ABSTRACT
The notion of transnationalism figures strongly in the debate about the phenomenon of new migrations.1 The concept stresses the fact that social, political and economic life is less and less restricted by national and cultural borders, and hence the concept of migration is no longer considered as a series of arrival points, nor a process of uprooting and acculturation, but as a phenomenon that must be related to a broader process in which individuals assume multiple memberships and identities.2
