1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Transnational Studies
The Routledge International Handbook of Transnational Studies offers a comprehensive overview of the dynamic evolution and the most recent debates in this interdisciplinary field. The collection assembles scholarship from the social sciences and the humanities that share a critical perspective extending beyond the nation-state. The contributions investigate sustained connections, events, and activities across state borders and acknowledge prevailing global power asymmetries.
The handbook examines the dynamics of transnational processes across seven main themes: epistemological and methodological principles; transnational migrant practices and family remittances; mobilities and (self-)identities; social protection; organizations and social movements; culture, religion, and the arts; and architecture and urban planning. The contributors engage with theoretical developments and analyze empirical cases involving a wide array of critical contemporary topics such as expatriate voting, first- and second-generation return migration, state-sponsored cross-border marriages, access to health care, transnational social work, global religious aesthetics, transnational art corridors, literary translation, remittance-financed architecture, and transnational processes of real estate development and gentrification, among others. They display a series of cross-cutting approaches including postcolonial theory, racism, and gender, and a focus on agency, state policies and macro-structures, and transnational inequalities. This book features multidisciplinary scholars in transnational studies from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
This handbook will be of interest to scholars interested in global and transnational perspectives across a wide range of disciplines. It will serve as a key resource for academics, students, and other interested audiences seeking to familiarize themselves with the study of contemporary issues that cross state borders.
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
An interdisciplinary introduction to transnational studies
SECTION 1
Epistemological principles and transnational methodologies
1 - The twilight of transnational migration studies in a conjuncture of dispossession: An epistemological approach
Nina Glick Schiller
2 - Expanding the critical knowledge potential of transnational migration research: How to study ‘doing migration’ at the intersection of multiple colonialities?
Anna Amelina
3 - What is new about transnational inequality?
Manuela Boatcӑ
SECTION 2
Transnational migrant practices, remittances, and transfers
4 – Migrant transnational political engagement
Eva Østegaard-Nielsen
5 – Remittances, transnationalism, and the making of migrant financial inclusion across North America
Matthew Bakker
6 - Return mobility and transnational intangible transfers: The case of Central and Eastern Europe
Izabela Grabowska
SECTION 3
Mobilities, identities, and power structures
7 - Second-generation transnational return mobilities
Russell King and Nilay Kılınç
8 – Gendered state interest and marriage migration policies: The Philippines and South Korea
Jean Encinas-Franco
9 - White capital: A transnational story
Catrin Lundström
SECTION 4
Social Security, Social Protection and Health
10 - Labyrinths of transnational social protection
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
11 - Bringing the transnational into social work
Mieke Schrooten
12 - Diasporic bureaucracies and transnational social rights: A Mexican health policy in New York City
Guillermo Yryzar Barbosa and Robert C. Smith
13 - Transnational medical mobilities
Heng Leng Chee and Andrea Whittaker
SECTION 5
Organizations and Social Movements
14 - Social movements, transnational struggles, and cross-national diffusion: Three waves of research
Donatella della Porta, Martín Portos, Louisa Parks
15 - Transnational labor activism: The international labor movement and beyond
Michele Ford
16 - Transnational migrant organizations
Ludger Pries and Eva Günzel
SECTION 6
Culture, Religion & the Arts
17 – Contemporary art and transnational artivisms in the Americas
Olga U. Herrera
18 - Orisha transnational practices and the Africana Matrix
Cheryl Sterling
19 - Conviviality and transnationalism – conceptual cross-fertilizations
Magdalena Nowicka
20 - Translation and postcoloniality
Paul F. Bandia
SECTION 7
Architecture and Urban Planning
21 - Twin house: Emigrant and Immigrant architectures of transnational labor economies
Mirjana Lozanovska
22 - Migration and architecture: Remitting as a framework for emergent architectural forms
Sarah Lopez
23 - Building dreams back “home”: Transnational urban spatialities of homes, land, and property
Arnisson Andre C. Ortega
24 - Transnational mobility and urban change
Matthew Hayes
Index
Biography
Margit Fauser is a professor of Sociology at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. She is the author of Mobile Citizenship, co-author of Transnational Migration, and a co-editor of Migrations and Border Processes: Practices and Politics of Belonging and Exclusion in Europe from the 19th to the 21st Century, a special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies.
Xóchitl Bada is an associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA. She is co-author of Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America and Accountability across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America.
