Routledge Research in Transnationalism
About the Book Series
'Transnationalism' broadly refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states. Serving to ground theory and research on 'globalization', the Routledge book series on 'Transnationalism' offers the latest empirical studies and ground-breaking theoretical works on contemporary socio-economic, political and cultural processes which span international boundaries.
The Role of Language in the Wellbeing of Migrants: East Asian Communities in Germany
1st Edition
By Zi Wang
September 25, 2023
This book examines the correlations between language behaviour and happiness amongst communities of migrants, and addresses the overarching question of whether language can affect wellbeing. Zi Wang takes an innovative look at migration and wellbeing by examining the crucial role language – a ...
Chinese Transnational Families: Care Circulation and Children’s Life Paths
1st Edition
By Laura Lamas-Abraira
May 31, 2023
The research presented in this book explores care and its circulation in Chinese transnational families that are split between China and Spain, and the paths these families’ children have taken through their lives so far: from their early years to their current position as young adults, with care, ...
Mixed Families in a Transnational World
1st Edition
Edited
By Josiane Le Gall, Catherine Therrien, Karine Geoffrion
May 31, 2023
Offering a transnational perspective on the processes of identity transmission and identity construction of mixed families in various parts of the world, this book provides an overview of how local, national, global contexts and inter-group relations structure the development of specific forms of ...
Transnational Musicians: Precariousness, Ethnicity and Gender in the Creative Industry
1st Edition
By Beata M. Kowalczyk
August 01, 2022
Informed by theories pertaining to transnational mobility, ethnicity and race, gender, postcolonialism, as well as Japanese studies, Transnational Musicians explores the way Japanese musicians establish their transnational careers in the hierarchically structured classical music world. Drawing on ...
Charting Transnational Fields: Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg, Stefan Bernhard
September 30, 2021
The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge-based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization. Drawing on seminal work by Pierre Bourdieu, we apply concepts of practice, habitus, and field to phenomena such as cross-national social trajectories, international ...
Transnational Politics, Citizenship and Elections: The Political Engagement of Transnational Communities in National Elections
1st Edition
By Chiara De Lazzari
March 31, 2021
This book examines the reasons for which political parties engage with transnational communities and consider the engagement of expatriate communities to be of value or, otherwise, for domestic politics. Centred on Italy, and offering comparative analyses of external voting policies in other ...
Cultures of Transnationality in European Migration: Subjectivity, Family and Inequality
1st Edition
By Karolina Barglowski
December 18, 2020
Transnational mobility in the EU has become a key factor for supranational integration, equal life chances and socioeconomic prosperity. This book explores the cultural and social patterns that shape people’s migration, the historical and contemporary patterns of their movement, and the manifold ...
Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan: From Internationalization to Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Ikuko Nakane, Emi Otsuji, William S. Armour
August 14, 2020
This book explores the transition from the era of internationalization into the era of globalization of Japan by focusing on language and identity as its central themes. By taking an interdisciplinary approach covering education, cultural studies, linguistics and policy-making, the chapters in this...
Transnational Agency and Migration: Actors, Movements, and Social Support
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Köngeter, Wendy Smith
August 14, 2020
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...
Transnational Aging: Current Insights and Future Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Vincent Horn, Cornelia Schweppe
August 14, 2020
This book focuses on the diverse interrelationships between aging and transnationality. It argues that the lives of older people are increasingly entangled in transnational contexts on the social as well as the cultural, economic and political levels. Within these contexts, older people both ...
Ethnomorality of Care: Migrants and their Aging Parents
1st Edition
By Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna, Anna Rosińska, Weronika Kloc-Nowak
February 25, 2020
What happens when the parents of migrants age and need care in mobile and aging societies? Ethnomorality of Care acts as a window in sharing how physical distance challenges family-centered elderly care by juxtaposing transnational families with non-migrant families. A novel approach that explores...
Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age
1st Edition
Edited
By Katie Walsh, Lena Näre
December 10, 2019
This book examines the transformations in home lives arising in later life and resulting from global migrations. It provides insight into the ways in which contemporary demographic processes of aging and migration shape the meaning, experience and making of home for those in older age. Chapters ...