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{"title":"Doing and Displaying Transnational Grandchildhood: Immigrant Children in Poland","authors":"Anzhela Popyk","doi":"10.1111/glob.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In contemporary migration studies, the phenomenon of transnationalism has become increasingly prominent, reshaping the traditional patterns of family structures and dynamics. Central to this evolving discourse are the experiences of immigrant children who negotiate the complex intersections of identity, belonging and familial connections across national borders. Research has largely overlooked transnational childhood and grandchildhood in Poland; therefore, this study aims to gain insights into the processes of ‘doing’ and ‘displaying’ transnational grandchildhood among immigrant children in Poland with their grandparents across the borders. Qualitative data were collected by interviewing immigrant children (<i>N</i> = 20) and their parents (<i>N</i> = 19) in Poland. Our analysis reveals core themes elucidating the dynamics of maintaining transnational familial ties through children's active engagement across borders, daily interactions and the influential role of the ‘audience’ in displaying transnational grandchildhood. Furthermore, this study underlined the role of children's agency in maintaining relationships with grandparents across borders.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"25 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801595","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}

{"title":"Moving Horizons: Hypermobile Somali Youth in Türkiye","authors":"Ayan Yasin Abdi,&nbsp;Nauja Kleist","doi":"10.1111/glob.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article delves into the experiences of hypermobile Somali migrant youth, who have moved frequently with their families across multiple countries and continents. Born to refugee parents in Europe or North America, their lives are influenced by their parents’ pursuit of a better life, including security, education and cultural and religious values, thereby decentering narrow hierarchies of destination. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Türkiye, we examine three spatial biographies to analyse how migrant youth connect past experiences, present realities and imagined futures, suggesting the concept of moving horizons. We argue that storytelling plays a crucial role in making sense of hypermobile lives, showing how connections between the past and imagined futures reflect a sense of existential reciprocity or its absence. We conclude that even tumultuous experiences gain value through storytelling while cautioning against an overemphasis on fixed notions of place-belongingness and the dichotomy between forced and chosen mobilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"25 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.70007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801596","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}

{"title":"The Role of Subjective Norms in Transnational Healthcare–Seeking Behaviour of Diaspora: Safety Valve in Search of Well-Being","authors":"Aneta Mathijsen","doi":"10.1111/glob.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Social norms and social networks form social capital that enables migrants to undertake transnational healthcare-seeking (THS) behaviour. The impact of social networks has been analysed extensively; however, the role of norms remains understudied. Subjective norms prescribe or proscribe specific behaviour in the form of <i>injunctive</i> and <i>descriptive</i> norms. This research, conducted on the Polish diaspora in the Benelux (<i>N </i>= 1282), demonstrated that both <i>injunctive</i> and <i>descriptive</i> norms were significant in the THS and did not dissipate despite the length of residency. This study presents a profile of THS women without family obligations, with university degrees and in employment, who tend to be more prone to being guided by social norms when seeking THC. Norms seemed to contribute to their peace of mind, forming a <i>safety valve</i> and improving their transnational lives’ well-being.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"25 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143689428","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}

{"title":"Navigating Displacement: The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis in Europe","authors":"Mieke Schrooten","doi":"10.1111/glob.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered one of the most significant displacement crises in modern European history, with over 6.3 million Ukrainians fleeing to Europe. The European Union's activation of the Temporary Protection Directive facilitated immediate access to housing, employment, and social security benefits for Ukrainian refugees, setting a stark contrast to past refugee crises. This Special Issue of <i>Global Networks</i> critically examines the European Union's response, the solidarity shown towards Ukrainian migrants, and the evolving nature of forced migration governance. It highlights the innovative practices in housing and support provision and the challenges faced by social workers. The issue also explores refugee experiences and the motivations behind volunteer engagement. It contributes to discussions on migration policy, resilience, and the long-term implications of temporary protection measures for future migration governance and refugee protection in Europe.</p>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"25 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143689429","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}

{"title":"Exiled Scholars and New Organizational Strategies in Academic Humanitarianism in Europe in the Aftermath of the Syrian War","authors":"Betül Yarar","doi":"10.1111/glob.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the past decade and more, many countries in the Middle East and Africa have experienced significant disruptions in their social and institutional life due to the rise of new wars and authoritarian regimes in the region. Although these crises have resulted in large masses of people, including many academics, migrating into neighbouring countries and Europe, the responses of European states to these crises have been varied, and the transnational networks of academic humanitarian actors have continued to expand, especially in Europe. Drawing on Foucault's theory of governmentality, the article proposes to consider these organizations as part of the larger ensemble of governing practices or the regime of what it suggestively calls academic humanitarianism. In this context, the article focuses on the new organizational strategies adopted by the four influential actors (Scholars at Risk Europe- SAR Europe; Philipp Schwartz Initiative -PSI- in Germany; the French Hosting Programme for Scientists in Exile -PAUSE- in France; the Council for At-Risk Academics -Cara in UK) of this network after the Syrian war and argues that this was a turning point that allowed the emergence of new organizational forms and strategies that accelerated the process of hybridization, professionalization and transnationalization of academic humanitarianism in resonance with the national context of each actor.</p>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"25 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143689532","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}

{"title":"‘Doing Siblingship’ Transnationally: Intra-Generational Kinship Among Mobile Migrant Youth Between Ghana and Germany","authors":"Laura J. Ogden","doi":"10.1111/glob.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores how migrant-background youth ‘do siblingship’ transnationally. Transnational migration and anthropological kinship research have both emphasised the plasticity of familial ties and concrete practices involved in ‘doing family’ and ‘doing kinship’. Yet, their focus on inter-generational relationships has neglected intra-generational kinship, especially among youth in transnational contexts. Recent research shows that migrant-background youth's family constellations change throughout their mobility trajectories and that peer relationships provide crucial support and resources. Building on these insights and drawing on ethnographic data, this article analyses three dynamics of migrant-background youth's transnational siblingship between Ghana and Germany: care, comparison, and competition. The article argues that studying transnational intra-generational kinship improves our understanding of young people's resource environments and social positioning in transnational contexts and contributes to theorisations of kinship in a mobile, interconnected, and unequal world. The article concludes by outlining a research agenda to further elucidate how young people ‘do siblingship’ transnationally.</p>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"25 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143489829","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}

{"title":"‘I Kiss the Screen, But It Is Not the Same’ — Grandparenting in Geographically Dispersed Families","authors":"Weronika Kloc-Nowak,&nbsp;Louise Ryan","doi":"10.1111/glob.12523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12523","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Taking the perspective of grandparents living in the origin country, our article is innovative in examining a range of ties within social networks, not only transnational ones but also family ties in-country with both close-by and geographically dispersed relatives. We analyse focus group discussions with Polish grandparents whose grandchildren live in different locations. Thus, we are looking at transnational ties as part of interlocking personal networks spanning distances, including internal migration. By comparing grandparents’ interactions with those who are near and far, we advance understanding of how distance impacts feelings of closeness and bonding between generations. This networks lens reveals how varied communication practices and contact patterns affect emotional wellbeing of ageing (grand)parents at origin. Although technology helps maintain contact, especially transnationally, it does not offer a multisensory experience—a limitation which becomes evident when compared with in-person childcare and family socialising.</p>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"25 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.12523","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143496930","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}

{"title":"Families in Africa: Migrants and the Role of Information Communication Technologies. Edited by Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer, Leslie Swartz and Loretta Baldassar","authors":"Ingrid Palmary","doi":"10.1111/glob.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70001","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;This book contributes to a growing literature that seeks to understand the meaning of transnational families in contexts of increasing human mobility. It adds to this literature by focusing on diverse African migration experiences from the perspective of migrants themselves. Capturing the multiple ways that family is made by migrants living in South Africa, it covers the experiences of those who move from rural to urban areas, as well as cross-border migrants from Malawi, Zimbabwe and Kenya. It answers important questions about how people perform family in contexts of extended separation due to migration. It helps to understand how, in contexts like South Africa, where Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are less available and data are more expensive than some parts of the world, this might challenge existing knowledge on transnational families. Most notably, the book covers migrant experiences from very different socio-economic circumstances, race and space without flattening out the diversity of experiences—something not common in the existing literature. It also includes significant reflexive writing from the authors’ own migration experiences.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The book consists of 10 chapters of which six offer empirical insights and four are conceptual in nature. The approach of the empirical chapters is to focus very much on individual narrative and migrant stories. These are valuable in their own right, but they also, in their individual focus, connect to broad themes that can shape future research in the field. This is where the true value of the book lies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first such theme is the significance of geography in an increasingly connected world. As with existing literature, this book shows how ICTs do indeed allow for connection across space that mean family life continues in the online world. For example, Chapter 2 discusses the impact of COVID on the research and how it normalized online family life, which is an important reflexive contribution. And yet, far from rendering geography irrelevant, the chapters also show the ongoing emotional pull that notions of co-present and often nuclear families hold over migrants (see, e.g., Chapter 4). The poignant narratives show what is possible in a world mediated by ICTs but also what is lost. Reading across the chapters, it would appear that what is most lost is intimacy. Whilst the practical activities of family life continue, the deeply emotive and intimate nature of family is hard to sustain over distance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Connected to this, the nature of care and what care means in contexts of geographical distance comes through strongly across the chapters. Whilst ICTs allow for connection, many of them also allow for mediated representations of oneself (particularly on social media) that can reduce the honesty, and thus intimacy, of family connections. When reading Chapter 3, I was struck by how ICTs are not simply something people use to continue their family relationships. Rather, they ","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"25 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143475341","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}

{"title":"Supermarketisation, Agro-Industrial Concentration and the Food System's Shrinking Interstices: Insights From South African Agro-Processing","authors":"Andrew Bowman","doi":"10.1111/glob.12521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12521","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We analyse processes of supermarketisation in South Africa and its implications for inclusion, exclusion and industrial concentration in the mid-sections of agri-food value chains. Empirical material from maize processing shows differentiated impacts accompanying major retailers’ growing power and extended reach into the food system's township and rural peripheries. Large firms’ co-evolutionary adaptations and constitutive power counteract supermarket buyer power. Smaller firms struggle with adverse incorporation in supermarket supply chains, relying instead on strategies targeting independent wholesale and the informal retail economy. However, this carries major risks, requires complex capabilities and is increasingly threatened by market delocalisation accompanying supermarketisation. Contrary to expectations of retail modernisation enabling inclusive agri-food value chain development by connecting marginalised rural producers to larger urban markets, we highlight the potential for inverse processes whereby ‘peripheral supermarketisation’ extends the reach of large firms in rural markets and shrinks the ‘interstices’ incubating small agri-food producers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"25 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.12521","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143439184","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}

{"title":"Navigating Displacement: The Intertemporal Migration and Settlement Experiences of Ukrainians in Latvia","authors":"Kata Fredheim,&nbsp;Zane Varpina","doi":"10.1111/glob.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The invasion of Ukraine in 2022 resulted in the largest wave of displacement in Europe since World War II, with approximately eight million people–primarily women, children and older people–leaving Ukraine. Over 42 thousand individuals arrived in Latvia in the first month after the outbreak of war, seeking refuge and received widespread government and civil organisation support. This study explores migration and settlement experiences of Ukrainian war-displaced people in Latvia over the very early period of displacement. It takes an intertemporal approach and studies the development of aspirations and perceptions in the decision-making process, based on 72 interviews conducted with Ukrainians during the early months of the conflict in March–April 2022 and 7 months later. We document the transition from immediate concerns around displacement to more long-term considerations about settling and integration. We find that plans with respect to settlement and integration are intertwined with uncertainties; intentions for returning home remain strong but tend to lose the time dimension. The displaced remain in the liminal space between countries caused by families left behind or in other countries, as well as duty and desires to return home but being unable to do so for safety reasons. We assert that social networks play a major role in the early stages of forced migration decisions but in varied ways depending on the time. Overall, the decision-making whether to settle in the host country, return to the home country or move onward are complex and dynamic processes that undergo temporal changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47882,"journal":{"name":"Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs","volume":"25 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/glob.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143439185","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}