Rethinking Transnationalism: The Meso-link of organisations / Edition 1

by Ludger Pries

Overview

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 in two ways. On one hand it presents theoretical contributions to the transnationalism approach and, on the other hand, it offers empirical studies in the field of the transnationalization of organizations.

The book integrates outstanding international scholars of transnationalism and migration studies with specialists from a broad variety of disciplines that apply the transnationalism approach to different organizations such as NGOs, feminist networks, educational spaces and European Works Councils.

Presenting an overview of transnationalism and the surrounding debates, this interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to students and scholars of Politics, International Relations, Sociology, Anthropology, Educational Sciences, Migration and Geography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415467896
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/02/2008
Series:	Routledge Research in Transnationalism
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ludger Pries is Professor at the Department of Social Science, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Table of Contents

List of tables viii

Notes on contributors ix

1 Transnational societal spaces: which units of analysis, reference, and measurement? Ludger Pries 1

2 Constructing transnational studies Sanjeev Khagram Peggy Levitt 21

3 Beyond methodological ethnicity and towards city scale: an alternative approach to local and transnational pathways of migrant incorporation Nina Glick Schiller Ayse Caglar 40

4 Transstate spaces and development: some critical remarks Thomas Faist 62

5 Transnational humanitarian NGOs? A progress report Dennis Dijkzeul 80

6 Transnational social movement networks and transnational public spaces: glocalizing gender justice Ilse Lenz 104

7 Transnational organisations in education Christel Adick 126

8 European works councils as transnational interest organisations? Ludger Pries 155

Bibliography 174

Index 204