ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of multilocal hierarchies has been specifically addressed by some studies on transnational migration, which focus on how the border-crossing linkages of mobile individuals simultaneously influence their social positions both in the sending and the receiving countries. This chapter aims to show that much of the migration research on social inequalities is based on the questionable accounts. It shows that the concept of multilocal hierarchies is important in overcoming the conceptual limitations of migration research on social inequalities. Rhacel S. Parrenas and Luin Goldring analysed social inequalities primarily as class inequalities, examining how the transnational linkages of migrants simultaneously influence their class position both in the sending and the receiving countries. The effectiveness of the analytical tools used by both approaches is thus as limited by methodological territorialism as those of assimilation theory; in other words, if the lens is used, it is impossible to conceptualize sociospatial constellations as socially produced entities.
