Desperate Quest for Transnational Sanctuaries with Hopefulness
November 25, 2021
By Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD [Malak, a 26 years old pregnant Iraqi refugee, was according to reports willing to go “through chest-deep water, hiding [...]
Saviours with Survivors: Situated Afghan Transnational Solidarities
September 23, 2021
By Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD In pursuing hierarchical and geopolitical national solidarities, top-down unilateral processes (e.g. the recent US and NATO [...]
In Search of Transnational Sanctuaries
May 27, 2021
In Search of Transnational Sanctuaries By Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD The “possible abuse[s]” of colonialism “cannot annul the right of citizens of [...]
Coping with Transnational Citizenships
March 25, 2021
By Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD “…For Karl Marx… the process of capitalist development involved expropriation of the “means of production” from workers by [...]
Scrutinizing Transnational Actors’ Funding on Islamic Philanthropy in Europe
January 28, 2021
By Johannes Renders, PhD, CAS, Aarhus University and Prof. Lene Kühle, PhD, CAS, Aarhus University Within the last decades, foreign funding of [...]
Praising Nation-States and Becoming Transnationally Connected
December 17, 2020
By Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD “We live in a world of an unprecedented opulence, of a kind that would have been hard to imagine a century or two ago— [...]
Reimagining Nations and Tribes within and across Transnationalities
November 26, 2020
By Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD “When tribesmen once come together, a sort of electricity is formed by their collecting which quickly transports to an [...]
The quest for Transnational Civic Mobilization
October 29, 2020
By Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD Introduction Civic mobilization is the outcome of complex social encounters and connections. With converging or diverging [...]
Research towards Local-Transnational Encounters and Connections (LOTEC)
September 17, 2020
By Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD Introduction In his book “The new transnational activism”[i] Sidney Tarrow calls for the extension of existing transnational [...]
Global pandemic, transnational communities and local public policy[i]
August 20, 2020
By Abdulkadir Osman Farah, PhD In modern societies, including democracies, substantial gap exists between the public and civic-private spheres[i]. In much [...]