ABSTRACT
According to Lloyd Wong, the existence of millions of immigrants in Europe together with the European Union’s decision to allow the mobility of its citizens has contributed to redefining citizenship and national identity in a European context (Wong, 2002: 175). The author argues that the concept of a post-national model contradicts the State-nation citizenship model: “European citizenship has at least the potential of being a new institution that disconnects citizenship from nationality and territory and includes transnational nationalities” (Wong, 2002: 176). Modern-day diasporas have gradually been subject to a process of reconfiguration, and are now regarded as multiple transnational communities, as communities of “taste” (Giddens, 1994: 188) in which the dominant characteristic is the global construction of locations (Robertson, 1992), that is, the construction of local identity has references to the whole.
