This book contends that the struggle and perseverance of transnational communities occur within and through at least three interrelated dynamic socio-political processes. The first is the pattern in which transnational communities mobilize to access public opportunities. This occurs when communities deal with cross-border and cross-national trajectories. The second relates to transnational community civic mobilization in relation to the prevailing, as well as emerging, socio-political conditions and situations within host and homeland societies, including community encounters and connections with like-minded civic communities. The third concerns immediate local community mobilizations in response, as well as an extension, to existing and emerging local socio-political encounters and connections. Therefore, this work proposes that transnational local, national, and transnational mobilization takes place within the dynamic horizontal processes of mobilizing communities in simultaneously expanding community horizons while preserving community well-being in multiple interrelated contexts.
More significantly, current studies drawing on transnational political sociological frames, as well as public sociopolitical scholarly debates, often consider the relationship between the state and society as inherently hierarchical and oppositional. Such relational and hierarchical conceptions of state–society interactions insist on the idea that formal state structures dominate and often subordinate informal community-oriented socio-political platforms. These top-down institutional priorities and actions limit the horizontal dynamics of transnational communities, including community attempts to balance local, national, and transnational encounters and connections, while avoiding state–society as well as local, national, and transnational extremes. Modern scholarship, thereby, departs from an overemphasis on class distinctions of society, as well as potential class-based interest group mobilizations, as the basis for diverse struggles and perseverance within the dynamics of state–society relations.
Cuprins
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
Despre autor
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 .
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