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Anthropological Approaches to Migration and Transnationalism

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Anthropologists coined the term 'transnationalism' to describe how many migrants maintain active economic, political, and social ties to their homeland while simultaneously integrating into their new country—creating a 'transnational social field' that stretches across borders.

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We often think of migration as a one-way journey—leaving one country and starting a new life in another. But for millions of people, the reality is far more complex: they live with one foot in two worlds. How do anthropologists capture this in-between experience?