A Century of Transnationalism ─ Immigrants and Their Homeland Connections

This collection of articles by sociologically-minded historians and historically-minded sociologists highlights both the long-term persistence and the continuing instability of home country connections. Encompassing societies of origin and destination from around the world, A Century of Transnationalism shows that while population movements across states recurrently produce homeland ties, those connections have varied across contexts and from one historical period to another, changing in unpredictable ways. Any number of factors shape the linkages between home and destination, including conditions in the society of immigration, policies of the state of emigration, and geopolitics worldwide. Contributors: Houda Asal, Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard, Caroline Douki, David FitzGerald, Nancy L. Green, Madeline Y. Hsu, Thomas Lacroix, Tony Michels, Victor Pereira, Mônica Raisa Schpun, and Roger Waldinger

Nancy L. Green is a professor of history at the A?cole des Hautes A?tudes en Sciences Sociales. She is a coeditor of Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation and author of The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941 . Roger Waldinger is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCLA. He is editor of Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America and author of The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants, and Their Homelands .