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 (Vytautas Magnus University Press, Lithuania, 2014), and a guest-edited special issue of Ethnologie francaise (2018).

• List of IllustrationsPreface: A Tribute to Jonathan HillDavid SuttonIntroducing the Moral of the Story: Transnationalities of Migrant Moral Economies in Betwixt and BetweenVytis Ciubrinskas and Nina Glick SchillerAvailable open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from Research Council of Lithuania and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania, Contract No S-A-UEI-23-13 (2023-12-27).Part I: Reframing Concepts of Time, Space, and CapitalChapter 1. The Twilight of Transnational Migration Studies: Reframing Concepts of Time, Space, and DispossessionNina Glick SchillerPart II: Embedding ReciprocityChapter 2. TheMoral Economy of Transnational Reciprocity: Lithuanian Return Migrants Between North America and EuropaVytis CiubrinskasChapter 3. Life ‘here’ and ‘there’ During Covid-19: (Im)mobilities and Transnational Social Ties for Romanians in LondonAna-Maria CirsteaPart III: Migrating Women and Social PositioningChapter 4. Transnational Negotiation of Human Dignity: The Case of Polish Migrant Women Working as Cleaners and Care Givers in ChicagoAnna HoroletsChapter 5. Beyond the ‘Strong’ and ‘Weak’ Ties Divide: Women’s Networks in Transnational Moral EconomiesMarta KindlerPart IV: Return and RemittancesChapter 6. Social and Moral Remittances of Diaspora in Homeland Politics: Two Cases from HungaryNóra KovácsChapter 7. Are Transnationals ‘Real’ Agents of Change? An Exploration of how Returnees’ Transnationalism Relates to their Social RemittingVioletta Parutis and Marta BulerPart V: Crisis, Power, and MeaningChapter 8. Migration as Crisis: Morality, Epistemology, and Transnational MobilityRoberto E. Barrios and Alfredo Danilo RiveraChapter 9. Building Transnational Social Networks in the Aftermath of the Crisis of the Venezuelan Nation-StateJonathan D. Hill and Juan Luis RodriguezAfterwordTricia Redeker-HepnerIndex