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Migrant Workers and the Ambiguities of Digitally Mediated Work in Canada 加拿大移民工人和数字媒介工作的模糊性

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-08-17 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70075

María Cervantes-Macías, Suzanne Huot

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Recruitment Agents in a Debt-Financed Migration Regime: Moving Domestic Workers From Indonesia to Singapore 债务融资移民制度中的招聘代理：将家政工人从印度尼西亚转移到新加坡

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-08-13 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70074

Charmian Goh, Kellynn Wee, Brenda S. A. Yeoh

{"title":"Recruitment Agents in a Debt-Financed Migration Regime: Moving Domestic Workers From Indonesia to Singapore","authors":"Charmian Goh, Kellynn Wee, Brenda S. A. Yeoh","doi":"10.1111/glob.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In ‘fly now, pay later’ systems across Southeast Asia, migrant domestic workers accrue a snowballing debt, through recruitment processes beginning in their source villages and ending in their employers’ homes, which they repay through salary deductions. We examine debt as it circulates spatially across borders, temporally over the course of migrants’ recruitment and socially among a chain of migrant brokers and employers. On the basis of qualitative interviews with agents, regulatory authorities and NGO representatives in Singapore and Indonesia, we theorise recruitment agents as debt-financed migration infrastructure. The capacity of Singapore-based agents to bear and pass on debt accommodates low-level corruption in Indonesia and advances to the migrant's family to secure recruitment. Agents manage the risks of debt through investing in phatic labour and relationship upkeep, recasting business partnerships through the regime of friendship. The collective capacity of agents to (re)distribute defaulted debt partly accounts for the efficacy of agents as infrastructure.</p>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.70074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148753420","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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Who Should Rule for Cosmopolitans? Linking Cosmopolitan Orientations and Governance Preferences 谁应该为世界主义者统治？连接世界主义取向和治理偏好

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-08-12 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70073

Franziska Maier

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Local Network Neighbourhood Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Resilience 外商直接投资的本地网络邻域效应与经济弹性

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-08-10 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70068

Bruce Cronin

{"title":"Local Network Neighbourhood Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Resilience","authors":"Bruce Cronin","doi":"10.1111/glob.70068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A growing literature examines the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) networks and economic development using measures of countries’ positions within the global investment system. While these studies provide valuable insights into the structure of international investment, they reveal little about how the configuration of countries’ immediate investment relationships influences development and resilience. This study addresses this gap by analysing the local FDI network neighbourhoods of 172 countries using annual IMF Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (CDIS) data for 2009–2024. Local network structure is characterised using measures of effective size, density and hierarchy, capturing diversity, embeddedness and concentration in countries’ inward and outward investment relationships. Two-way fixed-effects panel models demonstrate that the developmental implications of local network structure vary systematically across stages of development. Developing economies benefit from diverse outward investment neighbourhoods and dense inward investment communities, suggesting that access to heterogeneous external opportunities and embeddedness within investor networks both contribute to development. Local network effects are generally weaker in least-developed economies, consistent with constraints on the ability to exploit investment network opportunities. In advanced economies, outward investment structure is more important than inward investment structure, with dense and concentrated outward investment neighbourhoods associated with weaker development outcomes. These findings underline the importance of local FDI network structure for understanding economic development and resilience and suggest that policies should consider not only the volume of FDI but also the configuration of countries’ investment relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.70068","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148753046","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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Relational and Institutional Embeddedness of Migration Brokerage: The Case of ‘Run-Away’ Migrants 移民中介的关系与制度嵌入性：以“逃跑”移民为例

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-08-05 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70066

Sandhya A. S.

{"title":"Relational and Institutional Embeddedness of Migration Brokerage: The Case of ‘Run-Away’ Migrants","authors":"Sandhya A. S.","doi":"10.1111/glob.70066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70066","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper contextualises migration brokerage within specific social and institutional settings and shifts our attention to aspects that enable or constrain brokerage practices in the contemporary migration landscape. Focussing on the relational and institutional fabric underlying brokerage, this paper sheds light on the unique positionality of brokers, constructed vis-à-vis their interactions with the state and its regulatory framework on the one hand, and with the socially distant dyad, that is, the migrant worker and employer, which is essential to necessitating brokerage in the first place. Using qualitative research conducted in the Nepal–Malaysia migration corridor, the study reveals that the socio-structural location of brokers, in relation to the state, migrants and employers, embeds brokerage practices, generating both opportunities and vulnerabilities for migrant workers. To illustrate this, I introduce the case of ‘run-away’ migrants in the chosen corridor and compare two vignettes to analyse the responses of migration brokers to the act of migrants running away from their place of work. This analysis shows how brokerage as a practice is a product of an underlying social and institutional space, wherein framing networks of gain, trust and control are critical in conceptualising brokerage and its outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.70066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752613","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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Reactive Cosmopolitanism: Migrants’ Attachment to the European Union as a Response to Social Exclusion 反应性世界主义：移民对欧盟的依恋是对社会排斥的回应

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70065

Andreas Genoni, Nella Geurts

{"title":"Reactive Cosmopolitanism: Migrants’ Attachment to the European Union as a Response to Social Exclusion","authors":"Andreas Genoni, Nella Geurts","doi":"10.1111/glob.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70065","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In times of globalisation, digitalisation and increasing interconnectedness, cosmopolitan belonging becomes more important. Although cosmopolitan migrants are often considered a privileged group within migrant populations, we argue that their cosmopolitan belonging can also result from being socially excluded—a dynamic we term reactive cosmopolitanism. Using unique probability-based panel data on Germans living abroad, we explore the extent to which their attachment to the European Union changes in response to growing perceptions of social exclusion and ethnic discrimination. We find original empirical evidence supporting the existence of reactive cosmopolitanism. The trend is moderate yet discernible across various subgroups, including migrants residing in non-EU countries and those considered more cosmopolitan by virtue of migration experience, higher education and occupational status and a more open personality. These results suggest that cosmopolitan belonging cannot simply be reduced to expressions of privilege, prosperity or openness but can also reflect a compensatory response to social rejection.</p>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.70065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148647808","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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Relational Cartographies of Mobility: Arts-Based Approaches to Territorial Belonging in Internal and International Migration 流动的关系制图：国内和国际迁移中领土归属的基于艺术的方法

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70071

Lucía Martín Ramis, Miguel Ranilla Rodríguez, Victoria Martínez Vérez, Paula Gil Ruiz

{"title":"Relational Cartographies of Mobility: Arts-Based Approaches to Territorial Belonging in Internal and International Migration","authors":"Lucía Martín Ramis, Miguel Ranilla Rodríguez, Victoria Martínez Vérez, Paula Gil Ruiz","doi":"10.1111/glob.70071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70071","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article develops a relational approach to human mobility by integrating internal and international migration into a single analytical framework. Addressing the persistent fragmentation in migration studies, it explores how territorial belonging is constructed through narrative, visual and material practices in different contexts of mobility. Using a qualitative, participatory and arts-based design, the study analyses two empirical contexts: processes of rural depopulation in Spain and international migration in situations of administrative irregularity. The findings introduce the concept of relational cartographies of mobility, understood as situated configurations through which experiences of movement, memory and belonging are co-produced. These cartographies show that mobility operates not only as a spatial process, but also as an affective and symbolic reconfiguration of the territory. Furthermore, the analysis highlights how belonging is configured unequally depending on differentiated regimes of mobility, recognition and access to rights. From a methodological perspective, the article demonstrates the value of participatory and visual methods for capturing the embodied and material dimensions of migration. In theoretical terms, it contributes to overcoming the analytical division between internal and international migration, proposing a relational and decolonial understanding of mobility as a situated and multi-scalar process.</p>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.70071","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148647806","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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Promoting Smart Migration From Hong Kong to the United Kingdom: Knowledge Production, Digital Platforms and Transnational Networks of Educators and Agents in the Property Sector 促进香港到英国的智慧移民：知识生产、数码平台和房地产界教育工作者和中介的跨国网络

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-07-31 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70069

Yvette To

{"title":"Promoting Smart Migration From Hong Kong to the United Kingdom: Knowledge Production, Digital Platforms and Transnational Networks of Educators and Agents in the Property Sector","authors":"Yvette To","doi":"10.1111/glob.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study uses the concept of ‘smart migration’ to capture the strategies advocated by intermediaries who advise middle-class family migrants on how best to migrate. Smart migration reflects a risk-mitigating logic and is facilitated by both new and traditional intermediaries, who now use digital technologies to expand their services. The study analyses two types of intermediaries in the property sector—informal property-market educators and formal transnational property agents—who facilitate the migration of Hong Kong families to the United Kingdom. The data are collected through participant observation at webinars and property fairs and in interviews with intermediaries and migrants. The study contributes to the theorisation of migration brokerage by showing how, under a low-threshold visa regime, the work of mediation shifts from securing admission to brokering solutions to livelihood challenges. This brokerage is increasingly performed by person-centred, platform-based intermediaries who not only capitalise on but also co-produce migrants’ aspirations and capabilities.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148647807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cross-Border Renewable-Energy Finance and Firm Energy-Cost Efficiency 跨境可再生能源融资与企业能源成本效率

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-07-30 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70070

My Nguyen, Hang Nguyen, Trang Nguyen

{"title":"Cross-Border Renewable-Energy Finance and Firm Energy-Cost Efficiency","authors":"My Nguyen, Hang Nguyen, Trang Nguyen","doi":"10.1111/glob.70070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Climate finance is central to the low-carbon transition, yet firm-level evidence on how cross-border renewable-energy finance relates to business performance remains limited. This study examines the association between international financial flows supporting renewable energy (IFFRE), tracked under Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7.a.1, and firm-level energy-cost efficiency (ECE) in developing economies. Using World Bank Enterprise Survey data matched with country-year IFFRE data for 21 economies in Asia and Europe, the analysis focuses on cumulative IFFRE over the previous 3 years to reflect the multi-year implementation horizon of renewable-energy finance. The results show that cumulative IFFRE is positively and significantly associated with firm-level ECE, measured as revenue generated per unit of energy cost. Suggestive pathway-as-outcome evidence indicates that cumulative IFFRE is associated with higher firm R&D spending and greater bank financing of fixed assets. Contextual heterogeneity analysis further shows that the IFFRE–ECE association is stronger in countries with deeper financial market access, stronger regulatory quality, and higher climate change readiness. The findings highlight the firm-level relevance of renewable-energy finance.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148616717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Road, the Cost and the Wait: A Multidimensional Analysis of Irregular Migration From Afghanistan to Türkiye 道路、成本和等待：从阿富汗到伊拉克的非正常移民的多维分析

IF 2.5 2区社会学

Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs Pub Date : 2026-07-27 DOI: 10.1111/glob.70067

Süleyman Soyhanoğlu, Zehra Nur Keskin

{"title":"The Road, the Cost and the Wait: A Multidimensional Analysis of Irregular Migration From Afghanistan to Türkiye","authors":"Süleyman Soyhanoğlu, Zehra Nur Keskin","doi":"10.1111/glob.70067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70067","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Irregular migration from Afghanistan to Türkiye has undergone a structural transformation following the Taliban's return to power in 2021—a shift in both scale and character, marked by institutional collapse and the flight of professionals alongside the poor. Drawing on van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenology together with the aspirations-capabilities, migration infrastructure, transit migration and existential immobility literatures, this study examines the lived experiences of 17 migrants and 10 expert informants, supplemented by one focus group, across several cities in Türkiye. Four themes emerge: the layered architecture of migration motivations, within which a structural hopelessness, the participants name ‘seeing no future’, extends beyond economic and security concerns; the route and its instalment-based economy with smugglers; Türkiye's hybrid role between transit hub and destination; and the search condition produced by plural belonging and suspended time. The study contributes empirically to the institutionalised, post-arrival debt relations of brokerage infrastructures and to Türkiye's position beyond the transit-destination dichotomy.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148616304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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