Abstract This paper discusses the assertion that transnational identity is replacing national identity and focuses on the Canadian issues of citizenship, immigrants and identity formation. This paper reviews the 'divide and rule' logistics of what is called Multiculturalism, as systematic ghettoization (as per Bissoondath, Granatstein), and also, the construction of social scientific "problems" as seen differently by human beings. According to this paper, gender and ethnicity are obvious markers of transnational identities which may prove to mean very little.
From the Paper "In examining national versus transnational identities, this paper pays the most attention to new Canadians, and towards several observations that are intriguing in terms of what is true in relation to theory, and the implications of models that tend to diminish the concept of a strong Canadian national identity. It is clear that contemporary theories tend to focus on the receding power of the nation-state, amid what we are calling globalization. Attached to this model is an idea of fading nationality, or national identity, so that movement from one country to another involves less attempted replacement of a new nationality and identity. "
