Meaning of plurilocal | Babel Free

Definitions

Existing simultaneously in multiple localities.

Examples

“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.”

“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).”

“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'.”

CEFR level