Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Methodological and Theoretical Outline; 1 Selecting Groups: Moroccan Chleuhs, Algerian Kabyles and Indian Sikhs in Europe; 2 Outline of a Structure and Agency to Hometown Transnationalism; Part II: Transnationalism: An Emergent Process; 3 Migration and the Village Lifeworld: Exploring the Ambivalence of the Migration Act; 4 Hometown Organising and the Multipolarisation of Migrants' Lives; Part III: State Policies and Immigrant Volunteering: The Developmentalist Turn
5 The Indian and North African Volunteer Sector in Europe6 Migrant Organisations and the New Governance of Development; Conclusion: Moving beyond the Postmodern Trap of Transnational Studies; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Collective remittances, that is to say development initiatives carried out by immigrant groups for the benefit of their place of origin, have been attracting growing attention from both academics and policy makers. Focusing on hometown organisations, this book analyses the social mechanics that are conducive to collective transnationalism
