Transnational Migration and Diaspora Studies: a state of the art

The 1990s have marked a transnationalist turn in the study of migration, with the migrant subject seen as increasingly bound both to the country of origin and that of settlement. The focus of Migration Studies, up to that point, had been that of studying migration from a Northern American and European perspective, in other words that of the country of settlement. Studies on transnational migration widened the scope by questioning the basics of Migration Studies.