Formation Of Transnational Networks Research Articles

Private Regulation and Industrial Organisation: The Network Approach

The paper investigates the relation between private transnational regulation through standards and the formation of transnational networks. More particularly, focusing on standards compliance, the analysis is intended to test whether private regulation induces the existence of networks able to: (a) enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of compliance coordination in accordance with a “whole-chain supply approach” to safety regulation; (b) contribute to monitoring along the chain, even when this function is in different ways performed by other players (public authorities, independent certifiers, etc.); (c) possibly and eventually redistribute costs of compliance along the chain. Starting from the observation of contractual practices, mainly within supply chains subject to international certification schemes (for example in the case of food supply chains), different models of networks will be compared depending on: (i) the allocation of monitoring and sanctioning powers (these being assigned to producers, traders or independent actors); (ii) the means of monitoring (peer monitoring v. more formalised monitoring duties); (iii) the types of sanctions (particularly, label/certificate suspension or revocation); (iv) the structure of the network (as based on merely linked contracts or on a mix of contractual and organizational relations).

Immigrant journalism, ideology and the production of transnational media spaces

Since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1999 and the subsequent growth of Venezuelan immigration to the United States, there has been an explosion of Venezuelan media in South Florida. These media are focused on local issues confronting this expanding immigrant community. However, the mediated communication being produced among its members is also transnational in scope; events taking place in Venezuela heavily inform the content of these outlets. This research analyses 34 interviews with Venezuelan journalists in South Florida in order to further our understanding of the production of immigrant media within a transnational context. The results point to a hybrid form of journalism, one that draws on cultural background and national identity while also relying on ideology and connections to fellow immigrants. The outcome appears to be the production of transnational media spaces that represent new directions for the study of diasporic communication and the formation of transnational networks.

Migraciones internacionales: repensando las ciudades y sus políticas

En el presente artículo proponemos un conjunto de reflexiones críticas acerca del campo de las migraciones internacionales y su relación con las ciudades. Para ello, se postulan una serie de consideraciones acerca de diferentes procesos migratorios contemporáneos –tanto en su dimensión global como local–, la formación de las redes trasnacionales de migrantes, su posibilidad de acceso a derechos o no y las condiciones de igualdad y de desigualdad que atraviesa la relación entre migrantes internacionales y ciudad. Es decir, a partir de una mirada que ancla en la perspectiva del sistema-mundo, se recuperan tres dimensiones fundamentales para la temática: Estados, redes transnacionales y sujetos. El análisis focaliza en algunas características actuales de las migraciones en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires para pensar cómo la dimensión local manifiesta, fuerza o repliega formaciones colectivas –étnicas, nacionales, territoriales– que, además de mostrar la conflictividad estructural de la globalización, resultan objeto de xenofobia y estigmatización, así como expresión de resistencias y de demandas.