Transnationalizing Inequalities in Europe

Transnationalizing Inequalities in Europe is a highly original volume that builds on theories of globalization, transnationalization, spatialization, boundaries, and intersectionality to examine cross-border social inequalities. Whilst focused on transnational migration, mobility, and post-migration settlement, and using case studies between Ukraine and Germany, the book has much wider application elsewhere, and much wider relevance for the many other transnational processes. As such, and in raising key practical questions for doing transnational research, it should have a strong impact as a landmark text. Jeff Hearn, OErebro University, Sweden; Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK; author of Men of the World Transnationalizing Inequalities offers its readers an original and highly productive dialogue between cultural sociology, intersectional theory and poststructuralist thought. It uses this conversation to make new sense of pressing questions of inequality across Europe's fluid borders. Amelina's thinking is as sharp as the inequalities she maps, and as subtle as some of the mechanisms of power she uncovers. Professor William Walters, Department of Political Science & Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Carleton University, Canada Theorists of social inequality have often been criticized for their inability to overcome methodological nationalism, an approach that treats the nation state as most important category of analysis. Anna Amelina's book is a pioneering, outstanding work which takes up these challenges and presents new theoretical tools for investigating the transnationalization of social inequalities in the 21st century from an intersectional perspective. A must read for students and scholars of migration- gender- and social inequality studies. Helma Lutz, Goethe University Frankfurt, Author of 'The New Maids. Transnational Women and the Care Economy' The book succeeds in developing a grid for a cultural sociological approach to inequality analyses which constitute the current research frontier. Overall, it is an original contribution to initiate a distinct mode of analysis combining cultural sociology, intersectional analysis, and the socio-cultural boundary approach. What makes it worthwhile reading is a critical analysis of Europe from its periphery. Professor Thomas Faist, Bielefeld University