Shifting Theories, Methods and Topics. Monika Salzbrunn Talks with Ludger Pries about Thirty Years of Migration Studies

Monika Salzbrunn talks with Ludger Pries about shifting theories, methods and topics that occurred during the last thirty years in migration studies, namely the transnational turn. The combination of substantial and relational concepts of space has led to the elaboration of transnational social spaces, emphasising the pluri-local nature of societal relations, networks and practices. These practices include an everyday awareness and interrelation of actors, significant symbols and the use of artefacts. Transnationalisation is considered as one out of seven ideal-types of internationalisation and migration processes, spanning above and between container spaces and in which the concentric circles of local, micro-regional, national, macro-regional and global phenomena are played out. Finally, the present situation of refugees is treated under the light of these different levels of analysis.