Migration, Diaspora, and Borders

It treats migration as a rational response to wage differentials but can't explain why flows follow specific historical corridors (Algerians to France, Turks to Germany) or the role of networks and colonial history.

People move where kin and fellow villagers already went, because predecessors supply housing, job referrals, and loans — so each departure makes the next one easier.

Early-1990s concept that migrants do not simply uproot and assimilate but build durable social fields spanning two or more countries.

Ideas, norms, and practices that travel alongside money — shown in her study of Miraflores, Dominican Republic, and its 'twin' community in Boston.

Dispersal from an original homeland, collective memory or myth of that homeland, partial non-acceptance in the host society, and identity maintained across generations.

He de-centered the homeland-and-return story, arguing many diasporas are organized by lateral connections among dispersed communities.

Identity is not an ancestral essence to be recovered but is produced in the diaspora — hybrid, positional, and always becoming.

Treat diaspora not as a countable thing but as a claim, stance, and project cultivated by political and cultural entrepreneurs.

The dense assemblage of law, technology, labor, and affect that enacts bordering — at consulates, patrol boats, biometric databases, workplace audits, or clinical intake.

'Illegal' is not a property of persons but an effect of law: statutes, quotas, and enforcement priorities produce deportable populations.