Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters

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Emanuel Deutschmann

Mapping the Transnational World

How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters

Emanuel Deutschmann

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English

Princeton University Press
01 June 2022

Communication studies; Migration, immigration & emigration; Globalization; Sociology

Series: Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology

A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communication.

Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnational world. Is it really a fully globalised world in which everything is linked, as popular catchphrases like 'global village' suggest? Through a sweeping comparative analysis of eight types of mobility and communication among countries worldwide - from migration and tourism to Facebook friendships and phone calls - Mapping the Transnational World demonstrates that our behaviour is actually regionalised, not globalised.

Emanuel Deutschmann shows that transnational activity within world regions is not so much the outcome of political, cultural, or economic factors, but is driven primarily by geographic distance. He explains that the spatial structure of transnational human activity follows a simple mathematical function, the power law, a pattern that also fits the movements of many other animal species on the planet. Moreover, this pattern remained extremely stable during the five decades studied - 1960 to 2010. Unveiling proximity-induced regionalism as a major feature of planet-scale networks of transnational human activity, Deutschmann provides a crucial corrective to several fields of research.

Revealing why a truly global society is unlikely to emerge, Mapping the Transnational World highlights the essential role of interaction beyond borders on a planet that remains spatially fragmented.

'Mapping the Transnational World offers a large-scale look at various human connections spanning national borders. I appreciate the breadth of coverage: the description of regionalisation and globalisation across eight types of human activity over five decades is a big contribution all on its own. The use of network-analytic techniques to model these cross-border connections is impressive.' - Jason Beckfield, Harvard University

'This spectacularly ambitious and potentially paradigm-shifting work builds what is indeed one of the first systematic attempts to document, analyse, and explain the totality of migrations on a planetary scale. Mapping the Transnational World is a big empirical step forward for the study of international migration and mobilities.' - Adrian Favell, University of Leeds

By: Emanuel Deutschmann
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780691226491
ISBN 10: 0691226490
Series: Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 June 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emanuel Deutschmann is assistant professor of sociological theory at the University of Flensburg and an associate at the European University Institute's Migration Policy Centre. Twitter @edeutschma

Reviews for Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters

"""[This book] is rigorously conceptualized and offers a new take on the vast, sprawling, and, at times, contentious interdisciplinary literature on the various phenomena that scholars have subsumed under the label ‘transnational’ . . . . taking a “satellite-eye’s view” to map the transnational world at the planetary scale.""---Tahseen Shams, Social Forces ""Very well-written and well-researched.""---Romina Cachia, American Journal of Sociology"