Transnationalizing Inequalities in Europe

Anna Amelina is Junior Professor of Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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, Örebro University, Sweden; Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK; author of Men of the WorldTransnationalizing 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, CanadaTheorists 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 Wo

• 1. Transnational Capitalist Class, Transnational Elites and Global Precariat? Facing Cross-Border Inequalities Part I: From the Hegemony of the National to the Hegemony of an (In-)Equality Discourse2. Predicaments of Migration Studies on Social Inequalities: The Current State of the Research on the National, Global and Transnational Scales 3. Multiple Inequalities as Sociocultural Boundaries: Combining Intersectional Theory with the Sociology of Social Boundaries 4. Where to Locate Sociocultural Boundaries? Social Inequalities and Their Contexts 5. From Categorical Distinctions to Sociocultural Boundaries: On the Hegemonic (In-)Equality Project and Regimes of Intersection Part II: Transnationalizing Inequalities in Europe: The Making of Hierarchies within Assemblages6. The Emergence of a New Migration System in an Enlarged Europe and the Narratives of Transnationalized Inequalities 7. Multiple Professional Commitments of Mobile Scientists as a Resource of Hierarchization: On Transnationalized Boundaries within the Assemblage of Science 8. Female Migrant Care Workers as Prisoners of Multiple Obligations? Transnationalized Boundaries Within the Assemblage of Care 8.1 Introduction: Interrogating the Concept of Global Precariat 9. Writing Spatialized Cross-Border Inequality