Migration and Transnational Studies

Werbner, Pnina

doi:10.1002/9781118320792.ch6

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“…Multinational migrations initiate a process in which intimacies are shattered. The ‘community of space’ of vivid, on‐going face‐to‐face relationships is lost (Werbner, 2013). Transnationalism, therefore, involves complex emotional and moral dimensions, resulting in guilt, loss and rupture (Werbner, 2013).…”

Section: Transnationalism and Multinational Migrationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A transnational lens into international student experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic

2021

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We analyse the experiences of international students living in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of transnationalism that understands mobility as broadly uninterrupted, continuing and taken-for-granted, and international student migration (ISM) literature. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, people had to contend with sudden border closures and stringent restrictions on all forms of travel. International students are regarded as the archetypal trans-migrants with frequent mobility and often multiple attachments to place. We interrogate these assumptions of mobility by drawing on interview data from 13 international students in Ontario from April to June of 2020. We found that international students experienced the pandemic transnationally and faced increased challenges, which heightened their reliance on support from transnational families, and generated anxieties about their future career and mobilities. We bring transnational theories into conversation with ISM literature to better understand international students' lived experiences in Canada during a pandemic.

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Section: Transnationalism and Multinational Migrationsmentioning

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A transnational lens into international student experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic

2021

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“…Low-wage migrantsfound on construction sites, in factories, at ports and on vessels, and in people's homes as care givers for the young and old or as cleanersfulfil jobs that more affluent societies and their citizens can choose to outsource. Yet the experiences of low-wage migrant workers are often ruptured at both ends of their transboundary trajectory, as they are frequently employed in areas stigmatised or seen as undesirable by the host population while they struggle to repay debts incurred to fund their journeys (Werbner 2013).…”

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On the Coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia

Suhardiman

Rigg

Bandur

et al. 2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…The discussion that follows relates home to the transnational, meaning by this the reach and impact of social action over a distance (Giddens 1990)in this case, the ways of distant interaction between migrants and their points of reference elsewhere. In all of these respects, migrant transnational engagement is typically selective and timeand context-dependent (Boccagni 2012;Werbner 2013;Waldinger 2015). Moreover, it proceeds in parallel with a variety of trajectories of incorporation into receiving countries (possibly fragmented ones, all the more so in the case of transit, circular or step-wise migration).…”

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Transnational migration and homemaking

Boccagni¹

2022

Handbook on Transnationalism

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This chapter provides a conceptual overview of the social experience of home and of its significance for transnational migration studies. Home, as a material setting, a special relationship with place or a source of distinctive emotions and social practices , is significantly affected by human mobility across borders. It is also a unique research venue to investigate and compare the transnational side of migrant everyday lives . Much transnational literature argues for migrants' unprecedented connectedness with home (societies), or for their novel scope to retain a sense of home across borders or to emplace it in several locations simultaneously. However, these evocative claims are often disconnected from empirical research. The very notion of home has been subject to relatively little elaboration in a transnational optic. Yet, there is a remarkable potential in using home, literally and metaphorically, as a prism to investigate migrant ability to retain, circulate and emplace significant aspects of the "other worlds" they are connected to, while being physically away from them. The typical dilemmas of migrant transnationalism and some new conceptual developments out of a homemaking lens are eventually discussed.

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Migration and Transnational Studies

Cited by 12 publications

References 42 publications

A transnational lens into international student experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic

A transnational lens into international student experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic

On the Coattails of globalization: migration, migrants and COVID-19 in Asia

Transnational migration and homemaking

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