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Contrasting parallels : reflexive sociology/ies from a migrating sociologist ; Reflexive sociology/ies from a migrating sociologist ; The bridging experience of trans-migration : reflexive sociology/ies from a migrating sociologist

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    • Publication Date:
      2005
    • Collection:
      University of Malta: OAR@UM / L-Università ta' Malta
    • Abstract:
      ‘Contrasting parallels : reflexive sociology/ies from a migrating sociologist’, was to appear in proceedings of 2005 conference on The Sea, the Bridge, The Land (Sanda Nemeth-Badescu, editor, 2007), Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Press. ; This paper grapples with the specific situation of a professional sociologist struggling to make sense and articulate the analysis of his transition to the status of a trans-migrant, after leaving Malta to take up employment in Prince Edward Island, Canada. This is done by focusing on the problematization of the process of ‘coming round’ to migrant status, particularly in how the understanding of ‘home’, and its ‘bridging’ across two geographical spaces, is seen and analyzed by the subject/object. The assessment presents both a positivist-rational and a self-reflexive exercise in accommodating to the decision to migrate. The rational component of the analysis is teased apart separately from the more intimate ethnographic one, offering a sense of the complex multi-layering of the ‘coming to terms’ with the migration experience. The overall parallel analysis presents insights into the distinct social, cultural and psychological ‘remote preparation’ to, and after, actual migration, and its effects on the changing meaning(s) of ‘home’. ; peer-reviewed
    • Relation:
      Baldacchino, G. (2005). Contrasting parallels : reflexive sociology/ies from a migrating sociologist. The Sea, the Bridge, the Land; https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/14526
    • Online Access:
      https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/14526
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      info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder.
    • Accession Number:
      edsbas.FD6F70FE