SOC336H1 Lecture : Globalization & Transnationalism
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The intensification of world-wide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa giddens, 1990. Deterritorialization = removal of a territorial basis (space) for people/organizations/businesses. Supraterritoriality = a new non-spatial/non-physical place is being created. One way is to look at where the fragmentation occurs: i. e. borders. Anchored in and transcend one or more nation-states --- Nation = territorial, social and cultural aspects. Immigrants cross borders; not necessarily physical borders (i. e. cultural, linguistic) The trans" of transmigrant should not assume the crossing of nation-state borders as the defining criterion. Crossing sociocultural boundaries within or across nation-states is a more useful definition that would include a diversity of transmigrant experiences . Studies now encourage consideration of ongoing affiliations that inform migrant experiences outside the nation-state. [membership is] based on common identity with co-ethnics in the ancestral homeland and with other migration destinations .
