Migration and Transformation:: Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism [Paperback]

Peoples transnational ties and activities are acquiring ever greater importance and topicality in todays ?world. ?The focus of this book lies in the complex and multi-level processes of migrant transnationalism in four transnational spaces: India-UK, Morocco-France and Turkey-Germany and Estonia-Finland. The main question is, how peoples activities across national borders emerge, function, and change, and how are they related to the processes of governance in increasingly complex and interconnected world?

?

The book is based on the findings of a three-year research project TRANS-NET which brough together internationally acknowledged experts from Europe, Asia and Africa. As no single discipline could investigate all the components of the topic in question, the project adopted a multi-disciplinary approach: among the contributors, there are sociologists, policy analysts, political scientists, social and cultural anthropologists, educational scientists, and economists.

?

The chapters show that peoples transnational linkages and migration across national boundaries entail manifold political, economic, social, cultural and educational implications. Although political-social-economic-educational transformations fostered by migrant transnationalism constitute the main topic of the book, the starting assumption is that the large-scale institutional and actor-centred patterns of transformation come about through a constellation of parallel processes.

Pirkko Pitk?nen: Introduction.- Kaveri Qureshi, V. J. Varghese, Filippo Osella and S. Irudaya Rajan: Migration, transnationalism and ambivalence: The Punjab-UK linkage.- Anna Virkama, Catherine Therrien, Nouredine Harrami and A?ssa Kadri: Franco-Moroccan transnational space: Continuity and transformations.- J?rgen GlC�