International Migration, Social Demotion, and Imagined Advancement

"Recognizing immigration's decline as such, this book, proposes viewing contemporary migration as socioglobal mobility. Revolving around an enthnograpic study of the Albanian "emigration" in Greece, International Migration, Social Demotion, and Imagined Advancement finds that imaginings of the world in social hierarchy might lie at the roots of much of the contemporary international migration. As would-be emigrants perceive different countries in terms of distinct social station in a global order, they resolve to put up with numerous social and material deprivations in the hope of advancing internationally. Immigrants are typically thought of as aliens in their de facto home societies however, making genuine advancements all but impossible."--BOOK JACKET.

שנה

2007

שפה

English

הוצאה

Springer

מהדורות

5

עמודים

214

ISBN

9780387719528

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