Origin vs. Settlement Essay -- US Immigration, Transnationalism

The unify States is a country which gathers passel from different places. Those people who cross everywhere from an a nonher(prenominal) country to America the transnational people. There are any(prenominal) critiques which argue that the transnational people will only keep their origins and present to their home country. If they are involved in politics, it will only arrive at their original countries. However, I think those transnational people are difficult to find their belongings by participating in politics in the United States by referring to the case studies on the Union of Democratic Filipinos, Saigon Nationalism, and the Indian-US obliging nuclear deal.Transnational is the people who leave their origin ally countries to move to other countries. The contemporary use of transnational to describe border crossing activities from at a lower place-by immigrants, migrants, sojourners (Collet and Lien, 11). In addition, there is also a definition of transnationalism Glick Schiller and her colleagues formally define transnationalism as the processes by which immigrants forge and sustain multi-stranded amicable relations that affaire together their societies of origin and settlement (Basch et al. 1994 6). For them, it is a process by which migrants, with daily life activities and social, economic and political relations create social fields that cross national boundaries. (11)The transnationalism allows the transnational people to keep both(prenominal) their ethnic tie to their origin at the same time go in and involve in the politic in the United States and being truehearted to the United States. Personally, I believe those naturalized transnational citizens will be the trustworthy people to be active in the United States politics. so far though they were not born in the United ... ...democratic Vietnam. Such attitudes tended to bollocks up local political parties eager to co-opt Vietnamese American voters in registration drives. (63) Those believes prevent the Americans to vote for transnational candidates because they are feared that those candidates will ascribe down their responsibilities to return back to their origins. However, I think if the Americans do not give those candidates the chance to show their loyalties, nothing will come true. Their non-voting activeness also discourages some people to give to be involved in politics. America is a multi-ethnic country where it accepts all people from all over the world. America needs show its acceptance to those transnational people to allow those people to show their loyalties to the United States. This way will advertize more Asian Americans to be involves in politics to find their belongings.