Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 2.1 is now available!

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Migration
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 2.1 is now available! For more information about this issue, click here >>
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*Special issue*: Circulations of Contemporary Migration

*Article list*

*Circulations: A brief introduction*

Authors: Marta Vilar Rosales And Heather Horst
Page Start: 3

*Conceptualizing migration and mobility in anthropology: An historical
analysis*

Authors: Caroline B. Brettell
Page Start: 7

How have mobile humans (migrants) and the migration process been defined in
the past and what role has the discipline of anthropology in particular
played, not only in contributing to conceptual definitions and
classifications regarding mobile populations, but also in challenging them?
This is the central question of this article that lays a foundation for
those that follow in this special issue focused on advances in the analysis
of migration and mobility. The article investigates this question through
five snapshots across the twentieth century, exploring how
immigrant/migrant populations were defined and constructed by
anthropologists and how these constructions were and are situated within
broader historical contexts. The article also interrogates the role of
human mobility in the production of anthropology as a discipline, including
its own move from a lens focused on tradition and fixedness to one focused
on fluidity and transformation.

*Framing movement experiences: Migration, materiality and everyday life*

Authors: Marta Vilar Rosales
Page Start: 27

This article aims to discuss contemporary migrations from the perspective
of material culture. The discussion presented here assumes that material
culture plays a significant part in all migration processes by establishing
lines of continuity between present and past, confirming and reproducing
identity and belonging, framing everyday life and displaying new
positioning strategies. Beginning with two snapshots of recent ethnographic
fieldwork carried out in Brazil and Canada, I hope to contribute to the
discussion of contemporary migration through studying the lens of
materiality and the role it plays in these processes. It will be argued
that material culture is a productive tool, not only to address the
grounds, motivations and resources people activate in order to utilize
migration as an effective option, but also to discuss the relationships
between movement, settling, cultural reproduction and innovation.

*When children are not ‘the left behind’: Transnational practices of
intra-regional mobility in the South Pacific*

Authors: Andreea R. Torre And Alessio Cangiano
Page Start: 43

Much of the traditional literature on migration in the South Pacific
describes Pacific Islands as countries of permanent out-migration directed
towards the Rim countries. Yet over the past two decades there has been
considerable diversification of the routes and patterns of South Pacific
mobility. This article, by focusing on emerging mobility trajectories
between Pacific Island Countries, ventures into the scarcely studied arena
of intra-regional migration with a case study of Nauruan migrant families
in Fiji. Conceptually, this research is positioned within the literature on
transnationalism. Yet most studies on transnational family migration have
focused on ‘South–North’ migration routes; emphasized the impacts of both
economic and social remittances on local communities at origin; and
identified migratory patterns characterized by family separation, with
parents ‘on the move’ and children and older family members ‘left-behind’.
This article, which relies on a mix-method approach integrating
quantitative data and qualitative information, provides a complementary
perspective highlighting the centrality of education as primary driver of
the migration process, the pivotal role of children in the construction of
transnational social fields and the intersections between institutional
structures, self-initiated practices of movement and kinship relations in
shaping the family migratory trajectories.

*Mobility, inequality and choice: Circulation on the border of Haiti and
the Dominican Republic*

Authors: Erin Taylor
Page Start: 65

The ‘mobility’ in ‘socio-economic mobility’ is no mere metaphor. Rather, it
is indicative of the intrinsic connection between social status and the
circulation of resources. However, it would be a mistake to suggest that
mobility is an all-in-one solution to inequality. The question of who
benefits from the movement of people, things and information depends on
what choices are available to people, how they are able to combine them and
whether those choices can be successfully deployed to meet the goals they
have set. I show how the relationship between mobility and inequality
affects the choices people make in their everyday lives. For Haitians and
their relatives living in the border zone of Hispaniola, mobility is a
necessary livelihood strategy, but it comes with problematic social and
economic implications. First, I provide an overview of the relationship
between mobility and inequality. Second, I introduce the field site, a poor
cross-border region on the southern border of Haiti and the Dominican
Republic. Third, I demonstrate how Haitians’ experiences of mobility and
inequality affect their choices. I conclude by discussing how we can build
a picture of mobility and inequality that responds more to the complexities
of people’s lives.

*Book Reviews*

Authors: Wendy Wei Yang And George Wong
Page Start: 81

   - Class Inequality in the Global City: Migrants, Workers and
   Cosmopolitanism in Singapore, Junjia Ye (2016)
   - Migrant Dubai: Low Wage Workers and the Construction of a Global City,
   Laavanya Kathiravelu (2016)

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