Part I. Introduction 1. The approach of transnational social spaces: responding to new configurations of the social and the spatial Part II. International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces 2. Comparing local level Swedish and Mexican transnational life: an essay in historical retrieval 3. Dissagregating transnational social spaces: gender, place and citizenship in Mexico - US transnational spaces 4. Transnational families: institutions of transnational social space 5. Shifting spaces - complex identities in Turkish-German migration Part III. International Companies and Transnational Social Spaces 6. Pluri-local social spaces by tele-cooperation in international companies 7. Pluri-local social spaces in international companies 8. The transnationalization of companies and their industrial relations 9. Co-ordination and control in transnational business and non-profit organizations Part IV. The Future of Trnasnational Social Spaces 10. Cracked casings: towards an analytics for studying transnational processes