Localising transnationalism: researching political and cultural events in a context of migration

Abstract: "Migration studies have extensively dealt with networks, transnational spaces and migration fields during the last 15 years. Recently, the focus has gone back to the very local rooting of these transnational spaces: Ludger Pries links geographic and sociological aspects by analysing the 'spatial spanning of the social'; Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse çaglar develop a 'theory of locality in migration studies'. In francophone social geography there is a similar research agenda influenced by Gildas Simon and in migration sociology there are growing interests in researching local-global embedding processes, such as Alain Tarrius' 'La mondialisation par le bas' (globalization from below). Inspired by these approaches, I give two empirical examples for localising transnationalism: By researching political and cultural events in a context of migration, I will show how the understanding of a specific event within an urban context can help us to recognize the rooting of transnational networks

Object Details

• Alternative title: Die Lokalisierung von Transnationalismus: die Erforschung politischer und kultureller Ereignisse im Kontext von Migration
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 20 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: COMCAD Working Papers ; Bd. 17

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Bielefeld
• (when): 2007
• Creator: Salzbrunn, Monika
• Contributor: Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD)

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-413179
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 25.03.2025, 1:50 PM CET