The paradigm of integration-assimilation has dominated the social studies of migration, ethnicity, race, and inequality for a century since Park and Burgess’s pioneer work. This paradigm has been criticized, but it has not been supplanted; in fact, it has reappeared in the last few decades as a transnationalism perspective. In this article, we explore the other side of integration—uprootedness—to reframe contemporary migration studies. We discuss its impact throughout the migration process: from displacement at the place of origin to settling limitations at the place of destination. We argue that uprootedness produces different manifestations of alienation in the lives of migrants, a problem compounded by the lack of recognition of migrants at the place of destination.
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May 24 2022
Uprootedness as the Other Side of Integration: Reframing Contemporary Migration Studies
Jorge Durand
Jorge Durand
Jorge Durand is a Research Professor at the University of Guadalajara. He is co-director of the Mexican Migration Project (since 1987) and the Latin American Migration Project (since 1996), sponsored by the Universities of Princeton and Guadalajara. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018, he received the Bronislaw Malinowski Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology. Throughout his career, he has developed themes linked to social movements, both peasants and urban workers, with a focus on the international migration processes both in Mexico and in Central America. He has approached the subject from an anthropological and historical perspective but has also contributed to the creation of an extensive database on Mexican and Latin American migration in the Mexico Migration Project.
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Human Organization (2022) 81 (2): 171–179.
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Jorge Durand; Uprootedness as the Other Side of Integration: Reframing Contemporary Migration Studies. Human Organization 1 June 2022; 81 (2): 171–179. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-81.2.171
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