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plurilocal en · ADJ

Etymology

From pluri- + local.

Meanings

1. Existing simultaneously in multiple localities.
   • Altogether and according to Walters (2004), the concept of diaspora can represent a multiple, plurilocal, constructed location of home, thus avoiding ideas of fixity, boundedness, and nostalgic exclusivity traditionally implied by the word 'home'. 2019, Sanya Ojo, The Evolution of Black African Entrepreneurship in the UK, IGI Global, page 158:
   • One possible answer takes into account the migration trajectories of the spouses, parents and children of the persons surveyed, as well as the qualitative material derived from biographical interviews and field work observations: a significant number of labour migrants between the Puebla region and the metropolitan area of New York City should be considered transmigrants who are moving in plurilocal transnational social spaces spanning different places in Mexico and the USA. 2004, Ludger Pries, “Transnationalism and migration: new challenges for the social sciences and education”, in Sigrid Luchtenberg, editor, Migration, Education and Change, Routledge, pages 31–2:
   • It also points to the construction of plurilocal communities (Rouse 1989; García-Canclini 1990; Canales and Zlolniski 2000) that exist in different places at the same time and do not need spatial proximity in order to exist (Faist 2000, 2009). 2016, Millaray Villalobos, “Nomadic Artisans in Central America: Building Plurilocal Communities through Craft”, in Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber, Alicia Ory Denicola, editors, Critical Craft: Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism, Bloomsbury, page 110:

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