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.
Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma
1st Edition
By Peter G. Mandaville
December 23, 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
Edited
By Bhikhu Parekh, Gurharpal Singh, Steven Vertovec
July 23, 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 ...
The Media of Diaspora: Mapping the Globe
1st Edition
Edited
By Karim H. Karim
May 30, 2003
The Media of Diaspora examines how diasporic communities have used new communications media to maintain and develop community ties on a local and transnational level. This collection of essays from a wide range of different diasporic contexts is a unique contribution to the field....
Work and Migration: Life and Livelihoods in a Globalizing World
1st Edition
By Karen Fog Olwig, Ninna Nyberg Sorensen
December 28, 2001
Using case-studies from those who have moved either transnationally or internally within their own country, international contributors offer various definitions of what it means to make a living on the move....
New Approaches to Migration?: Transnational Communities and the Transformation of Home
1st Edition
By Nadje Al-Ali, Khalid Koser
December 14, 2001
This book critically evaluates the transnational communities approach to contemporary international migration. It does so through a specific focus on the relationship between 'transnational communities' and 'home'. The meaning of 'home' for international migrants is changing and evolving, as new ...
New Transnational Social Spaces: International Migration and Transnational Companies in the Early Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Ludger Pries
March 15, 2001
Recent terms such as globalisation, virtual reality, and cyberspace indicate that the traditional notion of the geographic and the social space is changing. New Transnational Social Spaces illustrates the contemporary relationship between the social and the spatial which has emerged with new ...