To say international migration is to say cross-border connections: the ties linking sending
and receiving countries are a salient aspect of the migration experience, appearing during …

This book seeks to provide a critical introduction to the under-theorized concept of
Glocalization. While the term has been slowly diffused into social-scientific vocabulary, to …

2 Introduction synthesis. After the microanalytic turn of my recent books, the present volume
also returns to meso-and macroanalytic levels of analysis. Grounds for Difference emerged …

Migration involves the crossing of a territorial but not necessarily a social boundary. Once
described as the “uprooted,” migrants are now often described as “the transnationals.” That …

As the use of 'diaspora'has proliferated in the last decade, its meaning has been stretched in
various directions. This article traces the dispersion of the term in semantic, conceptual and …

Diaspora and transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic as well as political
discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly …

This article seeks to critically engage the new literature on immigrant transnationalism.
Connectivity between source and destination points is an inherent aspect of migrations, but …

Migrants' long‐distance economic relations with their homelands have been the subject of
an extensive, albeit fragmented, multidisciplinary inquiry. Most existing studies have been …

At present, the picture of the ethnic media is an incomplete one: While there is significant
material on the portrayal of ethnic minorities in the mainstream media (and on how these …

Societal transformations have recently stimulated political debates and policies on the
integration of migrants and minorities in most Western European countries. While …