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Anthropological Studies of Migration and Transnationalism
Quick fact
More than 40% of the world's migrants maintain strong connections to their home countries, sending money, making phone calls, and participating in politics from afar, a phenomenon anthropologists call 'transnationalism'.
Why this is interesting
You probably think of migration as moving from one country to another, but what if you never really leave—because your life is split across two places at once?