In Michael Peter Smith’s article, Transnational Migration and Globalization of
Grassroot Politics, he discusses the idea of deterritorialization and how
in the U.S. many communities have lost their sense of social, political, and
cultural practices from the homeland. Sometimes its involuntary because the way
society is structure it makes it so that one forgets about those practices. For
the second generation since they are born in the U.S. there it is much harder
to stay in touch with those practices cause all they know and live by is “American”
practices. The sense of reterritorialization is something that is done by the
individual. It is a method to retake back the homeland and is seen in diaspora
populations. Individuals have the power to reclaim those practices and connect
back to homeland through those practices. In a diasporic population
reterritorialization is a method of reconnecting and retaking back that sense
of homeland.
Question: Since the second generations is born in the U.S.
and have lived by American practices, is it equally as significant the idea of
reterritorialization?
Smith, Michael Peter. “Can You Imagine? Transnational Migration and the Globalization of Grassroots Politics.” Social Text, No. 39 (Summer 1994), pgs. 15-33. Print
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