ABSTRACT
Lionnet and Shih (2005) assert that transnational research must draw diverse mobilities from transnationalism below into the centre of analysis by juxtaposing the meaning of minor' and transnationalism'. Central to Said's analysis of Orientalism is Edward own paradoxical experience of living as a celebrated Arab Palestinian academic in the West According to Lionnet and Shih, minor transnationalism not only recognises the effects of globalisation on transnationalism, it also stresses that the transnational be less scripted and more scattered. Koehn and Rosenau have observed that more persons than ever before, in more places around the world are opting to pursue transnational lives. For instance, Chu's anthropological study has uncovered the value formation of mobility by tracking a group of Chinese villagers living in one remote province, desiring to live overseas and resorting to be smuggled out to the United States. This chapter illustrates how Bourdieu's notion of habitus and forms of capital crystallise this condition of an embodied minor transnational subject.
