ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how people who have come from other countries to work in fishing villages in a remote area in the north-west part of Iceland experience the places where they are living. It examines the development of labour migration to these fishing villages, followed by an exploration of the immigrants' views of their new locales. Growing attention to global processes since the 1990s has to a large extent shifted the focus of immigrant studies from concerns integration and ethnicity towards considerations of mobility, transnationalism, translocality and transmigration. Global and transnational perspectives are increasingly challenging earlier conceptions of places as stable culture units inhabited by people who share a common identity and are bound by solidarity. The transnational lives of contemporary migrants challenge, as Levitt and Glick-Schiller argue, our understanding of basic social institutions such as the family, citizenship, and the nation state.
