...This chapter addresses community networks and attachments, specifically diasporic ones, and illustrates how they shape and reshape their homeland, host societies, and the larger diaspora through links and connections in a global world. Transnationalism highlights immigrants' involvement in both...

... to the future of the new groups and the societies where they reside, for this generation, born and/or raised in the host society, has a far greater capacity for integration than does the immigrant one. However, the complex picture of the integration of the second generation in Europe and the United States...

...This chapter defines ethno-national-religious diasporas, particularly in contrast to transnational communities. While the identities, goals, and international activities of transnational communities are varied and can change—particularly as their members become assimilated into their host societies...