''Global Networks: A journal of transnational affairs'' is a quarterly

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ed multidisciplinary

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dedicated to the study of

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and

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. Its focus spans multiple disciplines within

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, including

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, and

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. It was established in 2001 and is published by

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. The founding

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were Robin Cohen, Alasdair Rogers, and Steven Vertovec. The current editors-in-chief are Megha Amrith ( Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), Zachary P. Neal ( Michigan State University), and Johanna Waters (

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). According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 2.927, ranking it 14th out of 93 journals in the category "Anthropology" and 36th out of 85 journals in the category "Geography".

Editors-in-chief

Past editors-in-chief have been: *

Robin Cohen Robin Cohen (born 1944) is a social scientist working in the fields of globalisation, migration and diaspora studies. He is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies and former Director of the International Migration Institute, University of Ox ...

(2001–2019) * Alasdair Rogers (2001–2019) *

Steven Vertovec Steven Vertovec (born 2 July 1957) is an anthropologist and Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, based in Göttingen, Germany. He is also currently Honorary Joint Professor of Sociology and Ethnolog ...

(2001–2019) * Jonathan Beaverstock (2019–2022) * Megha Amrith (2022–Present) * Zachary P. Neal (2022–Present) * Johanna Waters (2022–Present)

Special Issues

''Global Networks'' regularly publishes special issues addressing a specific topic and organized by guest editors. Recent special issues have included: * Elites in Transnational Policy Networks. Guest edited by Lasse Folke Henriksen and Leonard Seabrooke (Volume 21, Issue 2, April 2021) * Multinational Migrations. Guest edited by Anju Mary Paul and Brenda S. A. Yeoh (Volume 21, Issue 2, January 2021) * After Trust. Guest edited by Magnus Marsden and Paul Anderson (Volume 20, Issue 4, October 2020) * Theorizing Transnational Labour Markets: Economic-Sociological Approaches. Guest edited by Ursula Mense-Petermann (Volume 20, Issue 3, July 2020) * Methodological Cosmopolitanism Across The Socio-Cultural Sciences. Guest edited by Anders Blok and Sabine Selchow (Volume 20, Issue 3, July 2020)

References

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