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.
Theorising Transnational Migration: The Status Paradox of Migration
1st Edition
By Boris Nieswand
August 07, 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
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By Randall Hansen, Jobst Koehler, Jeannette Money
May 22, 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
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By Philip Crang, Claire Dwyer, Peter Jackson
November 29, 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
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By Barbara Hooper, Olivier Kramsch
April 04, 2007
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
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By Touraj Atabaki, Sanjyot Mehendale
April 30, 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
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By Wolfram Kaiser, Peter Starie
June 18, 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
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By Warwick Armstrong, James Anderson
June 10, 2008
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
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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
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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
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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 ...
Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma
1st Edition
By Peter G. Mandaville
November 06, 2003
This book analyzes Islam as a form of 'travelling theory' in the context of contemporary global transformations such as diasporic communities, transnational social movements, global cities and information technologies. Peter Mandaville examines how 'globalization' is manifested as lived experience ...
Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora
1st Edition
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By Bhikhu Parekh, Gurharpal Singh, Steven Vertovec
May 22, 2003
The Indian diaspora is one of the largest and most significant in the world today with between nine and twelve million people of Indian origin living outside South Asia. With successive waves of migration over the last two hundred years to almost every continent, it has assumed increasing ...