Now updated with new chapters on culture and on populism, this seminal text disputes the
view that we are experiencing a “clash of civilizations” as well as the idea that globalization …

In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of
identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is the …

Migrant networks and organisations have emerged as development agents. They interact
with state institutions in flows of financial remittances, knowledge, and political ideas. In the …

Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting
for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her …

One of the most urgent predicaments of our time can be described in deceptively simple
terms: how are we to live together in this new century—this century that has begun so sadly …

Drawing on the international literature on migration and immigrant associations, mainly in
the context of North and South America, but also including several other global immigration …

Take just about any exercise in social map** and it is the hybrids, those that straddle
categories, that are missing. Take most arrangements of multiculturalism and it is the hybrids …

The structural components of a state are regularly conflated with a state's national identity. In
reality, however, the assumption that the boundaries of a state and its national identity are …

During a visit to Beruas, a small village-town in West Malaysia in 2005, I was alarmed by the
fact that more and more grandmothers were speaking to their grandchildren in bad …

In the 1990s, societies across the world were confronted with a sudden mass inflow of
Chinese migrants. Transnational Chinese investigates the global nature of this migration by …