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 ...
Transnational Politics: The case of Turks and Kurds in Germany
1st Edition
By Eva Østergaard-Nielsen
February 29, 2016
Using the Turkish and Kurdish communities in Germany as a case study, this book offers a unique analysis of trans-state political loyalties and activities of transnational communities and their political ramifications at both national and international levels....
Diaspora, Identity and Religion: New Directions in Theory and Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Carolin Alfonso, Waltraud Kokot, Khachig Tölölyan
January 20, 2016
Over the last decade, concepts of diaspora and locality have gained complex new meanings in political discourse as well as in social and cultural studies. Diaspora, in particular, has acquired new meanings related to notions such as global deterritorialization, transnational migration and cultural ...
Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care: Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Loretta Baldassar, Laura Merla
September 16, 2015
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 ...
Rethinking Transnationalism: The Meso-link of organisations
1st Edition
Edited
By Ludger Pries
April 09, 2015
During the last two decades transnationalism has become an important conceptual approach and research programme. However, the term has steadily become vague and indistinct underlining the need for conceptual précising as well as more defined empirical research. Rethinking Transnationalism does this...
Transnational Politics and the State: The External Voting Rights of Diasporas
1st Edition
By Jean-Michel Lafleur
November 10, 2014
In just two decades, the number of states that have adopted external voting policies has boomed. Today, these policies, which allow emigrants to take part in home country elections from abroad, are widely found in Europe and Latin America. Looking at the cases of Italy, Mexico, and Bolivia, this ...
Transnational Marriage: New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Katharine Charsley
June 19, 2014
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 ‘secondary’ to labor migration, marriage has until recent years been...
Transnationalism and Urbanism
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Krätke, Kathrin Wildner, Stephan Lanz
June 19, 2014
The formation of transnational urban spaces is a relevant and challenging field of interdisciplinary research, which deserves much more debate in order to deepen our understanding of generating and restructuring urban spaces under conditions of contemporary globalisation processes. This edited ...
Beyond Methodological Nationalism: Research Methodologies for Cross-Border Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Amelina, Devrimsel D. Nergiz, Thomas Faist, Nina Glick Schiller
April 09, 2014
Cross-border studies have become attractive for a number of fields, including international migration, studies of material and cultural globalization, and history. While cross-border studies have expanded, the critique on nation-centered research lens has also grown. This book revisits drawbacks of...