ABSTRACT

Recent terms such as globalisation, virtual reality, and cyberspace indicate that the traditional notion of the geographic and the social space is changing. New Transnational Social Spaces illustrates the contemporary relationship between the social and the spatial which has emerged with new communication and transportation technologies, alongside the massive transnational movement of people.

part |33 pages

Part I Introduction

chapter |31 pages

1 The approach of transnational social spaces

Responding to new configurations of the social and the spatial

part |78 pages

Part II International migration and transnational social spaces

chapter |22 pages

2 Comparing local-level Swedish and Mexican transnational life

An essay in historical retrieval

chapter |18 pages

3 Disaggregating transnational social spaces

Gender, place and citizenship in Mexico-US transnational spaces

chapter |17 pages

4 Transnational families

Institutions of transnational social space

chapter |19 pages

5 Shifting spaces

Complex identities in Turkish—German migration

part |23 pages

Part IV The future of transnational social spaces

chapter |21 pages

10 Cracked casings 1

Notes towards an analytics for studying transnational processes