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State/Nation/Transnation
State/Nation/Transnation challenges the assumption that transnational movements
herald the death of the nation-state per se, arguing rather that they involve a
reconfiguration.
This book takes as its main theme the interconnections between conceptions
of the state, the nation and the transnation as they are played out in the Asia-
Pacific arena – one of the globe’s most prominent regions in terms of human
mobility and migrations. Grounded in in-depth research, each chapter explores
the productive possibilities of the tensions between the nation-state and the
transnation. It concludes that while there is potential for transnational forms of
activity to challenge the existing power structures of the nation-state, it is also
clear that existing axes of power and influence are often maintained, or are rein-
scribed in new ways.
Containing both theoretical chapters and detailed case studies, this volume
will interest students and researchers of migration, the Asia-Pacific and the
future of the nation-state.
Brenda . Yeoh is an associate professor in the Department of Geography,
National University of Singapore, and the principal investigator of the Asian
Metacentre at the university’s Asia Research Institute.
Katie Willis is a senior lecturer in geography at Royal Holloway, University of
London.
Transnationalism
Series editor: Steven Vertovec
University of Oxford
‘Transnationalism’ broadly refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or
institutions across the borders of nation-states. Today myriad systems of relation-
ship, exchange and mobility function intensively and in real time while being spread
across the world. New technologies, especially involving munications, serve
to connect works. Despite great distances and notwithstanding the presence
of international borders (and all the laws, regulations and national narratives that
they represent), many forms of association have been globally inten