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Author Antoun, Richard T., author.

Title Documenting transnational migration : Jordanian men working and studying in Europe, Asia and North America / Richard T. Antoun
Published New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (337 pages)
Series New Directions in Anthropology
New directions in anthropology.
Contents DOCUMENTING TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES, CHART, DIAGRAM, MAP, KEY; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: Transnational Migration, the Themes Pursued in Its Analysis, and the Jordanian Background of the Case Study; 1. THE ARMY AS AN EXTENSION OF SOCIETY AND A VEHICLE FOR MULTICULTURAL EXPOSURE AND ATTITUDINAL CHANGE; 2. THE JORDANIAN DIASPORAIN ARABIA: INSTRUMENTAL CIRCULATORY MIGRATION, CULTURAL DIVERSITY, AND ETHNIC STRATIFICATION; 3. TWO SOJOURNERS ABROAD MIGRATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION TO ENGLAND AND GERMANY
4. migrants to greece living in the world, integration, and maintaining ethnic identity5. the quest for education in pakistan: the variety of experience in a global society; 6. longer stay, faster change, ruder shock: migrants to the united states, coping with mobility, reinterpreting tradition, and evolving identities; 7. fathers, sons, brothers, and the village community affirmation of the moral society in the shadow of its decline; 8. comparisons and reflections on the global society; bibliography; index
Summary 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 exp
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Subject Foreign workers, Jordanian -- Foreign countries
Jordanian students -- Foreign countries
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Emigration and immigration
Jordan -- Emigration and immigration
Jordan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857455376
0857455370