RT Article
T1 Changing networks and alliances in a transnational context: Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants in southern California
JF Social justice
VO 26
IS 3
SP 4
OP 26
A1 Chinchilla, Norma Stoltz
A2 Hamilton, Nora 1935-
LA English
YR 1999
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747159808
AB Part of a special issue on collective identities, social problems, and movements. The writers discuss the changing networks and alliances of Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants in Southern California in a transnational context. They examine this by considering the relationship between globalization of capital, international migration, and transnationalism, acknowledging the historical and contemporary dimensions. They conclude that transnationalism is affected by the economic and social context and that new transnational practices emerge as this context changes; that transnational practices of Salvadoran and Guatemalan migrants have led to strengthened networks with their communities of origin that have, in turn, transformed these communities and even national economies; that nonmigrants have an important role in transnational migrant practices; and that transnationalism has ambiguous implications for power relations, stratification systems, and counter-hegemonic practices.
K1 Central Americans
K1 Societies
K1 Immigrants
K1 International Relations
K1 Minorities
K1 Political Participation
K1 Salvadorans -- United States
K1 Social Movements
K1 Guatemalans -- United States
K1 Immigrants -- Political activity