The State and the Grassroots: Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents

ISBN 10: 178238734X ISBN 13: 9781782387343

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2015

Synopsis

Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Comparing eighteen of these grassroots organizations formed across the world, from India to Colombia to Vietnam to the Congo, researchers from the United States, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Spain focus their studies on the internal structure and activities of these organizations as they relate to developmental initiatives. The book outlines the principal positions in the migration and development debate and discusses the concept of transnationalism as a means of resolving these controversies.

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About the Authors

Alejandro Portes is Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology (Emeritus) at Princeton University, Founding Director of Princeton's Center for Migration and Development, and Research Professor at the University of Miami. His most recent book is Immigrant America, IV Edition (with Rubén G. Rumbaut, University of California Press 2014).

Patricia Fernández-Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Research Associate of the Office for Population Research at Princeton University. Her most recent book is The Hero’s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State (Princeton University Press 2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178238734X
• ISBN 13: 9781782387343
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Portes Portes Alejandro, Fernández-Kelly Patricia