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1 online resource (337 pages) |
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New Directions in Anthropology
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New directions in anthropology.
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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. |
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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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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Foreign workers, Jordanian -- Foreign countries.
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Jordanian students -- Foreign countries.
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Jordan -- Emigration and immigration.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. |
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Emigration and immigration |
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Jordan |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Antoun, Richard T. Documenting Transnational Migration : Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America. New York, NY : Berghahn Books, ©2005 9781845456498 |
| ISBN |
9780857455376 (electronic bk.) |
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0857455370 (electronic bk.) |
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