Anthropology and Migration Essays on Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity

Name: Anthropology and Migration Essays on Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity
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ISBN: 9780759103207

ISBN-10: 0759103208

ISBN-13: 9780759103207

Edition: 2003

Authors: Caroline B. Brettell

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Brettell's new book provides new insight into the processes of migration and transnationalism from an anthropological perspective. She analyzes macro and micro approaches to migration theory, utilizing her extensive fieldwork in Portugal and many other countries. Key issues she discusses include: immigrant incorporation vs. assimilation models; the impacts on individual, household and community as well as institutions and states; ethnic group composition; illegal immigration; city vs. suburban enclaves; ethnic entrepreneurship; the role of religion; men and women as migrants; and the use of oral histories in understanding immigration and the mediation of new social boundaries. This book…

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Publication date: 9/3/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.92" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



List of Tables


Introduction: Anthropology, Migration, and the Portuguese Diaspora



Situating the Anthropological Perspective: Macro, Meso, and Micro Approaches to the Study of Migration



The Emigrant, the Nation, and the State in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Portugal: An Anthropological Approach



Migration Stories: Agency and the Individual in the Study of Migration



Return Migration, Transmigrants, and Transnationalism



Emigrar para Voltar: A Portuguese Ideology of Return Migration



Emigration, the Church, and the Religious Festa in Northern Portugal



Cities, Immigrant Communities, and Ethnic Identity



Is the Ethnic Community Inevitable?: A Comparison of the Settlement Patterns of Portuguese Immigrants in Toronto and Paris



Ethnicity and Entrepreneurs: Portuguese Immigrants in a Canadian City



Gender and Migration



Emigration and Household Structure in a Portuguese Parish, 1850-1920



Women Are Migrants, Too: A Portuguese Perspective



Conclusion: Toward a Comparative Understanding of Migration


References


Index


About the Author