“Our Home and Native Land”? Canadian Ethnic Scholarship and the Challenge of Transnational ism*

Abstract

L'une des plus importantes contributions des théories modernes de la mondialisation et du transnationalisme est la remise en question des définitions traditionnelles fondées sur l'appartenance à un lieu, applicables à la communauté, à la nation et à la notion connexe de citoyenneté. Les études canadiennes dans le domaine de l'identité ethnique ont tendance à privilégier les notions limitées et fonda‐mentales d'ethnicité, au détriment du concept de transnationalisme en tant qu'élément constitutif de l'identité ethnique, envisagé sous Tangle du discours des diasporas et des coutumes des populations d'immigrants. Dans cet article, nous suggérons de déplacer l'analyse afin de mettre l'accent sur les effets du transnationalisme dans la construction ou la reconstruction identitaires des ethnies au Canada. One of the most significant contributions of contemporary theories of globalization and transnationalism, is their challenge to the traditional localizing strategies of community, nation, and the related notion of citizenship. Canadian studies of ethnic identity have tended to privilege bounded and essentialized notions of ethnicity. This has had the effect of eliminating conceptual space for transnationalism as a factor shaping ethnic identifications through a consideration of the diasporic narratives and practices of “immigrant” populations. I propose a shift in analytical focus to place greater emphasis on the impact of transnationalism on the (re)construction of ethnic identities in Canada.

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