TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION - NEW PHENOMENON OF GLOBAL WORLD? (SLOVAK CITIZENS AS TRANSNATIONAL MIGRANTS IN BRUSSELS)

• Authors: Bitusikova A.
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with the new phase of the migration processes in contemporary global world - transnational migration. It brings an overview of the transnational theories as discussed in a social anthropological literature. The transnational migrants are citizens who live within the borders of two or more states and maintain the close social, cultural, economic and political ties to their home country. One of the growing groups of the transnational migrants are the highly skilled and qualified professionals who work for international and transnational institutions and organizations. The study focuses on a group of the Slovak citizens working at European institutions in Brussels. It is based on qualitative research and analyses responses from the questionnaires and interviews with the Slovak professionals in Brussels divided into several categories (motivations of migration; home; identity constructions and transformations; life styles; contacts and relations with the home country). The main objective is to investigate whether the characteristics of the transnational migrants can be applied to this group of the migrants.

Keywords

EN

MIGRANTS; SLOVAKS IN EUROPEANS INSTITUTIONS; TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 401-421
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bitusikova A.

• A. Bitusikova, Ustav etnologie SAV, Klemensova 19, 81364, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA04248257