Steffen Mau 
Social Transnationalism 
Lifeworlds beyond the nation-state

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.