Transnationalism. The emergence of a new migratory approach

Abstract

The growth of new technologies in the area of the transport and of the communications has big repercussions in the gestation, duration and modalities of the migratory international movements. The cheapening of the prices of the transport, their greater rapidity, the incorporation of new technologies in the communication, the telematic, etc. They make possible that today any part of the world is «nearby» of the rest. The physical distances are slow, the movements multiply and the virtual contact with the others it makes possible in any part of the world. This situation will have consequences not only on the quantity of mobility of people across the current borders, but on the characteristics themselves of the migrations and on the concepts of «origin» and of «destiny», as well as on their relations among the migrant populations.In the new circumstances of mobility, it becomes necessary to check the traditional paradigms of integration of the immigrants in the host societies. In this context stands out the emergency of a new perspective or migratory approach: the transnationalism. This article present the main lines of this new perspective of the hand of the principal sociologists and anthropologists who defend its validity and suitability to approach new forms of international mobility.