Transnational Spaces and Regional Localization. Social Networks, Border Regions and Local-Global Relations

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introductory Thoughts on Transnational Spaces and Regional Localization

(Re)Contextualization of Global and Local Place

I Transnational Space and Social Networks

Transnational Social Relations – A Challenge of Everyday Life?

Transnational Spaces, Hybrid Identities and New Media

Social Networks and Identity Building Processes through Transnational/Cross Regional Experiences of Experts in Southern Europe

The Role of Transnationalism, Personal Networks and Social Networks in the Migratory Projects of a Small Cameroonian Community in Huelva

How to Share Space?

II Migration and Border Regions

A Transnational Politics of Mobility

Borders are Narratives

Imagining and Re-imagining Transcultural Spaces – The ‘Mitteleuropa’ Discourse and Deconstructing the ‘British Isles’

Presencia Centroamericana en la Frontera Sur de México: un Espacio en Construcción Transnacional

National Identity Formation in Transnational Spaces: The Case of the Sahrawis of Western Sahara

Migration Moves and Shapes Society

III Spaces of Tensions: Local – Global

Private Sentiment and Public Issues – Irish Medium Education and Complex Linguistic and Political Identification

Propuesta Teórica en la Reconstrucción de las Cosmovisiones, Lenguas y Conocimientos de los Pueblos Originarios ante la Globalización

The Confluence of Global and Local Currents in Brazil’s Municipal Schooling

The Development of Transcultural Third Spaces by International and Transnational Students

Notes on Contributors