ABSTRACT

Today, modern communication and transportation technologies allow transnational migrants to experience life in more than one place (Portes, Guarnizo, and Landolt 1999). Transnational activities and social networks can be successfully and easily sustained by migrants without the limitations of space and distance (Wong and Satzewich 2006). It is possible for migrants to keep close social ties with their homeland and at the same time build new connections with their host country (Lien 2008). Because transnationalism has changed the way migrants create economic, political and sociocultural connections between the host country and the homeland, their (re)integration is a complex process that deserves the attention of researchers.