This special issue aims to contribute to the young academic discipline of European Sociology
and focusses its attention towards the transnational (re-)structuration of social spaces and
social fields. It includes three contributions that address the European social space (wage
inequality European news coverage and transnational solidarity) and four contributions that
deal with social fields (asylum administration industrial relations European research funding
and the academic field). In theoretical terms this special issue employs a concept of power
relations that draws on Pierre Bourdieu and sociological neo-institutionalism.
