Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World - (Worlds in Motion) by Vytis Č & iubrinskas & Nina Glick Schiller

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Nina Glick Schiller is a visiting scholar at the New School, an Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester and University of New Hampshire, a founding editor of Identities, and a co-editor of Anthropological Theory. Her eleven books and more than 100 articles and chapters provide comparative and historical perspectives on migration and city making, transnational processes and social relations, and process of dispossession and displacement, among others. Her co-authored books include Migrants and City Making (Duke University Press, 2018); Nations Unbound (Routledge 1994); and Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home (Duke University Press, 2001).