Thomas Faist
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198293910
- eISBN:
- 9780191685002
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198293910.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This book provides a theoretical account of the causes, nature, and extent of the movement of international South-North migrants between affluent and poorer countries. The puzzle is: why are there so ...
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This book provides a theoretical account of the causes, nature, and extent of the movement of international South-North migrants between affluent and poorer countries. The puzzle is: why are there so few international migrants out of most places? And why are there so many out of so few places? Only once migration out of a few places has started do we see relatively more people moving. Mass mobility proceeds only when migrant networks turn local assets into transnational ones. The book also examines the reasons why many immigrants continue to keep ties to their places of origin, and why these ties do not hinder the adaptation of newcomers to immigration countries. These ties span immigration and emigration countries and form transnational social spaces, ranging from border-crossing families to refuges and diasporas. Transnational social formations carry far-reaching implications for immigration adaptation, dual citizenship, and transnationalising civil societies. This book provides an empirical grounding for the arguments it presents by analysing the Turkish-German example.Less
This book provides a theoretical account of the causes, nature, and extent of the movement of international South-North migrants between affluent and poorer countries. The puzzle is: why are there so few international migrants out of most places? And why are there so many out of so few places? Only once migration out of a few places has started do we see relatively more people moving. Mass mobility proceeds only when migrant networks turn local assets into transnational ones. The book also examines the reasons why many immigrants continue to keep ties to their places of origin, and why these ties do not hinder the adaptation of newcomers to immigration countries. These ties span immigration and emigration countries and form transnational social spaces, ranging from border-crossing families to refuges and diasporas. Transnational social formations carry far-reaching implications for immigration adaptation, dual citizenship, and transnationalising civil societies. This book provides an empirical grounding for the arguments it presents by analysing the Turkish-German example.
David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, and Mizan R. Khan
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262029612
- eISBN:
- 9780262330039
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262029612.003.0002
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Climate
This chapter draws on theories, particularly the scholarship of Antonio Gramsci, in offering a strategic framework that considers power relations. It argues that the world is not the same as it was ...
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This chapter draws on theories, particularly the scholarship of Antonio Gramsci, in offering a strategic framework that considers power relations. It argues that the world is not the same as it was back in 2008 before the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen. It explores recent shifts in power dynamics and considers their impact on our ability to take effective and equitable action on climate change. The main argument here is that the world order has transformed along four main axes: its political economy, geopolitics, ecological conditions, and the capabilities of transnational civil society. The chapter focuses on the struggles of marginalized and particularly vulnerable states and civil society actors seeking climate justice, and the processes that inhibit and facilitate their influence.Less
This chapter draws on theories, particularly the scholarship of Antonio Gramsci, in offering a strategic framework that considers power relations. It argues that the world is not the same as it was back in 2008 before the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen. It explores recent shifts in power dynamics and considers their impact on our ability to take effective and equitable action on climate change. The main argument here is that the world order has transformed along four main axes: its political economy, geopolitics, ecological conditions, and the capabilities of transnational civil society. The chapter focuses on the struggles of marginalized and particularly vulnerable states and civil society actors seeking climate justice, and the processes that inhibit and facilitate their influence.
David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts, and Mizan R. Khan
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262029612
- eISBN:
- 9780262330039
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262029612.003.0010
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Climate
This chapter summarizes the book's main arguments and considers how global climate justice might be achieved in the coming years. Given the need for independent actors whose focus is on the global ...
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This chapter summarizes the book's main arguments and considers how global climate justice might be achieved in the coming years. Given the need for independent actors whose focus is on the global public good of avoiding catastrophic climatic change, it argues that a transformed approach of civil society is our best hope for realizing an equitable, sustainable, and effective international climate treaty and advancing global climate justice. Revelations about the system's unsustainability will not occur—or lead to the radical change—unless political forces broadly mobilize to effectively counter the competing narratives and structural privileges of those who still benefit from the existing system. The chapter concludes by identifying three main shifts that transnational civil society will have to undergo in order to advance international climate justice, and introduces the concept of linking movements to specify necessary changes for the development of climate justice.Less
This chapter summarizes the book's main arguments and considers how global climate justice might be achieved in the coming years. Given the need for independent actors whose focus is on the global public good of avoiding catastrophic climatic change, it argues that a transformed approach of civil society is our best hope for realizing an equitable, sustainable, and effective international climate treaty and advancing global climate justice. Revelations about the system's unsustainability will not occur—or lead to the radical change—unless political forces broadly mobilize to effectively counter the competing narratives and structural privileges of those who still benefit from the existing system. The chapter concludes by identifying three main shifts that transnational civil society will have to undergo in order to advance international climate justice, and introduces the concept of linking movements to specify necessary changes for the development of climate justice.
Peter Piot
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231166263
- eISBN:
- 9780231538770
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231166263.003.0005
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter discusses the role of civil society in the AIDS response. It explains the heterogeneity of civil society movements and AIDS activism, as well as the variability of their involvement in ...
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This chapter discusses the role of civil society in the AIDS response. It explains the heterogeneity of civil society movements and AIDS activism, as well as the variability of their involvement in global or national responses. It cites examples of AIDS activism in countries such as France, the United States, Brazil, South Africa, and Thailand. The second part of the chapter deals with AIDS and globalization. It suggests that the AIDS movement may be the first example of a new type of transnational civil society movement without clear leaders or programs, driven by social justice and acting simultaneously globally and in a very agile way thanks to modern communication tools. Some examples of more formal global and regional networks are discussed, although much of the AIDS movement is not that formally organized, and certainly not hierarchical.Less
This chapter discusses the role of civil society in the AIDS response. It explains the heterogeneity of civil society movements and AIDS activism, as well as the variability of their involvement in global or national responses. It cites examples of AIDS activism in countries such as France, the United States, Brazil, South Africa, and Thailand. The second part of the chapter deals with AIDS and globalization. It suggests that the AIDS movement may be the first example of a new type of transnational civil society movement without clear leaders or programs, driven by social justice and acting simultaneously globally and in a very agile way thanks to modern communication tools. Some examples of more formal global and regional networks are discussed, although much of the AIDS movement is not that formally organized, and certainly not hierarchical.
Sarah S. Stroup
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801450730
- eISBN:
- 9780801464256
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450730.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This book challenges the notion that political activism has gone beyond borders and created a global or transnational civil society. Instead, at the most globally active, purportedly cosmopolitan ...
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This book challenges the notion that political activism has gone beyond borders and created a global or transnational civil society. Instead, at the most globally active, purportedly cosmopolitan groups in the world, international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) organizational practices are deeply tied to national environments, creating great diversity in the way these groups organize themselves, engage in advocacy, and deliver services. The book offers detailed profiles of these “varieties of activism” in the United States, Britain, and France. These three countries are the most popular bases for INGOs, but each provides a very different environment for charitable organizations due to differences in legal regulations, political opportunities, resources, and patterns of social networks. The book's comparisons of leading American, British, and French INGOs reveal strong national patterns in INGO practices, including advocacy, fund-raising, and professionalization. These differences are quite pronounced among INGOs in the humanitarian relief sector and are observable, though less marked, among human rights INGOs. The book finds that national origin helps account for variation in the “transnational advocacy networks” that have received so much attention in international relations. For practitioners, national origin offers an alternative explanation for the frequently lamented failures of INGOs in the field: INGOs are not inherently dysfunctional, but instead remain disconnected because of their strong roots in very different national environments.Less
This book challenges the notion that political activism has gone beyond borders and created a global or transnational civil society. Instead, at the most globally active, purportedly cosmopolitan groups in the world, international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) organizational practices are deeply tied to national environments, creating great diversity in the way these groups organize themselves, engage in advocacy, and deliver services. The book offers detailed profiles of these “varieties of activism” in the United States, Britain, and France. These three countries are the most popular bases for INGOs, but each provides a very different environment for charitable organizations due to differences in legal regulations, political opportunities, resources, and patterns of social networks. The book's comparisons of leading American, British, and French INGOs reveal strong national patterns in INGO practices, including advocacy, fund-raising, and professionalization. These differences are quite pronounced among INGOs in the humanitarian relief sector and are observable, though less marked, among human rights INGOs. The book finds that national origin helps account for variation in the “transnational advocacy networks” that have received so much attention in international relations. For practitioners, national origin offers an alternative explanation for the frequently lamented failures of INGOs in the field: INGOs are not inherently dysfunctional, but instead remain disconnected because of their strong roots in very different national environments.
Leon Fink
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834503
- eISBN:
- 9781469603322
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877807_fink.10
- Subject:
- History, Economic History
This chapter describes how the presence of strong trade unions in the maritime industry was all but taken for granted in the mid-1960s. Neither the unions nor their employer counterparts likely ...
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This chapter describes how the presence of strong trade unions in the maritime industry was all but taken for granted in the mid-1960s. Neither the unions nor their employer counterparts likely imagined that their worlds would be shaken to the core within just two decades. Yet, if the loss of union influence became a common theme of contemporary political history across Europe as well as North America, the sustained “renewal” of maritime unionism at the end of the twentieth century stood out as a dramatic exception. The players involved in this transformation, encompassing both national and international organizations spread across the globe, offered a testament to the power of transnational civil society. Moreover, that such a renewal should come at the very hands of the world economy that was otherwise shredding traditional worker protections made the latest chapter of maritime labor regulation perhaps the most surprising of all.Less
This chapter describes how the presence of strong trade unions in the maritime industry was all but taken for granted in the mid-1960s. Neither the unions nor their employer counterparts likely imagined that their worlds would be shaken to the core within just two decades. Yet, if the loss of union influence became a common theme of contemporary political history across Europe as well as North America, the sustained “renewal” of maritime unionism at the end of the twentieth century stood out as a dramatic exception. The players involved in this transformation, encompassing both national and international organizations spread across the globe, offered a testament to the power of transnational civil society. Moreover, that such a renewal should come at the very hands of the world economy that was otherwise shredding traditional worker protections made the latest chapter of maritime labor regulation perhaps the most surprising of all.
