Routledge Research in Transnationalism

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11. 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
12. Rethinking Transnationalism

    The Meso-link of organisations

    Edited by Ludger Pries

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    During the last two decades transnationalism has become an important conceptual approach and research programme. However, the term has steadily become vague and indistinct underlining the need for conceptual précising as well as more defined empirical research. Rethinking Transnationalism does this...

    Published July 1st 2008 by Routledge
13. Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement

    The Fortress Empire

    Edited by Warwick Armstrong, James Anderson

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    Under the impact of accelerated globalization, transnational integration and international security concerns, the geopolitics of Europe's borders and border regions has become an area of critical interest. The progressive enlargement of the EU has positioned its borders at the heart of recent...

    Published June 9th 2008 by Routledge
14. Cross-Border Governance in the European Union

    Edited by Barbara Hooper, Olivier Kramsch

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    This volume attempts to draw debates on governance, at both of these levels, into spaces of cross-border regionalism in Europe today. Embodying both supra-national and sub-national dynamics of contemporary forms of governance, cross-border regions (or euregions) enable observation of the fitful...

    Published April 3rd 2007 by Routledge
15. International Migration and Security

    Opportunities and Challenges

    Edited by Elspeth Guild, JOANNE VAN SELM

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    Every day newspapers in the Western world carry articles about illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and other migrants. The focus of these articles varies greatly from migrants as a threat to one or another important social or societal interest, to migrants as an important asset to those same...

    Published December 7th 2006 by Routledge
16. International Migration and Globalization of Domestic Politics

    Edited by Rey Koslowski

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    Increasing international migration, the information revolution and democratization have propelled a globalization of the domestic politics of many states and, although diasporic politics is not new, emigrant political participation in homeland politics has grown as well as adapted to the new...

    Published December 4th 2006 by Routledge
17. The Media of Diaspora

    Mapping the Globe

    Edited by Karim H. Karim

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    The Media of Diaspora examines how diasporic communities have used new communications media to maintain and develop community ties on a local and transnational level. This collection of essays from a wide range of different diasporic contexts is a unique contribution to the field....

    Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
18. Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf

    Edited by Madawi Al-Rasheed

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf presents a study of transnational cultural flows in the Gulf region and beyond. It combines an understanding of the region's historical connections with the outside world and an assessment of contemporary consequences of these connections.The...

    Published December 22nd 2004 by Routledge
19. Diaspora, Identity and Religion

    New Directions in Theory and Research

    Edited by Carolin Alfonso, Waltraud Kokot, Khachig Tölölyan

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    Over the last decade, concepts of diaspora and locality have gained complex new meanings in political discourse as well as in social and cultural studies. Diaspora, in particular, has acquired new meanings related to notions such as global deterritorialization, transnational migration and cultural...

    Published June 16th 2004 by Routledge
20. State/Nation/Transnation

    Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia Pacific

    Edited by Katie Willis, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    This edited volume examines the relationship between the nation and the transnation, focusing on transnational communities in the Asia-Pacific region. Setting the book within a theoretical framework, the authors explore a range of themes such as migration, identity and citizenship in chapters on...

    Published February 25th 2004 by Routledge