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Trajectories and Imaginaries in Migration - The Migrant Actor in Transnational Space (Hardcover)
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Trajectories and Imaginaries in Migration - The Migrant Actor in Transnational Space (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Migration and Diaspora
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This book draws attention to the various factors that characterize
migrant flows and mobilities, calling into question familiar
concepts such as push and pull, migration as a life project and
sociocultural integration. It highlights processes such as fl
exible migrant routes, temporary and return migration, mental
aspects of migration processes and transnationalism, which are
organised around the themes of shaping trajectories, frictions in
space, and the migrant mental framework. It brings together work
from scholars from Europe and beyond, with the contributions
collected emphasizing the social and mental processes that underpin
the migratory process, which can be seen as the 'soft side' of
migration. Too often, this side is neglected when the governance of
migration is discussed. The novel ideas expressed here also help to
overcome the mechanistic view of migration as a push-pull event.
Thus, the book suggests a different understanding of migration and
mobility as relational, non-linear and fluid social processes,
characterized by instability in migrant life trajectories.
Emphasizing the fl exibility of migrants and migration and
advocating the importance of emotionally charged, individual
perceptions as central to migrant decision-making, it will appeal
to scholars of sociology, anthropology, politics and geography with
interests in migration and diaspora studies.
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