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40064 Inlaga.Ps - 5/26/2004 10:01 AM 40064 Omslag.ps - 5/26/2004 10:00 AM MALMÖ UNIVERSITY • IMER • UNIVERSITY MALMÖ MAJA POVRZANOVIC MAJA Å FRYKMAN (ED.) • TRANSNATIONAL SPACES:TRANSNATIONAL • (ED.) FRYKMAN PERSPECTIVE DISCIPLINARY TRANSNATIONAL SPACES: DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Willy Brandt Conference Proceedings Edited by Maja PovrzanovicåFrykman S MALMÖ UNIVERSITY SE-205 06 Malmö Sweden tel: +46 40-665 70 00 2004 2004 www.mah.se ISBN 91-7104-060-9 40064 Inlaga.ps - 5/26/2004 10:01 AM TRANSNATIONAL SPACES: DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES Edited by Maja PovrzanovicåFrykman MALMÖ UNIVERSITY IMER 40064 Inlaga.ps - 5/26/2004 10:01 AM © Malmö University ( imer) and the authors Printed in Sweden by Prinfo Team Offset & Media, Malmö 2004 ISBN 91-7104-060-9 / Online publication www.bit.mah.se/muep Malmö University International Migration and Ethnic Relations (imer) se-205 06 Malmö Sweden www.imer.mah.se 40064 Inlaga.ps - 5/26/2004 10:01 AM CONTENTS Preface . 5 Notes on contributors . 7 thomas faist The transnational turn in migration research: perspectives for the study of politics and polity. 11 berndt clavier The transnational imaginary: cultural space and the place of theory . 46 per gustafson More or less transnational: two unwritten papers . 64 maja povrzanovicåfrykman Transnational perspective in ethnology: from ‘ethnic’ to ‘diasporic’ communities . 77 östen wahlbeck Turkish immigrant entrepreneurs in Finland: local embeddedness and transnational ties . 101 connie carøe christiansen Transnational consumption in Denmark and Turkey: an anthropological research project . 123 nauja kleist Situated transnationalism: fieldwork and location-work in transnational research methodology . 138 erik olsson Event or process? Repatriation practice and open-ended migration . 151 thomas faist Concluding remarks . 169 3 40064 Inlaga.ps - 5/26/2004 10:01 AM 40064 Inlaga.ps - 5/26/2004 10:01 AM PREFACE This publication makes available the proceedings from the international workshop, Transnational spaces: disciplinary perspectives, held at the School of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER), Malmö University, on June 10-11, 2003. Along with the contributors to this volume, the following participants acted as discussants: Erica Carlström (Lund), Dimos Chatzoglakis (Mal- mö), Didem Danis (Malmö/Toulouse le Mirail), Andreas Ette (Bremen), Margit Fauser (Bremen), Björn Fryklund (Malmö), Jürgen Gerdes (Bremen), Kristina Grünenberg (Copenhagen), Jan-Erik Lundberg (Mal- mö), Philip Muus (Malmö), Ninna Nyberg Sørensen (Copenhagen), Kat- hrin Prümm (Bremen), Beate Rieple (Bremen), and Pia Steen (Roskilde). Some of their ideas and comments are referred to in the concluding re- marks of Thomas Faist, well known for his work on transnational social spaces. Both the workshop and this publication were made possible by the Gu- est Professorship in memory of Willy Brandt, which is a gift to IMER, Malmö University, financed by the City of Malmö and sponsored by MKB Fastighets AB. Thomas Faist participated in the workshop in his capacity of Guest Professor in memory of Willy Brandt. The organiser of the workshop and the editor of this volume held the position of Research Fel- low in the frames of Guest Professorship. The intention of the workshop was to bring together scholars of diffe- rent disciplinary backgrounds who have an interest in transnational con- nections and imply transnational perspectives in their research. The initial idea was to only invite those scholars for whom some aspects of transna- tionalism (understood mainly as immigrants’ transnational social spaces) are the particular field of research. Thomas Faist suggested that a more in- teresting and challenging approach – and which actually defined the final format of the workshop – would be to also include people who dealt with other kinds of transnational spaces. 5 40064 Inlaga.ps - 5/26/2004 10:01 AM preface The participants were asked to focus on epistemological and methodo- logical questions, using concrete research projects as the point of departu- re. They addressed the state of the art concerning transnational spaces within the conceptual universe of their respective disciplines. Another be- nefit was that, as they work in different countries, they were able to ex- change insights into research politics and preferences in different national contexts. The papers published in this volume range from elaborate disciplinary overviews to outlines of research projects yet to be undertaken. However, they all engage in answering the questions concerning definitions of the term and the appropriate methods of research into transnational spaces – in conceptual and empirical efforts towards the general study of transna- tionalisation. In discussing the utility of and the need for concepts associated with transnationalism, this publication contributes to the general purpose of the Guest Professorship in memory of Willy Brandt, established to streng- then and develop research as well as to create closer international links in the field of international migration and ethnic relations. The Editor 6 40064 Inlaga.ps - 5/26/2004 10:01 AM NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Connie Carøe Christiansen holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen, where she currently works as Lecturer at the Institute of Sociology. Planning a project on consumption and networks among Turkish fami- lies in Denmark, she is interested in transnational consumption patterns, social capital and cultural capital, news media consumption, diaspora, mobilities, and spatial segregation. Her publications concerning transnationalism include ”News media consumption among immigrants in Europe: the relevance of diaspora”, Ethnicities (forthcoming), and ”Islamischer Frauenaktivismus in Däne- mark aus transnationaler perspektive”, in Pusch, B. (Hg.), Die neue Musli- mische Frau. Standpunkte und Analysen (Orient Institut DMG 2001) - al- so available in Danish as ”Kvinders islamiske aktivisme i et transnationalt perspektiv”, Dansk Sociologi 12(4), 2001. Berndt Clavier holds a Ph.D. in English from Lund University. He works as Lecturer at IMER, Malmö University. His research interests include literatures in English, film and film theory, culture and politics, postmodernism and modernism; avant-garde aesthe- tics, literary theory and criticism, critical theory, Marxism, space and ti- me, authenticity and ideology, travel literature & philosophy, realism. Berndt Clavier is the author of the book John Barth and Postmoder- nism: Spatiality, Travel, Montage (Dept. of English, Lund University, 2002), and of the articles ”Mobilizing Identities: John Barth and the Ideo- logy of Travel”, in The Interpretation of Culture and the Culture of Inter- pretation (E. Hemmungs Wirtén and E. Peurell, eds., Dept. of Literature, Uppsala University 1997), and ”‘The World Is Closer Than You Think’: Travel, Antarctica and the Marketing of the British Airways”, in Text and Nation: Essays on Postcolonial Cultural Politics (A. Blake and J. Nyman, eds., The University Press of Joensuu 2000). 7 40064 Inlaga.ps - 5/26/2004 10:01 AM nots on contributors Thomas Faist received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the New School for Social Research in New York. He is Professor of Political Science and directs the International Study Programme in Political Management at the University of Applied Sciences, Bremen. He is director of the Centre for Study of Migration, Citizenship and Development. His research focuses on international migration, ethnic relations and comparative politics.He currently leads an international project on the Politics of Dual Citizenship in Europe, funded by the Volkswagen Foun- dation. He also participates in the Special Research Unit on ”Changing Statehood”, supported by the German Science Foundation. Thomas Faist is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Ethnic & Racial Studies and The Sociological Quarterly. His major book publi- cations include Social Citizenship for Whom? Young Mexican Americans in the United States and Turks in Germany (Ashgate 1995), The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spa- ces (Oxford University Press 2000) and The Future of Citizenship (Black- well, forthcoming). Per Gustafson holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Göteborg University, where he works as Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Sociolo- gy. He is interested in individual and social understandings of place, place attachment and mobility, especially in relation to migration. His publications dealing with these questions include the book Place, Place Attachment and Mobility: Three Sociological Studies (Göteborg Studies in Sociology No. 6, Dept. of Sociology, Göteborg University 2002), and the articles ”Retirement migration and transnational lifesty- les”, Ageing and Society 21(4), 2001, ”Globalisation, multiculturalism and individualism: The Swedish debate on dual citizenship”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 28(3), 2002. Nauja Kleist obtained a MA in International Development Studies and History at Roskilde University Centre. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the De- partment of Sociology, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests include migration, transnational practices, di- aspora, belonging, gender, racialisation processes, and repatriation. Her dissertation will offer an analysis of mobility, diasporic identification and transnationalism among Somalis in Denmark. Some of these topics have been explored in ”Repatriering - afsluttet el- ler fortsat mobilitet?” (M. Fink-Nielsen and P. Hansen and N. Kleist), Den Ny Verden 35 (3), 2002, ”Indledning.
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