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After much deliberation we decided that Phi Hong Su’s The #Border Within and Sharon M. Quinsaat’s Insurgent Communities are equally excellent and should be awarded as co-winners of the #best_book award. We also award an Honourable Mention to Zai Liang’s From #Chinatown to Everytown. #RC31_Award

while simultaneously opposing the homeland state government, building solidarity across time and space.

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By advancing her concept of the conflict-mobilization-collective identity nexus, she argues that activism and #social_movements are central to processes of #diaspora formation and can work to construct a diasporic sense of homeland attachment and loyalty,

Rich multilingual #ethnography brings to life the solidarities and conflicts of Vietnamese migrants living in East and West Germany before, during and after German reunification.

Su theorises ethnic nationhood in #diaspora through a hierarchical structuring and splintering of an imagined community, stratified by geography, political histories, #migration contexts.

#ISA #migration #sociology #migrants #immigration #climatecrisis #climatechange #climatemigration

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Reviewers' comments: Focusing on #immigrant legalization, Deisy’s article presents that #legalization is a #transitional process where multilayered interactions between the state regime, opportunity structure, and the permeability of application standards have unequal effects on immigrants

Reviewers' comments: Karolina connects #anthropology and #MigrationStudies, taking an innovative approach to illustrate how transnational belonging/transnational can be embodied.
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