Pries New Transnational Social Spaces

International Migration and Transnational Companies in the Early Twenty-First Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-134-55933-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

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

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

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