Migration, Culture and Transnational Identities: Critical Essays

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A common feature of all human histories is migration. The migration of individuals implies the migration of cultures. Cultural migration produces transitional and transnational identities. This transnationness itself is not a state, but rather a stage in a seemingly interminable process of "becoming".

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  Migration, culture and transnational identities: Critical essays

  • 2013-07-01
  • 234 pages
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  • Editions L'Harmattan

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