Books in the Transnationalism series

A multidisciplinary array of experts explore the issues related to globalisation and democracy. They focus on federalism, multi-cultural societies, the European Union and potential agents for the democratisation of global institutions.

This book will be invaluable reading for students in areas including Politics, Communications and IT, Sociology and Cultural Studies.

This book will be invaluable reading for students in areas including Politics, Communications and IT, Sociology and Cultural Studies.

Communities across Borders examines the many ways in which national, ethnic or religious groups, professions, businesses and cultures are becoming increasingly tangled together. It show how this entanglement is the result of the vast flows of people, meanings, goods and money that now migrate between countries and world regions. Now the effectiveness and significance of electronic technologies for interpersonal communication (including cyber-communities and the interconnectedness of the global world economy) simultaneously empowers even the poorest people to forge effective cultures stretching national borders, and compels many to do so to escape injustice and deprivation.

A multidisciplinary array of experts explore the issues related to globalisation and democracy. They focus on federalism, multi-cultural societies, the European Union and potential agents for the democratisation of global institutions.