ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to overcome such trained incapacity in telling the story of the transnationalization of Ticuanense social and political life and the creation of community by Ticuanenses over the course of more than fifty years of migration to New York City. It analyzes the social construction of one transnational community and multiple identities of its members within specific regional, local, and historical contexts. The post-national model is an explicit attack on the citizenship model. Treating the same issues of territoriality and identity salience as well as others, post-national models argue that immigrants and the state or social structures protecting them have transcended the individual nation state, thus, escaping its hegemony. Theories of migration provide a second standard way of looking, and offer both insights and problems for understanding transnational life. The concept of community has been treated in conflicting ways in literature on transnational migration.
