Hometown associations and solidarities in Kurdish transnational villages: the migration-development nexus in a European context

Connie Carøe Christiansen

The European Journal of Development Research, 2008, vol. 20, issue 1, 88-103

Abstract: The politicisation of transnational relations obscures and dichotomises our perceptions of migrants and their development activities in sending societies. A current boost in hometown associations for a cluster of Kurdish villages in Turkey should thus be connected to a more self-conscious transnational component in the village community, rather than to the polarisation among migrants, producing on the one hand developers (of the hometown) and integration activists. Social remittances - ideas, norms and practices transferred by migrants to their sending societies are not widely recognised as promoting development, producing this false dichotomy of migrants. La politisation des relations transnationales obscurcit et tend à polariser nos perceptions des migrants et de leurs activités de développement dans leur société d'origine. L'élan actuel d'associations sises dans le pays d'origine en faveur d'un ensemble de villages kurdes en Turquie devrait être lié davantage à la prise de conscience opérée par la communauté villageoise de sa dimension transnationale plutôt qu'à une polarisation des migrants, qui verrait d'un côté des "développeurs" (du pays d'origine) et de l'autre des militants pour l'intégration. Les transferts sociaux - les idées, les normes et les pratiques véhiculées par les migrants vers leurs sociétés d'origine - ne sont pas reconnus comme des facteurs de développement, ce qui produit cette fausse dichotomie entre les migrants.

Keywords: social remittances; differentiation of migrants; transnational citizenship; state discourses (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/09578810701853249

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