Home to Rehome A Transnational study of Transmutation from Roots to Routes in select Contemporary Fiction

Abstract

Transnationalism is one of the contemporary migratory concepts that can be applied newlineto the recent trends in migration. Randolph Bourne introduced the word Transnational newlineand in the later part of the twentieth century, it was conceptualised into an ideology by newlinethe American anthropologists, Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller and Cristina Szanton newlineBlanc. Steven Vertovec further developed the concept, and his works analyse the newlinecharacteristics of the transnational migrant. The present study is based on Vertovec s newlineideas of transnational competencies that the immigrants develop in the migrated newlinegeographical domain and also aims to analyse the immigrants transformations.The newlinepath of transformation starts with different purposes and finally, a strong bond is newlinecreated with the destination society. Their connection between the sending society and newlinereceiving society is simultaneously maintained by the immigrants and they establish newlinea new identity in the migrated land.The migrants transform themselves by gaining newlinecompetencies which include analytical competence, emotional competence, creative newlinecompetence, behavioural competence and functional adroitness. By developing these newlinecompetencies, they reterritorialize into mainstream society by overcoming transnational newlinechallenges, which results in the transformation of the immigrants. newlineThe present study not only focuses on the transnational dimensions but also analyses newlinethe place, social and cultural attachments of the immigrants, which lead to place newlineintegration, social integration and cultural integration.Place integration details the roots newlineand routes perspective of the migrants.The place attachment is generated by social newlineties, which leads to social integration. The immigrants develop social network, webs newlineof kinship clusters with the destination society and consider them as family and as a newlinetoken of acceptance, the destination society welcomes the immigrants to emerge with newlinetheir community.Societies from different directions reflect different cultures, resulting newlinein cultural integration. Cultural i