Full Description
Providing a critical overview of transnationalism as a concept, this Handbook looks at its growing influence in an era of high-speed, globalised interconnectivity. It offers crucial insights on how approaches to transnationalism have altered how we think about social life from the family to the nation-state, whilst also challenging the predominance of methodologically nationalist analyses.
Encompassing research from around the world, leading international researchers examine transnational migration, culture, state practices, organisations and institutions. Chapters draw attention to conceptual concerns around the topic, including the spatiality and temporality of transnationalism, connections to the life course, and the articulation of affect and emotion across borders. The Handbook further explains the transnational dimensions of different forms of migration, including labour migrations and student mobilities, and emphasises why and how transnational networks and circulations matter.
An engaging foundation for students and scholars seeking to enhance their understanding of transnationalism, this Handbook offers agenda-setting arguments that will be beneficial to researchers of migration and mobilities, human geography, sociology, anthropology, international relations and cultural studies. It will also be an interesting read for practitioners working in migration, migrant rights and transnational organising and activism.
Contents
Contents:
1 Introduction to Handbook on Transnationalism 1
Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Francis L. Collins
PART I CONCEPTUALISING TRANSNATIONALISM
2 Pre-national transnationalism and translocalism 30
David Featherstone
3 What, when and how transnationalism matters: a multi-scalar
framework 45
Biao Xiang
4 Transnationalism and time: beyond the self, unity and relation 60
Sergei Shubin
5 Transnational ageing and the later life course 77
Vincent Horn
6 Transnationalism, affect and emotion 93
Raelene Wilding and Loretta Baldassar
7 Understanding variation and change in migrant transnationalism 110
Jørgen Carling
PART II VARIETIES OF TRANSNATIONALISM
8 Transnational state practices and authoritarian politics 128
Gerasimos Tsourapas
9 Transnational migration and homemaking 141
Paolo Boccagni
10 Transnational organisations 155
Ludger Pries and Rafael Bohlen
11 The politics of transnational activism 169
Michele Ford
12 Transnational families in an age of migration 182
Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Theodora Lam and Shirlena Huang
13 Transnational young people: growing up and being active in
a transnational social field 198
Valentina Mazzucato and Joan van Geel
14 Transnational urbanism in the South 211
Arnisson A.C. Ortega and Evangeline O. Katigbak
15 Transnational higher education 230
Johanna Waters and Maggi W.H. Leung
16 Transnational popular culture 246
Youna Kim
17 Transnational religion 262
Dominic Pasura
PART III TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATIONS
18 Transnationalism and temporary labour migration 277
Matt Withers and Nicola Piper
19 International students as transnational migrants 294
Gracia Liu-Farrer
20 Transnational marriage migration in Asia and its friction 310
Juan Zhang
21 Transnational mobilities and return migration 325
Anastasia Christou and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
22 Connecting more than the origin and destination: multinational
migrations and transnational ties 340
Anju M. Paul
PART IV TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS AND CIRCULATIONS
23 Migrant transnationalism, remittances and development 356
Marta Bivand Erdal
24 Communications technologies and transnational networks 371
Jolynna Sinanan and Heather A. Horst
25 Transnationalism and care circulation: mobility, caregiving,
and the technologies that shape them 388
Loretta Baldassar and Raelene Wilding
26 Ethnic entrepreneurship and its transnational linkages 404
Jacob R. Thomas and Min Zhou
27 Elite transnational networks, spaces and lifestyles 420
Sin Yee Koh
Index
