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People who are “on the move” often occupy a state of betwixt and between, in which moral and economic value is subject to change. This enlightening and geographically wide-ranging reassessment of migrant moral economies, Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World delineates migrants’ reciprocity, responsibility and dignity, as they respond to and contest unequal political and economic power. In doing so, this volume examines the transformative potential of transnational mobility to create social networks and to sustain reciprocity capable of resisting contemporary authoritarian efforts to sacralize borders and dehumanize migrants.
Vytis Čiubrinskas is Professor of Social Anthropology at Vytautas Magnus University and visiting Associate Professor at the School of Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology, at Southern Illinois University. He has published more than fifty articles and chapters on the politics of ethnic and national identity construction in relation to transnationalism, cultural heritage and social memory. His recent publications include; Returning-Remitting-Receiving. Social Remittances of Transnational (Re)migrants to Croatia, Lithuania, and Poland (LIT Verlag, 2023), Transnacionalizmas ir Nacionalinio Identiteto Fragmentacija (Vytautas Magnus University Press, Lithuania, 2014), and a guest-edited special issue of Ethnologie francaise (2018).
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Preface: A Tribute to Jonathan Hill
David Sutton
Introducing the Moral of the Story: Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in Betwixt and Between
Vytis Ciubrinskas and Nina Glick Schiller
Available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from Research Council of Lithuania and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania, Contract No S-A-UEI-23-13 (2023-12-27).
Part I: Reframing Concepts of Time, Space, and Capital
Chapter 1. The Twilight of Transnational Migration Studies: Reframing Concepts of Time, Space, and Dispossession
Nina Glick Schiller
Part II: Embedding Reciprocity
Chapter 2. TheMoral Economy of Transnational Reciprocity: Lithuanian Return Migrants Between North America and Europa
Vytis Ciubrinskas
Chapter 3. Life ‘here’ and ‘there’ During Covid-19: (Im)mobilities and Transnational Social Ties for Romanians in London
Ana-Maria Cirstea
Part III: Migrating Women and Social Positioning
Chapter 4. Transnational Negotiation of Human Dignity: The Case of Polish Migrant Women Working as Cleaners and Care Givers in Chicago
Anna Horolets
Chapter 5. Beyond the ‘Strong’ and ‘Weak’ Ties Divide: Women’s Networks in Transnational Moral Economies
Marta Kindler
Part IV: Return and Remittances
Chapter 6. Social and Moral Remittances of Diaspora in Homeland Politics: Two Cases from Hungary
Nóra Kovács
Chapter 7. Are Transnationals ‘Real’ Agents of Change? An Exploration of how Returnees’ Transnationalism Relates to their Social Remitting
Violetta Parutis and Marta Buler
Part V: Crisis, Power, and Meaning
Chapter 8. Migration as Crisis: Morality, Epistemology, and Transnational Mobility
Roberto E. Barrios and Alfredo Danilo Rivera
Chapter 9. Building Transnational Social Networks in the Aftermath of the Crisis of the Venezuelan Nation-State
Jonathan D. Hill and Juan Luis Rodriguez
Afterword
Tricia Redeker-Hepner
Index