Hans-Joachim Bürkner
Transnational Migration. Cultural turn and the nomads of the world market
Pages 113 - 122

Migration research has only occasionally been considered an explicit part of the cultural turn in social sciences. This holds even true for recent attempts at establishing a “transnational migration” approach. However, closer inspection reveals that cultural categories have broadly influenced scholarly thought throughout this field of research. Though relevant migration processes actually continue to be economically motivated, individual strategies of making a living and developing social embeddings have been declared by migration researchers to be cultural rather than economic and socioeconomic issues. The article sheds some critical light on the theoretical assumptions and epistemological outcomes of the new culturalist view on migration.


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