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The article reframe the understanding of globalization and transnationalism with Covid-19 and Global Networks. Topics include fundamentally changing the practices of transnational actors and their constituent networks in both global and local affairs; and engage in social encounters perpetuating global-local relations and sustaining networks and connections.

The article focuses on communities, conditions and contexts of diversity towards post-multiculturalism and model as contributing to a demise of the welfare state and the failure of public services. It mentions forms of immigration impacted on multicultural theories and relationships of immigrants with sending countries. It also mentions seek to foster both the recognition of diversity and the maintenance of collective national identities.

Since the turn of the millennium, multiculturalism - a term spanning a variety of policies and institutional frameworks - has been seriously challenged in a number of ways. While critics have increasingly attacked multiculturalism and blamed it for numerous social problems, the nature of global migration and modes of immigrant belonging have themselves changed considerably since the time when multicultural models were first established. By way of exploring the post-multiculturalist condition into which, some commentators suggest, we are all moving, this article addresses the following questions: what are the changing public discourses surrounding multiculturalism? What are the characteristics of new forms of immigration, and how have these new forms of immigration impacted on multicultural theories? What are the relationships of immigrants with sending countries? How do all of these patterns contribute to what might be called post-multiculturalism? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although globalization has usually been associated with advanced communications technology, arguably nothing has facilitated global linkage more than the boom in ordinary, cheap international telephone calls. Low-cost calls serve as a kind of social glue connecting small-scale social formations across the globe. In this article I present recent data on the rapid growth and diffusion of telephone traffic and describe the proliferation of prepaid phonecards. Second, I outline the commercial, social and geographical ramifications of this explosion in transnational communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Provides an overview of the periodical 'Global Networks.' Objectives; Disciplines; Choice of the journal title; Developments in the journal.

The article discusses the issue of immigration and the citizenship policies in Europe. Post-war immigration to Europe has involved some 30 million people, making this one of the greatest migratory movements in human history throughout Europe. The UNESCO-MOST project "Multicultural Policies and Modes of Citizenship in European Cities" (MPMC) will, in many ways, amount to a kind of complex mapping exercise. A great variety of institutions, frameworks, policies and processes concerning the participation of immigrants and ethnic minorities in local political affairs will be observed and compared across Europe. The research and the feedback received from both policy-makers and immigrant/ethnic minority groups themselves will doubtless raise new questions as to the degree of effectiveness different kinds of representation and consultation. The MPMC project will provide significant contemporary material with which people can explore "citizenship" in its broadest sense of bringing excluded people more fully into the democratic process. INSET: Management of social transformation (MOST).