Hometown Transnationalism

Collective remittances, that is to say development initiatives carried out by immigrant groups for the benefit of their place of origin, have been attracting growing attention from both academics and policy makers. Focusing on hometown organisations, this book analyses the social mechanics that are conducive to collective transnationalism.

This monograph synthesizes and builds on Lacroix's long-term research on three diasporas: Algerian Kabyles and Moroccan Chleuhs (both Berber subgroups) living in France and Indian Sikhs living in the United Kingdom. This book is rich and insightful, and I recommend it as a resource for migration scholars (faculty and postgraduate students, at least), both theoretically and empirically. For policymakers it points (correctly) to the ambiguities and downright muddle of policy toward migrants in both home and host countries. (Martin Evans, International Migrant Review, Vol. 51 (1), 2017)

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Thomas Lacroix is CNRS Deputy Director of Migrinter, University of Poitiers, France. His work addresses the relationships between transnationalism and development, with a specific focus on North African emigrants. In 2005 he published Les réseaux marocains du développement. He is also also Associate Editor of the journal Migration Studies.

Inhalt
Introduction
PART I: METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL OUTLINE

1. Selecting Groups: Moroccan Chleuhs, Algerian Kabyles And Indian Sikhs In Europe
2. Outline Of A Structure/Agency To Hometown Transnationalism
   PART II: TRANSNATIONALISM: AN EMERGENT PROCESS
3. Migration And The Village Lifeworld: Exploring The Ambivalence Of The Migration Act
4. Hometown Organising And The Multipolarisation Of Migrants' Life
   PART III: STATE POLICIES AND IMMIGRANT VOLUNTEERING: THE DEVELOPMENTALIST TURN
5. The Indian And North African Volunteer Sector In Europe
6. Migrant Organisations And The New Governance Of Development
   Conclusion: Moving Beyond The Postmodern Trap Of Transnational Studies