Margit Fauser

Ruhr-Universität Bochum | RUB · Faculty of Social Science

In this article, we investigate the roles of urban actors supporting migrants’ struggles and confronting state control, focusing on the fields of family reunification and access to health care in the city of Frankfurt am Main. We bring together insights from border studies, street-level theory, and social policy and social work literature to elabor...

Economic approaches and socio-cultural integration are still the most prominent frameworks applied to explain return migration and permanent settlement. In contrast to the bulk of literature focusing on established migrations from poorer to richer regions, the contribution analyses the permanence of emigration from economically highly developed cou...

Chapter 5 – Transnational lifestyle, citizenship practices, and local belonging This chapter explores mobile citizenship with respect to the relationship between transnational lifestyles and local belonging among the German retirees in Alanya. First, it analyzes what it means to be German in Alanya with respect to emigrant belonging and citizensh...

Mobile Citizenship addresses the crucial question of how mobility reconfigures citizenship. Engaging with debates on transnationalism, citizenship, and lifestyle migration, the book draws on ethnographic research and interview material collected among retired lifestyle migrants moving south from Germany to Turkey to explore the practices and narrat...

Chapter 2 – Reverse spatialities This chapter develops the concept of spatial privilege as the entry point to the research presented in this book. “Spatial privilege” denotes access to spatial mobility, international relocation, and relevant resources and is therefore to a large extent shaped by citizenship. Looking beyond these migrants’ quest for...

Chapter 1 – Citizenship in the age of mobility Today, citizenship has become a key concept in many social science disciplines. At the same time, many believe that the concept and the reality of citizenship – and even this field of study itself – are contested and fragmented, if not divided. This chapter elaborates on the argument that multiple face...

Chapter 3 – Locating retirement lifestyle migration The concept of “lifestyle migration” refers to people who are not migrating for work or fleeing from war or persecution; rather, they are relocating in “search of a better lifestyle.” This chapter locates these movements within the transnational and uneven geographies that shape the privilege of...

Chapter 7– Conclusion The concluding chapter discusses the implications of this study’s results for the theorization of contemporary citizenship. Current debates regarding the concept of citizenship have unraveled its transformation from a previously exclusive, territorially fixed understanding of nation-state membership toward more complicated co...

Chapter 4 – Citizenship, welfare, and well-being across the border Retirement lifestyle migration has been defined as a quest for “better quality of life.” Rarely has research considered how mobile retirees’ practices and perspectives involve and interconnect multiple sites of citizenship – local, immigrant, and emigrant, and interstate or suprana...

Chapter 6 – Paradise lost? This chapter addresses the critical question of retirement lifestyle migrants’ decision to return to their home country. It draws on data collected during a revisit more than 4 years after the initial period of data collection, during which Turkey’s political landscape and its relationship to Germany and the EU have been...

Abstract The current migratory dynamics in the Mediterranean are characterized by large numbers of displaced people, refugees, and other vulnerable groups. In addition, the Mediterranean attracts more privileged individuals who are migrating for lifestyle reasons to find a better life abroad. But, while political and economic crises are at the root...

Aim Maintaining transnational ties may be an indication of poor integration into the host society (according to classical ‘assimilation theory’) or may convey additional capital resources to immigrants (the ‘transmigrant’ view of migration). Consequences for health would be negative in the first and positive in the second scenario. We tested the hy...

In the past years, in a general context featured by anti-migration discourses in immigration countries, sustained economic growth in countries of origin and mobility between migrants’ countries of origin and destination, research on return migration started flourishing. Return has long been considered the end of a migration cycle. Today, returnees...

Table of contents and more information about our Special Issue: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjbs20/34/4?nav=tocList Migrations and Borders: Practices and Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Europe from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century, by Margit Fauser, Anne Friedrichs & Levke Harders (pp. 483-488) The Multilayered Migration Regi...

Current media images of a “fortress Europe” suggest that migrations and borders are closely connected. This special issue brings together scholars from history, sociology and anthropology to explore cross-border mobility and migration during the formation, development, and transformation of the modern (nation-)state explicating the conflictive and...

Innerhalb der transnationalen Migrationsforschung ist in jüngere Zeit eine Debatte um methodologische Ansätze und Prinzipien entstanden, die den Herausforderungen grenzübergreifender Fragestellungen gerecht werden können. Ausgehend von der Kritik am methodologischen Nationalismus werden insbesondere die Frage nationaler Grenzen und damit die Unters...

Over the past few decades, nation state borders throughout the world have been undergoing major transformations. These changes are perhaps particularly salient in the supranational space of the European Union, where new, diverse governance arrangements have emerged for the control of borders and migrations. This governance now involves national and...

This article discusses the use of mixed methods design for transnational migration research. It draws on two currently expanding strategies that can form part of an integrated framework that reveals multiple complementary perspectives: (a) the incorporation of quantitative data and methods in what has been a largely qualitative field and (b) the us...

International migration has developed into one of the major factors of social transformation in Germany. The article analyses the heterogenisation of migration during the last 25 years across four basic dimensions: changing contexts of origin and destination, changing socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, diversification of legal statuses and ri...

The implications of migrants' transnational engagements for processes of change and development in the regions of origin are attracting increased attention from both policymakers and academics. Rather than addressing the positive effects of migration and transnationality on local development, this special issue suggests a focus on the relationship...

The scope of immigrants' transnational ties and the relationship to their social position is subject to a controversial debate that suggests a dualistic picture. On the one hand, globalization theorists argue that an elite of highly educated and economically most successful professionals intensively engages in and benefits from transnationality. On...

Background Maintaining transnational ties may convey additional capital resources to immigrants that non-immigrants have no access to; or it may be an indication of poor integration into host society. Consequences on health would be positive in the first and negative in the second scenario. We tested the hypotheses that (i) transnationality is an...

This article provides an analysis of the co-development engagement of local authorities and migrant organisations from the city of Madrid. ‘Co-development’ has become a key notion that relates to the transnational involvement of migrants in development (cooperation). It is argued that co-development serves as transnational governance in which local...

Mit dem Entstehen einer transnational orientierten Migrationsforschung und ihren zentralen Begriffen Transnationalismus und TransmigrantInnen (Glick Schiller/Basch/Blanc-Szanton 1994) wurde zunächst auf die bislang vernachlässigten grenzübergreifenden Bindungen und Praktiken von MigrantInnen verwiesen und die durch diese Perspektive entstehenden He...

Offering comprehensive empirical insights both from recent sites of immigration in Southern Europe, as well as from places of more established immigration in the north, Migrants and Cities examines the accommodation of migrant organizations in different cities and the factors that affect this process, shedding light on the manner in which the inter...

In the year 2007 migrant organizations from Madrid, Barcelona and a number of southern Spanish localities founded the REDCO network. REDCO is the abbreviation for Network of Immigrant and Co-development Associations. It is dedicated to the active involvement of migrant communities and migrant organizations in cross-border development projects, summ...

The nexus between migration and development has once again found entry into public debate and academic research in connection with the mobility of persons and issues of economic and socio-political development. This is to say, interest in the topic is currently resurging after peaking twice previously, in the 1960s and the 1980s. The current enthus...

Sind Migrantenorganisationen Akteure der Integration, sind sie ein Zeichen der Segregation oder (neue) transnationale Akteure? Angenommen es handelte sich um letztere: in welchem Zusammenhang stehen transnationale Bindungen und grenzübergreifendes Engagement mit der Integration? Muss diese als gescheitert betrachtet werden oder handelt es sich um n...

Das Thema der zivilen und politischen Rechte von Migranten wurde für lange Zeit in der Migrationsforschung kaum beachtet. Bis zum Beginn der 1980er Jahre wurden die in Westeuropa lebenden Migranten überwiegend als unpolitische Gruppe gesehen, politische und wissenschaftliche Aufmerksamkeit erfuhren vor allem soziale und ökonomische Fragen (IMR 1985...

Immigration to southern Europe is a new phenomenon. Like Greece, Spain is being confronted with rapidly growing numbers of immigrants only in the last decade or two. In 1985, a year before Spain entered the European Community, the foreign resident population amounted to around 240,000 people — less than 0.6 per cent of the total population. Most of...

In Europa haben die meisten Staaten ab Mitte der 1980er Jahre damit begonnen, die Zuwanderung von Flüchtlingen und Migranten durch eine restriktivere Asylgesetzgebung und effektivere Migrationskontrollen zu reduzieren. Dem Kontrollinteresse der Staaten stehen menschenrechtliche und rechtsstaatliche Verpflichtungen für Flüchtlinge gegenüber. Diese w...

The “cultural turn” in the social sciences and anthropology claims the merit of recognizing “difference” as a basic concept. The subsequent overcoming of a Eurocentric point of view is of immense value, especially for heterogeneous societies such as Latin America. Nevertheless, the merely culturalistic point of view runs the risk of ignoring the ca...

This paper deals with the local politics of transnational development cooperation and codevelopment in Spain. Since only a few years migrant organizations and local authorities started to engage in development cooperation in a more structured and institutionalized way. Local authorities provide specific funding for migrant organizations projects in...