Visiting migrants : An introduction
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2023-01
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This paper offers an overview of the origins and dynamics of the concept of migrant visits and introduces the key contributions of the special issue. We highlight the significance of visits that criss-cross many forms of migration and centre on these visits’ bilateral and multilateral nature. Furthermore, we emphasize emotional, sensory and bodily implications, which almost always shape encounters between migrants and others in such visits. The papers of this special issue contribute to a broad interdisciplinary agenda highlighting familial ties, networks and transnational spaces at the core of migration and mobility scholarship. Together, we offer new perspectives on the multidirectionality of visits and the role of relationships which drive, connect and diversify forms of migration and are facilitated by broader developments in technology, tourism and diasporic practices.
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Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Global Networks published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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diaspora, migrant families, migrant visits, tourism, visiting friends and relatives, 5.4 Sociology, 5.7 Social and Economic geography, 1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database, General Social Sciences
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Miah, M F, King, R & Lulle, A 2023, 'Visiting migrants : An introduction', Global Networks, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 150-159. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12426