ABSTRACT
In the global and transnational world of the rst decade of the 21st century, people, capital, information, and cultural traits are circulating globally at increasing rates. International circuits of migration are no longer bi-polar and more of them are developing as multi-local transnational networks of movement. The resultant diasporas are far ung and multi-nodal and the cross-border social spaces that are being formed are serving to dene, more and more, the social worlds of those involved. Such networks, once established, are themselves serving as facilitators of new waves of migration, of return, moving on and re-return. Indeed, the growing complexity of contemporary international migration pathways, nodes, moorings and way-stations, as well as their wider global reach, is without precedence.
