Navigating a river by its bends

A study on transnational social networks as resources for the transformation of Cambodia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7284686
AutoresGea D M Wijers (0000-0002-8658-1808, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen37
Número9
Páginas1526-1545
Fecha de publicación2013-04-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2013.782058
OpenAlexW2399712641
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas27

This article explores in what ways first-generation Cambodian French and Cambodian American returnees create and employ the social capital available in their transnational social networks upon their return to Cambodia. The triangular interdependence between the returnees, their overseas immigrant communities and homeland society is taken as a starting point. The central argument is that Cambodian French and Cambodian American returnees build different relationships to Cambodia due to: (1) the influence of their immigrant communities in the countries of resettlement; and (2) the contexts of their exit from Cambodia. Findings in this multi-sited case study bring forward that ideas of return held by the three parties involved, may force re-migrants into transnationalism in both host and home countries. Findings also demonstrate that social capital may be seen as a resource or a restraint in the lives of returnees. © 2014 © 2014 Taylor & Francis

Argument (complex analysis · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Homeland · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Social capital · Social change · Social science · Social transformation · Sociology · Transnationalism · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy