The geographic range of German transnational social networks

2010 ◽  
pp. 63-69
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Geographic Range ◽  
Transnational Social Networks

scholarly journals Social Networks and Transnational Social Fields: A Review of Quantitative and Mixed-Methods Approaches

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda Jessica Lubbers ◽  
Ashton M. Verdery ◽  
José Luis Molina
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Transnational Social Fields ◽  
Small Set ◽  
Individual Household ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Transnational Social Networks

Scholars of transnationalism have argued that migrants create transnational social fields or spaces that connect their place of origin to destination areas. Despite the centrality that social networks have in the definition of these concepts, quantitative and mixed-methods social network research is rare in research on transnationalism. This situation, however, has changed over the last decade, and the transnational social networks of migrants have been studied with multiple methodologies. So far, this literature has not been systematically evaluated. With the aim of taking stock of this research, we classify the literature into four types of approaches (individual, household, dyad/small set, and community) and review their distinct contributions regarding the functioning of immigrants’ transnational networks, as well as the relative strengths and limitations of each approach. On the basis of our analysis, we discuss pathways for future investigation.

Cultural foundations of military diffusion

2006 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMILY O. GOLDMAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
International System ◽  
Military Power ◽  
Cultural Foundations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Military Innovations ◽  
Technological Opportunities ◽  
Transnational Social Networks ◽  
Cross National

This article examines cross-national variation in the diffusion and adoption of military technologies and ideas. The history of warfare has been marked by periods of innovation in which the institutions and practices of war-making adapted in response to technological opportunities, and social and political developments. As information about new practices spreads, through the demonstration effects of innovating states or transnational social networks, military innovations have diffused throughout the international system. Diffusion can restructure power relations as states leverage new capabilities to increase their military power and enhance their international influence.

Space

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Chidester
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Material Production ◽  
Transnational Social Networks

Theories of religious space can be divided between those that focus on poetic meaning, political power, or material production. Religious space can be based on structural oppositions, such as the indigenous opposition between home and wild space and the colonial opposition between land and sea. The production of religious space commonly establishes barriers, but instances of shared religious space can be found in Africa, India, and elsewhere. Competition over the ownership of a place is a recurring feature of the dynamics of religious space, as illustrated by the conflict between Hindus and Muslims over the site in Ayodhya in India. With the rise of modern nations, religious space is increasingly managed by state apparatuses, and at the same time dispersed through transnational social networks in diaspora. Religious space is also powerful as an arena for asserting claims to access, control, and ultimately ownership of the sacred.

World-Making at the Margins

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 139-159
Author(s):  
Arturo Marquez
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
West African ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Global Mobility ◽  
Normative Models ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Transnational Social Networks

Abstract Transnational social networks are vital to West Africans in managing relationships but also in ascertaining viable ways of being and belonging in the diaspora. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, this paper examines the ‘Baay Faal paradox’ to address sites of contention in West African endeavours to bind a sense of self to transnational social networks. I propose urban world-making practices that sustain connections to transnational social networks from the margins of these relations signal what I am calling ‘affective tethering.’ The term ‘tethering’ in my analysis foregrounds an imagined distance between normative models of practice and purported deviations that result in precarious, unstable and patchy connections to transnational social networks. This approach sheds light on the complex relationship between a person’s sense of self and the transnational social networks that inform ideas of personhood in the context of global mobility and settlement.

Transmission of information within transnational social networks: a field experiment

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 905-923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Candelo ◽  
Rachel T. A. Croson ◽  
Catherine Eckel
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Transmission Of Information ◽  
Transnational Social Networks

Prisms of Expectation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Michael Shea
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
Doctrinal Development ◽  
The Church ◽  
Transnational Social Networks

Chapter 1 examines the various types of hopes and expectations that Roman Catholic authorities nourished for the Church of England as a potential missionary opportunity, with a special focus on Newman and the Oxford Movement. The chapter examines transnational social networks between Rome and England, and published and unpublished materials relating to Vatican-supported missionary initiatives in Oxford, as well as the depth of learning that certain figures in Rome displayed in Tractarian theology. The chapter considers adumbrations of the idea of doctrinal development in publication venues associated with Roman authorities, and offers an assessment of the degree to which Newman’s Essay on Development might have been considered novel or heterodox in the middle decades of the nineteenth century.

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