transnational identities

• Thomas Hylland Eriksen


  -globalisation created more diverse migration patterns

  -with back & forth movements of people through networks rather than permanent settlement in another country
• result of transnational identities

  -migrants less likely to see themselves as belonging completely to one culture/country

  -may develop transnational 'neither/nor' identities & loyalties
• effect of technology on having to travel

  -possible to sustain global ties without travelling
• globalised economy


  -migrants may have more links to other migrants around the world than either their country of origin or of settlement
• Eriksen studying Chinese in Rome

  -found Mandarin more useful in everyday life than Italian

  -Mandarin important for global connections with Chinese in other countries

  -migrants in globalised world less likely to desire assimilation into host culture