‘‘A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration’’ is an edited volume that compiles a number of articles on immigrants’ integration. It is an ambitious book whose main goal is to demonstrate that the life course approach is a useful paradigm for this research field that has so far not received the attention it deserves. In order to show this, the editors start out with an introductory ...

The world has been connected into a large unified market, forming global organic economy. Economic globalization increased the number of multinational companies and transnational projects. Cross-cultural advertising is an indispensable part cultural inheritance brand’s origin country exchange with other countries regions. This paper analyzes causes cross-cultural advertising. It explains issues...

This article explains why democracy and the important process of democratisation include but go beyond the ambit of the state and state laws, and how democracy and democratisation are both negotiated, contested, engaged with and made up by diverse state and non-state actors within plural legal orders and across multiple sites and transnational networks. This article aims to re-imagine the conce...

In this paper we consider how the concept of psychological distance can inform interventions that promote positive outcomes in transnational distributed teams. We focus on two primary characteristics of transnational distributed teams: physical distance between members, and social distance in the form of heterogeneity among members. We present a theoretical model describing how these characteri...

The term ‘global civil society’ has taken on increasing significance within scholarly debate over the past decade. This paper seeks to understand transnational political agency via the study of a particular transnational actor, Oxfam. It argues that the various schools of thought surrounding the global civil society concept, in particular the prevailing liberalcosmopolitan approach, are unable ...

This paper quantifies the impact of terrorism and conflicts on income per capita growth in Asia for 1970-2004. Our panel estimations show that transnational terrorist attacks had a significant growth-limiting effect. An additional terrorist incident per million persons reduces GDP per capita growth by about 1.5 percent. In populous countries, many additional attacks are needed to achieve such a...

This paper investigates the changing relations between citizens and Europe’s internal borders by seeing these relations as objects of governmentality of mobilities. It focuses on the particular discursive space of one transnational ‘corridor in the making’, studying how, through practices of visioning and strategy-making, governmental actors make new transnational governmental territories by br...

This paper examines appropriateness of using educational technologies to increase the flexibility of learning in transnational higher education in South East Asia. It considers the argument that while interactive educational technologies may be appropriate in countries in which self-directed study and student autonomy are emphasised, the same uses of technology may not be as appropriate in Sout...