Elusive Migration Systems: Shifting from Transnationalism to Transregionalism

Göler, Daniel; Krišjāne, Zaiga

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-0050-8_2

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“…The construction of migrant as a marker of identification in these areas is often applied. Researchers have begun to study different aspects including the distinctive ‘rural cosmopolitanism’ (Torres et al ., ; Popke, ; Krivokapic Skoko et al , ; Woods, ) and the emerging transnational/transregional relations (Göler & Krišjāne, ). Although there has been some interest in employer and employee relations in NIDs [see, for instance, Rogaly () and Rye and Andrzejewska ()], it has not been thoroughly examined.…”

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confidence: 99%

Migrant Identities in a New Immigration Destination: Revealing the Limitations of the ‘Hard working’ Migrant Identity

McAreavey

2017

Population Space and Place

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Migrant Identities in a New Immigration Destination: Revealing the Limitations of the ‘Hard working’ Migrant Identity

McAreavey

2017

Population Space and Place

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“…Critiques of the transnational concept target its focus on the nation-state as the main frame of reference and analysis (e.g., Anthias 2012;Boccagni 2012;Göler and Krišjāne 2016). One outcome of this is that social ties and connected places within nation-states are underestimated in the framework of transnationalism.…”

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Muslim Fashion: Challenging Transregional Connectivities between Malaysia and the Arabian Peninsula

Thimm

2021

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In Malaysia, a Muslim-majority country in Southeast Asia, a dynamic market for Muslim fashion has evolved over the past decade, especially concerning the abaya, a female Muslim dress. Malay Malaysian designers, producers and consumers focus on this garment because it represents a style of female Islamic clothing that is perceived as ‘authentic’. The abaya originates from the Arabian Peninsula and is generally worn by Arabic Muslim women with a syariah-compliant design that is commonly simple, loose and opaque. Embedded into the broader marketising processes of a halal industry in Malaysia, Malay women started to adopt this material object and transformed it into a distinct expression of Malaysian Muslim style. The original abaya that follows Islamic rules became a colourful and decorated dress. This transformative process is not only an expression of variation in fashion and style but profoundly transcends powerful social, placial and spatial orders within the Muslim world. The Malaysian fashion market for abayas is embedded in wider dynamics of sacred landscaping in which the Arabian Peninsula is considered to be the ‘centre of Islam’ while Malaysia is positioned and positions itself at the margins. However, Malay Malaysian social actors have shifted this constellation towards a Malaysia that has pushed itself to the forefront of a commercialising Islam through the development of the related Muslim fashion market, among other things. Thus, within a Muslim world order, transregional connections lead to an entangled web of meaning-making regarding power structures, Islamic principles and social practices.

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“…First, doing so will help to establish greater continuity with prior research. Second, given recent concerns about the continued theoretical (Bakewell 2013) and empirical (Kupizewski et al 2013) utility of a migration systems perspective, connecting changes within migration systems to corresponding changes in the geographic structure of migration flows will help to ensure that a migration systems perspective continues to be useful to many audiences and to understand a wide range of important and timely issues, including, for example, migration and population change in response to environmental and economic shocks (Curtis et al 2015;DeWaard et al 2016;Gölar and Krišjāne 2016;Hauer 2017), new and established 'migration corridors' worldwide and associated policy implications (IOM 2013: 59-63; see also Martin 2013), and the reliability and validity of [new] migration data and methods (Abel 2013;Kupizewski et al 2013;Messias et al 2016). Third, and finally, clarifying these linkages will only strengthen the above relaunch, and will therefore help to ensure the success of Bakewell's (2013) project.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Accordingly, for the sake of greater continuity with prior research, as well as the continued utility of a migration systems perspective for many audiences and to understand a range of important issues (e.g. see Jennissen 2007;Abel 2013;IOM 2013;Kupizewski et al 2013;Martin 2013;Curtis et al 2015;DeWaard et al 2016;Gölar and Krišjāne 2016;Messias et al 2016;Hauer 2017), we connect these two lines of research. We organize our work in this paper into two parts.…”

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Resituating relaunched migration systems as emergent entitiesmanifested ingeographic structures

DeWaard

2017

Migration Studies

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While important and timely, the recent effort to 'relaunch' migration systems as emergent entities is premised on a mischaracterization and subsequent dismissal of decades of research showing that systems are ultimately expressed in geographic structures in the form of migration networks comprised of a set of places that are connected to one another by migration flows. In this paper, we reconcile this relaunch with past research on migration systems by considering whether and how changes in some of the actors and dynamics that create and sustain migration systems are expressed in corresponding changes in the geographic structure of migration flows. By elucidating these linkages, our work helps to strengthen the aforementioned relaunch of migration systems by ensuring greater continuity with prior research and, going forward, the continued utility of a migration systems perspective for diverse audiences and issues.

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Elusive Migration Systems: Shifting from Transnationalism to Transregionalism

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

Migrant Identities in a New Immigration Destination: Revealing the Limitations of the ‘Hard working’ Migrant Identity

Migrant Identities in a New Immigration Destination: Revealing the Limitations of the ‘Hard working’ Migrant Identity

Muslim Fashion: Challenging Transregional Connectivities between Malaysia and the Arabian Peninsula

Resituating relaunched migration systems as emergent entitiesmanifested ingeographic structures

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