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.
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 ...
Theorising Transnational Migration: The Status Paradox of Migration
1st Edition
By Boris Nieswand
August 06, 2013
Societal transformations have recently stimulated political debates and policies on the integration of migrants and minorities in most Western European countries. While transnational migration studies have documented migrants’ cross-border activities there have been few empirically grounded efforts...
Migration, Nation States, and International Cooperation
1st Edition
Edited
By Randall Hansen, Jobst Koehler, Jeannette Money
May 23, 2013
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 - ...
Transnational Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Crang, Claire Dwyer, Peter Jackson
November 24, 2011
Social relations in our globalising world are increasingly stretched out across the borders of two or more nation-states. Yet, despite the growing academic interest in transnational economic networks, political movements and cultural forms, too little attention has been paid to the transformations ...
Cross-Border Governance in the European Union
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Hooper, Olivier Kramsch
November 10, 2010
This volume attempts to draw debates on governance, at both of these levels, into spaces of cross-border regionalism in Europe today. Embodying both supra-national and sub-national dynamics of contemporary forms of governance, cross-border regions (or euregions) enable observation of the fitful ...
Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora
1st Edition
Edited
By Touraj Atabaki, Sanjyot Mehendale
September 24, 2009
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of linkages have been established between newly independent Central Asian states, or populations within them, and diaspora ethnic groups. This book explores the roles that diaspora communities play in the recent and ongoing emergence of national ...
Transnational European Union: Towards a Common Political Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Wolfram Kaiser, Peter Starie
June 30, 2009
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the European Union is an increasingly dense transnational social and political space. More and more non-governmental organisations develop transnational links, which are usually more intensive within the EU, even if they often extend beyond its borders ...
Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement: The Fortress Empire
1st Edition
Edited
By Warwick Armstrong, James Anderson
April 29, 2009
Under the impact of accelerated globalization, transnational integration and international security concerns, the geopolitics of Europe's borders and border regions has become an area of critical interest. The progressive enlargement of the EU has positioned its borders at the heart of recent ...
Transnational Activism in Asia: Problems of Power and Democracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicola Piper, Anders Uhlin
February 27, 2009
This book provides new perspectives on transnational activism with a specific regional focus on Asia. By offering an innovative approach, its theoretical chapters and empirical case studies examine macro as well as micro aspects of power and how cross-border activities of civil society groups are ...
International Migration and Security: Opportunities and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Elspeth Guild, JOANNE VAN SELM
December 08, 2006
Every day newspapers in the Western world carry articles about illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and other migrants. The focus of these articles varies greatly from migrants as a threat to one or another important social or societal interest, to migrants as an important asset to those same ...
International Migration and Globalization of Domestic Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Rey Koslowski
December 05, 2006
Increasing international migration, the information revolution and democratization have propelled a globalization of the domestic politics of many states and, although diasporic politics is not new, emigrant political participation in homeland politics has grown as well as adapted to the new ...