Books in the Routledge Research in Transnationalism series

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.

Offers an integral picture of the EU's internal and external borders to reveal the processes of re-bordering and social change taking place, exploring issues such as security, immigration, economic development and changing social and political attitudes.

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.

Examines how diasporic communities have used new communications media to maintain and develop community ties on a local and transnational level. A unique contribution to the field, taken from a wide range of contexts.

Examines how diasporic communities have used new communications media to maintain and develop community ties on a local and transnational level.

This book considers the impact of migrant communities on the politics of their home nations, with case studies from Israel, Turkey, Kurdistan, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Sri Lanka.

During the decades transnationalism has become an important conceptual approach and research programme. This book presents theoretical contributions to the transnationalism approach and offers empirical studies in the field of the transnationalization of organizations.

The European Union is an increasingly dense social and political space. This book delivers an assessment of its transnational links and examines their effects in key areas.

This book challenges the definitions of globalisation and transnationalism as a one way process generated mainly by the Western World and the view that the latter is a twentieth century phenomenon.

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.

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.

"Communities across Borders" examines the many ways in which national, ethnic or religious groups, professions, businesses and cultures are becoming increasingly tangled together - a result of the vast flows of people, meanings, goods and money which now migrate between countries.

This book critically evaluates the transnational communities approach to contemporary international migration and will be an important resource for scholars of migration, human geography and cultural studies.

This volume considers the impact of migrant communities on the politics of their home nations, with case studies from Israel, Turkey, Kurdistan, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Sri Lanka.

The end of Soviet hegemony has led to the emergence of new Central Asia nation-states which are struggling with the conundrums of national identity. This text focuses on the dynamics among transnational forces within and beyond the region and explores the roles played by diaspora communities in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

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.

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 book offers new perspectives on transnational activism with a focus on Asia. The chapters and case studies examine macro and micro aspects of power and how cross-border activities of civil society groups relate to problems of democracy.

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.

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?

Using case studies from those who have moved either transnationally or within their own country, international contributions offer various definitions of what it means to make a living on the move.

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?