Documenting Transnational Migration: Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America

.Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one Jordanian village to 17 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, emphasizes the resiliency of transnational migrants after long periods of absence, social encapsulation, and stress, and their ability to construct social networks and reinterpret traditions in such a way as to mix the old and the new in a scenario that incorporates both worlds. Focusing on the humanistic aspects of the migration experience, this book examines questions such as birth control, women’s work, retention of tribal law, and the changing attitudes of migrants towards themselves, their families, their home communities, and their nation. It ends with placing transnational migration from Jordan in a cross-cultural perspective by comparing it with similar processes elsewhere, and critically reviews a number of theoretical perspectives that have been used to explain migration.Additional ISBNs9781845456498Documenting Transnational Migration: Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America 1st Edition is written by Richard T. Antoun† and published by Berghahn Books. ISBNs for Documenting Transnational Migration are 9780857455376, 0857455370 and the print ISBNs are 9781845450373, 184545037X. Additional ISBNs include 9781845456498.