Theorising Transnational Migration

The Status Paradox of Migration

Bibliographic Data

ID19883502
AuthorsB Nieswand (0000-0003-0976-1829, corresponding author)
Year2012
Pages199
Publication date2012-10-02
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTheorising Transnational Migration (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203810439
OpenAlexW4254043098
Open LibraryOL40419868M
ISBN9780203810439
LanguageEN
Citations received21

Societal transformations have recently stimulated political debates and policies on the integration of migrants and minorities in most Western European countries. While transnational migration studies have documented migrants’ cross-border activities there have been few empirically grounded efforts to theorise these developments in the framework of integration and status theory. Based on a case study of Ghanaian migrants, this book seeks to understand integration processes and develops a theorem of the status paradox of migration which explores the interaction between migrants’ integration into the receiving country and the maintained inclusion into the sending society. It describes a characteristic problem for a large class of labour migrants from the global south who gain status in the sending countries by simultaneously losing it in the receiving countries of migration. This transnational dynamic of status attainment, which goes along with specifically national forms of status inconsistency, is what is called the status paradox of migration. By bringing together two modes of national status incorporation within one framework, the status paradox provides an innovative perspective on migration processes and demonstrates the usefulness of a transnationalist integration theory. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of migration, transnationalism, politics, sociology and anthropology

Economic geography · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Cultural assimilation · Emigration & Immigration · emigration and immigration · Émigration et immigration · Immigrants · Integration · Nationalism · Social aspects · Social conditions · Social Science · Transnationalism · Transnationalisme