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Publication details [#29032]

Glick Schiller, Nina, Linda Basch and Christina Blanc-Szanton. 1992. Towards a transnational perspective on migration: Race, class, ethnicity, and nationalism reconsidered. New York Academy of Sciences. xv + 259 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | immigrant | nationalism | race | social class

ISBN

0-89766-703-4

Annotation

The papers in this volume deal with social research on immigrants and their identities. Some factual conditions all the papers address are migrant exchanges with their native societies; the non-permanent residency in the host society; migrant upward mobility and increase of prestige; and migrants' importance to their home country.

Reviewed by

Necef, Mehmet. 1995. Review of $Towards a transnational perspective on migration: Race, class, ethnicity, and nationalism reconsidered.