De-naturalizing the national in research methodologies: Key concepts of transnational studies in migration

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1707-1724

  Amelina, Anna ^a   Faist, Thomas ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cosmopolitanism; mobile methods; multi sited ethnography; relational space; self reflexivity; strategies of de ethnicization; transnational migration

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS; ETHNICITY; MIGRATION; NATIONAL IDENTITY; NATIONALISM;

EID: 84866304640     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.659273     Document Type: Article

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