Transnational migrants in Europe: stigmatization, juridicization and trade union activism

Arbeitspapier | Working paper

"Methodological nationalism restricts the focus on transnational migrants in Europe, in particular in the Upper-Rhine border area (France-Germany-Switzerland). Three main limitations can be underlined: to start with, the ignorance of nationalism in contemporary social science research, including in migration and border studies; moreover, the naturalization of the nation- state that contributes to shape numerous social science biases; finally, territorial limitations that constrain research topics (Wimmer and Glick Schiller 2002). To overcome those issues, this research combines three methodological perspectives: first, a socio-historical analysis of transnational migrants in the Rhineland area, in order to comprehend past and contemporary dynamics; second, a socio-political approach that stresses the migrants’ “ways of being” (Glick Schiller 2005), including their activism and rhetoric, e.g. direct observations and interviews in multiple sites; third, a pluri-scalar approach that implies several levels of analysis, e.g. local, regional, cross-border, transnational and supra-national. The analysis of transnational migrants’ public action in the Rhineland Valley suggests a triple hypothesis: those transnational migrants’ activists elaborate a public discourse against a specific political and social stigmatization (Becker [1963] 1997); they also institutionalize and reinforce social movements with highly trained lawyers that defend their interests at the highest European jurisdictional level; they create empirically an original form of transnational quasi-trade unions." [author's abstract]

Angaben zum Objekt

• Umfang: Seite(n): 14
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: COMCAD Working Papers (79)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Migration ; Migration ; Migrationsforschung ; Stigmatisierung ; Verrechtlichung ; Rheinland ; Schweiz ; Frankreich ; Migrant ; soziale Bewegung ; Gewerkschaft ; Dokumentation

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Dupeyron, Bruno
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD)
• (wo): Deutschland, Bielefeld
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-377770
• Rechteinformation: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 21.06.2024, 16:26 MESZ