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Documenting Transnational Migration : Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America by Richard T. Antoun† is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one Jordanian village to 17 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, emphasizes the resiliency of transnational migrants after long periods of absence, social encapsulation, and stress, and their ability to construct social networks and reinterpret traditions in such a way as to mix the old and the new in a scenario that incorporates both worlds. Focusing on the humanistic aspects of the migration experience, this book examines questions such as birth control, women’s work, retention of tribal law, and the changing attitudes of migrants towards themselves, their families, their home communities, and their nation. It ends with placing transnational migration from Jordan in a cross-cultural perspective by comparing it with similar processes elsewhere, and critically reviews a number of theoretical perspectives that have been used to explain migration.

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Author

Richard T. Antoun†

Publisher

Berghahn Books, Incorporated

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780857455376

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Science, Anthropology