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Transnational Care and Well-Being of Family Members Across Generations, Contexts and Countries: Comparative Approaches 跨代、跨背景、跨国家家庭成员的跨国关怀与幸福：比较方法

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-04-04 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70052

Lisa Merry, Sara Bojarczuk

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Transnational Care and Well-Being of Family Members Across Generations, Contexts and Countries: Comparative Approaches 跨代、跨背景、跨国家家庭成员的跨国关怀与幸福：比较方法

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-04-04 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70052

Lisa Merry, Sara Bojarczuk

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Beyond One-Way Chains: Care Circulation Within the Transnational Families of Vietnamese Marriage Immigrant Women in Taiwan 超越单向链：台湾越南婚姻移民妇女跨国家庭内的关怀循环

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-03-28 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70051

Huynh Quoc Tuan

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The Linkage Between Global Value Chain Participation and Gender Inequality: Evidence From East Asia, South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East 全球价值链参与与性别不平等的关系：来自东亚、南亚、北非和中东的证据

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-03-25 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70050

My Nguyen, Hang Nguyen, Hien Tran

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The Linkage Between Global Value Chain Participation and Gender Inequality: Evidence From East Asia, South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East 全球价值链参与与性别不平等的关系：来自东亚、南亚、北非和中东的证据

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-03-25 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70050

My Nguyen, Hang Nguyen, Hien Tran

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‘There Is No Need to Come to the Country at All!’ Conceptualization of Digitalized Migration: An Ethnographic Research on Turkish e-Residents “根本没必要到乡下来！”数字化移民的概念化：土耳其电子居民的民族志研究

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-03-12 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70049

Oğuz Kuş, Elif Karakoç Keskin, Şafak Tanır Levendeli

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Networked Migrants and De-Networked Policies—Examining the Nexus of Migration Regimes and Experiences Through a Relational Lens 网络化的移民和去网络化的政策——从关系的角度审视移民制度和经验之间的联系

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-02-26 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70046

Alessio D'Angelo, Louise Ryan

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Doing Agency through Personal Networks: The Case of Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Romania 通过个人网络做代理：罗马尼亚的乌克兰被迫移民案例

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-02-26 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70048

Mihaela Nedelcu, Malika Wyss

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Between IT Engineer and Food Courier: How Remittances Shape the Economic Integration of South Asian Students in Finland 从IT工程师到食品快递员：汇款如何塑造在芬兰的南亚学生的经济一体化

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-02-25 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70047

Zain Ul Abdin

{"title":"Between IT Engineer and Food Courier: How Remittances Shape the Economic Integration of South Asian Students in Finland","authors":"Zain Ul Abdin","doi":"10.1111/glob.70047","DOIUrl":"10.1111/glob.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines the economic integration processes of student migrants from Pakistan and India in Finland—both students on scholarships and those who are self-funded—drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and life story interviews. Transnational family ties and remittance dynamics are shown to shape varied career pathways, from low-skilled sectors to professional roles. The article discusses the ‘odd job visa trap’, whereby precarious employment taken to maintain legal status and support families abroad compromises academic and career progression. Through the lens of remittances, the study views integration as a process embedded in transnational family contexts, rather than solely shaped by host-country institutions. It complicates host-centric perspectives by highlighting how transnational family resources and obligations also influence student migrants’ labour market outcomes. Thus, student migrants’ study-to-work transition and economic integration processes are better understood when going beyond too rigid views of integration, instead encompassing transnational perspective and remittances.</p>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"26 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.70047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Projecting a Future in Israel, Marrying Spouses From Ethiopia: Motivations for Transnational Marriages Among Ethiopian Jews Resettled in Israel 展望以色列的未来，与来自埃塞俄比亚的配偶结婚：在以色列定居的埃塞俄比亚犹太人跨国婚姻的动机

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Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2025-12-26 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70044

Aschalew Abeje

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