Böcker i Routledge Research in Transnationalism-serien

This volume considers the impact of migrant communities on the politics of their home nations, with case studies from Israel, Turkey, Kurdistan, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Sri Lanka.

Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly negative conceptualisations of this type of family. It re-conceptualizes transnational care as a set of activities that circulates between home and host countries - across generations - and fluctuates over the life course, going beyond a focus on mother-child relationships to include multidirectional exchanges across generations and between genders.

Migrants, both spatially and mentally, no longer settle in only one national territory but interact or move across borders regularly, profoundly challenging the nation-state and the image of society as a container. This volume explores the ways in which migrants, activists and professionals connect social worlds across national boundaries through a variety of social practices. The contributions from various disciplines - anthropology, economics, political and social sciences, educational studies and social work - illuminate the meaning of agency in situations where the capabilities of transnational actors are constrained by nation-states, their borders and social institutions. Based on a relational understanding of transnational agency which builds upon new insights and developments within transnational studies and network theory, this compilation of chapters presents transnational processes and developments in and across various regions of the globe - in East Asia, the Americas, the EU, Southeast Asia, Africa and Australia, in the borderlands of Mexico and the US, in the transatlantic space of the 19th-century fin de siècle world - in order to demonstrate the importance of gaining, assisting and expanding agency in transnational contexts.

This book discusses and evaluates the problems of governance within the European Union's cross border regions from diversity of perspectives and over a range of selected case studies.

Setting the book within a theoretical framework, the authors explore a range of themes such as migration, identity and citizenship in chapters on China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Singapore and Cambodia.

Examines the Indian diaspora in Mauritius, South Africa, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Trinidad, Australia, the US, Canada and the UK and the core issues of demography, economy, culture and future development.

Marriages spanning borders are not a new phenomenon, but occur with increasing frequency and contribute substantially to international mobility and transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as ΓÇÿsecondaryΓÇÖ to labor migration, marriage has until recent years been a neglected field in migration studies. In contemporary Europe, transnational marriages have become an increasingly focal issue for immigration regimes, for whom these border-crossing family formations represent a significant challenge. This timely volume brings together work from Europe and beyond, addressing the issue of transnational marriage from a range of perspectives (including legal frameworks, processes of integration, and gendered dynamics), presenting substantial new empirical material, and taking a fresh look at key concepts in this area.

Against a background of past, limited examples of international cooperation, and ambitious hopes for extensive future efforts, this volume puts two related questions to the empirical test: under which conditions are states prepared to cooperate over international migration, and what form - bilateral, multilateral, formal, informal - will this cooperation take?

Using case studies from those who have moved either transnationally or within their own country, international contributions offer various definitions of what it means to make a living on the move.

Against a background of past, limited examples of international cooperation, and ambitious hopes for extensive future efforts, this volume puts two related questions to the empirical test: under which conditions are states prepared to cooperate over international migration, and what form - bilateral, multilateral, formal, informal - will this cooperation take?

This book offers new perspectives on transnational activism with a focus on Asia. The chapters and case studies examine macro and micro aspects of power and how cross-border activities of civil society groups relate to problems of democracy.

Examining the Turkish and Kurdish communities in Germany, this book analyses trans-state political loyalties and activities of transnational communities and their national and international political ramifications.

A fascinating ethnographic journey into migrant women's lives across two countries, which highlights women's construction of 'home' between Morocco and Italy as a significant site for grasping feelings and narratives of displacement and belonging.

This book explores Japan-in-transition from internationalization to globalization from the perspectives of language and identity. The chapters address how national identity has faced the shift from hard to soft power, offer critical analyses of multilingual practices, and investigate what teaching, learning and using Japanese mean in the context of increasing mobility.

This book critically evaluates the transnational communities approach to contemporary international migration and will be an important resource for scholars of migration, human geography and cultural studies.

"Communities across Borders" examines the many ways in which national, ethnic or religious groups, professions, businesses and cultures are becoming increasingly tangled together - a result of the vast flows of people, meanings, goods and money which now migrate between countries.

This book presents a theoretical and empirical examination of the crucial aspects of new transnational social spaces in the fields of international migration and international business.

This volume argues that translocal forces are leading the emergence of a wider Muslim public sphere. It should be useful for researchers in international relations, Islamic studies, cultural studies, sociology, religion and politics.

This book challenges the definitions of globalisation and transnationalism as a one way process generated mainly by the Western World and the view that the latter is a twentieth century phenomenon.

The European Union is an increasingly dense social and political space. This book delivers an assessment of its transnational links and examines their effects in key areas.

This book considers the impact of migrant communities on the politics of their home nations, with case studies from Israel, Turkey, Kurdistan, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Sri Lanka.

Examines how diasporic communities have used new communications media to maintain and develop community ties on a local and transnational level.

Examines how diasporic communities have used new communications media to maintain and develop community ties on a local and transnational level. A unique contribution to the field, taken from a wide range of contexts.

Offers an integral picture of the EU's internal and external borders to reveal the processes of re-bordering and social change taking place, exploring issues such as security, immigration, economic development and changing social and political attitudes.

This volume strives to establish a new agenda for methodologies in the social sciences, summarizing the most important research strategies developed in the social sciences since the early globalization and transnationalization studies of the 1980s and 1990s - namely, the cosmopolitican approach, the transnational lens, the scalar approach, and global and multi-sited ethnography. The contributions go beyond the early criticisms of methodological nationalism, providing insights into new strategies and illustrating how scholars apply these research strategies in different fields such as migration research and social anthropology. Analyzing the advantages and lacunae of new research strategies helps both to outline general methodological directions and to provide helpful guides for empirical analysis.

This volume explores issues of aging in contexts that are no longer limited to the framework of a single nation-state. It gathers an international range of contributors to examine the micro level of everyday life, biographical projects and identities of the elderly, the meso level of social security systems, social institutions and services for old people, and the macro level in which social policy and the development of the welfare state are challenged.