ABSTRACT

In this book, two leading authorities on migration and nationhood attempt to bridge the gap between experience and analysis, looking at:
* the disorientating effects of space and time which migration creates
* how migration affects our understanding of national affiliations and the nation state
* the impact of cross national economic relations on everyday life.
The authors examine the migration of both rich and poor, crossing borders and living increasingly diasporic lives, and show how even as people move across borders, they still seek to be at home in the world through the creation of a "politics of belonging".

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

Trans-nationalism and the politics of belonging

part |81 pages

Part I

chapter |20 pages

Ruptures

Decentred nations: transnationalism and the nation in Latin America

chapter |18 pages

The politics of belonging

‘Political love': popular culture and the national romance in Latin America

chapter |13 pages

The politics of belonging

Imagining America, remembering home: Latino/a cultures in urban America

chapter |25 pages

Economic ethnoscapes

‘Diamonds are forever': ethnicity, economy and the Indian diamond trade

chapter |3 pages

Making connections

Transnationals, nation and migration

part |63 pages

Part II

chapter |19 pages

Ruptures

Migration and globalisation: looking back and looking forward

chapter |26 pages

The politics of belonging

Sex work, domestic work: transnational household strategies

chapter |16 pages

Economic ethnoscapes

Men, women and business

chapter |2 pages

Afterword

Men, women and business