| Communities Across Borders: New Immigrants and Transnational Cultures Contributor(s): Kennedy, Paul (Editor), Roudometof, Victor (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415252938 ISBN-13: 9780415252935 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2002 Annotation: "Communities across Borders" examines the many ways in which national, ethnic or religious groups, professions, businesses and cultures are becoming increasingly tangled together. This is as a result of hte vast flows of people, meanings, good and money which now migrate between countries and world regions. Now the effectiveness and significance of electronic technologies for inter-personal communication (including cyber-communities and the interconnectedness of the global world economy) simultaneously empowers even the poorest people to forge effective cultures stretching national borders, and compels many to do so to escape injustice and deprivation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 303.482 |
| LCCN: 2001048589 |
| Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.78" W x 8.92" (0.91 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Communities across Borders examines the many ways in which national, ethnic or religious groups, professions, businesses and cultures are becoming increasingly tangled together. It show how this entanglement is the result of the vast flows of people, meanings, goods and money that now migrate between countries and world regions. Now the effectiveness and significance of electronic technologies for interpersonal communication (including cyber-communities and the interconnectedness of the global world economy) simultaneously empowers even the poorest people to forge effective cultures stretching national borders, and compels many to do so to escape injustice and deprivation. |