The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces

by Faist, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780198297260
• ISBN10: 0198297262
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The book offers an innovative theoretical account of the causes, nature and extent of the movement of international migrants between affluent and poorer countries. The book also provides a conceptual study of migration decision-making and the dynamics of international movement.

Author Biography

Thomas Faist is Lecturer, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies, University of Bremen.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xiii
List of Tables	xv
Abbreviations	xvi
Lacunae of Migration and Post-Migration Research	1	(29)
The First Puzzle: Relative Immobility and Mass Migration	3	(5)
The Second Puzzle: Transnational Social Spaces and Immigrant Adaptation	8	(3)
Three Generations of Migration Scholarship	11	(2)
The Approach Taken	13	(4)
Towards a Working Definition of Migration	17	(5)
Forced and Voluntary Movements vs. Labour Migrants and Refugees	22	(3)
The Three Longues Durees of International Migration in Modern Times	25	(3)
Outline of the Book	28	(2)
A Review of Dominant Theories of International Migration	30	(30)
Three Stylized Levels of Analysis: Micro, Macro, and Meso	30	(5)
Micro---The Rational Choice Approach: Moving from Preferences to Opportunities	35	(8)
More Micro-Social Psychological Models: Bounded Rationalities in Social Spaces	43	(3)
Macro: The Gravity Model and the General Systems Approach	46	(4)
Multiple Levels--Migration Systems Approaches: Moving from the World System to Migrant Networks	50	(5)
Theory Building and Empirical Evidence	55	(3)
Conclusion: In Search of the Meso Link	58	(2)
Situating the First Puzzle: Why So Few Migrants and Why So Many?	60	(36)
The Production and Selection of Labour Migrants and Refugees	63	(4)
The International Regulation of Labour Migration and Refugee Flows	67	(9)
Domestic Regulation in the Immigration or Accepting States	76	(5)
The Turkish-German Case: Asymmetric Dependence--and Expanding Rights of Resident Immigrants	81	(13)
Conclusion: Effective Immigration Control and Expanding Immigrant Rights	94	(2)
The Crucial Meso Link: Social Capital in Social and Symbolic Ties	96	(28)
A Pioneering Exemplar: The Polish Peasant in Europe and America	99	(1)
The Main Elements of the Meso Link: Ties and Social Capital	100	(4)
Social Capital Investments: Facilitating Cooperation and Integration	104	(7)
Social Capital and the Rate of Return	111	(4)
The Characteristics of Social Capital as a Meso Link	115	(2)
Specificities of Capital: Economic, Human, and Social	117	(4)
The Four Functions of Social Capital in Migration Processes	121	(2)
Conclusion: Social Capital as a Local Asset and as a Transmission Belt	123	(1)
The Selective Functions of Social Capital: Why Are There So Few Migrants Out of Most Places?	124	(19)
Social Capital as a Local Asset	125	(4)
Cumulative Causation and Immobility: Endogenous Dynamics	129	(3)
An Illustration of `Why Are There So Few Migrants Out of Most Places?'--Contract Worker Movement from Turkey to Germany	132	(10)
Conclusion: What Kind of Local Asset?	142	(1)
The Selective and Diffusion Functions of Social Capital: Why So Many Migrants Out of So Few Places?	143	(52)
The Selective and Diffusion Functions of Social Capital in Migrant Networks	145	(2)
Start and Acceleration	147	(5)
Climax	152	(7)
Deceleration	159	(12)
The Turkish-German Example: The Unfinished Yet Terminated Migration Curve	171	(22)
Conclusion: International Migration as Metamorphosis	193	(2)
The Bridging Function of Social Capital: Transnational Social Spaces	195	(47)
The Concept of Transnational Social Spaces	198	(4)
Three Forms of Transnational Social Spaces	202	(8)
Transnationalization and Globalization	210	(1)
Factors Conducive to the Formation of Transnational Social Spaces	211	(3)
Economic Transnationalization: Entrepreneurs Moving from the Ethnic Niche to Transnational Businesses	214	(4)
Political Transnationalization: Kurds between Exile and Adaptation	218	(7)
Cultural Transnationalization: Young Muslims between Disintegration, Syncretism, and Segmentation	225	(12)
Prospects for the Further Development and the Possible Demise of Transnational Social Spaces	237	(2)
Conclusion: From Places and Essences to Spaces and Ties	239	(3)
The Adaptive Functions of Social Capital: Transnationalization and Nation-State Membership	242	(49)
Changing Immigration and Adaptation Patterns in the Contemporary World	244	(8)
The Canonical Concepts of Assimilation and Ethnic Pluralism and an Apocryphal Extension: The Border-Crossing Expansion of Social Space	252	(6)
Three Stages of International Migration and Transnationalization	258	(4)
Economic Participation and Membership: Socio-Economic Parity and Marginalization, Niche Entrepreneurship and Transnationalization	262	(8)
Membership in Polities: Citizenship and Politeuma	270	(12)
Cultural Practices and Recognition: Acculturation, Cultural Retention, and the Strengthening of Transnationally-Induced Syncretism	282	(8)
Conclusion: Capturing the Plural Experiences of Adaptation	290	(1)
Elements for Multi-Level Research on International Migration and Post-Migration Processes	291	(44)
Determinants of Mobility and Immobility: Why Are There So Few International Migrants Out of Most Places?	292	(8)
Migration Dynamics: Why Are There So Many International Migrants Out of So Few Places?	300	(9)
How Do Transnational Social Spaces Evolve?	309	(6)
How to Conceptualize the Concomitant Expansion of Transnational Social Spaces and Immigrant Adaptation?	315	(6)
Outlook: Transnationally Active Associations and Transnationalizing Civil Societies	321	(14)
Bibliography	335	(34)
Index	369