This open access book highlights the relevance of various types of cross-border movements in the post-migration lives of women and men of Somali originBrings together conceptual insights from the migration studies and the mobilities studies to understand migrants' biographies
Contributes to an emerging field that aims to trans-nationalize theories of social inequalities

Autorentext

Joëlle Moret is currently a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Laboratory of Transnational Studies and Social Processes, at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Her teaching focuses on culture and ethnicity, migration studies, and transnationalism. Her current research interest is on cross-border marriages in Switzerland, Turkey, Kosovo and Sri Lanka, using a multi-sited methodology. She has worked and published on migration trajectories, mobility, transnational practices, gender, boundary-making and ethnicity. Previous employments include research at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies (University of Neuchâtel) and teaching at the University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland. In 2012 and 2013, she was a visiting doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, in Göttingen (Germany).

Inhalt

Contents.- Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Typologising Cross-Border Movements in Post-migration Life.- Chapter 3. Mobility: A Practice or a Capital?.- Chapter 4. Transnationalising Resources: Three Biographies.- Chapter 5. Conclusion.- References.