This is a collection of papers prepared for a workshop on developing a transnational perspective on migration with the focus on migration to the United States. Immigrants are understood to be transmigrants when they develop and maintain multiple relations--familial economic social organizational religious and political--that span borders....In Part I the Introduction we propose a transnational perspective on migration. We argue for a global perspective linking the emergence of transnationalism to recent changes in the world economy especially the extensive penetration of capital into the third world....The papers in Part II proceed by discussing the ways in which the identity of the new transnational subject is currently being constructed....In Part III the relationship between transnational populations and nation states is examined and the challenge posed to nationalism by the existence of these transnational populations is described. (EXCERPT)
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