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"Providing a critical overview of transnationalism as a concept, this Handbook looks at its growing influence in an era of high-speed, globalised interconnectivity. It offers crucial insights on how approaches to transnationalism have altered how we think about social life from the family to the nation-state, whilst also challenging the predominance of methodologically nationalist analyses. Encompassing research from around the world, leading international researchers examine transnational migration, culture, state practices, organisations and institutions. Chapters draw attention to conceptual concerns around the topic, including the spatiality and temporality of transnationalism, connections to the life course, and the articulation of affect and emotion across borders. The Handbook further explains the transnational dimensions of different forms of migration, including labour migrations and student mobilities, and emphasises why and how transnational networks and circulations matter. An engaging foundation for students and scholars seeking to enhance their understanding of transnationalism, this Handbook offers agenda-setting arguments that will be beneficial to researchers of migration and mobilities, human geography, sociology, anthropology, international relations and cultural studies. It will also be an interesting read for practitioners working in migration, migrant rights and transnational organising and activism"--

Various factors that affect the transnational experiences of immigrant & second-generation populations are examined. It is contended that contemporary understandings of transnationalism are primarily concerned with cultural practices; however, it is argued that historical determinants must be contemplated since the experiences of first-generation immigrant populations are shaping the lives of second-generation ethnic groups. Research is subsequently urged to dedicate more attention to the impact of immigration on the receiving countries. Although future studies are encouraged to continue examining the emergence of anti-immigrant sentiment in receiving countries, it is stressed that scholarship must also acknowledge programs within host societies that facilitate or promote multiculturalism. Scholars are implored to investigate differences in the effects that state ideologies have had upon first- & second-generation ethnic populations. 2 References. J. W. Parker

Then and now or then to now : immigration to New York in contemporary and historical perspective /Nancy Foner --Domestics of the world (unite?) : labor migration systems and personal trajectories of household workers in historical and global perspective /Christiane Harzig --"The moral aspects of complex problems" : New York City electoral campaigns against vice and the incorporation of immigrants, 1890-1901 /Val Johnson --Immigration policy in a time of war : the United States, 1939-1945 /Roger Daniels --Ties of affection : family narratives in the history of Italian migration /Diane Vecchio --Interracial marriages and transnational families : Chicago's Filipinos in the aftermath of World War II /Roland L. Guyotte and Barbara M. Posadas --At home in America? : revisiting the second generation /Deborah Dash Moore --Bridging "the great divide" : the evolution and impact of Cornish translocalism in Britain and the USA /Sharron P. Schwartz --Political refugees or economic immigrants? : a new "old debate" within the Haitian immigrant communities but with contestations and division /Carolle Charles --The creation and maintenance of the Cuban American "exile ideology" : evidence from the FIU Cuba poll 2004 /Guillermo J. Grenier --Relief dollars : U.S. policies toward Central Americans, 1980s to present /Ester C. Hernandez --The social construction of difference and the Arab American experience /Louise Cainkar.