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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 belonging and identification.

Examining the Turkish and Kurdish communities in Germany, this book analyses trans-state political loyalties and activities of transnational communities and their national and international political ramifications.

This volume argues that translocal forces are leading the emergence of a wider Muslim public sphere. It should be useful for researchers in international relations, Islamic studies, cultural studies, sociology, religion and politics.

A fascinating ethnographic journey into migrant women's lives across two countries, which highlights women's construction of 'home' between Morocco and Italy as a significant site for grasping feelings and narratives of displacement and belonging.

This book explores intentions and moral beliefs concerning elderly care alongside practical care arrangements, presenting a concept of care which recognizes how various factors shape the experience of care, including: national, regional, and local contexts, economic inequalities, gender, care and migration regimes.

This book focuses on the impact of transnational migration on home in older age, providing new understanding of older people's lives by examining how their experiences of home are being transformed by transnational migration. Contributors explore innovative questions including: What impact does migration have on home-making in the lives of

The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization.

This book presents theoretical contributions to the transnationalism approach and offers empirical studies in the field of the transnationalization of organizations.

Setting the book within a theoretical framework, the authors explore a range of themes such as migration, identity and citizenship in chapters on China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Singapore and Cambodia.

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 - bilateral, multilateral, formal, informal - will this cooperation take?

This volume gathers a global array of scholars from a range of disciplines - geography, ethnography, urban planning - to explore theoretical and methodological approaches to to the relation between transnationalism (both as a concept and an empirical reality) and the production of urban spaces.

A novel approach that explores intentions and moral beliefs concerning elderly care alongside practical care arrangements, Ethnomorality of Care presents a concept of care which recognizes how various factors shape the experience of care, including: national, regional, and local contexts, economic inequalities, gender, care and migration regimes. Based on the findings of a multi-sited research carried out between 2014 and 2017 in Poland and the UK, this perceptive volume also seeks to demonstrate how researchers and practitioners can use ethnomorality of care approach to examine non-migrant families and other types of care.

This book explores Japan-in-transition from internationalization to globalization from the perspectives of language and identity. The chapters address how national identity has faced the shift from hard to soft power, offer critical analyses of multilingual practices, and investigate what teaching, learning and using Japanese mean in the context of increasing mobility.

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 ΓÇÿsecondaryΓÇÖ to labor migration, marriage has until recent years been a neglected field in migration studies. In contemporary Europe, transnational marriages have become an increasingly focal issue for immigration regimes, for whom these border-crossing family formations represent a significant challenge. This timely volume brings together work from Europe and beyond, addressing the issue of transnational marriage from a range of perspectives (including legal frameworks, processes of integration, and gendered dynamics), presenting substantial new empirical material, and taking a fresh look at key concepts in this area.

Examines the development of the concept of diaspora and new perspectives on global networks and local identities. Features case histories on the Caribbean, Irish, Irish-American, Armenian, African and Greek diasporas.

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 negative conceptualisations of this type of family. It re-conceptualises transnational care as a set of activities that circulates between home and host countries - across generations - and fluctuates over the life course, going beyond a focus on mother-child relationships to include multidirectional exchanges across generations and between genders. It highlights, in particular, how the sense of belonging in transnational families is sustained by the reciprocal, though uneven, exchange of caregiving, which binds members together in intergenerational networks of reciprocity and obligation, love and trust that are simultaneously fraught with tension, contest and relations of unequal power. The chapters that make up this volume cover a rich array of ethnographic case studies including analyses of transnational families who circulate care between developing nations in Africa, Latin America and Asia to wealthier nations in North America, Europe and Australia. There are also examples of intra- and extra- European, Australian and North American migration, which involve the mobility of both the unskilled and working class as well as the skilled middle and aspirational classes.

This book focuses on the impact of transnational migration on home in older age, providing new understanding of older people¿s lives by examining how their experiences of home are being transformed by transnational migration. Contributors explore innovative questions including: What impact does migration have on home-making in the lives of older people? How do journeys of migration, transnationalism and diaspora figure in this stage of the life-course and come to be reflected in experiences of aging at/in the home? How does home acquire new meanings through the employment of migrant workers and transformations in cultures of care?

This volume explores issues of aging in contexts that are no longer limited to the framework of a single nation-state. It gathers an international range of contributors to examine the micro level of everyday life, biographical projects and identities of the elderly, the meso level of social security systems, social institutions and services for old people, and the macro level in which social policy and the development of the welfare state are challenged.

This volume strives to establish a new agenda for methodologies in the social sciences, summarizing the most important research strategies developed in the social sciences since the early globalization and transnationalization studies of the 1980s and 1990s - namely, the cosmopolitican approach, the transnational lens, the scalar approach, and global and multi-sited ethnography. The contributions go beyond the early criticisms of methodological nationalism, providing insights into new strategies and illustrating how scholars apply these research strategies in different fields such as migration research and social anthropology. Analyzing the advantages and lacunae of new research strategies helps both to outline general methodological directions and to provide helpful guides for empirical analysis.

This book examines transborder Latin American socio-cultural and spatial conditions across the globe and at different scales, from gendered and racialized individuals to national and transnational organizations. It explores these multicultural practices of place-making and community-building across cultural and nation-state borders, examining different agents that are engaged in transnational/transborder living and city-making practices, reconceiving notions of state, identity, and citizenship, and showing how subjected populations resist, adapt, or co-produce transnational/transborder projects and, in the process, help shape and are shaped as transnational/transborder subjects.

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 negative conceptualisations of this type of family. It re-conceptualizes transnational care as a set of activities that circulates between home and host countries - across generations - and fluctuates over the life course, going beyond a focus on mother-child relationships to include multidirectional exchanges across generations and between genders.

Migrants, both spatially and mentally, no longer settle in only one national territory but interact or move across borders regularly, profoundly challenging the nation-state and the image of society as a container. This volume explores the ways in which migrants, activists and professionals connect social worlds across national boundaries through a variety of social practices. The contributions from various disciplines - anthropology, economics, political and social sciences, educational studies and social work - illuminate the meaning of agency in situations where the capabilities of transnational actors are constrained by nation-states, their borders and social institutions. Based on a relational understanding of transnational agency which builds upon new insights and developments within transnational studies and network theory, this compilation of chapters presents transnational processes and developments in and across various regions of the globe - in East Asia, the Americas, the EU, Southeast Asia, Africa and Australia, in the borderlands of Mexico and the US, in the transatlantic space of the 19th-century fin de siècle world - in order to demonstrate the importance of gaining, assisting and expanding agency in transnational contexts.

This book takes an innovative perspective, looking at transnationalism as a social space that can be occupied by a wide range of actors, not all of whom are themselves directly connected to transnational migrant communities.