Handbook on Transnationalism

Edited by Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Raffles Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore and Francis L. Collins, Professor, School of Social Sciences, Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

• Contents:1 Introduction to Handbook on Transnationalism 1Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Francis L. CollinsPART I CONCEPTUALISING TRANSNATIONALISM2 Pre-national transnationalism and translocalism 30David Featherstone3 What, when and how transnationalism matters: a multi-scalarframework 45Biao Xiang4 Transnationalism and time: beyond the self, unity and relation 60Sergei Shubin5 Transnational ageing and the later life course 77Vincent Horn6 Transnationalism, affect and emotion 93Raelene Wilding and Loretta Baldassar7 Understanding variation and change in migrant transnationalism 110Jørgen CarlingPART II VARIETIES OF TRANSNATIONALISM8 Transnational state practices and authoritarian politics 128Gerasimos Tsourapas9 Transnational migration and homemaking 141Paolo Boccagni10 Transnational organisations 155Ludger Pries and Rafael Bohlen11 The politics of transnational activism 169Michele Ford12 Transnational families in an age of migration 182Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Theodora Lam and Shirlena Huang13 Transnational young people: growing up and being active ina transnational social field 198Valentina Mazzucato and Joan van Geel14 Transnational urbanism in the South 211Arnisson A.C. Ortega and Evangeline O. Katigbak15 Transnational higher education 230Johanna Waters and Maggi W.H. Leung16 Transnational popular culture 246Youna Kim17 Transnational religion 262Dominic PasuraPART III TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATIONS18 Transnationalism and temporary labour migration 277Matt Withers and Nicola Piper19 International students as transnational migrants 294Gracia Liu-Farrer20 Transnational marriage migration in Asia and its friction 310Juan Zhang21 Transnational mobilities and return migration 325Anastasia Christou and Brenda S.A. Yeoh22 Connecting more than the origin and destination: multinationalmigrations and transnational ties 340Anju M. PaulPART IV TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS AND CIRCULATIONS23 Migrant transnationalism, remittances and development 356Marta Bivand Erdal24 Communications technologies and transnational networks 371Jolynna Sinanan and Heather A. Horst25 Transnationalism and care circulation: mobility, caregiving,and the technologies that shape them 388Loretta Baldassar and Raelene Wilding26 Ethnic entrepreneurship and its transnational linkages 404Jacob R. Thomas and Min Zhou27 Elite transnational networks, spaces and lifestyles 420Sin Yee KohIndex

‘In this rich compendium, Yeoh and Collins bring together leading scholars of transnationalism to look afresh at this important topic. Exploring both new empirical cases and new concepts, the authors provide novel insights into transnational relations and processes. This is a must-read book for those interested in cross-border interactions in the contemporary era.’