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CONNECTING PLACES, ENDURING THE DISTANCE: EXPERIENCES AND IMPLICATIONS OF TRANSMIGRANT TRAVELS
Maja Povrzanović Frykman
; Međunarodne migracije i etnički odnosi, Sveučilište u Malmöu, Malmö, Švedska
Sažetak
This paper sheds light on some aspects of situating identities within a transnational
framework. The practice of personal travel as a means of maintaining transnational social
fields is focused upon. A micro-ethnographic study of a bus ride between Sweden and
Croatia is presented. The used material refers exclusively to people who can be classified as
immigrants, here conceptualized as transmigrants. It includes labour migrants and their
families, as well as people who came to Sweden as refugees. Their transnational practices
are connected to some aspects of ethnic identification processes.
The author argues for central importance of the fieldwork in ethnological/
anthropological understandings of transnational practices and their implications,
and discusses some methodological concerns. The embodied geography of physical
distances and national borders is just one element of transnational individuals' and groups'
identification processes. Nevertheless, it is central to ethnographic accounts on the
multiple and often burdensome experiences of connecting places. Such accounts are
indispensable in the joint interdisciplinary effort of locating and historicizing
transnationalism from below, in order to promote it as a useful scholarly concept.
Ključne riječi
transnationalism; transmigrants; travel; ethnography
Hrčak ID:
33250
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Datum izdavanja:
3.12.2001.
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