| Abstract: | In this article, I argue that while providing an excellent summary of the past two decades of research on migrants’ transnational connections, the concepts of intersocietal and interpolity convergences and divergences that Roger Waldinger offers in his book The Cross-Border Connection do not contribute to an explanatory framework that can move beyond the descriptive nature of much of the transnational migration literature. The article briefly speaks to this need by offering three concepts necessary for the analysis of cross-border connections: (1) a multi-scalar global perspective on migration; (2) displacement as an outcome of accumulation through dispossession; and (3) global historical conjunctures. |
