New transnational social spaces : international migration and transnational companies in the early 21st century / edited by Ludger Pries. - x, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Transnationalism Transnationalism. Routledge research in transnationalism ; 1 . - Transnationalism. Transnationalism. Routledge research in transnationalism ; 1. .

Based on papers presented at an international conference organized at the University of Göttingen in March 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The approach of transnational social spaces: responding to new configurations of the social and the spatial -- International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces -- Comparing local level Swedish and Mexican transnational life: an essay in historical retrieval -- Dissagregating transnational social spaces: gender, place and citizenship in Mexico - US transnational spaces -- Transnational families: institutions of transnational social space -- Shifting spaces - complex identities in Turkish-German migration -- International Companies and Transnational Social Spaces -- Pluri-local social spaces by tele-cooperation in international companies -- Pluri-local social spaces in international companies -- The transnationalization of companies and their industrial relations -- Co-ordination and control in transnational business and non-profit organizations -- The Future of Trnasnational Social Spaces -- Cracked casings: towards an analytics for studying transnational processes -- Part I. 1. Part II. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part III. 6. 7. 8. 9. Part IV. 10. Pluri-local social spaces in global operating German companies / The transnationalization of companies and their industrial relations / Co-ordination and control in transnational business and non-profit organizations / Cracked casings : notes towards an analytics for studying transnational processes / Hermann Kotthoff -- Jürgen Kädtler and Hans-Joachim Sperling -- Jörg Flecker and Ruth Simsa -- Saskia Sassen.

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Emigration and immigration--Congresses
International business enterprises--Congresses
Emigration and immigration.
International business enterprises.

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