ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the various patterns of transnational ties entertained by immigrants in transnational spaces, and reviews their implications for concepts of integration in immigration countries. It provides the concept of transnational spaces, and the main resources of actors in the various types of transnational space. The chapter discusses the integration in and through transnational spaces goes beyond national container-models of assimilation and ethnic pluralism and post-national concepts. It also presents the main assumptions and predictions of these three canonical models, and the implications of a fourth integration model: border-crossing transactions of social space. The chapter focuses on the transnational ties and structures that developed from and in connection with interstate South-North migration. It suggests that the real potential of concepts of transnational membership and participation is to enrich the notions underlying assimilation, ethnic pluralism, and post-nationalism or post-modernism. Transnational spaces differ from clearly demarcated state territories.
