and Transnational Practices by Victor Pere3. Japanese Brazilians (1908–2013): Transnationalism amid Violence, Social Mobility, and Crisis4. 150 Years of Transborder Politics: Mexico and Mexicans Abroad by David FitzGerald5. Transnationalism and the Emergence of the Modern Chinese State: National Rejuvenation and the Ascendance of Foreign-Educated Files (Liuxuesheng) by Madeline Y. HsuPart II. Immigrants and the Periodization of Transnationalism6. Transnationalism, States' Influence, and the Political Mobilizations of the Arab Minority in Canada by Houda Asal7. Toward a History of American Jews and the Russian Revolutionary Movement by Tony Michels8. Periodizing Indian Organizational Transnationalism in the United Kingdom by Thomas Lacroix9. Transnationalism and Migration in the Colonial and Postcolonial Context: Emigrants from the Souf Area (Algeria) to Nanterre (France) (1950 - 2000) by Marie-Claude Blanc-ChaleardContributorsIndex

About the Author :
Nancy L. Green is a professor of history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She is a coeditor of Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation and author of The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941. Roger Waldinger is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCLA. He is editor of Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America and author of The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants, and Their Homelands.

Review :
"In exploring migrants' cross-border connections over time, this collection of insightful and highly readable essays offers fresh perspectives and fascinating historical analysis on a topic central to the study of immigration. An indispensable guide to understanding the dynamics involved in transnational ties that will be a highly valued resource for students and scholars alike."--Nancy Foner, coauthor of Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe "This volume, edited by two of the foremost scholars in the field, infuses migration studies with sorely needed historical perspective, conceptual clarity, and theoretical depth by treating the transnational not as a mantra but as actual social spaces/processes that can be understood empirically and historically."--Jose C. Moya, author of Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930   "Immigrant men and women shape and maintain transnational, often locally embedded linkages, and statesmen utilize or frame such connectivity. Both sides engage each other to achieve familial and statewide goals, economic, political, and emotional ones. The authors masterfully weave specific analyses into a long endured perspective of transcultural relations."--Dirk Hoerder, author of Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium