Feeding the ties with 'home': the role of the Moroccan diaspora policies in the transnational ties of the postmigration generation.

This study aims at revealing the roots of second-generation transnationalism, by looking at the intergenerational reproduction of transnational attachments and practices. The research goal is threefold: 1) To develop an empirically grounded model explaining how and why the 1st migrants transmit their transnational attachments and practices to their children 2) to understand the agency of the 1st and 2nd generation in the development of the 2nd generations transnational ties 3) to identify intergenerational intersections between the transnationalism of the 1st and 2nd generation.

Keywords:TRANSNATIONAL RELATIONS, MIGRANTS, INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS

Disciplines:Applied sociology, Demography, Policy and administration, Social psychology, Social stratification, Social theory and sociological methods, Sociology of life course, family and health, Other sociology and anthropology

Project type:Collaboration project