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Journal Articles (Political Science)
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- 5Trimble, Linda
- 3Abu-Laban, Yasmeen
- 3Mahdavi, Mojtaba
- 2Knight, W. Andy
- 1Abu-Laban, Y.
- 1Adkin, Laurie
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Conceptualizing Transnational Community Formation: Migrants, Sojourners and Diasporas in a Globalized Era
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Transnational communities have flourished in the globalized era, creating a Diaspora and sojourners that are unlike earlier waves of migrants. This paper first examines the main theories currently used to describe and explain international migration and find them wanting. Through an examination...
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2009
China’s rapidly expanding role in Africa as an energy and resource extractor reveals much of the dynamics and complexities of its growing ties with the continent. Rather than studying the subject in the framework of bilateral interactions, as most existing literature does, this article explores...