THE PHENOMENON OF TRANSNATIONALISM FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

In an era of accelerating globalization, where everything runs at a breathtaking pace, transnationalism appears as an endorsement of the previous phenomenon having the role of connecting people, goods, capital and information following the creation of "liaison bridges" between different countries, and from the perspective of international migration, to create connections between places of origin and places of destination. Migrants try to build links between countries which they feel personally attached to: the country of origin - the place which he leaves and where most of the time he leaves behind loved ones, property, options and disappointments (his birthplace) and the country of destination -the place to which the migrants are heading charged with enthusiasm to start a new life strewn with many opportunities. Creating and maintaining links between their home and their destination, beyond diplomatic ties, international migrants are becoming a "transmigrants". Transnationalism emerges as a connection across very distant geographical barriers, across very different cultural barriers and across extremely diverse religions and even extremely opposite regimes. The phenomenon of transnationalism would not have had such an impact without the large number of individuals involved with the modern ways of communication or without the economic ties that stimulate connections between individuals who left their country of origin and all those left at home, connections which represent an important factor in the creation and maintenance of transnational links. In the specialized literature transnationalism has emerged as a new theory which aims to better explain international migration.