transnationalism

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Dictionary meaning

a framework for understanding the ways in which migrants maintain sustained social, economic, political, and cultural ties that cross national borders, living lives that simultaneously incorporate two or more societies rather than simply departing one and integrating into another; transnational migrants remit money to families, participate in homeland politics, maintain family relationships across borders, and construct identities that blend multiple national and cultural belongings; transnationalism challenged the assimilationist model of immigration that assumed migrants would progressively sever ties with their origin country and fully integrate into the host society; theorised by Basch, Glick Schiller, and Szanton Blanc in the 1990s, the framework has reshaped migration studies, refugee policy, and debates about citizenship and belonging in an interconnected world