Ruben Gielis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruben Gielis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruben |
| FAMILY NAME | Gielis |
| SIGNATURE | GIELIS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sloterdijk in the House! Dwelling in the Borderscape of Germany and The Netherlands
1. The order of the authors is alphabetical. It is almost a truism to say that people increasingly dwell in a transnational context, that is, in-between societal systems and together with multiple nationalities. Increasingly, people are living in a different nation in which they were born. The nation-states people dwell in cannot be equated with territorial container-boxes anymore, if this ever could. The uniform and straight lines in the sand, t…
The value of single-site ethnography in the global era
Since George Marcus wrote his seminal article on multi-sited ethnography, this methodology has become much used by scholars who study people's everyday life in a global and transnational context. In that same article, Marcus argued that single-site ethnography can still be a useful methodology in the global era. In contrast with multi-sited ethnography, Marcus' thoughts about single-site ethnography have rarely been elaborated and put into practi…
Borders Make the Difference
This paper tries to accomplish cross‐fertilisation between border studies and transmigration studies, research fields which exist almost separated from each other. It claims that the concept of border can contribute to the theoretical growth to maturity of the relatively young field of transmigration studies, and especially to a deeper understanding of the in‐between lifeworlds of transmigrants (migrant transnationalism). In transmigration studie…
A global sense of migrant places
Contemporary transnational migrants have complex social lives in that they live in a number of different cross-border social networks at the same time. Most transmigration scholars try to grasp this social complexity of migrant transnationalism by using a network lens. In this article, I argue in favour of adding a place lens to the analytical tool kit of transmigration scholars. Although a network lens works well for studying the internal comple…
Elastic Migration
Along the Dutch-Belgian and Dutch-German border a new and interesting kind of transmigration is developing, that is migration over only a few kilometres across the border. The main characteristic of these Dutch short-distance transmigrants is that they have their houses in Belgium/Germany, but their social and working life still takes place in the Netherlands. Their transmigration is hence very elastic. This elasticity invokes the interesting que…
A global sense of migrant places
Contemporary transnational migrants have complex social lives in that they live in a number of different cross-border social networks at the same time. Most transmigration scholars try to grasp this social complexity of migrant transnationalism by using a network lens. In this article, I argue in favour of adding a place lens to the analytical tool kit of transmigration scholars. Although a network lens works well for studying the internal comple…
Sloterdijk in the House! Dwelling in the Borderscape of Germany and The Netherlands
1. The order of the authors is alphabetical. It is almost a truism to say that people increasingly dwell in a transnational context, that is, in-between societal systems and together with multiple nationalities. Increasingly, people are living in a different nation in which they were born. The nation-states people dwell in cannot be equated with territorial container-boxes anymore, if this ever could. The uniform and straight lines in the sand, t…
Elastic Migration
Along the Dutch-Belgian and Dutch-German border a new and interesting kind of transmigration is developing, that is migration over only a few kilometres across the border. The main characteristic of these Dutch short-distance transmigrants is that they have their houses in Belgium/Germany, but their social and working life still takes place in the Netherlands. Their transmigration is hence very elastic. This elasticity invokes the interesting que…
Borders Make the Difference
This paper tries to accomplish cross‐fertilisation between border studies and transmigration studies, research fields which exist almost separated from each other. It claims that the concept of border can contribute to the theoretical growth to maturity of the relatively young field of transmigration studies, and especially to a deeper understanding of the in‐between lifeworlds of transmigrants (migrant transnationalism). In transmigration studie…
The value of single-site ethnography in the global era
Since George Marcus wrote his seminal article on multi-sited ethnography, this methodology has become much used by scholars who study people's everyday life in a global and transnational context. In that same article, Marcus argued that single-site ethnography can still be a useful methodology in the global era. In contrast with multi-sited ethnography, Marcus' thoughts about single-site ethnography have rarely been elaborated and put into practi…
Elastic Migration
Along the Dutch-Belgian and Dutch-German border a new and interesting kind of transmigration is developing, that is migration over only a few kilometres across the border. The main characteristic of these Dutch short-distance transmigrants is that they have their houses in Belgium/Germany, but their social and working life still takes place in the Netherlands. Their transmigration is hence very elastic. This elasticity invokes the interesting que…
Borders Make the Difference
This paper tries to accomplish cross‐fertilisation between border studies and transmigration studies, research fields which exist almost separated from each other. It claims that the concept of border can contribute to the theoretical growth to maturity of the relatively young field of transmigration studies, and especially to a deeper understanding of the in‐between lifeworlds of transmigrants (migrant transnationalism). In transmigration studie…
A global sense of migrant places
Contemporary transnational migrants have complex social lives in that they live in a number of different cross-border social networks at the same time. Most transmigration scholars try to grasp this social complexity of migrant transnationalism by using a network lens. In this article, I argue in favour of adding a place lens to the analytical tool kit of transmigration scholars. Although a network lens works well for studying the internal comple…
The value of single-site ethnography in the global era
Since George Marcus wrote his seminal article on multi-sited ethnography, this methodology has become much used by scholars who study people's everyday life in a global and transnational context. In that same article, Marcus argued that single-site ethnography can still be a useful methodology in the global era. In contrast with multi-sited ethnography, Marcus' thoughts about single-site ethnography have rarely been elaborated and put into practi…
Sloterdijk in the House! Dwelling in the Borderscape of Germany and The Netherlands
1. The order of the authors is alphabetical. It is almost a truism to say that people increasingly dwell in a transnational context, that is, in-between societal systems and together with multiple nationalities. Increasingly, people are living in a different nation in which they were born. The nation-states people dwell in cannot be equated with territorial container-boxes anymore, if this ever could. The uniform and straight lines in the sand, t…
Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · German (2 works) · History (2 works)