Böcker i Routledge Research in Transnationalism-serien

"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.

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.

This book investigates value assessments regarding migrants in Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia, while looking at issues such as security, human rights, legal systems, identity, racism, welfare, health and labour.

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.

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 takes an innovative perspective, looking at transnationalism as a social space that can be occupied by a wide range of actors, not all of whom are themselves directly connected to transnational migrant communities.

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.

The end of Soviet hegemony has led to the emergence of new Central Asia nation-states which are struggling with the conundrums of national identity. This text focuses on the dynamics among transnational forces within and beyond the region and explores the roles played by diaspora communities in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

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.

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.

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 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.

During the decades transnationalism has become an important conceptual approach and research programme. This book presents theoretical contributions to the transnationalism approach and offers empirical studies in the field of the transnationalization of organizations.

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.

Examines the development of the concept of diaspora and new perspectives on global networks and local identities. Features case histories on the Caribbean, Irish, Irish-American, Armenian, African and Greek diasporas.

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.