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This article deals with a recent phenomenon: over the last decades a new global labor market for female migrants has been established. Women from Asia, Africa & Eastern Europe come to work in the households of affluent countries, among them German ones. Domestic work is not only a site of the feminization of migration, but also a part of the reconstruction of social inequalities on a global scale. Starting by discussing the factors promoting the feminization of migration in connection with the demand for domestic workers in German households, the article then describes the character of the work area & the differences between domestic work & other work sectors. After discussing the state of double illegality which forces many domestic workers to live a life in the twilight zone, the concept of transnational migration is connected to the transnational biographies of these workers. The main argument of the article is that domestic work can be understood as a paradigm for the new structure of relations of dependency in global perspective & on a global scale. 63 References. Adapted from the source document.

This review addresses key issues in the study of Latino politics. Foremost among these is the question of low voter turnout. Such factors as income, education, nativity, religion, political party, organizational involvement, neighborhood composition, ethnic attachments, & mobilization of Hispanic turnout have a limited impact on Hispanic votes. I suggest that this is due to differences in the political socialization of Latinos & Anglos. The review also shows that immigrants are focused on US politics rather than home-country politics. Additionally, it describes significant differences regarding the factors that shape Hispanic vs Anglo partisanship. Among the other issues considered is the limited significance of ethnic factors, as compared to partisanship & state of residence, in determining electoral & policy preferences. 142 References. Adapted from the source document.

The rise of the African based religions in the United States is part of a vast political process of reafricanization of the African American community. By reconsidering the evolution of Black nationalism, this article shows how this effort of reafricanization was born in the context of African American fight toward separatism & independence. Introducing the notions of transnational communities & ethnic identity, the effort of reafricanization is today leading to a new acception & definition of the idea of African American nationalism & of the concepts of Nation & separatism at its basis. 28 References. Adapted from the source document.

Those of us who work on the Indian princely states sometimes seem to share a certain marginalization, a certain
distance from the debates shaping the writing of South Asian history today. We also share, more positively, views
of that history that do not focus on British colonial rule and are not based on colonial sources, views that arguably
offer more continuity with pre-British history and alternative visions of the South Asian past, present, and future.

Data from an ongoing research project among Irish, Indian, Brazilian, Lebanese, Israeli, & Dominican migrants to the greater Boston (MA) metropolitan area are drawn on to explore the balance between home & host-country connections among transnational migrants; 3 in-depth case studies are presented. Ways that these immigrants maintain connections with & commitments to their countries of origin at the same time they increase their assimilation into US society are described; also demonstrated is how transnational linkages & cultural integration into the new society vary in scope, intensity, goals, institutional context, & socioeconomic characteristics of the immigrants. 21 References. K Hyatt Stewart

Transnational corporations, the transnational capitalist class & the culture-ideology of consumerism are the three building blocks of what is termed global system theory, an attempt to conceptualize capitalist globalization. Here, the focus is on the transnational capitalist class & its four fractions, namely owners & controllers of TNCs & their local affiliates; globalizing bureaucrats, & politicians; globalizing professionals; & consumerist elites (merchants & media). The purpose of the paper is to explain how combinations of these fractions of the transnational capitalist class have used the discourses of national competitiveness & sustainable development to further the interests of global capital. Globalization, therefore, is explained not as a "Western" but as a globalizing capitalist ideology. Adapted from the source document.