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40 reviewsISBN 10: 0387719520
ISBN 13: 9780387719528
Author: Erind Pajo
Contemporary migration involves a dramatic paradox. Although much of what is considered international or transnational migration today transforms people of a wide range of social standings in the emigration countries into laborers at the bottom social and economic ranks of the immigration countries, millions of individuals worldwide seek to migrate internationally. International Migration, Social Demotion, and Imagined Advancement argues that this paradox cannot be explained for as long as common preconceptions about immigrants’ economic betterment thwart even questioning why individuals who are not threatened by famine or war willingly pursue their demotion abroad. Recognizing immigrants’ decline as such, this book proposes viewing contemporary migration as socioglobal mobility. Revolving around an ethnographic study of the Albanian "emigration" in Greece, International Migration, Social Demotion, and Imagined Advancement finds that imaginaries of the world as a social hierarchy might lie at the roots of much of the contemporary international migration. As would-be emigrants perceive different countries in terms of distinct social stations in a global order, they resolve to put up with numerous social and material deprivations in the hope of advancing internationally. Immigrants are typically thought of as aliens in their de facto home societies, however, and that makes genuine advancement all but impossible.
1. International Migration as Socioglobal Mobility
2. A Preliminary Portrait of the Albanian Emigration
3. Ethnography and the Discursive Scape
4. Portrait of Lumturi F., High School Teacher, Domestic Cleaner, Kitchen Help, Maid
5. Greece Is Better than Albania
6. Portrait of Petraq Z., Research Scientist, Plumber’s Aide, Maker of Icon Frames, Champion of Capitalism
7. Sufferings of the Soul
8. Portrait of Fatmir R., High School Principal, Democrat, Janitor, Maintenance Technician, Contemporary Citizen
9. The Economic Disadvantages of Emigration
10. Portrait of Llambi S., Math Teacher, Member of Albania’s Party of Labor, Olive Plucker, Construction Helper, Lottery Peddler, Café Proprietor
11. Why Emigrants Do Not Return to Albania
12. Portrait of Drita H., Chemical Engineer, Domestic Cleaner, Moviegoer, Balletomane
13. The World According to the Emigrants
14. Portrait of Ilir, Known As Panajotis, Embassy Child, Ex-Politically Persecuted, Internment Farm Worker, Baker’s Aide, Specialist of Floors, Would-be Rebuilder of the World Trade Center
15. The Logic and the Experience of Emigration
16. Portrait of Genci K., Student, Waiter
17. Socioglobal Articulations and Imaginaries
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Tags: Erind Pajo, International Migration, Social Demotion, Imagined Advancement, Ethnography, Socioglobal Mobility
