Migration, Citizenship and Identity
Selected Essays
Stephen Castles
Extract
To speak of 'transnational communities' implies taking the 'national' as a given. The concept of transnationalism only has meaning in a world divided into nation-states. This leads to two paradoxes, one global and the other peculiar to the Asia-Pacific region. The global paradox is that transnationalism is a relatively new, emerging paradigm, whose discourses are clearly and consciously linked to globalization – a process that many argue weakens the nation-state.
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