Social Process of Globalization - Return Migration and Cultural Change in Kazakhstan

A rich and compelling analysis of how cultural globalization occurs, including the structural conditions, personal meanings and social interactions involved.

List of contents

1. Moving beyond hybridity; 2. Kazakhstan: the local context of globalization; 3. Theory: explaining cultural stability and change; 4. Return migrants and the negotiation of cultural difference; 5. Patterns of social and cultural change; 6. Conclusions: globalization, reflexivity and return migration.

About the author

Douglas W. Blum is Professor of Political Science at Providence College. His current research focuses on the connections between globalization and identity in the former USSR, and his publications include National Identity and Globalization: Youth, State, and Society in Post-Soviet Eurasia (Cambridge, 2007).

Summary

An empirically rich and theoretically compelling analysis of how cultural globalization occurs, including the structural conditions, personal meanings and social interactions associated with various outcomes. A detailed study focuses on the experiences of young people from Kazakhstan who live in the US temporarily and then return home.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas W. Blum, Douglas W. (Providence College Blum, Blum Douglas W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781107129689
• ISBN: 978-1-107-12968-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, Kazakhstan, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples