Transnational Community Mobilization and Transformation, 2010-2020

This book explores transnational community mobilization through local transnational encounters and connections.

List of contents

Foreword by John Clammer; Foreword by Professor Martin Bak Jørgensen; Afterword by Ananta Kumar Giri; When Lions Roar Calves Whisper: A Case of Transnational Community Mobilization (2010-20); 1. Praining Nation-States with the Becoming of Transnationally Connected; 2. Conceptualizing Local Transnational Encounters and Connections (LOTEC) ; 3. Coping with Transnational Citizenship Challenges; 4. The Quest for Transnational Civic Mobilization; 5. The Search for Employment and Social Mobility; 6. Struggling for the Improvement of Community Image; 7. Transnational Communities Contributing to Local Public Policy Formations to the 2020 Global Pandemic; 8. Mobilizing Against Forced Repatriations; 9. Transnational Communities Supporting Refugees Overcoming "Limbo" Status; Index

About the author

Dr. Abdulkadir Osman Farah teaches at Copenhagen University and is associate of Urban Sanctuary, Migrant Solidarity and Hospitality in Global Perspective with Aalborg and Ryerson Universities. Dr. Farah is also currently associate researcher of Tswane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa .

Summary

This book explores transnational community mobilization through local transnational encounters and connections.

Product details

• Authors: Abdulkadir Osman Farah
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781839990885
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-088-5
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage