Plurilocal

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Existing simultaneously in multiple localities.

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From pluri- + local.

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