Bring out the relationship between globalization and transnationalism
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The concept of transnationalismsuggests a weakening of the control a nation-state has over its borders, inhabitants, and territory. ...Globalization is a related concept that represents the intensification of economic, cultural, and political practices accelerating across the globe in the early 21st century.
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Globalization is a complex phenomenon which includes increased human interconnectedness
facilitated by new information technologies and huge volumes of trade, capital, people, and
cultures flowing across national borders and an increasingly integrated global economy.
Globalization can be experienced as structural forces impinging on our daily lives, such as the
creation of new spaces and connectivity between locales, and also as ideological resources
(Burawoy et al, 2000).
Transnationalism is a term used in different ways, but I will limit it to the way that it is
used in immigration studies as a specific form of globalization. Transnationalism refers to “the
processes by which immigrants forge and sustain multistranded social relations that link together
their societies of origin and settlement” (Basch et al, 1994). Many immigrants are living in what
are called “transnational social fields” through which they keep constant contact with their
countries of origin (Levitt, 2001).