Transnational Migration: A New Paradigm for Understanding Immigration

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Transnational Migration A New Paradigm for
Understanding Immigration

• Schiller et al.s Thesis
• - not the up-rooted adopting a new country
• - not migrant workers (temporary stay)
• - RATHER Some migrants develop
• networks that span
• activities their home
• patterns of living and host
• ideologies societies
• That is, for transnational migrants the norm is
  multiple, circular, and return migrations, rather
  than a single, great journey with a sharp break
  from their homeland.

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Definition of Transmigrants (Transnational
Migrants)

• Transmigrants are those who
• Build social fields that cross geographic,
  cultural, and political borders
• Develop and maintain multiple relationships
  familial, economic, social, organizational,
  religious, political
• Depend on multiple and constant interconnections
  across international borders and whose
• Identity is configured in relationship to more
  than one nation state