Transnationalism : a new theoretical frame and a new analytical tool in international migration studies

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2005

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Zırh, Besim Can

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This thesis analyses the concept of transnationalism as a newly emerging approach in the field of international migration. This study aimed to try to understand the context of the emergence of this new approach in relation with changing global context. Additionally, this study also aimed to analyse functions of the concept of transnationalism as a new theoretical frame and a new analytical tool to generate an appropriate research agenda in order to study contemporary migratory phenomena. This study has concluded that the concept of transnationalism can generate an appropriate approach and research agenda to understand contemporary migratory phenomena. In spite of the fact that transnationalism is not a well-established approach, transnational practices and relations of migrant communities in specific and contemporary migratory phenomena in general can be studied in the frame of this new concept.

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General Sociology.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15576

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B. C. Zırh, “Transnationalism : a new theoretical frame and a new analytical tool in international migration studies,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2005.