The Emergence of a Transnational Social Formation and The Mirage of Return Migration Among Dominican Transmigrants

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power Pub Date : 1997-12-01 DOI:10.1080/1070289X.1997.9962591

L. Guarnizo

引用次数: 373

Abstract

Using a transnational perspective, this article analyzes the soriocul‐tural and political transformation of US‐Dominican transmigrants who have relocated to the Dominican Republic as one step in their transnational journey. Transmigrants and their society of origin have forged a dense web of transnational relations that unites them in a continuous transterritorial social formation. This formation is evident in the incessant back and forth traveling and multidirectional exchanges of material and intangible resources and symbols between the US and the DR. Transmigration has spread people's lives across national borders and generated a transnational habitus. Thus, even transmigrants who resettle in the DR maintain enduring transnational relationships. However, instead of being a social equalizer that empowers all migrants alike, transnational migration tends to reproduce and even exacerbate class, gender, and regional inequalities. Finally, internal and transnational migration seem to form a single system co...

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多明尼加移民中跨国社会形态的出现与回迁的幻境

本文以跨国视角，分析美国-多明尼加移民的社会文化与政治转型，这些移民迁往多明尼加共和国是他们跨国旅程中的一个步骤。移徙者和他们的原籍社会已经形成了一个密集的跨国关系网，将他们团结在一个连续的跨地域社会形态中。这种形成体现在美国与dr之间不断的往返旅行和物质、无形资源和符号的多向交流中。人口迁移使人们的生活跨越国界，形成了跨国的习惯。因此，即使是在多米尼加重新定居的移民也保持着持久的跨国关系。然而，跨国移民并没有成为赋予所有移民同等权力的社会均衡器，反而往往会再现甚至加剧阶级、性别和地区的不平等。最后，国内和跨国移民似乎形成了一个单一的系统。

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Identities-Global Studies in Culture and Power Multiple-

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3.70

自引率

5.90%

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期刊介绍： Identities explores the relationship of racial, ethnic and national identities and power hierarchies within national and global arenas. It examines the collective representations of social, political, economic and cultural boundaries as aspects of processes of domination, struggle and resistance, and it probes the unidentified and unarticulated class structures and gender relations that remain integral to both maintaining and challenging subordination. Identities responds to the paradox of our time: the growth of a global economy and transnational movements of populations produce or perpetuate distinctive cultural practices and differentiated identities.