Despite this disciplining process, however,
the continued salience of territory is especially evident in the case of migrant, ethnic and transnational communities
in these instances , locality is normally experienced symbolically ; it consists of an imagined homeland or place understood through nostalgia, memory, history or constructed cultural sites and it is precisely this quality which enables such transnational communities to survive and remain viable for its members
It seems to us that this delinking of communal identity from specific places or territories by so many groups provides powerful evidence in support of our claims concerning the increasing similarities between all types of globalised communities under globalising conditions
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unity built around shared meaning. Locality does not evaporate. Rather, it is a purely symbolic notion of locality that becomes the focus of community formation. Although it is essential to identify and explore the crucial differences that exist between certain types of transnational communities, it is equally important to discuss the overarching similarities between them. It is these similarities that, in our view , justify placing all kinds of transnational communities within the same theoretical frame.