Introduction: Locating and Narrating Emigration Nations

Abstract

It is almost 40 years since Abdelmalek Sayad first emphasized that every immigrant is always initially an emigrant (Sayad, 1977), yet when migration is discussed it is still typically in the context of immigration rather than emigration. Sayad’s insistence on the enduring connection between the two, exemplified by his continued use of the label émigré-immigré (Sayad, 1991), marks one of the first detailed examinations of the distinct context of emigration, yet it has only gradually filtered into anglophone approaches to migration. Writing in appreciation of his career, Bourdieu and Wacquant argued that highlighting the emigration-immigration connection was one of his central contributions, ‘the implications of which remain to be fully drawn out by scholars and policy makers alike’ (2000: 174). This is beginning to change and the importance and particularities of emigration have become much more widely appreciated in recent years (Bauböck, 2003; Ragazzi, 2009). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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