The author calls the reader to think multi-locally and act binationally and dicusses transnational migration as sociocultural, political, economic processes with disconnected geographical and cultural spaces. Resettlement is a transnational process that reconfigures history and ethnic projects. In addition, it destroys cultural homogeneity while changing “spatial practices” of multinational corporations, financial markets, ethnic groups, religions, and sociocultural movements and new political formations. In my opinion, the main impulse that drives these actions is reterritorialization, which can be described as the desire to recapture a “lost” homeland. Rethinking constructions of cultural aspects and practices. For example, a “self-organized group of indigenous refugees, negotiate their “return”. They want to speak for themselves, rather than have someone of a different ethnic group speak form them. This puts pressure on the “return” because they want the cultural reconstruction (aka the “return”) to reflect the depth and significance that they feel for their culture. Repurposing cultural identity comes from strain from outside forces to exist as something different from the previous traditional way of life. This outside pressure can serve as a trigger for transforming collective cultural identity. What are other triggers?
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