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New transnational social spaces : international migration and transnational companies in the early twenty-first century / edited by Ludger Pries.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Transnationalism. Routledge research in transnationalism ; 1.
- Transnationalism. Routledge research in transnationalism ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration.
- International business enterprises.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; New Transnational Social Spaces; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes of contributors; Acknowledgements; 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 Disaggregating transnational social spaces: gender, place and citizenship in Mexico-US transnational spaces
- 4 Transnational families: institutions of transnational social space5 Shifting spaces: complex identities in Turkish-German migration; PART III International companies and transnational social spaces; 6 Pluri-local social spaces by telecooperation in international corporations?; 7 Pluri-local social spaces in global operating German 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 transnational social spaces
- 10 Cracked casings: notes towards an analytics for studying transnational processesIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-55933-X
- 0-585-45226-1
- 1-280-10805-3
- 0-203-46939-9
- 9780203469392
- OCLC:
- 299569920
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