Commentary: Transnational migration research

Sociopedia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Caneva
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Migration Research

Transnational care constellations: Im/migrant families, children and education

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-199
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Central Piece ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Economic Health

Drawing on over a decade of empirical research, this article develops the framework of ‘Transnational Care Constellations’ in order to understand how mothers, children and caregivers are connected across national terrains. This approach takes into account the ways families organize care, economic, health and everyday decisions and focuses on relationships across nations. The purpose of this article is twofold: (1) to present relevant literature in transnational migration research that has led me to think about care as a central piece that keeps families together; and (2) to show through empirical ethnographic data three cases of families that are organized transnationally. This article also takes into consideration the impacts of a global pandemic in the modes of communication transnational care constellations have used.

Towards a Political Sociology of Transnationalization. The State of the Art in Migration Research

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS FAIST
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Political Sociology ◽  
Hierarchical Control ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
General Study ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
National Borders

The transnational turn in international migration research since the early 1990s has sparked vigorous debates among migration scholars. Yet the political aspects of transnational migration have been under-studied when compared to social, cultural and economic processes. This is particularly astonishing because the very term transnational suggests the importance of national borders and nationally-bound polities as opportunities and restrictions of exchange, reciprocity, solidarity and hierarchical control for processes involving non-state actors to varying degrees. The goal of this analysis is to take stock of some developments in the general study of transnationalization and treat the aspects of politics, policy and polity as a specific case of this broader conceptual and empirical effort. This effort also identifies questions for further research and offers methodological venues for the study of transnationalism arising out of international migration.

scholarly journals Theorizing the relationality of skilled migrants’ transnational mobilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-80
Author(s):  
Nguyen Hong Chi
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
The World

The issue of transnational mobilities of skilled migrants has been studied from multidisciplinary dynamics. They are built on various theoretical frameworks and methodological tools and at the same time, propose innovative approaches to understanding internationalism. Aiming to add further nuance to the field of transnational migration, this article outlines a theoretical perspective attending to inter-relational aspects in skilled migrants’ transnational mobilities which are reflective of their embeddedness in the world. This perspective is based on a critical review of literature on skilled migration and transnationalism which primarily argues that migrants follow their life pursuits and make sense of their migratory experiences under influences of socio-economic, political and cultural regularities that shape their subjectivities in transnational mobilities. By extending the conventional perception of these influences, it is argued in this paper that transnational mobilities are shaped and re-shaped through at least 5 interrelated aspects of migrants’ lived experience, from the initiation of migration to relocating to the destination country and making professional and personal plans. Therefore, the relationality of transnational mobilities can be theorised through skilled migrants’ entwinement with the world in multiple spaces and temporalities. This article has the potential to contribute a unifying framework to migration research methodologies which currently tend to examine each or some of migrants’ aspects of experiences separately.

Mixed Methods and Multisited Migration Research: Innovations From a Transnational Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margit Fauser
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Integrated Framework ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Form Part

This article discusses the use of mixed methods design for transnational migration research. It draws on two currently expanding strategies that can form part of an integrated framework that reveals multiple complementary perspectives: (a) the incorporation of quantitative data and methods in what has been a largely qualitative field and (b) the use of multisited research that investigates individuals and families connected across borders. This framework can be supported by collaboration of researchers across methodologies and state borders, which is addressed as a third strategy. By drawing on one research project that investigates the role of transnationality in the reproduction of social inequalities, this article explores the benefits and challenges of this approach.

Overcoming Challenges of International Migration Research: A Case Study Approach in Southern Mexico

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-143
Author(s):  
Julie Boyles
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Migration Research

An ethnographic case study approach to understanding women’s actions and reactions to husbands’ emigration—or potential emigration—offers a distinct set of challenges to a U.S.-based researcher.  International migration research in a foreign context likely offers challenges in language, culture, lifestyle, as well as potential gender norm impediments. A mixed methods approach contributed to successfully overcoming barriers through an array of research methods, strategies, and tactics, as well as practicing flexibility in data gathering methods. Even this researcher’s influence on the research was minimized and alleviated, to a degree, through ascertaining common ground with many of the women. Research with the women of San Juan Guelavía, Oaxaca, Mexico offered numerous and constant challenges, each overcome with ensuing rewards.

Mobility and Immobility in a Transnational Context: Changing Views of Migration among the Kazakh Diaspora in Mongolia

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Werner ◽  
Holly R. Barcus
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Kazakh Population ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Inquiry into the causes and outcomes of transnational migration spans numerous disciplines, scales and methodological approaches.  Fewer studies focus on immobility.  Utilizing the Kazakh population of Mongolia as a case study, this paper considers how non-migrants view the economic and cultural costs of migrating.  We posit that three factors, including local place attachments specific to Mongolia, access to information about life in Kazakhstan and the importance of maintaining social networks in Mongolia, contribute substantially to their decision to not migrate. Our findings suggest that the decision to not migrate can be very strategic for non-migrants in highly transnational contexts.  

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