In February Thomas Faist visited Stockholm University and Forum for Transnational Migration Research to give the lecture "A Transnational Approach to Migration: Concepts and Methodology". "Transnationalism in my view is not a coherent theory, but a set of assumptions and observations which has to be theorised," says Thomas Faist, advocating a transnational perspective in migration studies. Transnationalism in its narrow sense refers to cross border relations, however the broader definition – relations beyond the nation state – is a more substantial definition.

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