Al-Ali, N. and K. Koser, Eds. (2002). New approaches to migration? Transnational communities and the transformation of home. London and New York, Routledge.
This edited book examines transnational perspectives on international migration, focusing in particular on the relationship between 'transnational communities' and home. The book includes empirical research on the impacts of transnationalism in the everyday life of migrants, with ethnographic and comparative historical case studies (including in-depth interviews, observations, mobile methods, and mixed methods) from across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Researching transnational communities presents particular methodological challenges of capturing movement, travel, and the complexities of Internet communication including video web chat, social media, emails, and telephone calls. The first part of the book focuses on transnational communities and the meaning of 'home', the second part explores the implications of transforming homes for transnational communities, and the third part analyses transnational communities and the transformation of home. The changing relationship between migrants and their homes and the dynamics of this relationship form the central focus of each of the contributions in this edited volume.