Routledge Research in Transnationalism

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1. Transnational Politics and the State

   The External Voting Rights of Diasporas

   By Jean-Michel Lafleur

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   In just two decades, the number of states that have adopted external voting policies has boomed. Today, these policies, which allow emigrants to take part in home country elections from abroad, are widely found in Europe and Latin America. Looking at the cases of Italy, Mexico, and Bolivia, this...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Transnational Marriage

   New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond

   Edited by Katharine Charsley

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   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 ‘secondary’ to labor migration, marriage has until recent years been...

   Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. Transnationalism and Urbanism

   Edited by Stefan Krätke, Kathrin Wildner, Stephan Lanz

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   The formation of transnational urban spaces is a relevant and challenging field of interdisciplinary research, which deserves much more debate in order to deepen our understanding of generating and restructuring urban spaces under conditions of contemporary globalisation processes. This edited...

   Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Beyond Methodological Nationalism

   Research Methodologies for Cross-Border Studies

   Edited by Anna Amelina, Devrimsel D. Nergiz, Thomas Faist, Nina Glick Schiller

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   Cross-border studies have become attractive for a number of fields, including international migration, studies of material and cultural globalization, and history. While cross-border studies have expanded, the critique on nation-centered research lens has also grown. This book revisits drawbacks of...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
5. Transnational Spaces

   Edited by Philip Crang, Claire Dwyer, Peter Jackson

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   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...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
6. Theorising Transnational Migration

   The Status Paradox of Migration

   By Boris Nieswand

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   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...

   Published August 18th 2011 by Routledge
7. Migration, Nation States, and International Cooperation

   Edited by Randall Hansen, Jobst Koehler, Jeannette Money

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   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 - ...

   Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
8. Transnational European Union

   Towards a Common Political Space

   Edited by Wolfram Kaiser, Peter Starie

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   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...

   Published June 17th 2009 by Routledge
9. Central Asia and the Caucasus

   Transnationalism and Diaspora

   Edited by Touraj Atabaki, Sanjyot Mehendale

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   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...

   Published April 29th 2009 by Routledge
10. Transnational Activism in Asia

    Problems of Power and Democracy

    Edited by Nicola Piper, Anders Uhlin

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    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...

    Published February 26th 2009 by Routledge