By Nadje Al-Ali, Khalid Koser
This publication significantly evaluates the transnational groups method of modern foreign migration. It does so via a particular specialize in the connection among 'transnational groups' and 'home'. The that means of 'home' for overseas migrants is altering and evolving, as new globally-oriented identities are built. those matters are explored via a few critical topics: the which means of 'home' to transnational peoples, the consequences of reworking those social areas and the way those were reworked.
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In this context I related to a dominant Syrian Christian discourse of memory which links visions of self with a long history of suffering at the hands of religious and ethnic others. This positionality vis-à-vis others was combined with essentialist politics of the self, which aimed at self-sustainment in the face of marginalization and threat. I contrasted this mode with ‘cosmopolitanism’, a stance many Syrian Christians felt they could not afford, neither at home nor abroad. However, especially on a micro-analytical level, notions of identity and belonging reveal their multiplicity and the terms transnational/cosmopolitan do not suffice or are misleading as explanatory terms.
Home was rather something undecided, something to be located on a scale of inclusive and exclusive characteristics, or with the attributes of ‘not anymore’, ‘not yet’ or ‘never to be’. One of the uneasiest associations of belonging was Germany or Germanness. The ‘Germans’ were viewed as a people whose sense of nationhood was bound up with whiteness and which excluded immigrants from belonging to their ‘fatherland’. The law – poignantly called the ‘foreigner law’ – located Aziz outside Germanness, and defined him as non-belonging.
Or, to turn this issue into a question, how do we conceptualize ‘community’ or ‘home’ when we study the disruptive forces of migration? 1 This chapter is concerned with a micro-analytical approach. Without offering a general answer to the question raised above, it investigates the polysemy of ‘community’ and ‘home’ as it emerged in a particular ethnographic research. It suggests that ‘transnationalism’ cannot provide a general paradigm applicable to all migrant groups, irrespective of their geopolitical position, migration history and (variously defined) internal fragmentation.