BETWEEN MACEDONIA AND SWITZERLAND: ALBANIAN MIGRANTS’ TRANSLOCAL TRAJECTORIES AND PRACTICES
BETWEEN MACEDONIA AND SWITZERLAND: ALBANIAN MIGRANTS’ TRANSLOCAL TRAJECTORIES AND PRACTICES

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

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