New Transnational Social Spaces

International Migration and Transnational Companies in the Early Twenty-First Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-23736-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pries, Ludger

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Internationales Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Minderheiten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Introduction 1. The approach of transnational social spaces: responding to new configurations of the social and the spatial Part II. International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces 2. Comparing local level Swedish and Mexican transnational life: an essay in historical retrieval 3. Dissagregating transnational social spaces: gender, place and citizenship in Mexico - US transnational spaces 4. Transnational families: institutions of transnational social space 5. Shifting spaces - complex identities in Turkish-German migration Part III. International Companies and Transnational Social Spaces 6. Pluri-local social spaces by tele-cooperation in international companies 7. Pluri-local social spaces in international companies 8. The transnationalization of companies and their industrial relations 9. Co-ordination and control in transnational business and non-profit organizations Part IV. The Future of Trnasnational Social Spaces 10. Cracked casings: towards an analytics for studying transnational processes

Über Autor(innen)

Ludger Pries