Assimilation, Citizenship and Transnationalism

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This paper provides an exhaustive review of 31 academic sources which touch upon the concepts of transnationalism, citizenship and assimilation. The paper briefly discusses the theoretical frameworks informing many of the sources, touching upon the common threads which connect various ones and which differentiate some from others, and notes how the conceptual re-drawing of concepts such as citizenship have awakened the possibility that new grounds can now be contested as minority groups seek to advance their own interests. Finally, almost as an aside, this paper briefly examines the internal controversies bedeviling the literature.

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"The following paper will briefly review the existing literature on the concepts of transnationalism, assimilation and citizenship. Specifically, the ensuing literature review explores these three concepts and points out, where appropriate, areas of concern in how the academic community has addressed each. As should become evident, citizenship is now a problematic term in large measure because the traditional political demarcations that made it easily apprehensible to the casual observer have given way to new and more complex understandings brought about by its complicated and even antagonistic interaction with the growing global phenomenon of transnationalism. "

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