Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among older Mexican migrants in Chicago, Franziska Bedorf investigates the phenomenon of return migration by tracing how people's intentions to go back change over time. Considering global labour mobility, she examines transformations of belonging and the wider economic, political, social and cultural frameworks that shape them. Against the backdrop of debates on integration, transnationalism and belonging, the study explores why migrants keep and form attachments to and detachments from places, people and cultures.
Price: $45.00
Pages: 372
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Global Studies
Publication Date:
15 January 2019
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837641318
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Franziska Bedorf (PhD) is a sociocultural anthropologist and a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include migration, identity formation, and boundary making.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 11
1. Introduction 13
2. Theoretical Perspectives: Discussing Migration, Return And Belonging 21
3. Research Design And Methods 73
4. Setting: Exploring Mexican Chicago 99
5. Locating The People: Elderly Mexicans In Chicago Today 123
6. Expectations: Envisaging A Place For The Future And Weighing The Idea Of Return 159
7. Experiences: Configuring Belonging By Remembering The Past - Narratives Of Emerging Attachments And Detachments 211
8. Expressions: Practices Of Belonging Today 287
9. Discussion And Conclusion 295
Appendix 307
List Of Figures And Tables 345
Bibliography 349
