ABSTRACT
A transnational world is a world with transnational activity where there are many people with transnational subjectivities needs a multicultural policy to manage cross-cultural relations in order to ensure confidence and trust. Transnationalism provides a very useful illumination of the utility and longevity of state policies on immigrant incorporation and diversity management. In February of 2011, the Australian government reconfirmed its commitment to multiculturalism. The government committed to the concept as a definition of the national character and as a policy umbrella for managing cultural diversity. Both diversity and dynamism are ever stronger realities in a world of transnational movement and subjectivities. The survey of the four immigrant groups in Sydney and Melbourne collected data on the transnational links, as well as senses of identity and belonging. The latter we report on in our discussion of transnational subjectivities. Most respondents to the Transnationalism in Australia survey had, at some time, travelled back to their origin country.
