Doing' Transnationalism

The Integrative Impact of Salvadoran Cross-Border Activism

Bibliographic Data

ID3626328
AuthorsArpi Miller (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume37
Issue1
Pages43-60
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2011.521362
OpenAlexW2006578461
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited36

This paper enters the discussion on immigrant transnationalism by exploring the integrative effects of ‘doing’ public and political transnational activity. Early on, immigrant transnationalism was posed as an alternative or opposed force to more traditionally conceptualised processes like assimilation and integration. Later renderings of the phenomenon conceded that, indeed, processes of transnationalism and assimilation might even be interdependent, with integration as the facilitator of action that can occur either beyond or between nation-states. Here, I draw on life-history interviews and multiple years of ethnographic observation with US-based Salvadoran activists to reveal the opposite side of the transnationalism–integration coin. With the intent and in the process of trying to carry out transnational activity, Salvadoran activists become embedded into the host-state civic and political landscape

Epistemology · Facilitator · Immigration · Interdependence · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Transnationalism · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy