Transnational Migration

Abstract

Abstract “Transnational migration” and the broader term “transnationalism” entered the lexicon of migration studies in the early 1990s, over a century after earlier generations of migration researchers had introduced and made extensive use of the concept of assimilation. It did so in rather different circumstances, for whereas assimilation gained currency with relatively little reflection or debate at the time when migration research was in its early formative period, transnational migration and transnationalism entered a well‐developed sociological subfield dealing with cross‐border movements and migrant incorporation. The concept has undergone substantial revision since its earliest formulations, the consequence of an often‐spirited dialogue (see Levitt & Jaworsky 2007). Over time, the debate around transnationalism in migration has concerned broader issues in the social sciences, such as power, methodological nationalism and essentializing ethno‐cultural groups.

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