Transnational Agency and Migration: Actors, Movements, and Social Support

ISBN-13: 9780367598686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str.

Stefan Köngeter; Wendy Smith

Opis

Migrants, both spatially and mentally, no longer settle in only one national territory but interact or move across borders regularly, profoundly challenging the nation-state and the image of society as a container. This volume explores the ways in which migrants connect social worlds across national boundaries through a variety of soci

Spis treści

1. Transnational Agency: Migrants, Movements and Social Support Crossing Borders  Stefan Köngeter and Wendy Smith  Part I: Transnational Migration  2. Between Empowerment and Exploitation: Migrant Women’s Transnational Practices on the Northern Mexican Border  Elisabeth Tuider  3. Integration and Agency: African Refugee Women and a Playgroup in Melbourne, Australia  Kari Gibson, Katie Vasey and Lenore Manderson  4. Return Migration as an Engine of Social Change?: Reverse Diasporas’ Capital Investments at Home  Heidi Dahles  Part II: Transnational Movements  5. The Translation of Knowledge Across the Atlantic: Constructions of the "Immigration Problem" in the Settlement Movement  Stefan Köngeter  6. Reconstructing the Narrative of Transnational Feminist Agency: The Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice in the International Criminal Court  Ma. Lourdes Veneracion-Rallonza  7. People Living with HIV and AIDS in Thailand as Transnational Social Actors  Wolfram Schaffar  8. Asian New Religious Movements as Transnational Cultural Systems: Implications for Agency  Wendy Smith  Part III: Transnational Education and Social Support  9. Transnational Transformations of Schooling in Toronto, Canada  Naomi Lightman  10. Relaunching Citizenship Within an Agency-Oriented Perspective: Transnational Lessons for Social Work and Educational Studies  Eberhard Raithelhuber  11. Transnational Social Work Communities: NGOs Organizing Social Support in International Development Cooperation  Nadin Tettschlag  12. Social Security in Transnational Legal Space: Limitations and Opportunities  Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

O autorze

Stefan Köngeter is Professor for Social Pedagogy at the School of Education, University of Trier, Germany.

Wendy Smith is an anthropologist in the fields of Management, Religious and Asian Studies. She formerly lectured in Management and Japanese Studies at Monash University, Australia, and was the Director of the Centre for Malaysian Studies, Monash Asia Institute.