Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs最新文献

What does integration look like when immigrants and refugees mobilize socioeconomic resources before arriving in their new destination countries to proactively navigate the integration process? To date, research in refugee studies has emphasized the importance of socioeconomic capital and access to digital technologies in facilitating employment, housing and language acquisition. In comparison, our empirical insights from 80 interviews with Afghan refugee women and displaced Ukrainians in Canada point to a growing use of online tools and transnational connections in destination countries as strategies for integration. Specifically, our participants relied on online tools and social connections to search for employment and housing opportunities prior to arrival in Canada. Due to the lengthy wait times for accessing language classes upon arrival, many participants, in turn, enrolled in affordable online English classes taught by tutors located in Eastern Europe. By incorporating this transnational digital landscape into current debates on refugee integration, policy and theoretical implications, it suggests that integration is increasingly influenced by transnational and digital dynamics which extend beyond the national boundaries of origin and host countries.

This article explores the organizational aspects of care relocation of German seniors to care homes for older adults in the Czech border regions. It examines the role of care entrepreneurs as transnational actors linking diverse contexts in order to create sustainable business projects. It conceptualizes their endeavours as the work of transnational acting grounded in geographic arbitrage, whereby socioeconomic disparities are not merely exploited but strategically mobilized and balanced. The article argues that care relocation arrangements are shaped through the entrepreneurial navigation of inter- and intra-national inequalities. In doing so, it contributes to the literature on care relocation and geographic arbitrage by analysing how care entrepreneurs construct transnational arrangements that are both profitable and organizationally sustainable over time. Ultimately, it demonstrates how global and regional care flows are not only sustained within structures of inequality but actively configured and reconfigured through entrepreneurial practice.

This article analyses the language of accountability and responsibility regarding the welfare of non-EU migrants in Romania. Romania is a country with little experience in receiving economic migrants. Although legal provisions are applied in immigration and work inspection offices, migrants’ employment, residence and welfare are largely governed by less formal practices, enacted by a mix of state and commercial actors. This network governance has a transnational dimension, because staffing agents from workers’ countries of origin remain involved in the provision of care over long periods of time. Fuzzy understandings of rights and legal obligations, as well as more vernacular and improvised rules, are an integral part of a network governance that is being constructed in the everyday encounters of non-EU workers with various public and private actors. This article explores how meanings and practices of responsibility over migrants’ welfare circulate and are negotiated between such actors.

Kali, R., J. Gu, and E. Neuyou. 2025. “Message in a Bottleneck: Supply Chain Disruptions and Manufacturing Output in the United States.” Global Networks 25, no. 4: 25, e70032. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70032

The manuscript should have included the following disclaimer: “The views expressed solely represent the opinions and professional research of the authors. The content of the working paper is not meant to represent the views of the U.S. International Trade Commission, any of its individual Commissioners, or the United States government.”

The fifth paragraph in the discussion section should have read: “Our study sheds light on the complexity of international production networks (Upstream and Downstream linkages), the key role of reliable transportation connectivity (ports capacities, intermodal systems), and the mechanisms through which supply chain logistics disturbances influence business cycle fluctuations. Our study also highlights that congestion in traditional port hubs drives the disruptions in container shipping.”

The sixth paragraph in the discussion section should read: “Our study is based on strong assumptions. We adopt a simplified representation of the relationship between schedule unreliability and industry-level output, operating through the channels of foreign inputs delivery and the shipment of exported final products. In reality, these relationships are likely more complex than depicted here. Nevertheless, our study represents as a step towards a broader research agenda aimed at understanding the interactions between domestic and global supply chain logistics and economic growth.”

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Diaspora youth engage with their ‘homelands’ both through online interactions and in-person visits. Existing migration research predominantly analyses digital media as a means to maintain kinship from afar, construct diasporic identity online and support ‘crisis’ migratory journeys —and has mostly studied digital lives and mobilities separately. Drawing on two multi-sited projects with West African diaspora youth, we argue that changing media landscapes and youth's digital fluency are fostering novel digitally mediated grounded ‘homeland’ engagements. The digital functions as a mobilising infrastructure that drives movement to and shapes interactions in West Africa both due to increasing connectivity and the distinct social and moral norms in which the digital is embedded. Digital media also underpin youth-specific engagements with the ‘homeland’: youth use diverse platforms to invest in intra-generational relationships and pursue leisure. We outline an agenda for future research on digitally mediated diaspora-‘homeland’ relations and key stances for research on digital migration.

We examine the effect of container shipping disruptions on US manufacturing output before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. We augment maritime trade with a global production network model, where the reliability of container logistics is critical for the on-time and full availability of inputs and the delivery of output to foreign markets. We combine a US container shipping reliability dataset with input–output and trade data to construct a novel supply chain disruption index that captures the integration of upstream and downstream linkages of the US manufacturing sector into the global supply chain. Our findings suggest that a one-unit shock leads to a very similar response on output through the upstream (import) and downstream (export) channels. Industries adjust their inventory strategy to cope with supply chain disruptions. Container disruptions affect non-durable industries through the downstream and durable industries through the upstream linkages. Our study highlights the importance of understanding the drivers of a resilient global supply chain.

A complex and contested concept, the well-being of individuals has been researched extensively; however, the well-being of families, as more than the sum total of its members' well-being, has not. In our research, we observe the collective, relational and processual sense of family well-being within Ukrainian and Moldovan transnational families through the plurality of voices and agencies that belong to both adults and children. Parents migrate to ensure the well-being of their children, including their health, which is essential for the well-being of the family. Therefore, a conflict arises between material and emotional well-being and transnational families attempt to balance the two. Finally, they maintain relationality in well-being through shared decisions and strategies, as well as the redistribution of roles and responsibilities. All along, family members, including children, represent well-being collectively, as the ‘well-being of us’ that is a togetherness or a relational whole, their individual well-being remaining relative to that.