Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World

Vytis Čiubrinskas is Professor of Social Anthropology at Vytautas Magnus University and visiting Associate Professor at the School of Anthropology, Political Science and Sociology, at Southern Illinois University. He has published more than fifty articles and chapters on the politics of ethnic and national identity construction in relation to transnationalism, cultural heritage and social memory. His recent publications include; Returning-Remitting-Receiving. Social Remittances of Transnational (Re)migrants to Croatia, Lithuania, and Poland (LIT Verlag, 2023), Transnacionalizmas ir Nacionalinio Identiteto Fragmentacija (Vyatus Magnus University, 2014), and a guest-edited special issue of Ethnologie francaise (2018).

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Preface: A Tribute to Jonathan Hill

David Sutton



Introducing the Moral of the Story: Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in Betwixt and Between

Vytis Ciubrinskas and Nina Glick Schiller



Part I: Reframing Concepts of Time, Space, and Capital



Chapter 1. The Twilight of Transnational Migration Studies: Reframing Concepts of Time, Space, and Dispossession

Nina Glick Schiller



Part II: Embedding Reciprocity



Chapter 2. TheMoral Economy of Transnational Reciprocity: Lithuanian Return Migrants Between North America and Europa

Vytis Ciubrinskas



Chapter 3. Life ‘here’ and ‘there’ During Covid-19: (Im)mobilities and Transnational Social Ties for Romanians in London

Ana-Maria Cirstea



Part III: Migrating Women and Social Positioning



Chapter 4. Transnational Negotiation of Human Dignity: The Case of Polish Migrant Women Working as Cleaners and Care Givers in Chicago

Anna Horolets



Chapter 5. Beyond the ‘Strong’ and ‘Weak’ Ties Divide: Women’s Networks in Transnational Moral Economies

Marta Kindler



Part IV: Return and Remittances



Chapter 6. Social and Moral Remittances of Diaspora in Homeland Politics: Two Cases from Hungary

Nóra Kovács



Chapter 7. Are Transnationals ‘Real’ Agents of Change? An Exploration of how Returnees’ Transnationalism Relates to their Social Remitting

Violetta Parutis and Marta Buler



Part V: Crisis, Power, and Meaning



Chapter 8. Migration as Crisis: Morality, Epistemology, and Transnational Mobility

Roberto E. Barrios and Alfredo Danilo Rivera



Chapter 9. Building Transnational Social Networks in the Aftermath of the Crisis of the Venezuelan Nation-State

Jonathan D. Hill and Juan Luis Rodriguez



Afterword

Tricia Redeker-Hepner



Index