This interdisciplinary volume charts the dynamic evolution and diversity of approaches, topics, and disciplinary fields that are now included in transnational studies, presenting contemporary research on a range of subjects relating to transnationalism and identifying new directions for future research.

Margit Fauser is a professor of Sociology at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. She is the author of Mobile Citizenship, co-author of Transnational Migration, and a co-editor of Migrations and Border Processes: Practices and Politics of Belonging and Exclusion in Europe from the 19th to the 21st Century, a special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies.

Xóchitl Bada is an associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA. She is co-author of Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America and Accountability across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America.

An interdisciplinary introduction to transnational studies SECTION 1 Epistemological principles and transnational methodologies 1 - The twilight of transnational migration studies in a conjuncture of dispossession: An epistemological approach 2 - Expanding the critical knowledge potential of transnational migration research: How to study 'doing migration' at the intersection of multiple colonialities? 3 - What is new about transnational inequality? SECTION 2 Transnational migrant practices, remittances, and transfers 4 - Migrant transnational political engagement 5 - Remittances, transnationalism, and the making of migrant financial inclusion across North America 6 - Return mobility and transnational intangible transfers: The case of Central and Eastern Europe SECTION 3 Mobilities, identities, and power structures 7 - Second-generation transnational return mobilities 8 - Gendered state interest and marriage migration policies: The Philippines and South Korea 9 - White capital: A transnational story SECTION 4 Social Security, Social Protection and Health 10 - Labyrinths of transnational social protection 11 - Bringing the transnational into social work 12 - Diasporic bureaucracies and transnational social rights: A Mexican health policy in New York City 13 - Transnational medical mobilities SECTION 5 Organizations and Social Movements 14 - Social movements, transnational struggles, and cross-national diffusion: Three waves of research 15 - Transnational labor activism: The international labor movement and beyond 16 - Transnational migrant organizations SECTION 6 Culture, Religion & the Arts 17 - Contemporary art and transnational artivisms in the Americas 18 - Orisha transnational practices and the Africana Matrix 19 - Conviviality and transnationalism - conceptual cross-fertilizations 20 - Translation and postcoloniality SECTION 7 Architecture and Urban Planning 21 - Twin house: Emigrant and Immigrant architectures of transnational labor economies 22 - Migration and architecture: Remitting as a framework for emergent architectural forms 23 - Building dreams back "home": Transnational urban spatialities of homes, land, and property 24 - Transnational mobility and urban change