Social Transnationalism explores new forms of individual cross-border interactions and mobility which have expanded across physical space. It also investigates whether, and to what degree, increases in the volume of transnational interactions weaken the individual citizen's bond to the nation-state, and to what extent citizens national identities are being replaced by cosmopolitan ones.

Steffen Mau is currently Professor of Political Sociology and Comparative Social Research, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, University Bremen.

Part 1: From National Containers to Transnational Social Spaces Part 2: The Cartography of Transnational Social Relations Part 3: Transnationalism and the New Cosmopolitanism Part 4: Unequal Transnationalism Part 5: Conclusion