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Middle-aged migrants: Expanding an understanding of lifecourses and linked lives Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Aija Lulle
This paper explores a new perspective on middle-aged migrant women. Midlife has long been presumed to be the most networked stage of life for sedentary populations, but it has not been examined critically in the context of migration. This is an empty space that warrants research attention, because middle-aged migrants often have lives that are temporally and spatially distinctive. Drawing on ethnographic
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Unruly diaspora action as decolonization: Abjection and activism among Zimbabweans in London Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Thabani Mutambasere
In an era where migration and asylum are becoming more securitized, this article argues that unruly action by asylum seekers contributes to decolonization through challenging stratified citizenship and hierarchical immigration laws. I argue through a case of members of the Zimbabwe Vigil in London that diasporas challenge the system within their countries of settlement, enhancing self-determination
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Money first? Strategic and economic interests in the international arms trade network, 1920–1936 Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Marius Mehrl, Daniel Seussler, Paul W. Thurner
Arms transfers result from economic and political motives, with the latter often dominating the former. While this is accepted knowledge for the post-World War II period, it seems not to apply earlier. Much existing research argues that in the interwar years, weapons were traded as purely commercial goods because governments had neither the ability nor willingness to control and direct arms transfers
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The evolution of home‐state positions towards diaspora formation: Israel and its two diasporas Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Jonathan Grossman
How do home‐state elites react to emigrants who form diaspora communities abroad, and how do these attitudes change over time? The article explores these questions through an analysis of the discourse and policies of Israeli elites towards emigrants who created distinct diaspora communities and established ties with local Jewish diaspora communities between 1977 and 2023. The article highlights the
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African city diplomacy in global climate mobility debates Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Janina Stürner‐Siovitz, Lasse Juhl Morthorst
While researchers have paid growing attention to transnational city engagement in both the policy fields of migration and climate change, there is a dearth of studies exploring how cities claim agency and start acting in emerging global climate mobility debates. Moreover, city diplomacy research tends to focus predominantly on city actors from the global North. We aim to address this research bias
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Between global events and local reverberations: Globalization, local media framing and the 2014 FIFA World Cup Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Renan Petersen‐Wagner, Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
This article advances sociological work on globalization processes. It concerns itself with conceptualizations of how the local and global ‘clash’, utilizing Ulrich Beck's work on globalization, cosmopolitanism and power. By employing Brazil's 2014 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) men's World Cup as a case, this article seeks to build on Beck's theorizations, into the field
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Mapping the structure and dynamics of global high‐tech aerospace trade Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Xiya Li, Debin Du, Qifan Xia, Tingzhu Li
The aerospace industry is a fast‐growing high‐tech sector related to the national economic lifeline and national defence security. In the context of prosperous cooperation and fierce competition between countries, a multi‐layered global aerospace network, from production to trade, has been formed. However, the high‐tech aerospace trade structure and its spatial pattern as the mirror of the industry
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Starting from Lagos: International Schooling and the Diverse Transnational Status-Making Projects of ‘Middling’ and ‘Elite’ Nigerians Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Ruth Cheung Judge
This paper examines the diverse Lagos international school sector as an arena in which Nigerian families are attempting to (re)produce status and good lives that work transnationally. ‘Elite’ international schools focus on securing entry into Anglo-American universities and distinguish themselves via discourses of ‘modern Britishness’, yet also emphasize the special value of schooling in Nigeria and
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Acceptable ‘expats’ versus unwanted ‘Arabs’: Tracing hierarchies through everyday urban practices of skilled migrant women in Istanbul Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Ezgi Tuncer
This article focuses on ethnic hierarchies found within highly educated migrant women working in Istanbul traced through their everyday urban practices. It introduces the stratified and comparative results of migration and resettlement of those from the Global North and the Global South through a comprehensive analysis on their urban lives, including their social positionings, preferences of neighbourhoods
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Unpacking intercity competitive relations in the global corporate spatial organization of manufacturing Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Weiyang Zhang, Yuxin Qian
Despite being a traditional research topic in urban studies, competitive relations among cities have rarely been quantified in empirical research. Drawing on methods of social network analysis, this study aims to extract intercity competitive relations at the global scale based on the global corporate spatial organization of manufacturing. The geographies of competitive relations manifest different
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Transnational social positioning through a family lens: How cross-border family relations shape subjective social positions in migration contexts Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Lisa Bonfert, Karolina Barglowski, Thomas Faist
This article examines transnational social positioning through a family lens. Based on interviews with people who moved to Germany as young adults, we show that socialization and expectations in families coin individual understandings of success as an important baseline for social positioning, while migration challenges these understandings and social position evaluations in complex ways. With a specific
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Are larger cities more central in urban networks: A meta-analysis Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Xiaomeng Li, Zachary P. Neal
As cities develop more and longer-range external relations, some have challenged the long-standing notion that population size indicates a city's power in its urban system. But are population size and network centrality really independent properties in practice, or do larger cities tend to be more central in urban networks? To answer this question, we conducted a systematic literature search and meta-analysed
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A configurational approach to transnational families: Who and where is one's family in the case of mobile older adults? Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Mihaela Nedelcu, Eva Fernández G. G., Malika Wyss
This article introduces a novel transnational family configuration (TNFC) approach to study the diversity of family forms across kinship and geographical boundaries. Integrating theoretical insights from family sociology and transnational family research, it examines contemporary families as personal networks that encompass both subjectively identified and potentially transnationally dispersed kin
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Rethinking the dynamic of global production networks: Integrate the influence of suppliers and towards a flexible strategy making causal mechanism Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Zhi Zheng
The global production network (GPN) 2.0 framework mainly considers the organizational capabilities of lead firms, neglecting the influence of supplier capabilities on the strategic making of lead firms. I argue that the GPN 2.0 framework must integrate the influence of supplier capabilities (both industrial and individual firm levels) to better explain the organization of the global economy. Industrial-level
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‘Sometimes, men cannot do what women can’: Pacific labour mobility, gender norms and social reproduction Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Kirstie Petrou, Matt Withers
Australia's 2018 introduction of the Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS) broadened the scope and duration of labour mobility pathways available to Pacific Island countries. Although longer term temporary migration schemes like the PLS expand livelihood opportunities for migrant households, they also create challenges related to the maintenance of personal relationships and care practices during transnational
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How mobile is the transnational business elite? Evidence from Swiss banking executives Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Pedro Araujo, Eric Davoine
Over the last two decades, a growing literature has examined the emergence of a transnational business elite. However, the pathways of transnational mobility have not been fully characterized. In this article, we use a combination of sequence analysis and the concept of a career script to investigate the geographical mapping and organizational contexts in which transnational mobility occurs. To achieve
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Diaspora as socio-material assemblage: Political agency in the Kurdish freedom movement's representations of homeland Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Francesco Ventura
The proliferation of diasporas has expanded the intricate web of political relations on a global scale. Transnationality has increasingly replaced methodological nationalism, and relationality blurred diaspora's boundaries. This article argues for framing diasporas as socio-material assemblages to capture the political agency of diasporas in action in a transnational space. This highlights diasporas’
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Re-centring class-making across borders at various durées: Translocational optic, coloniality of class theory and multi-scalar capitalist dynamics Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Anna Amelina, Jana Schäfer
Sociological research on cross-border class-making often centres on contemporary dynamics of social inequality in the context of migration and mobility. Relying on the cultural–sociological and processual understanding of 'class', the article integrates three bodies of literature to study complexities of global and transnational class-making to overcome the 'presentist' bias. Building on the accounts
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Cosmopolitan pathways from the Global South: How non-middle-class students become desirable Fulbright applicants Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Shunan You
International student mobility (ISM) is largely interpreted as a global middle-class capital accumulation strategy. Cosmopolitanism, which is the named outcome and effect of these mobile forms of social and cultural capital, is therefore disproportionately available to already privileged students. This study moves beyond this prevailing interpretation by examining how students from working- or lower-middle-class
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Conceptualizing transnational disappearances: Polish missing abroad and the governance of the search Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-07-22 Anna Matyska
Transnational studies emphasize the continuous social presence of transnationally mobile people in their countries of origin. However, some of these individuals will disappear, bringing affective turmoil and uncertainty to the families left behind. Although research has focused on political indifference towards undocumented missing migrants, the effects of other mobility regimes on disappearances remain
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Power and inequality in global value chains: Advancing the research agenda Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Stefano Ponte, Jennifer Bair, Mark Dallas
Power is a central, but largely undertheorized, concept for scholars of global value chains (GVCs). In this introduction to a special issue on power and inequality in GVCs, the authors summarize the key insights from the articles gathered here and explain how the collection advances our understanding of the types and forms of power operating in GVCs and their effect on different dimensions of inequality
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A network analysis of international migration: Longitudinal trends and antecedent factors predicting migration Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 George A. Barnett, Yoonjae Nam
Building on previous research, this study investigates the international migration network and its changes from 1990 to 2017. The findings suggest that certain core countries play pivotal roles in shaping global migration by providing economic opportunities or political refuge. Community detection identified nine groups of nations in 2017, indicating regionalization. The study also examined the networks
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Property investment and the making of the ambivalent elective Polish diaspora in Israel Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Irit Shmuel, Nir Cohen, Agnieszka Bielewska, Hila Zaban
The article explores investment decisions made by Israelis who purchased or intended to purchase a residential property in Poland. Specifically, it focuses on their set of motivations to invest there and the extent to which their ethno-national or other types of affinity with the country played a role in their decision. Drawing on interviews with (Jewish) Israeli citizens, we argue that their Choice
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Beyond migration? Alternative articulations of transnational religious networks Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Ningning Chen, Kenneth Dean, Khun Eng Kuah
A growing body of scholarship on transnational religion is grounded within the analytical framework of the religion–migration relationship and has highlighted migrant individuals and groups as main players in forging religious networking. This ignores a wide range of alternative drivers that are forceful in the (re)making of transnational religious networks. In this introduction of the special issue
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Structural factors affecting global trends towards isolationism and expansionism – A BERGM analysis Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Yeongkyun Jang, Jae-Suk Yang
The first purpose of this study is to define the network parameters that enable systemic analysis of international relations, identifying trends towards isolationism and expansionism. The second is to analyse the factors influencing global trends towards isolationism and expansionism from a structural point of view. The results of a network analysis, including a BERGM, indicate a trend towards isolationism
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Power, governance and distributional skew in global value chains: Exchange theoretic and exogenous factors Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Jennifer Bair, Matthew C Mahutga
The relationship between power, governance and value creation/capture is a central concern in global value chain (GVC) research. In the context of calls to develop a more expansive view of power in GVCs, we argue for retaining a focus on bargaining power, but shifting the conceptualization of bargaining power from the dyad to the network. We advance two arguments. First, we elaborate an exchange theoretic
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Corrigendum to overcoming interruptions in educational trajectories: Youth in Ghana with international migrant parents Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-05-04
Osei, O. E., Haagsman, K., & Mazzucato, V. (2023). Overcoming interruptions in educational trajectories: Youth in Ghana with international migrant parents. Global Networks, 23, 428–443. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12404 In the above article, the authors would like to add the following acknowledgements.
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Assessing the efficiency and vulnerability of global liner shipping network Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Mengqiao Xu, Yifan Zhu, Wenhui Deng, Yihui Shen, Tao Li
Global liner shipping network (GLSN) constitutes an essential part of global maritime supply chains, but it could be vulnerable to disruptions. This paper develops an integrated framework for assessing the efficiency and vulnerability of GLSN. Specifically, a novel efficiency metric is proposed to quantify the performance of GLSN, and the framework enables modeling different levels of port disruption
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Migrants’ transnational social positioning strategies in the middle classes Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Inka Stock
This paper examines the influence of class on migrants’ social positioning strategies in transnational spaces. It contributes to debates about the processes of transnational class-making and class formation. Going beyond an analysis of class in socio-economic terms, the paper focuses on peoples’ (changing) subjective understandings of middle-class membership as a relevant factor in migrants’ transnational
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Punjabi masculinities and transnational spaces: Performance, choice and othering Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Navjotpal Kaur
This article seeks to comprehensively understand student-migrant men's identities and masculinities in transnational spaces in Canada. Building on existing literature on transnational masculinities, and partly on identity process theory, I focus on upper-caste Punjabi men who came to Canada as international students. Through in-depth interviews with 22 men, I explore the significance of landownership
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Building, negotiating and sustaining transnational social networks: Narratives of international students’ migration decisions in Canada Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Oral Robinson, Kara Somerville, Scott Walsworth
International student migration (ISM) is one of the fastest growing categories of migrants in Canada. Drawing on the narratives of 30 international students at a Canadian university, this paper investigates international students’ decisions to study overseas and the roles of social networks in shaping mobility. We find that international students negotiate information while embedded in multiple social
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Forced returns fuel anti-Americanism: Evidence from U.S. deportations to Latin America Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Christian Ambrosius, Covadonga Meseguer
In the last two decades, forced removals have been the main feature of U.S. migration policy toward Latin America. In this research, we explore whether this policy has had implications in terms of Latin Americans’ public opinion toward their northern neighbor. We argue that deportations breed anti-Americanism by cutting off the flow of information and money associated with emigration, which has proven
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Power in consensus: Legitimacy, global value chains and inequality in telecommunications standard-setting Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Mark P. Dallas, Jing-Ming Shiu
Power is central to GVC research, but the concept is usually restricted to ‘direct’ market power that generates rents. This paper examines ‘diffuse’ conceptualizations of power in GVCs that focus on social construction, arguing that they exist along a continuum from ‘fractured’ to ‘encompassing’. Then, empirically, it shows how different types of power intermix in telecommunications standard-setting
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Calling multinational enterprises to account: CSOs, supranational institutions and business practices in the global south Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Michele Ford, Michael Gillan, Htwe Htwe Thein
How do civil society organizations (CSOs) use state-backed supranational institutions to call multinational enterprises (MNEs) to account? There are few studies of precisely how CSOs—union and other—use institutional power in global value chain (GVC) governance or the impact of institutional change on actor behaviour. To address this gap, we assess the impact of changes in the OECD Guidelines for Multinational
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Reconciling emotional caregiving and self-fulfilment: Peruvian migrants in Switzerland supporting parents in Peru Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Myrian Carbajal, Carolina Ramírez, Robin Cavagnoud, Carolina Stefoni
This article explores filial transnational caregiving from a subjective and emotional perspective. It analyses the relationship between pursuit of personal fulfilment and concern for parental well-being among Peruvian migrants in Switzerland whose parents remain in Peru. Based on in-depth interviews, we analyse the importance assigned to personal goals, the resignification of filial obligations, and
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Language and symbolic boundaries among transnational elites: A qualitative case study of European Commission officials Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Daniel Drewski
Previous research has asked whether European integration leads to the formation of a new kind of ‘transnational class’ or ‘elite’ in and around the European institutions in Brussels. This paper focuses instead on intra-group distinctions and symbolic boundaries between EU professionals from different countries. Drawing on Bourdieu’s notion of language as a marker of distinction, it argues that language
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How career hubs shape the global corporate elite Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Felix Bühlmann, Christoph Houman Ellersgaard, Anton Grau Larsen, Jacob Aagaard Lunding
In this contribution, we introduce ‘career hubs’ as an alternative to interlocking directorates and propose to study transnational corporate elite networks with this new concept. Career hubs, the most frequent common career organizations, put emphasis on knowledge brokering and allow us to study a larger variety of organizations to understand the form and the spread of elite networks. We use a sample
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Variegated forms of corporate capture: The state, MNCs, and the dark side of strategic coupling Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Tiago Teixeira
Mainstream literature on global value chains (GVCs) and global production networks (GPNs) has increasingly demonstrated how the state and political conjunctures play a central role in strategic coupling. Nonetheless, scholarly attention still remains on the role of firms and their strategies. By focusing on firms, GVC and GPN scholars often underestimate the influence that non-firm actors such as the
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Transnational halal networks: INHART and the Islamic cultural economy in Malaysia and beyond Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Eva F. Nisa
The concern for piety among contemporary middle-class Muslims has led to efforts to establish a halal (permissible according to Islamic principles) economy. This can be seen in the thriving Islamic cultural economy in Malaysia, which refers to the links between Islamic culture and economic practices. Malaysia tops the Global Islamic Economy indicator, which serves as the dominant framework for evaluating
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Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains: Explaining governance in the fertilizer chain Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Gideon Tups, Peter Dannenberg
Global suppliers of agricultural inputs such as seeds, fertilizers and agrochemicals exert increasing degrees of power in global value chains (GVCs). Although the GVC literature has explained how global buyers govern GVCs from the buying-end, the question of how global suppliers achieve governance from the supplying-end remains underexplored. We address this gap by combining a multidimensional typology
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Gateway cities for transnational higher education? Doha, Dubai and Ras al-Khaimah as regional amplifiers in networks of the ‘global knowledge-based economy’ Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Tim Rottleb
This paper investigates how the developmental ambitions of governments to attract university offshore campuses to Doha, Dubai and Ras al-Khaimah and these universities’ internationalization strategies affect the three cities’ positionalities. It links interdisciplinary literature on globally uneven geographies of higher education to geographical debates on the intermediating role of cities in regional
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Editorial Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Megha Amrith, Zachary P. Neal, Johanna L. Waters
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST We declare no conflicts of interest in the submission of this editorial
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A transnational practice between fractured homes: Second-generation Turkish–German migrants’ experiences of visiting and being visited Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Nilay Kılınç
The paper explores the multiple ways in which visits affect the understanding of home for the Turkish–German second generation who have relocated to Turkey. Based on thematic–narrative analysis of 116 life-story interviews with second-generation ‘returnees’ in five regions of Turkey, three types of visits are identified: (i) family visits to Turkey whilst growing up in Germany; (ii) visits to Germany
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Visiting ‘home’: Considering diasporic practices through assemblage dynamics Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Lauren B Wagner
Visiting ‘home’ as a migrant may not always be about going home. Exploring a case where visiting is motivated by tourism as much as – or more than – migration, I argue for using assemblage as a set of ontological premises enables alternative appreciations of how practices of ‘visiting home’ evolve. Starting from a primacy of relationality and of malleable materialities, this perspective does not rely
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Home visits, holy visits: Diasporic pilgrimage to the ‘Holy Land’ amongst Palestinian–Jordanian Christians from Amman Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Annabel C. Evans
This paper contributes to ‘visiting friends and relatives’ (VFR) discussions within migration and diaspora literatures by proposing a closer theorization of religious mobilities through the conceptual framework of ‘diasporic pilgrimage’. It advances VFR thinking by considering religion as a productive analytical category to interrogate relationships between people and place which sustain and constitute
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Digital media, ageing and faith: Older Sri Lankan migrants in Australia and their digital articulations of transnational religion Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Shashini Gamage, Raelene Wilding, Loretta Baldassar
To date, older adults have received little attention in the newly emerging technological narratives of transnational religion. This is surprising, given the strong association of later life with spiritual and religious engagement, but it likely reflects the ongoing assumption that older adults are technophobic or technologically incompetent. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with older Sinhalese Buddhist
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Visiting migrants: An introduction Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Md Farid Miah, Russell King, Aija Lulle
This paper offers an overview of the origins and dynamics of the concept of migrant visits and introduces the key contributions of the special issue. We highlight the significance of visits that criss-cross many forms of migration and centre on these visits’ bilateral and multilateral nature. Furthermore, we emphasize emotional, sensory and bodily implications, which almost always shape encounters
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Covid-19 and Global Networks: Reframing our understanding of globalization and transnationalism Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Robin Cohen, Alisdair Rogers, Steven Vertovec
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST The author declares no conflict of interest.
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Work as affective care: Visiting parents’ experiences of paid work abroad Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Dora Sampaio
This article offers the concept of ‘work as affective care’ to explore the entanglement between financial and affective in transnational life. This is discussed in relation to practices of paid work by nonmigrant older parents during visits to their adult children abroad, an understudied dimension in the visiting friends and relatives, transnational family, and ageing scholarship. Drawing on ethnographic
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Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the transnationalization of LGBT* activism in Japan and beyond Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Sakura Yamamura
The global Covid-19 pandemic has strongly impacted social practices, relocating communications and social networks into the digital space. Contextualized in such impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the local LGBT* activism in Japan achieved a special momentum: both the acceleration of the socio-spatial relocation of LGBT* activism to the digital space and the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 by
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Overcoming the mobility bias in transnational entrepreneurship Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Ekaterina Vorobeva
The current article contributes to the debates on immobility in migration studies. More specifically, it aims to show and challenge mobility bias in transnational entrepreneurship; the relevant scholarship appears to overconcentrate on immigrants as major driving forces of cross-border business relations while ignoring the contributions of nonmigrant populations. Based on the qualitative data collected
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Visiting here, there, and somewhere: Multi-locality and the geographies of transnational family visiting Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Colleen Elizabeth McNeil-Walsh
For transnational families, visits represent an opportunity to temporarily punctuate the geographical distance that separates them from significant others in everyday life. Drawing on data from mapping-interviews conducted with older skilled migrants in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, this paper is concerned with how transnational visiting is harnessed to sustain a sense of family togetherness at a later stage
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Transnational families: The experiences of Polish stayers from a lifelong perspective Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Małgorzata Dziekońska
In migration research, the voice is usually given to those who move, but in this article, those who stay are at the centre of attention. The study aims to present the stayers’ practices of everyday life in transnational families in an attempt to highlight the experience of staying and understand the stayers’ role in the migration project. The study is based on semi-structured life story interviews
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‘It's just a natural human thing to do, to go and visit your family… but it's not easy for us’: Gender and generation in Bangladeshis’ transnational visits between London and Sylhet Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Md Farid Miah, Russell King
In the title to this paper, Maya, a British-Bangladeshi woman, expresses her frustration at the refusal of the Home Office to grant her father in Sylhet a visa to come and fulfil his role as family head at the wedding of his son, Maya's brother, in London. The case illustrates well the intersection of gender and generation that fundamentally shapes the pattern of visits, in both directions, across
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Quod vadis? The effect of youth unemployment and demographic pressure on migration in the MENA region Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Margarete Redlin
Recent trends in international migration reveal increasing migration outflows from Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries. This development is accompanied by a massive rise in youth unemployment and a major increase in the young population in this region. This paper provides a quantitative assessment of migration patterns and analyses the interacting effect of the unfavourable combination
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From local champions to global players: A long-term perspective on Swiss companies’ connections across territorial scales Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Michael Andrea Strebel, André Mach
Corporate interlocking at the national and transnational scale has received substantive scholarly attention. Less is known about companies’ ties to the cities and regions in which they have their seats. In this paper, we conduct a long-term analysis of the multilevel ties that companies maintain with the local and the national context they are embedded in. To do so, we adopt a positional approach and
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Following the ‘hype’: The role of leisure practices during ‘homeland’ visits in transnational youth's way of relating to Ghana Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Gladys Akom Ankobrey
Drawing on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Ghana, this paper combines ‘return’ mobilities literature and youth studies to analyse the role of leisure practices during ‘homeland’ visits in transnational youth's way of relating to Ghana when they are entering into adulthood. Using the notion of mobility trajectories, the paper shows that leisure practices facilitate young people's
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Linking power and inequality in global value chains Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Juliane Lang, Stefano Ponte, Thando Vilakazi
There is increasing interest in the study of globalization on whether the emergence and consolidation of global value chains (GVCs) have exacerbated inequalities within and across nations and/or how GVCs may be leveraged to mitigate them. Although power asymmetries have been identified as a central factor shaping (un)successful GVC participation, dominant discourses still disregard the links between
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The construction, composition and rationale of immigrants’ network: The support strategies of Ghanaian immigrants in Toronto, Canada Global Networks (IF 1.968) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Emmanuel Kyeremeh, Godwin Arku
In this article, we investigate the construction, composition and rationale behind the personal networks of recent immigrants to Canada. Drawing on egocentric-network analysis and interviews with 172 Ghanaian immigrants in Toronto, we reveal their networking strategies during their integration. First, we identify social locations that help create ties with different groups: workplaces and schools offer