ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates on how different generations of immigrants use social media to forge linkages between their home and host countries. These cross-border online linkages form a cosmonational space. It examines the research dimensions of this phenomenon, the politics of foreign policy that are frequently involved, and how race and gender enter into this issue in complex ways. Social media, in this reading, leads to online performances of identity. The chapter concludes with comments on the cyber-cartography of digital diasporic communities.
