The Russian-Jewish Transnational Social Space: An Overview

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Remennick
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Transnational Social Space

Migration, Social Protection, and the (Re)Production of Inequalities in the European Union

2018 ◽  
pp. 134-153
Author(s):  
Thomas Faist
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Individual Member ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Transnational Social Space ◽  
The Eu

Europe, and the European Union in particular, can be conceived as a transnational social space with a high degree of transactions across borders of member states. The question is how efforts to provide social protection for cross-border migrants in the EU reinforce existing inequalities (e.g. between regions or within households), and lead to new types of inequalities (e.g. stratification of labour markets). Social protection in the EU falls predominantly under the purview of individual member states; hence, frictions between different state-operated protection systems and social protection in small groups are particularly apparent in the case of cross-border flows of people and resources. Chapter 5 examines in detail the general social mechanisms operative in cross-border forms of social protection, in particular, exclusion, opportunity hoarding, hierarchization, and exploitation, and also more concrete mechanisms which need to be constructed bottom-up.

Muslim Families Comprising Pakistani Fathers and Japanese Mothers: Focusing on the Educational Problems of their Children

Hawwa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuko Takeshita
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Educational Strategy ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Japanese Mothers ◽  
Transnational Social Space ◽  
Islamic Values

AbstractRecently, the educational problems of children with non-Japanese Muslim fathers and Japanese mothers have come to light in Japan. There has been an increase in the number of transnational families in which the Japanese mother and children have moved to an Islamic country for the Islamic education of the children while the non-Japanese father remains in Japan to work. In this paper, I conduct a case study analysis of families comprising Pakistani husbands and Japanese wives, who selected Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the new place of residence for the wife and children, in view of the difficulties in transmitting Islamic values to the children while living in Japan. In this paper, I focus on the educational problems among Muslim children, and attempt to clarify the types of educational strategy that have been developed using social capital arising from social networks. They have selected an educational strategy with a view toward a transnational social space.

What is the Hizmet Movement? Contending Approaches to the Analysis of Religious Activists In World Politics

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 257-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Dreher
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
Economic Engagement ◽  
Hizmet Movement ◽  
Religious Actors ◽  
Transnational Social Space

The goal of this article is to understand the role of religious activists in world politics from an international relations (IR) perspective. The paper proposes a critical theory of religion and encourages researchers to accept individual religiosity, class, and identity in the study of religious actors. The paper develops three avenues of inquiry. First, a better typology of religious actors in world politics is needed to classify them in their political and social contexts. Second, citing the example of Turkey’s Hizmet Movement of Fethullah Gülen, the central role played by economic engagement is analyzed from a neo-Gramscian perspective in International Political Economy (IPE). In so doing, Hizmet is presented as a non-western expression of neoliberal globalization and as part of the “globalizing elite.” Lastly, Hizmet’s international activities are presented as potentially having unforeseen consequences in the light of its creation and reproduction as a transnational social space.

scholarly journals Dynamics of change in transnational families ̶ Biographical perspectives on family figurations between Spain and Ecuador

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3-2019) ◽  
pp. 264-286
Author(s):  
Christian Schramm
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Sudden Change ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
National Society ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Transnational Social Space ◽  
Self Presentations

This paper explores the figurational process in transnational families through the study of the biographical self-presentations and the life courses of family members who live apart (in Bilbao, Spain and Guayaquil, Ecuador) but remain interdependent. It asks which factors inside and outside the family figuration influence the negotiation of the fragile power balances along gender and generational lines, with what effect for the structure of positions, family norms, mutual expectations and the division of tasks. Special attention is given to the deep financial and economic crisis affecting Spain between 2008 and 2014 and how this sudden change of the context in one national society impacts the transnational family life. Results highlight the importance of the long-term pre-migration family figurational process for the way transnational family life is being shaped. They also show how a variety of influencing factors, observed during the migration period and located in different national societies and the transnational social space, is intertwined with the logic of this long-term process.

scholarly journals Second Generation and Migrant Capital in the Transnational Space: The Case of Young Kurds in France

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Toivanen
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
Social Resource ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Transnational Ties ◽  
Transnational Space ◽  
Transnational Social Space

Transnational ties, networks, and mobilities can constitute a social resource for diaspora communities. Resources available as a result of the migration process or transnational ties can potentially become capitalised by diaspora members. Yet, diaspora members cannot automatically capitalise on all transnational networks and ties, and only resources that are mobilisable within particular transnational networks constitute “migrant capital” (Anthias, 2007; Ryan, 2011). Migrants’ children have grown up in “transnational social space,” in a social setting that is embedded with multiple sets of interconnected networks of social relationships, memberships, identities, and mobilities of cross-border character (Levitt, 2009). Little is known on whether such transnational networks function as a mobilisable social resource, i.e., migrant capital, for the second generation. This study focuses on the transnational ties, practices, and mobilities of second-generation Kurds in France and examines whether those constitute a mobilisable resource for them. It specifically asks if second-generation members intent to or have capitalised on such resources in the transnational social space. The study sheds light on the workings of transnational resources in the lives of the second generation and asks about the extent to which they can be considered migrant capital. The analysis draws from a qualitative dataset such as interviews and observations collected with second-generation Kurds in France.

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