“Transnational theory" This theory has attracted much attention over the years, leading to the emergence of new body of theory on transnationalism and transnational communities. Making it increasingly easy for migrants to maintain close links with their areas of origin.
So when "deterritorialized nation-states" were emerging, with important consequences for national identity and internal politics. This approach builds on theories of migration networks, but argues that their importance goes way beyond the micro-level.
Portes defines transnational activities as " a recurrent basis that takes place across national borders and that requires a regular and significant commitment of time by participants. Such activities may be conducted by relatively powerful actors.
Examples - representatives of national governments -multinational corporations. Or can be initiated by more modest individuals, such as. -immigrants and their home country kin and relatives.
Transnational community - this notation puts the emphasis on human agency. In the context of globalization, transnationalism can extend previous face-to-face communities based on kinship, neighborhood or workplaces into far-flung viral communities, which communicate at a distance. A much older term for transnational communities is "Diaspora". This concept goes back to ancient Greece. It means 'scattering' and referred to city-state colonization practices. Diaspora is often used for people displaced or dispersed by force.
Examples. - Jews, African slaves in New world.
The term diaspora often has strong emotional connections, while the nation of a transnational community is more neutral.
Transnationalism - a social phenomenon and scholarly research agenda grown out of the heightend interconnectivity between people and the recedingg economic and social significance of bounderies among national states. Transnationalism is an important field for further research, but inflantionary use of such terms as
"Transnational communities and transmigrants" should be avoided. The majority of migrants probably do not fit the transnational pattern. Temporary labour migrants who go abroad for a fewyears, send back remittances, communities with their family at home visit them occationally are not necessarily " transmigrants". Nor are permanent migrants who leave forever and simply retain loose contract with their homeland. The key defining feature is that transnational activities are a central activities are a centerpart of persons life.