Migrant Associations’ Double Engagement and the Transnationalisation of Public Spheres

With this chapter I would like to focus on a specific form of transnational engagement and space of action, namely that of migrant associations.¹ In the last ten years there is an expanding interest in migrants who with their organisations strengthen transnational connections and address remittances not only to the kin groups but also to broader social and collective projects in the country of origin. (Çaðlar 2006, Mercer et al. 2008, Halm/Zeynep 2012) This social process can be well explored by a transnational perspective regarding migrants not merely in their connection to the receiving contexts, but rather as subjects who