Abstract
Research on transnationalism1 poses a formidable challenge to traditional views on citizenship and membership (Joppke, 1999). It documents the complex linkages between sending and receiving communities and tells how immigrants retain and cultivate ties to the country of origin (Click Schiller et al., 1992; Guarnizo, 1997; Smith, 1998; Itzigsohn et al., 1999; Levitt, 2001). Studies of transnationalism emphasize the importance of memberships and allegiances as well as the social and institutional ties that immigrants bring from sending nation-states. The growth of transnational ties, including the increase in dual nationality, challenges many of the assumptions that underlie assimilation and citizenship paradigms (see Faist, 2000; Kivisto, 2001), particularly the idea that when immigrants become legal citizens of the host society, they realign their emotional and psychological attachments from the sending to the host country.
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Gilbertson, G.A. (2006). Regulating Transnational Citizens in the Post-1996 Welfare Reform Era: Dominican Immigrants in New York City. In: Oboler, S. (eds) Latinos and Citizenship: The Dilemma of Belonging. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230601451_4
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