Abstract:

In today's world, with the increasingly interactions between local and global, transnational/translocal becomes the social reality under the background of hyper-mobility. The multiple interactions between migrants and the place of the origin/destination blur the cross- countries/ localities boundaries and constantly reshape the social structure and space at the destination and gives different meanings to the places in the material and symbolic dimensions. Ethnic communities not only reflect the spatial interaction of the complex daily life practices of different immigrant groups, but also shift the focus of diverse ethnic spaces to the communities, spaces, territorial politics and even geographical imagination of mobilities, as well as bringing ethnic community spaces into a relational perspective. Traditionally, geopolitical studies have focused relatively little on immigrants and ethnic spaces. Therefore, this special issue focuses on cross-border migration and ethnic communities from a geopolitical perspective. Specifically, the special issue first reviews geopolitical research and its concern for mobility and geopolitical aspects of migration studies, and then discusses diverse cross-border migration and place-making of the ethnic communities at different geographical scales through 9 articles. We hope to add new knowledge to the existing literature from theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspective. We also attempt to serve the needs of society and governments by exploring the progress report of related research at home and abroad.

Key words: geopolitics, mobilities, trannational migration, ethnic communities

摘要：

在全球-地方频繁互动的今天，跨国/跨地方逐渐成为超高速流动的社会现实，移民与流入流出地的多元互动模糊了国与国、地方与地方之间的边界，在目的地不断重塑社会结构和空间，在物质和符号维度赋予了地方不同的意义。族裔社区不仅仅反映了不同的移民群体复杂的日常生活实践及其在空间上的互动，也将对多元化族裔空间的关注转移到社区、空间、领土政治甚至流动地缘想象，同时也将族裔社区空间纳入一个关系性的视角下。而传统上地缘政治视角对移民和族裔空间的关注相对有限。因此，本专栏主要讨论地缘政治视角下的跨境移民和族裔社区。具体而言，专栏首先回顾了地缘政治研究及其对流动性的关注和移民研究中的地缘政治面向，其次通过8篇文章讨论了不同尺度下多元的跨境移民及族裔社区营造与建构的相关研究，希冀从理论、方法以及实证研究方面对现有知识进行补充，也尝试通过探索国内外相关研究的进展，为社会和国家治理的需求服务。

关键词: 地缘政治, 流动性, 跨境移民, 族裔社区