Week 3-Elaine Hong

In the article, From Immigrant to Transmigrant: Theorizing Transnational Migration by Nina Glick Schiller, Schiller discusses a new concept of immigration known as Transmigration. Transmigrants are "immigrants whose daily lives depend on multiple and constant interconnections across borders" (Schiller 48). Instead of settling into the new land and cutting off ties with the homeland, as previous immigrants did, transmigrants maintain ties with the homeland while living in host nation.

As discussed in class, technological advances, such as video calls , text, and voice calls,  have allowed people to collapsed time and space. Ties to the homeland are fortified through constant communication because it takes less time and effort to maintain these ties. Due to constant communication, transmigration then becomes institutionalized. People rely on large communication corporations to maintain contact with their relatives and thus, no longer is transmigration a private matter, but a global two way street between countries.