Transnationalism Books

New and Published Books

1. Migration and Citizenship Attribution

   Politics and Policies in Western Europe

   Edited by Maarten Vink

   How do states in Western Europe deal with the challenges of migration for citizenship? The legal relationship between a person and a state is becoming increasingly blurred in our mobile, transnational world. This volume deals with the membership dimension of citizenship, specifically the formal...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Organized Crime and Corruption in Georgia

   Edited by Louise Shelley, Erik R. Scott, Anthony Latta

   Series: Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption

   Georgia is one of the most corrupt and crime-ridden nations of the former Soviet Union. In the Soviet period, Georgians played a major role in organized crime groups and the shadow economy operating throughout the Soviet Union, and in the post-Soviet period, Georgia continues to be important source...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia

   A Middleman Minority in a Transnational Era

   By Pál Nyiri

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have moved to Russia and Eastern Europe. However, until now, very little research has been done about the initial migrants in the nineteenth century, the presence of the Chinese in Europe and Russia in the twentieth century...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Domestic Politics and International Narcotics Control

   U.S. Relations with Mexico and Colombia, 1989-2000

   By Victor J. Hinojosa

   Series: Studies in International Relations

   This book examines different levels of narcotics control cooperation between the United States, Mexico and Colombia. Victor J. Hinojosa finds that Mexico is consistently held to a very different standard than Colombia and that the US often satisfies domestic political pressures to be tough on...

   Published May 3rd 2012 by Routledge
5. Social Transnationalism

   Lifeworlds Beyond The Nation-State

   By Steffen Mau

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   In recent decades, the rise of world markets and the technological revolutions in transportation and communication have brought what was once distant and inaccessible within easy reach of the individual. The territorial and social closure that characterized nation-states is fading, and this is...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Human Trafficking and Human Security

   Edited by Anna Jonsson

   Series: Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption

   Human trafficking, and the related problems of organised crime and prostitution, has become a serious problem for post-Soviet countries since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Human trafficking has a major impact on the countries of origin, the destination countries and the countries of transit,...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Transnational Television History

   A Comparative Approach

   Edited by Andreas Fickers, Catherine Johnson

   Although television has developed into a major agent of the transnational and global flow of information and entertainment, television historiography and scholarship largely remains a national endeavour, partly due to the fact that television has been understood as a tool for the creation of...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
8. The Contested Politics of Mobility

   Borderzones and Irregularity

   Edited by Vicki Squire

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Irregular migration has emerged as an issue of intensive political debate and governmental practice over recent years. Critically intervening in debates around the governing of irregular migration, The Contested Politics of Mobility explores the politics of mobility through what is defined as an...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. Mexico’s Security Failure

   Collapse into Criminal Violence

   Edited by Paul Kenny, Monica Serrano, Arturo C. Sotomayor

   Mexico has failed to achieve internal security and poses a serious threat to its neighbors. This volume takes us inside the Mexican state to explain the failure there, but also reaches out to assess the impact of Mexico’s security failure beyond its borders. The key innovative idea of the...

   Published November 21st 2011 by Routledge
10. Business Innovation in Asia

    Knowledge and Technology Networks from Japan

    By Dennis McNamara

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    Industrial competition with rising economies, new regional investment from the West, and trade pacts among competitors threaten Japan’s long postwar prominence. Global market dynamics and regional competition prompted the shift from offshore factories to local networks in the last decade. Similar...

    Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge