От курбета на предмодерната епоха до постмодерния транснационализъм. Теоретични и методологични рефлексии, основани на едно конкретно изследване
From pre-modern kurbet to post-modern transnationalism. Theoretical and methodological reflections based on a case studyIn this paper the author quest

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author questions the validity of concepts such as “migration“ and “transnationalism“ for the understanding of migration in a specific Balkan ethnographic context, that of the Albanian-Greek frontier. Instead of the term “migration“ he adopts the term “transborder mobility“, deconstructing nationalist approaches to this mobility which has been a diachronic process in all the Balkans. An attempt is also made to deconstruct the notion of “transnatiolism“, which seems to obscure rather than illuminate the actual process of population mobility across the national border taking place in this area. He argues that ethnicity and the process of boundary construction in the context of the transnational space formed after the 1990s are more useful conceptual tools in analyzing and understanding what is going on in this area.

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