International Migration Review
Spring 2014 Volume 48, Issue 1 Pages 3–279
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.2013.47.issue-4/issuetoc
Original Article
Competing for Lebanon’s Diaspora: Transnationalism and Domestic Struggles in a Weak State
Wendy Pearlman
Article first published online: 25 MAR 2014
DOI: 10.1111/imre.12070
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imre.12070/abstract
Abstract
Just as state strength influences relationships between state and society and among social forces within a national territory, so does it shape relationships between states and their emigrants and diasporas across territorial borders. Scholars debate how transnational migration affirms or challenges the dominance of the nation-state. When sending states are weak, however, diaspora–homeland linkages can undermine the role of the state in a way that is not transformative, but sustaining of the status quo. Examining Lebanon, this paper explores how domestic actors extend their struggles to vie over and through kin abroad. Three realms of competition are paramount: demography, votes, and money. The resulting transnational outreach reproduces a politics in which both expatriates and the state function as resources as much as actors.
SPECIAL COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ARTICLES: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATIONS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Introduction to the Special Collection: South–South Migrations: What is (Still) on the Research Agenda? (pages 103–112)
Philippe De Lombaerde, Fei Guo and Helion Póvoa Neto
Article first published online: 25 MAR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/imre.12083

Everyday Restriction: Central American Women and the State in the Mexico-Guatemala Border City of Tapachula (pages 113–143)
Lindsey Carte
Article first published online: 25 MAR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/imre.12072

“Those who come to do harm”: The Framings of Immigration Problems in Costa Rican Immigration Law (pages 144–180)
Caitlin E. Fouratt
Article first published online: 25 MAR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/imre.12073

“Big Fish in a Small Pond”: Chinese Migrant Shopkeepers in South Africa (pages 181–215)
Edwin Lin
Article first published online: 25 MAR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/imre.12074

Inducing Development: Social Remittances and the Expansion of Oil Palm (pages 216–242)
Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio, Yasmin Y. Ortiga and Ma. Rose Cristy B. Josol
Article first published online: 25 MAR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/imre.12075

Social Capital and Livelihoods in Johannesburg: Differential Advantages and Unexpected Outcomes among Foreign-Born Migrants, Internal Migrants, and Long-Term South African Residents (pages 243–273)
Tyler W. Myroniuk and Jo Vearey
Article first published online: 25 MAR 2014 | DOI: 10.1111/imre.12076