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.
Transnationalizing Inequalities in Europe: Sociocultural Boundaries, Assemblages and Regimes of Intersection
1st Edition
By Anna Amelina
December 10, 2019
Unequal life-chances became a key feature of cross-border migration to, and within, the enlarged Europe. Combining transnational, intersectional and cultural-sociological perspectives, this book develops a conceptual tool to analyse patterns, contexts and mechanisms of these cross-border ...
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 ...
Gender in Transnationalism: Home, Longing and Belonging Among Moroccan Migrant Women
1st Edition
By Ruba Salih
June 08, 2015
A fascinating ethnographic journey into migrant women's lives across two countries, Gender in Transnationalism highlights women's construction of 'home' between Morocco and Italy as a significant site whereby broader feelings and narratives of displacement and belonging can be grasped. Salih ...
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...
State/Nation/Transnation: Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia Pacific
1st Edition
Edited
By Katie Willis, Brenda S. A. Yeoh
February 13, 2014
This edited volume examines the relationship between the nation and the transnation, focusing on transnational communities in the Asia-Pacific region. Setting the book within a theoretical framework, the authors explore a range of themes such as migration, identity and citizenship in chapters on ...
Transbordering Latin Americas: Liminal Places, Cultures, and Powers (T)Here
1st Edition
Edited
By Clara Irazábal
October 29, 2013
This book examines transborder Latin American sociocultural and spatial conditions across the globe and at different scales, from gendered and racialized individuals to national and transnational organizations. Gathering scholars from the "spatial sciences"—architecture, urban design, urban ...