Understanding Transnational Communities Through the International Migration Perspective

This paper aims to analyze the booming of transnational communities through the perspective of international migration. In the last few years, the increase of human mobility beyond nation frontiers has evidenced the paradox and permanent tension of the national conception between closed geographical limits and, the political and economic global forces that operate in a supra-regional level. The basic proposition is that the established connections created by international migrants and their impact in the internal order of the States, questions the traditional political behaviors in issues like identity, mobility and frontiers.