ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the findings from the perspective of connectedness across borders. It shows that 'new' geographies (or areas) emerge when the focus of analysis shifts from conventional area boundaries towards boundaries defined by particular concepts, norms, and principles that are shared across geographical distances. The chapter gives examples of cross-fertilisation between global developments and local (sometimes national) experiences. Ludger Pries points out that the frequent change of places in different national societies has become a normal part of transmigrants' survival strategies. These movements in a pluri-local, transnational social space are both physical-geographic movements and, even more often, emotional and social identity-related 'location changes'. The chapter discusses the effects of the pluralisation of religious knowledge for trans- and pluri-local identity networking. Translocal simply indicates that something goes beyond a certain locale; pluri-local is more precise in that it indicates that actors feel (emotionally) present or at home in several places.
