The experience involves, for instance, the transnational mobility of more affluent
sectors, such as professional and managerial groups. Transnationality must be seen
as constructed through class and racial boundaries and as a gendered process. Transnational
social spaces can extend into other spaces, including spaces of transnational
sexuality, musical and youth subcultures, journalism, as well as a multitude
of other identities, ranging from those based on gender to those based on race,
religion or ethnicity. They also involve communities constructed by members of
professional and non-governmental associations (Kennedy and Roudometof 2002).
Members of cultural communities who live in different countries but remain connected
to each other through their cultural taste or pastimes may also construct
transnational communities. Transnational social spaces, hence, are constructed
through the accelerated pace of transnational practices of actors worldwide. These
practices become routine to social life and may involve transient as well as more
structured and permanent interactions and practices that connect people and institutions
from different countries across the globe.