ABSTRACT
The emergence and reproduction of transnational social networks, economic alliances, political ideologies, citizenship practices, and cultural identities created by cross-border migration are at the centre of current sociological research on international migration in the Americas. These studies are influenced by the socalled ‘transnational turn’ (Levitt and Sørensen 2004).2 However, little systematic research has been carried out so far on the importance of borders and border crossings for the analysis of political subjectivities. This chapter aims to help fill this gap by theorizing borders and border crossings with the aid of postcolonial and feminist approaches in order to draft a methodological framework for the empirical analysis of political subjectivities in transmigrant spaces.
