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International Migration, Social Demotion, and Imagined Advancement - An Ethnography of Socioglobal Mobility (Hardcover)
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International Migration, Social Demotion, and Imagined Advancement - An Ethnography of Socioglobal Mobility (Hardcover)
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Contemporary migration involves a dramatic paradox. Although much
of what is considered international or transnational migration
today transforms people of a wide range of social standings in the
emigration countries into laborers at the bottom social and
economic ranks of the immigration countries, millions of
individuals worldwide seek to migrate internationally.
International Migration, Social Demotion, and Imagined Advancement
argues that this paradox cannot be explained for as long as common
preconceptions about immigrants? economic betterment thwart even
questioning why individuals who are not threatened by famine or war
willingly pursue their demotion abroad. Recognizing immigrants?
decline as such, this book proposes viewing contemporary migration
as socioglobal mobility. Revolving around an ethnographic study of
the Albanian emigration in Greece, International Migration, Social
Demotion, and Imagined Advancement finds that imaginaries of the
world as a social hierarchy might lie at the roots of much of the
contemporary international migration. As would-be emigrants
perceive different countries in terms of distinct social stations
in a global order, they resolve to put up with numerous social and
material deprivations in the hope of advancing internationally.
Immigrants are typically thought of as aliens in their de facto
home societies, however, and that makes genuine advancement all but
impossible. Erind Pajo is Assistant Researcher in Anthropology and
Lecturer in Social Sciences at the University of California,
Irvine.
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