Migration, Trans-Locality and Social In(Ex)clusion
Migration, Trans-Locality and Social In(Ex)clusion

Managing the Life In-Between. The Case of Albanian Migrants from Macedonia

Summary/Abstract: The article examines transnational migrations of Albanians from the Republic of Macedonia seen in the light of ongoing processes of their exclusion and inclusion in different social contexts at both ends of the migratory chain – the places of origin and of destination. It focusses on the social and cultural challenges that individuals and groups face, as well as on the everyday strategies of coping with life between different localities. The analysis is based on the assumption that the migratory experience in a trans-national space can be analysed by taking into account that it is constituted within historically and geographically specific localities of origin and of migration, and that it depends on social, cultural, economic, political, and legal opportunities and constraints, and that at both ends of the chain. In the light of this conceptualization, the strategies of managing the life in-between are seen as everyday practices, relations, and interactions based on kinship, friendship and ethnic affirmation within localized trans-national (trans-local) social spaces.

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