Such a conceptualization of translocal geographies provides us with both a
theoretical and a methodological challenge. If we are to move beyond a focus on
the primacy of national space, we have to map out how other spaces and places
can become significant during the process of migration and movement. These may
be interstitial spaces that are part of the itinerary of movement; they maybe sites
from where movement and migration in other spaces and places are organized; or
they may even be the corporeal body which moves across spaces. To theoretically
account for these as constitutive of translocality means that we need to pay attention
to their multiple and hybrid histories, their politics and social constructions, their
material geographies, and their connections to other scales and places. If this means
we pay attention not just to the transnational migrant; but also to those who move
across other scales beyond the nation, we can no longer confine ourselves to the
debates on transnationalism. Rather, we will need to take into account geographies
of inter-regional or inter- and intra-urban movements. Finally, if we are to focus on
the everyday materiality, corporeality and subjectivity of movement, we will also
need to deploy a wider range of methodological tools which can capture not just
the economic exchanges, political organizations or social networks across sites of
departure and destination, but also the negotiation of wider range of spaces and
place in between. Through this approach we believe we can examine the translocal
geographies of everyday lives across spaces, places and scales.