: Angela Pilch Ortega, Barbara Schröttner (Hrsg.)
: Transnational Spaces and Regional Localization. Social Networks, Border Regions and Local-Global Relations
: Waxmann Verlag GmbH
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Globalization has encouraged worldwide mobility, intensified migration and supported growing interconnectedness through new technologies; it has therefore substantially contributed to the development of so-called transnational spaces. This volume focuses on transnational spaces which should not be understood as locations on a map or as sealed containers, but instead as relational social areas which are composed of various relationships. Transnationalization increases liberation and/or emancipation from place because social relations overcome physical space and local, regional and national boundaries. As a consequence, a reconfiguration of social, cultural, political and economic scopes of action occurs. This volume reveals that for people in general and for migration movements in particular, new borders have been established in many places all over the world. The biographies of global actors and migrants reference this alteration of space. Additionally this volume calls special attention to border regions and their social configurations. Borders appear as narratives which can have an enormous impact on social structures. This book further deals with different aspects and various tensions having to do with local and global change, interplay and interdependence. Globalization leads to development that often ignores regional needs, supports the continuation of post-colonial power and maintains hegemonic dominance.
Contents6
Acknowledgements8
Introductory Thoughts on Transnational Spaces and Regional Localization10
(Re)Contextualization of Global and Local Place18
I Transnational Space and Social Networks30
Transnational Social Relations – A Challenge of Everyday Life?32
Transnational Spaces, Hybrid Identities and New Media44
Social Networks and Identity Building Processes through Transnational/Cross Regional Experiences of Experts in Southern Europe54
The Role of Transnationalism, Personal Networks and Social Networks in the Migratory Projects of a Small Cameroonian Community in Huelva66
How to Share Space?82
II Migration and Border Regions92
A Transnational Politics of Mobility94
Borders are Narratives106
Imagining and Re-imagining Transcultural Spaces – The ‘Mitteleuropa’ Discourse and Deconstructing the ‘British Isles’118
Presencia Centroamericana en la Frontera Sur de México: un Espacio en Construcción Transnacional128
National Identity Formation in Transnational Spaces: The Case of the Sahrawis of Western Sahara146
Migration Moves and Shapes Society156
III Spaces of Tensions: Local – Global166
Private Sentiment and Public Issues – Irish Medium Education and Complex Linguistic and Political Identification168
Propuesta Teórica en la Reconstrucción de las Cosmovisiones, Lenguas y Conocimientos de los Pueblos Originarios ante la Globalización180
The Confluence of Global and Local Currents in Brazil’s Municipal Schooling206
The Development of Transcultural Third Spaces by International and Transnational Students218
Notes on Contributors230