Susanne Wessendorf is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany, and co-editor of The Multiculturalism Backlash: European Discourses, Policies and Practices.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Social Affiliations and Ethnicity in the Context of Second-Generation Transnationalism; Chapter 2 Transnational Childhoods: Growing Up in Transnational Families; Chapter 3 Transnational Continuities, Ethnic Reification and Local Ties; Chapter 4 Transnational Discontinuities: Developing Local Attachments; Chapter 5 Transnational Realizations and Relocation to the Homeland: Roots Migration; Chapter 6 Conclusion: Individual Trajectories of Transnationalism and Integration;

’Full of wonderfully rich and absorbing material, this well-written ethnographic study of second-generation Italians in Switzerland and southern Italy provides important insights into how and why the adult children of migrants maintain ties with their parents’ country of origin - a topic that is central to our understanding of contemporary immigration.’ Nancy Foner, Hunter College and City University of New York, USA ’This book is a welcome addition to theory building and ethnographic literature about the second generation. Aptly deploying concepts of transnational social fields, ways of belonging and home making, Wessendorf traces migrant networks beyond ethnically defined activities and identities. By abandoning an ethnic lens she provides a multi-sited description of how people of migrant backgrounds form social relations in villages of Italy and urban Switzerland.’ Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester, UK

Susanne Wessendorf is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany, and co-editor of The Multiculturalism Backlash: European Discourses, Policies and Practices.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Social Affiliations and Ethnicity in the Context of Second-Generation Transnationalism; Chapter 2 Transnational Childhoods: Growing Up in Transnational Families; Chapter 3 Transnational Continuities, Ethnic Reification and Local Ties; Chapter 4 Transnational Discontinuities: Developing Local Attachments; Chapter 5 Transnational Realizations and Relocation to the Homeland: Roots Migration; Chapter 6 Conclusion: Individual Trajectories of Transnationalism and Integration;

’Full of wonderfully rich and absorbing material, this well-written ethnographic study of second-generation Italians in Switzerland and southern Italy provides important insights into how and why the adult children of migrants maintain ties with their parents’ country of origin - a topic that is central to our understanding of contemporary immigration.’ Nancy Foner, Hunter College and City University of New York, USA ’This book is a welcome addition to theory building and ethnographic literature about the second generation. Aptly deploying concepts of transnational social fields, ways of belonging and home making, Wessendorf traces migrant networks beyond ethnically defined activities and identities. By abandoning an ethnic lens she provides a multi-sited description of how people of migrant backgrounds form social relations in villages of Italy and urban Switzerland.’ Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester, UK

Susanne Wessendorf is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany, and co-editor of The Multiculturalism Backlash: European Discourses, Policies and Practices.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Social Affiliations and Ethnicity in the Context of Second-Generation Transnationalism; Chapter 2 Transnational Childhoods: Growing Up in Transnational Families; Chapter 3 Transnational Continuities, Ethnic Reification and Local Ties; Chapter 4 Transnational Discontinuities: Developing Local Attachments; Chapter 5 Transnational Realizations and Relocation to the Homeland: Roots Migration; Chapter 6 Conclusion: Individual Trajectories of Transnationalism and Integration;

’Full of wonderfully rich and absorbing material, this well-written ethnographic study of second-generation Italians in Switzerland and southern Italy provides important insights into how and why the adult children of migrants maintain ties with their parents’ country of origin - a topic that is central to our understanding of contemporary immigration.’ Nancy Foner, Hunter College and City University of New York, USA ’This book is a welcome addition to theory building and ethnographic literature about the second generation. Aptly deploying concepts of transnational social fields, ways of belonging and home making, Wessendorf traces migrant networks beyond ethnically defined activities and identities. By abandoning an ethnic lens she provides a multi-sited description of how people of migrant backgrounds form social relations in villages of Italy and urban Switzerland.’ Nina Glick Schiller, University of Manchester, UK