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The article seeks to understand how migrant families bring life to restaurants that evoke their countries of origin. These spaces and culinary proposals are not a simple reproduction, but negotiated interpretations of culture itself during migration processes and are analyzed from a transnational approach. The methodology is based on interviews and participant observations carried out in four foreign restaurants located in Greater Valparaíso, Chile. The article contributes to the production of knowledge about migrants who have capital, exploring performances, symbols, and culinary practices that selectively show their national culture. It is concluded that these restaurants can be considered bridges between cultures by linking multiple scales with imaginaries, representations, and emotions. It articulates a discussion on ethnic economies, cultural transformations, and the production of evolving migrant identities while extending studies on recent migrations in Chile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary thinkers are pessimistic about the endurance of transnational communities. The deviant case of the century-and-a-half-old transnational Esperanto community features a process that can explain transnational community survival: rationalization. Rationalization manifests in Esperantists reproducing a form of community logic integrating symbols, principles (justifications, values, etc.), communication practices and technologies, and organization centered on the Esperanto language. The Esperanto language and community logic enable unifying Esperanto activities across space and time. The Esperanto case suggests that community rationalization and language rationalization – an element thereof – are global phenomena integral to modernity. Having affected communities and language too, rationalization as a global process appears to be more extensive than previously suggested. Transnational communities can endure as manifestations of a global community institutional order organizing social life alongside but largely independently of nation-states, science, professions, and religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the experience narrated by young migrant returnees and deportees from the United States, settled in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Based on their experience, we discuss the explanatory limits of the perspectives of transnationalism and return migration. The cases analyzed allow us to determine that when migrating from North to South, young people undergo an adaptation process supported by family networks that nonetheless constitute a double-edged sword: while facilitating their integration in Mexico, family members also provide their first encounter with discrimination, which they will later experience in other contexts. Although initially, young people forced to return find themselves caged in by these intangible resources, they also overcome them by expanding their identity repertoires and reconstructing their sense of belonging to Mexico. This work seeks to highlight the need to develop a research agenda focused on young migrants, to whom it is difficult to extrapolate existing analytical perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As a fast-moving field of study, the sociology of migration has experienced various paradigmatic shifts in recent decades, largely reflecting mutually constitutive interests in both the place of human agency, subjectivity and capacity to act in migration processes, and the effects of the rapidly evolving geopolitical, sociocultural and economic landscapes on migration systems. In this Introduction, the editors suggest that the recent focus on 'time and temporality' in migration studies represents a significant, and possibly paradigmatic, shift that understands migration and its antonym (non-migration) not as contradistinctive phenomena but umbilically conjoined. As the articles collected in this monograph issue show, giving specific focus to the role time and temporality play in migration trajectories enlarges our awareness that migration itself is never always about trans/national mobility but often also about not moving at all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reports ethnographic findings on the religious assemblage of the Nazarene of Caguach in Punta Arenas, Chile, and Río Gallegos, Argentina, describing a popular tradition that took root in the Chiloé archipelago and then spread to new regions through different historical stages of migrant circulation. It shows how the development of this religious phenomenon led to the formation of communities, the creation of ritual families, the expansion of networks, and the circulation of meanings. In this sense, this work explores how these religious practices established community ties by preserving traditions in multi-sited settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article derives from ethnographic studies developed in the Northern Chilean territories that lie adjacent to Peru and Bolivia. The research results suggest that the daily activities of transborder inhabitants generate frictions between the local inscription of social practices, and the transnationalization of communitarian knowledge, economies and memories. These frictions situationally update the national identities in these areas. Over the last two decades, an idea has prevailed in migratory studies that the migrant's border crossings articulate transnational social fields between origin and host societies, leading to a globalization "from below." Ethnographic findings defy this conception, since the social networks and practices that interconnect these borderlands predate the establishment of the national frontiers. It was not the communities who transnationalized the territories: the borders transnationalized them. I will illustrate this assertion by ethnographically following Joanna, an Aymaran shepherdess that found a transnational solution to the lack of successors to her shepherding activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is centered on the travels of Holy Ghost festivals between the Azores and Azorean immigrant communities in the usa with a special focus on how ritual innovations introduced in California found their way back to the Azores. It argues that these innovations can be viewed as social remittances the success of which is dependent upon a particular regime of transnationalism, characterized a) by prominent links between particular locales in the host and home countries and b) by a specific political economy of migration, marked by the economic success of immigrants and by non-migrants' capacity for emulation. It is thus a contribution to current debates on transnationalism and social remittances, especially those that have stressed their circular nature and the connections between transnationalism and the micro-economics of migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This case study for teaching aims to illustrate the emergence, development, and challenges that a Mexican migrant club faces in a transnational dynamics. Based on documentary research and fieldwork this document is organized twofold. First a brief analytical framework that highlights transnationalism and migrant organizations is exposed. Second the process of transforming the "Social Club Los Reyes" from a sports club into transnational player is presented. This section describes some key aspects of the relationships between this actor and the governments of Mexico and the United States. The pedagogical objective of this case study is to provide undergraduate and graduate students, from different disciplines in Social Sciences, a framework for discussion government-society relations from a transnational point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Doreen Massey (2005.For Space. London: Sage.) argued that space and time should not be reduced to a bounded locality of the ‘here and now’ and instead proposed re-imagining ‘space as simultaneity ofstories-so-far’. We build on her argument to suggest that an appreciation of migrant aspirations and future trajectories require us to go beyond simultaneous ‘stories-so-far’ but also consider ‘stories-to-come’ which may build upon, divert from, or even unmake the ‘stories-so-far’. We apply these ideas to our study (based on a questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews) of the transnational journeys traced by Indonesian domestic workers employed in Singaporean middle-class homes. We argue that socially and culturally specific notions of risk can work to propel and sustain migration into retrogressive occupations like domestic work, as well as disrupt dominant narratives around migrants as strategic actors, necessarily in control of their trajectories and driven by their migration plans. The calculus of risk-taking and aspiration on which transnational livelihoods are predicated is one that takes into account bothsituatedness inandconnectedness acrossdifferent places (in short simultaneous ‘stories-so-far’). At the same time, future ‘stories-to-come’ may entail both subtle shifts and constant (re)negotiations that propel individual life stories unto different pathways. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Migrants' transnational engagement has traditionally been confronted with the migrants' integration into host societies. There are diverse factors that can influence the relationship of migrants with their origins, personal as well as contextual. The objective was to analyze the determinants of transnational engagement of the Colombian population in the Basque Country, and through linear regression analysis to identify a profile of the transnational migrant. The results showed that educational level, the existence of a nuclear family in the country of origin, and a stable situation in the destination country are key factors in transnational engagement. It is concluded that migrants with a stable, secure, and participative position in the destination society engage with their place of origin to a great extent without perceiving an incompatibility between both engagements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the composition and evolution of migrants’ personal networks during their settlement process. Migration studies have emphasized the relational dimension of the migration process, but the topic has rarely been analysed systematically using social network analysis. Based on ego-network analysis and interviews with Ecuadorian and Moroccan immigrants in Catalonia, this article shows the diversity of configurations of migrants’ personal networks and their evolution: over the years only some migrants break their ties with the society of origin and substitute them with contacts with locals; others maintain or increase transnational ties; and yet others create co-ethnic ties in the host country. This diversity is explained in the article by examining migrant characteristics and circumstances prior to migration, such as the details of their migration projects and the features of their pre-migratory contacts. The results show that the interaction of gender with the organization of the migration process seems to have a strong impact on the evolution of these networks. At a methodological level, social network analysis proves to be a fruitful strategy for analysing the diverse incorporation of migrants into the host society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Nowadays, globalization is connected with the emergence and reconstruction of new identities. For instance, the migration process implies the generation of new forms of identity, questioning the traditional homogeneous and static notions of identity. In this regard, the term "transnational identity" or "bicultural identity" has been suggested for these people that live in between two cultural frameworks and has to establish a dialogue between the country of origin ("there") and the host country ("here"). This study shows the bicultural and multiple nature of ten immigrant life stories. These narratives illustrate how bicultural and multilingual skills become part of the self definition through the appropriation of cultural voices that manage the origin and host lifestyles, building hybrid and multiple identities that preserve certain ties with the origin society and take certain forms of life of the new culture and society. The novelty embodied in this work is the qualitative approach taken in the research. Most of the literature on transnational identity and transnationalism are based on theoretical discussions or quantitative data. rights reserved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

International mobility in search of amenity spaces for long-stay tourism is a growing phenomenon. U.S. citizens have practiced this lifestyle migration for decades to Latin American countries, especially to Mexico. British citizens move to Spain for similar reasons. In this paper we make a comparative analysis of these two international contexts in order to gain greater insight into the diversity and breadth of this type of migration. The study uses quantitative surveys administered at each field site. First, we analyze the phenomenon of U.S. citizens' mobility to Mazatlan, Mexico. Second, we analize citizens from the United Kingdom residing in El Campello, Spain. In particular we compare their socio-demographic profiles, transnational practices and some patterns of social integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How has the small Andean town in Ecuador, Cotacachi come to be "the paradise at the end o f the rainbow" as constructed by the companies International Living and Internations as well as its developers and investors? Based on ethnographic analysis conducted in Cotacachi since 2013, I analyze the dominant imaginaries that helped shape the motivations of U.S. citizens who have relocated to live in Cotocachi against a backdrop of diminishing economic security for working class U.S. retirees. I argue that status mobility is an important part of these imaginings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In reviewing the expanding body of work on the linkages between gender, mobility, migration and transnationalism inGender, Place and Cultureover the last decade, this article highlights three significant contributions. First, through critical engagement with transnationalism studies, the journal has produced a sophisticated and variegated strand of work on gender politics and multiple forms of migration and mobility. In this article, we focus primarily on mobility in terms of human movement across national borders, rural–urban migration, as well as the ‘to-ing and fro-ing’ that inform the embodied experiences of being here and there simultaneously as iterated in transnationalism studies [L. Basch, N.G. Schiller, and C.S. Blanc,Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States. London: Routledge, 1994]. A second area of strength lies in the coalescence of work providing insights into the connections between social reproduction in a globalising world and intimate forms of global mobility and migration. A third highlight relates to the mutually constitutive relationship between the construction of masculinities and masculinist ideologies, on the one hand, and migration, mobility and transnationalism, on the other. The article concludes with a discussion of two more embryonic areas which merit further development in the journal: the first concerns the social and geographical (im)mobilities implied in cross-border reproductive care1 and the global mobility and assemblage of body parts, while the second relates to the distinctive role that feminist geographers interested in migrations and mobilities can play in working collaboratively and transnationally across different worlds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article contextualizes the field of “transnational kinship" with an international and comparative review that outlines the theoretical intersections between transnational mobility, kinship, and gender. The article then presents a typology based on recurrent terminology and a proposal for operationalization, as well as a description of cases of “transnational kinship situations". Finally, some important theoretical and methodological considerations are raised that address the risk of applying an analysis of transnational kinship that is too simplistic or reductionist, such as the uniform treatment, essentializing, and problematizing of realities that are often very heterogeneous, multi-causal, and changeable in their particular structures and processes, or the need to consider the interplay between structure and agency, and between the macro, meso, and micro levels of analysis, all of which can be useful for future examinations of this subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To say international migration is to say cross-border connections: the ties linking sending and receiving countries are a salient aspect of the migration experience, appearing during present as well as past eras of migration. This article reviews the sociology of these cross-state ties and spillovers, typically associated with the literature on transnationalism. The article discusses the intellectual history of the transnational perspective on migration, offers a critical evaluation and then presents a different approach, designed to identify the mechanisms generating and attenuating cross-border connections across a range of activities. Focusing on the experience in the Americas, the article then turns to the empirical literature, synthesizing the results of research on cross-border social ties, homeland politics, and homeland spillovers. The last section suggests new avenues for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the process of accommodation of migrants in transit or host societies, it is important to analyze the articulation of migration networks. This concern arises from considering it an important factor of social mobility, although a number of limitations context that affect their interrelationships are also taken into account. This paper is first devoted to discuss some features of the concept of migration networks focusing on both its prescriptive definition and in its operation. Then, a particular case of joint migration networks from the experience of Pastoral Migration Iquique is investigated. The discussion explores into theoretical characteristics of networks relating to its scope, limitations and spatial trajectories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses Yucatec-Mayan immigrant and migrant satisfaction and social conditions within the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco, California and the Edison neighborhood of Kalamazoo, Michigan through the use of interviews and ethnographic information. Neighborhood characteristics affecting satisfaction discussed in the article include crime levels, relations with African American and white populations, and a lack of gangs. The author identifies the Mission neighborhood as a traditional migrant destination and Edison as a nontraditional one. It is concluded that Edison residents are more likely to pursue U.S. citizenship and increase stay duration than their Mission counterparts.

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This paper will answer two questions: how young Uruguayan immigrants in Barcelona have integrated to their new country of destiny?, and how they relate to their country of origin living overseas? The general conclusions, influenced by the theories of transnationalism and multiculturalism, suggest that a significant number of Uruguayan immigrants in Barcelona develop integration strategies in their new country as they recreate in a parallel way their Uruguayan identity and their sense of belonging to the old homeland. In this process they conform a new hyphenated identity, which enables them to build solid bridges between the Uruguayan nation living inside and outside borders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, social sciences have studied migrations from the view point of integration within the framework of nation states, with more interest in integration into society than in real people, their culture and subjectivity. They have barely studied the country of origin, or the difficulties involved in transit. Nowadays, the migratory phenomenon is diverse and changes continuously. Identities undergo a constant process of transformation, even when they are connected to migration while social scientists have developed such notions as panethnicity and transnationalism. The time has finally come to put an end to the so-called sociology of integration, and seriously consider the point of view migrants as subjects in a global world. In several societies, however, many people like to speak in terms of integration. But “integration models" are now a failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El presente artículo plantea, en su parte inicial, una crítica constructiva a las teorías sobre la inmigración y subraya los problemas implícitos en las suposiciones de la teoría del capital/red social y en la investigación sobre las economías étnicas y el "transnacionalismo". De estas teorías el autor adopta los postulados que considera más interesantes para aplicarlos al análisis de la diáspora pakistaní en Italia, desmitificando las viejas teorías y reclamando una mayor atención a la economía política de las redes de emigrantes realmente existentes. Considera que las diásporas actúan como organismos que se relacionan con un espacio y un tiempo y van mutando progresivamente. Asimismo, observa cómo los vínculos relativamente débiles que los inmigrantes mantienen hoy en día con el país de origen, contrastan con aquéllos seguramente más fuertes que mantenían las generaciones anteriores de inmigrantes pakistaníes en el Reino Unido, y sugiere así que debemos romper la cadena reduccionista de asociaciones que atribuye automáticamente mayores niveles de transnacionalismo a la nueva inmigración. En este sentido, Nobil Ahmad constata que los factores políticos y económicos son a veces más importantes que la tecnología a la hora de configurar la intensidad de las conexiones sostenidas entre las sociedades emisora y receptora en el proceso migratorio. Los pakistaníes en Italia han gastado la mayor parte de sus energías trabajando o reivindicando derechos políticos en Europa, en vez de viajar o enviar dinero a casa. El autor también confirma que no siempre es cierto que las redes sociales hacen una labor de mediación de la emigración y reducen sus costes; por el contrario, en el Mediterráneo, la prominencia de los agenti en las redes de la emigración sugiere que deberíamos ser sensibles a la importancia de las redes mercantilizadas y a las transacciones comerciales entre emigrantes y autóctonos. Finalmente, se llama la atención sobre la experiencia individual de los inmigrantes que han prosperado y cuyas experiencias están condicionadas por las relaciones de poder, así como determinadas por su posición en la red o por las condiciones que rodearon su llegada a Italia, posiblemente desde otro país europeo y, quizás, habiendo contraído fuertes deudas para sufragar su viaje. Tras las olas de regularizaciones en Italia, la mayoría de los pakistaníes presentes deben enfrentarse a un entorno difícil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focusing on the interaction between migrants and stay-at homes, this paper shows how the host country experience at once facilitates and structures immigrants' involvements with the countries from which they come. The vehicle is a study of a migration universal: the associations that bring together migrants displaced from a common hometown. These associations provide a strategic research site, allowing us to take apart the two very different aspects — namely, state and nation — that the transnational concept conflates. In coming together with their fellow hometowners, the immigrants show their attachment to a social collectivity defined in terms of common origin in some other place. However, the upsurge of contemporary hometown oriented activity also involves cross-state spillovers, in which resources generated «here» are used for ends «there». As this paper shows the potential for home country involvement at once derives from and is shaped by the bounded, receiving society resources that give the migrants new leverage not found before. Rather than linking immigrants and stay-at-homes in a single transnational community or social field, the cross-state activities undertaken by hometown associations yield not so much cross-state community, as cross-state conflict, reproducing inequalities between migrants and the stay-at-homes in ways that reflect the inequalities between receiving and sending places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo presenta los resultados de una investigación sobre recepción mediática realizada en un grupo de 140 migrantes de países latinoamericanos y europeos de 17 nacionalidades en los contextos urbanos de Barcelona (España) y Porto Alegre (Brasil). En el estudio se focalizaron las percepciones de los entrevistados sobre los imaginarios alrededor de las migraciones transnacionales ofrecidos por los medios de comunicación, así como sus propuestas frente a un tratamiento mediático orientado a la ciudadanía de las migraciones en las sociedades contemporáneas. Los resultados seleccionados para el análisis constituyen una investigación más amplia sobre recepción y migraciones que forma parte del Programa Académico de Cooperación Internacional Brasil-España (capes-Brasil y mec-España), desarrollado entre 2004 y 2008 por investigadores del Programa de Posgrado en Ciencias de la Comunicación de Unisinos (Brasil) y del Departamento de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (España). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This commentary argues for a reconsideration of the concept of assimilation in geographical research. Whereas critics of assimilation theory have often misrepresented assimilation research, those working within the assimilation framework have seldom explored societal understandings of “sameness.” This commentary advocates that geographers look at assimilation not only in terms of spatial patterns but also in terms of the discursive and material practices through which dominant and subordinate groups negotiate the terms of social membership. The need to arrive at a richer understanding of assimilation becomes more pressing as the assimilability of migrants becomes an increasingly salient topic of debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Eleven years ago we made "some considerations about the study of the territorial mobility of the population" (Dillon, 1998) in which, taking the answer to a series of questions as a starting point, we discussed theories and methodologies applied to the study of population displacement. Over the past years, the studies of the territorial movements have been dramatic, continuously giving rise to new questions and new challenges that complicate and enrich the theory of mobility even more. Theoretical and methodological contributions, and the obstacles of the application in empirical studies, are incidental to the complexity of this demographic phenomenon in accordance with the social processes and the cultural dimensions that contain it. Globalization, transnationalism, the intercultural phenomenon, migration policies, diversification lows and reversibility, among others, constitute some of the variables intervening in the present analysis of this topic. The geographical referent, a process involving points of destination and reception with certain characteristics that the mobility of persons inevitably puts in contact, can be added to the former. Moreover, it was overcoming such a territorial dichotomy what encouraged the debate once again, directing it towards the global nature that promotes and gives new meanings to the territorial movements of the populations. Within these considerations the theoretical advances of the last ten years are analysed, and new elements for discussion are put forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the recurring themes in the literature of migration and the South Asian diasporas is the dynamics of religion. The triangular relationship between religion, countries of origin, and host countries is an important field of research. This article seeks to engage with this literature through a case study involving qurbani, a sacrificial ritual which takes place at the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca (the hajj), among Bengali muslims in Lisbon. In the article I argue that in performing this ceremony these migrants (re)produce places and spaces of belonging in a transnational context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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¿Podemos hablar de una ausencia de viejas fronteras y, a la vez, de una voluntad de nuevas fronteras? ¿O sigue siendo el mismo espacio, es decir, una frontera compartida donde nuestra similitud es su diferencia? La autora quiere plantear aquí la frontera como metáfora para pensar su porosidad y resistencia en un mundo de movilidades, de circulaciones y flujos crecientes. Esta frontera entendida como metáfora sigue ejerciendo la voluntad de distanciarse de los otros, un distanciamiento que no ha dejado de darse a pesar de que crecientemente se proclama el mundo actual como un mundo sin fronteras. La movilidad, la transitoriedad, imponen sin embargo la necesidad de reinterpretar esa articulación de la voluntad de frontera y su ausencia, la necesidad de volver a pensar la interdependencia y la forma en que categorizamos el adentro/afuera o el centro y la periferia [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the culinary consumption choices of South Korean international students in Auckland, New Zealand as a route to re-considering the transnational production of familiarity. In particular, this study questions the extent to which culinary consumption by transnational migrants is always an intentional declaration of 'group loyalties' or about the re-production of local or national identities. Drawing on research with students this paper illustrates that while some aspects of the familiarity enacted in culinary consumption appear to be 'local', in the sense that they are encoded as 'Korean', other aspects appear to represent forms of 'global' familiarity. Hence, it is argued that culinary consumption in transnational worlds can also more subtly represent an effort to recreate familiarity through reference to characteristics of everyday life before migration that may include what appear to be both global and local products. Such familiarity is then not necessarily about group loyalties or identities but rather an example of the importance of practical know how and familiar sensations in feelings of belonging and attachment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyzes one type of transnational migrant practices, affective and care ties, from a family perspective, including the overlapping of productive and reproductive spheres. It uses a transnational perspective on migration to explore the relationships and practices linking migrants to their societies of origin. To this end, it examines the practices of 'transnational families' in two migrant groups: Peruvian and Ecuadorian migrants living in Spain and their counterparts in their countries of origin. The study explores the elements of continuity and change in family relations as a result of migratory processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work describes and examines the emergency and development of three political associations of Peruvian immigrants and its relationship with the emergence of a "cultural neighborhood", known by its inhabitants, the Chilean press and some investigators as "Lima Chica", in Santiago the Chile. We talked about to the Comité de Refugiados Peruanos en Chile, to the Asociación de Inmigrantes por la Integración Latinoamericana y del Caribe (APILA), and to the Programa Andino para la Dignidad Humana (Proandes). These two processes are examined under the categories citizenship and transnationalism, the period that covers is that of 1990-2006. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The core idea of this paper revolves around movement and change in the process of assimilation of immigrants in the United States and in the conceptual and singular context of trans-border links that emigrants establish with their country of origin, which to some extent grant a particular acceptance within both the paradigm of transnationalism and the category of the transnational migrant. Transnationalism is established as the new transformation of models for the incorporation of immigrants. In the case of Mexican emigrants, the transnational social space is formed via U.S. migratory policy, by the nature and volume of undocumented migration and by the limited actions of the Mexican government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The goal of this study was to explore the degree to which Mexican migrant workers engage in economic, social and cultural transnational activities throughout their migration careers, and to investigate how these activities are imbedded in the context of their everyday life in the host communities. Our findings show that migrants are primarily involved in economic transnational activities, such as sending financial remittances, and investing in land, business and properties in the home country. This affects their everyday life in the USA by limiting their financial resources, which has an effect on their living conditions and spending patterns. Migrants also engage in social transnational activities which involve maintaining social contacts with friends and family abroad, socializing with people from the same ethnic group, and home visits. Cultural transnational activities that migrants are involved in are primarily low cost, individual in nature, and home based. Only those more established in the local ethnic communities are involved in structured social and cultural transnational activities with the host country focus. The study highlights the interdependency of economic, social and cultural aspects of transnational activities and shows a temporal progression of different aspects of transnationalism among people at different stages of their migration career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globalization currently presents profound transformations in, among other areas, economics, politics, culture, law, and communications. It has thus brought with it changes in the composition of migratory flows, principally in a diversification in the sending communities, the seasonality of migration, and a greater presence of women in the overall migratory flow. In particular, there has been a reconfiguration of migratory networks, transnational social spaces, and new modalities of integration into the receiving societies, where migrants' economic practices are prominent. Thus, this work's principal objective is to analyze the those practices among migrants from three Latin American countries in order to identify sociodemographic factors that facilitate the appearance of these economic practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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