Building bridges of various sorts

Old and new migrant transnationalism among Uruguayans in Spain

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ID9953680
AuthorsAna Margheritis (0000-0001-8126-4478, CONICET‐UTDT (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas‐Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) Buenos Aires Argentina, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume62
Issue4
Pages173-188
Publication date2023-10-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Migration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/imig.13199
OpenAlexW4387937549
LanguageEN
References cited34

This study explores emigrants' motivations to form associations, their activities and engagement with home politics, and whether diaspora policies impinge on their practices. It focuses on Uruguayans abroad, who are a relevant case of migrant transnationalism. Building upon qualitative methods, it investigates their associational life in a main destination: Spain. The findings contribute to expand our knowledge of a relatively less studied diaspora, document associations' transnational activities and evolution and revisit debates on the dynamics of diaspora politics and transnational engagements with home/host politics, which in this case remain intermittent and fragmented, albeit intense and highly localized. The notion of building bridges of various sorts emerges as a signifier that gives meaning to individual and collective engagements. This opens new research venues and contributes to analytical refinement as to incorporate migrant transnational practices that are not neatly patterned, sustained in time and simultaneously identifiable in host and home contexts

Diaspora · Emigration · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transnationalism · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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