1st Edition
Transnational Ties Cities, Migrations, and Identities
By Michael Peter Smith
Copyright 2008
198 Pages
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Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
175 Pages
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Routledge
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Cities are key sites of the transnational ties that increasingly connect people, places, and projects across the globe. They provide opportunities and constraints within which transnational actors and networks operate and nodes linking wider social formations traverse national borders. This book brings together a series of richly textured ethnographic studies that suggest new ways to situate and... Read more
I. HISTORICIZING TRANSNATIONAL TIES 1. Transnational Ties: Cities, Migrations, and Identities 2. Time Matters: Temporal Contexts of Polish Transnationalism 3. Transnationalism in the Ethno-National City: Migration and Anti-Racism in Belfast II. PATHWAYS TO TRANSNATIONAL URBANISM 4. The Making of Urban Translocalities: Senegalese Migrants in Dakar and Zingonia 5. South-South Migration and Transnational Ties between Cuba and Mozambique 6. Chinese Transnational Entrepreneurs in Budapest and Belgrade: Seeking Markets, Carrying Globalization III. TRANSNATIONAL RELIGIOUS NETWORKS 7. Spiritual Spaces in Post-Industrial Places: Transnational Churches in North East London 8. Spirits in the Marketplace: Transnational Networks of Vietnamese Migrants in Berlin IV. TRANSNATIONAL DIASPORAS AND IDENTITIES 9. A Diasporic Sense of Place: Dynamics of Spatialization and Transnational Political Fields among Bangladeshi Muslims in Britain 10. Practicing Identities Across Borders: The Case of Bulgarian Turkish Labor Migrants in Germany
Biography
Richard K. Brail
