Transnational Spaces

Social relations in our globalising world are increasingly stretched out across the borders of two or more nation-states. Yet, despite the growing academic interest in transnational economic networks, political movements and cultural forms, too little attention has been paid to the transformations of space that these processes both reflect and reproduce. Transnational Spaces takes a innovative perspective, looking at transnationalism as a social space that can be occupied by a wide range of actors, not all of whom are themselves directly connected to transnational migrant communities. Drawing on examples from around the world - including Britain, Canada, India, Singapore and the US - and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, this book investigates how: * Transnationalism involves the flow of human and economic capital, commodities and ideas, with transformative effects on both source and destination regions * Gender relations and notions of ethnic, racial and national identity are transformed through the forces of transnationalism * Transnationalism is an ideological and discursive practice that can be deployed in various ways and can be embedded in a variety of political processes This international, interdisciplinary volume provides fresh insights into the nature of transnational space via a series of theoretically informed studies, thoroughly grounded in detailed empirical research. It will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and geographers interested in the study of transnationalism.