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What is Transnationalism? Why has the scale and scope of transnational linkages of diaspora multiplied in recent times?

  • UPSC 2024
  • Population and Settlement Geography

Transnationalism is the process by which migrants build and sustain multi-stranded social, economic, political and cultural relations linking their society of origin and society of settlement simultaneously — the formulation of Glick Schiller, Basch and Blanc-Szanton (1992), who coined "transmigrant".

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  • The Anatomy of a Transnational Social Field
  • Three Distinctions That Fix the Concept
  • Scale I: Costless Co-presence, Digital Money, Cheap Seats
  • Scale II: States That Cultivate Their Diaspora
  • Scope: From Remittances to Brain Circulation and Diplomacy
  • The Field Is Unevenly Distributed

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