Transnationalism Books

New and Published Books

1. Statelessness and Citizenship

   Camps and the Creation of Political Space

   By Victoria Redclift

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

   What does it mean to be a citizen? In depth research with a stateless population in Bangladesh has revealed that, despite liberal theory’s reductive vision, the limits of political community are not set in stone. The Urdu-speaking population in Bangladesh exemplify some of the key problems facing...

   Published June 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. Theorising Transnational Migration

   The Status Paradox of Migration

   By Boris Nieswand

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   Societal transformations have recently stimulated political debates and policies on the integration of migrants and minorities in most Western European countries. While transnational migration studies have documented migrants’ cross-border activities there have been few empirically grounded efforts...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration

   Digging moats and sinking boats

   By Scott D. Watson

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even though these states have signed international agreements obliging them to offer protection to those fleeing persecution and to advocate the spread of human rights and humanitarian...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Transnational Labour Solidarity

   Mechanisms of commitment to cooperation within the European Trade Union movement

   By Katarzyna Gajewska

   Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

   The book examines the integration of European trade union movement and explores the prospects for European or transnational solidarity among workers. Contrary to much existing research and despite national differences, Gajewska examines how trade unions cooperate and the forms in which this...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Securitizations of Citizenship

   Edited by Peter Nyers

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Securitizations of Citizenship investigates how the fate of citizenship is now caught up in a dramatic and dangerous process of securitizing political communities. In the nervous state of affairs of the post-9/11 period, technologies of surveillance and control are rapidly proliferating, creating...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Another Europe

   Conceptions and practices of democracy in the European Social Forums

   Edited by Donatella Della Porta

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   Given the recent focus on the challenges to representative democracy, and the search for new institutions and procedures that can help to channel increasing participation, this book offers empirical insights on alternative conceptions of democracy and the actors that promote them. With a...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. Migration, Nation States, and International Cooperation

   Edited by Randall Hansen, Jobst Koehler, Jeannette Money

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   Against a background of past, limited examples of international cooperation, and ambitious hopes for extensive future efforts, this volume puts two related questions to the empirical test: under which conditions are states prepared to cooperate over international migration, and what form - ...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
8. Organized Crime and Corruption in Georgia

   Edited by Louise Shelley, Erik R. Scott, Anthony Latta

   Series: Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption

   Georgia is one of the most corrupt and crime-ridden nations of the former Soviet Union. In the Soviet period, Georgians played a major role in organized crime groups and the shadow economy operating throughout the Soviet Union, and in the post-Soviet period, Georgia continues to be important source...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
9. Regional Organizations in African Security

   Edited by Fredrik Soderbaum, Rodrigo Tavares

   The African continent is plagued by some of the most brutal and violent conflicts in the world. At the same time that warfare is changing, so has the state’s capacity to provide security and political stability to its citizens. This book deals with the role of regional organizations in Africa’s...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
10. Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism

    De-Centering China

    By Elena Barabantseva

    Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

    Elena Barabantseva looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the overseas Chinese and minority nationalities. The interplay between modernisation programmes and nationalist discourses has shaped China’s national project...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge