ABSTRACT
Physical and symbolic mobility and intense interconnectedness associated with transnational ways of life, which only a few decades ago appeared exotic and novel, figure today as recognizable and context-like (i.e., embedded in the “mundane artifacts” and actions (Iedema, 2003, p. 15)) formats of living and belonging. At the same time, an increasing number of scholarly writings draw attention to the fact that the established vocabulary, with which transnationality is addressed in academic, media and public discourse and that operate with the common-place binaries of micro-macro, national-transnational, native-migrant, does not capture the complexity of transnational living and identification (Ferguson & Gupta, 2002). Transnational belonging is organized not as a perpetual wandering between here and there, home and host, but through continuous networking of multiple discursive, cultural and placial (spatial) points of reference that are linked to diverse social and institutional practices and interactional orders (Zhukova Klausen, 2013). Powered by the exponential development of Internet technology, social media and computermediated interactional spaces currently figure as some of the central sites of this identity work.
