In this book two leading authorities on migration and nationhood attempt tobridge the gap between experience and analysis looking at thedisorientating effects ... » 

In this book two leading authorities on migration and nationhood attempt tobridge the gap between experience and analysis looking at thedisorientating effects of space and time which migration creates howmigration affects our understanding of national affiliations and the nationstate the impact of cross national economic relations on everyday life. Theauthors examine the migration of both rich and poor crossing borders andliving increasingly diasporic lives and show how even as people move acrossborders they still seek to be at home in the world through the creation of apolitics of belonging. «