ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors argue that an ecological perspective can provide the lens for understanding how transnational researcher identities emerge from the interaction of multiple relationships across ecologies and social contexts as researchers transverse their past and present, and connect to their future selves. They argue that it is impossible to meaningfully separate personal and professional domains, and we need to pay attention to how identities are shaped through interactions in political, social, cultural, personal, and professional contexts within a temporally defined chronology of time. One particular dimension of identity that has been the focus of much research is national identity. Transnationalism is not a threat to the national for us but is part of our visions of possible selves, which we strive towards in different ways for a different sense of belonging-transnational identities offer a togetherness in diversity.
