Transnational Ties: Cities, Migrations, and Identities by Michael Peter Smith (E

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Cities are key sites of the transnational ties that increasingly connect people, places, and projects across the globe

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Cities are key sites of the transnational ties that increasingly connect people, places, and projects across the globe. They provide opportunities and constraints within which transnational actors and networks operate and nodes linking wider social formations traverse national borders. This book brings together a series of richly textured ethnographic studies that suggest new ways to situate and historicize transnationalism, identify new pathways to transnational urbanism, and map the contours of translocal, interregional, and diasporic connections not previously studied. The transnational ties treated in this book truly span the globe, giving concrete meaning to the phrase "globalization from below."How have the contributors to this book conceptualized the wider context informing the conduct of their ethnographically grounded, multi-sited research on the relationship between cities, migration, and transnationalism? Several interrelated contextual dimensions have been singled out as affecting the opportunities and constraints experienced by transnational migrant subjects. Socio-spatially, in several of these chapters, the political economic context now called neoliberal globalization is shown to be a key driving force creating conditions that necessitate, facilitate, or impede migration, foster trans-local economic ties, and create new inter-regional interdependencies--e.g., new South-South and East-East transnational ties.The changing historical context of both migrating groups and the cities and regions they move across are central to the study of the interplay of urban change and migrant transnationalism. The historical particularities of migrant recruitment, migration histories, migratory narratives, and changing gender and class relations all affect the character and geography of transnational migration with an impact on the social structures of community formation. This is a pioneering effort in the Comparative Urban and Community Research series.

Author Biography

Michael Peter Smith is professor of community studies at the University of California, Davis. He has published extensively on urban theory, globalization and transnationalism and is the series editor of Transaction's Comparative Urban and Community Research series. John Eade is professor of sociology and anthropology at Roehampton University. He is also the executive director of the Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism, which links Roehampton University and the University of Surrey.

Table of Contents

I. HISTORICIZING TRANSNATIONAL TIES 1. Transnational Ties: Cities, Migrations, and Identities 2. Time Matters: Temporal Contexts of Polish Transnationalism 3. Transnationalism in the Ethno-National City: Migration and Anti-Racism in Belfast II. PATHWAYS TO TRANSNATIONAL URBANISM 4. The Making of Urban Translocalities: Senegalese Migrants in Dakar and Zingonia 5. South-South Migration and Transnational Ties between Cuba and Mozambique 6. Chinese Transnational Entrepreneurs in Budapest and Belgrade: Seeking Markets, Carrying Globalization III. TRANSNATIONAL RELIGIOUS NETWORKS 7. Spiritual Spaces in Post-Industrial Places: Transnational Churches in North East London 8. Spirits in the Marketplace: Transnational Networks of Vietnamese Migrants in Berlin IV. TRANSNATIONAL DIASPORAS AND IDENTITIES 9. A Diasporic Sense of Place: Dynamics of Spatialization and Transnational Political Fields among Bangladeshi Muslims in Britain 10. Practicing Identities Across Borders: The Case of Bulgarian Turkish Labor Migrants in Germany

Details ISBN1412808065 Short Title TRANSNATIONAL TIES Series Comparative Urban and Community Research Language English ISBN-10 1412808065 ISBN-13 9781412808064 Media Book Format Paperback Series Number 9 Illustrations Yes Year 2008 Edited by John Eade Birth 1946 Subtitle Cities, Migrations, and Identities Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9781412808064 AU Release Date 2008-11-15 NZ Release Date 2008-11-15 US Release Date 2008-11-15 UK Release Date 2008-11-15 Author John Eade Pages 198 Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc Publication Date 2008-11-15 Alternative 9781138539853 DEWEY 305.80091732 Audience Undergraduate Imprint Routledge Place of Publication New York We've got this

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